About Male Health Guide
In short
Male Health Guide covers the health problems men over 40 search for privately: prostate, sleep, energy, testosterone, weight and joints. We report what the evidence actually shows, including when it undercuts a popular product. We currently earn nothing from anything you buy, and when that changes we will say so on every page that carries a paid link.
Why this site exists
There is a particular kind of search a man does late at night, quietly, hoping nobody looks at his browser history. Prostate symptoms. Broken sleep. Fatigue that will not lift. The kind of thing he has not mentioned to anyone, including his doctor.
What he finds is usually one of two things. Clinical pages written for someone else, or sales pages dressed up as advice, promising that one bottle of capsules will fix what thirty years of ageing did. Both leave him where he started.
This site is an attempt at the third option: plain answers, written for the man actually asking, with the evidence stated honestly — including the parts that are inconvenient for anyone selling something.
How we handle evidence
Health information is the kind where being wrong causes harm, so we work to a fixed set of rules. These are not aspirations; they are the standard every article is checked against before it publishes.
- Every claim is sourced, and the source is named and linked. Cochrane, the NIH, Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, the FDA, and peer-reviewed journals. If we cannot source a number, we do not publish it.
- We report negative findings. Our article on saw palmetto explains that the best trials found it no better than placebo — even though saw palmetto is the main ingredient in products we could be earning commission on.
- We do not invent credentials. There is no fictional doctor on this site. No stock photograph presented as a real reviewer. No made-up qualifications. This is depressingly common in our subject area, and we will not do it.
- We distinguish "no evidence" from "disproven". They are different, and collapsing them is how both hype and cynicism get manufactured.
- We are not doctors, and we say so. Every article carries a medical disclaimer, and we point readers toward assessment rather than away from it.
Who writes here
The editorial team
Research, fact-checking and the evidence articles are produced by our editorial team. We sign as a team rather than inventing an individual expert, because a fabricated byline would undermine the exact standard this page describes.
Editorial articles cover the things that require reading studies carefully: what a systematic review found, how ingredients interact with prescription medication, what a trial actually measured. Judgement on those questions comes from the sources, not from anyone's personal story.
Our contributor, writing as Ray H.
Some articles are written in the first person by a man in his sixties who is living through these symptoms now. He writes under the pen name Ray H., and we want to be completely straightforward about that.
He is a real person. The experiences described in his articles are his. He asked us not to publish his real name or photograph — and if you have read anything else on this site, you already understand why. Men do not want their names attached to this subject. That reluctance is not a footnote to what we cover here; it is close to the center of it.
So we made a choice: a declared pen name, rather than either a fake identity or no first-hand voice at all. You are told it is a pen name. You are not told a story about who he is that is not true. Everything else he writes is accurate.
He is not a doctor, a urologist, or a health professional of any kind, and he does not claim to be. He is a man in his sixties whose symptoms started fairly recently and are still mild. He has tried two supplements — one based on saw palmetto, one based on a tomato extract — and neither made a difference he could notice. He has not yet been to a doctor about it. He writes about that honestly, including the part where he is doing exactly what this site advises against.
We think that last detail matters more than a credential would. Most men reading this are also putting it off. A contributor who admits he is doing the same thing is more useful than an expert who has never felt the reluctance.
What we do not have
We do not have a medical review board, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Nothing here is reviewed by a physician before publication. That is precisely why every article points you toward a doctor or pharmacist for anything that applies to your own body, and why we link the primary sources so you can check us.
How we make money
Right now, we do not. There are no affiliate links on this site, and nothing you buy earns us anything. We would rather say that plainly than publish a disclosure for links that do not exist.
That will change — this is not a charity and we are not pretending otherwise. When it does, this page will be updated before the first paid link goes live, and every page carrying one will say so at the top, before the content. Our disclosure sets out the rules in full.
What that will change, and what it will not:
- It does not change our conclusions. We publish negative findings about products we could earn from. Our supplement articles tell readers to check refund deadlines and to avoid products that hide their doses.
- It does not buy coverage. No company pays us to be reviewed, to be reviewed favorably, or to be included in a comparison. We do not publish sponsored content as editorial.
- It is disclosed every time. Any page with a monetised link says so at the top, before the content — not buried in a footer.
Full details are on our disclosure page. Our standards for sourcing, corrections and product assessment are set out in the editorial policy.
What we cover
Six areas, all belonging to the same man rather than to six different readers. They connect: a prostate that interrupts sleep costs you energy, which affects weight, which loads the joints. We treat them as one picture.
- Prostate — starting with enlarged prostate after 40, the guide the rest of that section builds on.
- Sleep — including why waking up to pee at night is often not a bladder problem at all.
- Testosterone — what declines, what that actually means, and what the testing shows.
- Energy — the fatigue that is a symptom of something else.
- Weight — the midsection that changed without the diet changing.
- Joints — the knee and shoulder that started complaining.
Corrections
If we get something wrong, we want to fix it and say that we did. If you find an error — a misread study, an outdated guideline, a broken claim — write to us through the contact page. Corrections are made in the article and noted with the updated date.
We would rather be corrected in public than be quietly wrong.
Get in touch
Questions, corrections and press enquiries all go through the contact page. We read everything, though we cannot give personal medical advice and will always point you to a qualified professional for that.
Medical disclaimer: Male Health Guide publishes general information, not medical advice. We are not doctors and no content here is reviewed by a physician before publication. Nothing on this site diagnoses, treats or cures any condition. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health, and never start, stop or change a prescribed medication based on something you read online.