How we write our articles
Last updated: 11 October 2026
This page explains who writes the articles on mypcospal.com, how they are made and checked, where their facts come from, and how to tell us about a mistake. We would rather tell you plainly than imply expertise we do not have.
Who writes them
The articles are published by the PCOS Pal team. PCOS Pal is not a medical provider. No doctor, dietitian or other clinician writes or reviews each article before it is published, so you will not find a named expert or a credential on them.
Two kinds of pages
Our main guides and app pages are written by people on the team. The articles under /learn are drafted with AI assistance, as described below.
How an article is made
- The topic comes from questions people actually search for (from Google Search Console) or from a list of topics we plan ourselves.
- The first draft is written by an AI model (Claude, made by Anthropic). It follows written editorial rules for this site: plain, careful language, the practical answer first, and evidence-shaped answers about food, cycles and movement with PCOS, with no food banned and no promised results.
- Safety rules are part of those written rules: no doses or dosing schedules, no diagnostic thresholds or lab targets, no drug or supplement brands, and never telling a reader whether they have a condition.
- Facts: we maintain a list of checked facts for this site, and the draft is told to take its figures from it.
Checks before anything is published
Every draft has to pass automated checks before it can go live. If a check fails, the draft is rewritten once against the specific problem; if it still fails, it is not published. The automated checks are:
- prices and names: a price, a currency amount or the name of an expert or a product must be on our checked fact list;
- health figures: every duration, frequency, percentage or amount must be copied from the checked fact list;
- duplication: an article must not repeat the main keyword of an article we already have, or read too much like one;
- links: links inside the article text go only to pages on this site; the Sources box links to the original public sources; we never link to other products;
- allowed formatting, structure and length.
The safety rules above are instructions to the writer, not an automated check, which is one more reason every article carries the health notice below.
People on the team write these rules and the fact list, and look over samples of published articles. Individual articles are not reviewed by a clinician.
Where the facts come from
The facts list draws on public guidelines and health services, including:
- The 2023 International Evidence-based Guideline for the assessment and management of PCOS
- NHS (UK National Health Service)
- Diabetes UK: glycaemic index and diabetes
- World Health Organization: polycystic ovary syndrome fact sheet
- NIDDK (U.S. National Institutes of Health)
When an article states one of these facts, a Sources box at the end links to the original.
Health information
Our articles are for education. They are not medical advice, diagnosis or treatment — talk to a clinician about your own care. Every article carries this notice where you can see it.
Updates and corrections
We revise an article when the guidance it relies on changes, or when we find or are told about an error. If something looks wrong, please email support@ichime.dev with the page address, and we will check it and correct it.