About Better Vitality

Better Vitality started from a simple frustration: most health content online is written to sell something first and inform second. Articles get stretched to justify an ad slot, studies get cherry-picked to fit a conclusion someone already wanted to reach, and the reader is left more confused than when they started.

I wanted the opposite. Every article here is written to be useful on its own, whether or not you ever click a link to a product.

Who writes this

Stefan Florin

Writes everything on Better Vitality

I am not a doctor, a nurse or a pharmacist, and I have no medical training of any kind. I started looking into this for myself. I kept seeing supplements advertised for the things men my age actually worry about: getting up at night, a stream that is not what it was, blood sugar creeping upwards. I wanted to know whether the studies behind them said what the sales pages claimed they said. Often they did not. That is what got me writing.

What I do is two things, and neither of them requires a degree. I look for the studies on an ingredient that are publicly available, write down the dose they used, and put that number next to the dose on the label. Then I go and read what people who have actually bought the product say about it, in forums and reviews, because that is where side effects and quiet disappointments show up long before anyone writes a paper about them.

When a product hides its amounts inside a proprietary blend, I say so. When the evidence is thin, I say that too, even for an ingredient I would have liked to be able to recommend. Every study, guideline and regulator I lean on is linked, so you can open the source and check my reading of it rather than take my word for it.

That is the whole point of the site. I want to give you information accurate enough that you can make your own judgement, including the judgement that I have got something wrong. If you think I have, tell me. I will correct it and say what changed.

What I cover

Mostly the health problems of men over 45 that nobody talks about at dinner: waking up at night to urinate, a weaker stream, blood sugar that is creeping up, and the tiredness that comes with it. Plus the weight and heart basics that sit underneath all of it.

How I review a supplement

Every review follows the same steps. I take the ingredient list from the vendor's own page, not from a reseller. For each ingredient I look for the studies that are publicly available and note the dose they used, then put that next to the dose on the label. If the label hides the dose in a proprietary blend, the review says so and scores the product down for it. I read public forum discussion and reviews for side-effect patterns and for what buyers actually expected versus what they got, and paraphrase the themes without quoting anyone. I check the vendor's price and refund terms at the time of writing. Then I give a score out of five and a plain verdict, including who should skip the product.

Every review also carries a section called “What we could not verify”. I have not taken these products, and some vendors do not publish enough to check a claim properly. Where that is the case I say which claim it was, rather than quietly rounding it up.

I do not accept payment for reviews, I do not let vendors edit them, and a low score stays published. This is an affiliate site, which means I earn a commission on some purchases made through the links, including BuyGoods vendors and Amazon, and that is disclosed on every relevant page. A commission never changes a score.

Nothing here is medical advice, and I have no medical background. If you take prescription medication, run any supplement past your doctor or pharmacist first.

Get in touch

Have a topic you want covered, or a correction on something I got wrong? Visit the contact page. I read every message, and corrections get published with a note saying what changed.