CleanseCode is an independent editorial project about gut health. We read the evidence behind the claims — cleanses, detoxes, probiotics, parasite protocols, direct-to-consumer stool panels — and write up what it actually supports, with every material claim linked to a primary source you can open and check.
What we are not. Not a clinic and not a medical practice. Nobody producing this site holds a medical credential, and no article here has been reviewed by a clinician — every page says so at the top rather than burying it. We do not diagnose, we do not prescribe, and we no longer publish dosing protocols of any kind. Nothing on this site is a substitute for a conversation with your own clinician.
How we work
Three rules, applied consistently.
Every material claim gets an inline source. Not a bibliography at the bottom — a link on the sentence that makes the claim, going to the CDC page, the guideline, or the study itself. If you disagree with a conclusion, you should be able to reach the underlying evidence in one click.
Where a widely repeated figure cannot be traced, we say so instead of repeating it. This has already come up twice. The tape-test sensitivity figures quoted across clinical references turned out to trace back to an unnamed “one report” we could not retrieve, so we published the numbers that two independent sources actually support. The claim that a fifth of Americans carry intestinal parasites does not trace to any US population study, so we said that rather than citing it.
Where the evidence points in two directions, we give both. Several topics here are genuinely unsettled — whether Blastocystis causes disease, whether three stool specimens are necessary — and we would rather show the disagreement than manufacture a verdict.
What we cover
The testing layer, mostly: what a given test can and cannot detect, which tests are validated and which are not, and what a reasonable workup looks like for a specific symptom pattern. Around that sits the debunking work — the cleanse and detox claims that brought most readers here in the first place — and practical guides on diet and symptoms.
We do not publish supplement protocols, dosing schedules, or step-by-step cleanse regimens. Earlier versions of this site did. Those have been removed, and the articles that carried them now carry correction notices explaining what changed and why.
How we make money
Right now, we don’t. There are no ads on this site, no affiliate links, no sponsorships, and nothing for sale.
The intention is advertising plus affiliate links to legitimate laboratory testing — the standard CLIA-lab panels a physician would order. When that happens, the disclosure will appear in body text near the top of the page, before the first affiliate link, not in a footer.
Two commitments that constrain this. We will not earn commission on a competing product from a page that criticises another one. And we will not join any affiliate programme whose terms require pre-approval of what we publish or forbid negative findings — several of the highest-paying programmes in this category do exactly that, and signing one would mean surrendering the only thing this site has.
Who writes this
The CleanseCode editorial team, which is not currently a named individual, and we would rather state that plainly than imply otherwise. An earlier version of this page described a researcher with a decade of experience in microbiome science. That description was not accurate and has been removed.
This is a real limitation and we are not going to dress it up: anonymous health writing carries less weight than writing by a named clinician, and it should. What we can offer instead is that every claim is checkable, the sources are linked rather than summarised, and the corrections are published. If we bring on a credentialed reviewer, they will be named, their credentials will be verifiable, and the articles they have actually reviewed will say so — rather than a blanket badge across the site.
Corrections
When we get something wrong, we fix it and say what changed. Two correction notices are live on the site already, on the probiotic guide and the heavy-metal binder comparison, both covering claims the earlier versions could not support. The full policy is on the corrections page, and if you find an error, the contact page is the fastest way to tell us.