Affiliate disclosure
The Federal Trade Commission requires we tell you when we earn from a link. Here’s exactly what that looks like, in one place.
Last updated May 27, 2026
The short version
Some — not all — of the outbound links on https://metabolicledger.comare affiliate links. When you click one and subsequently sign up or purchase, we may receive a commission from the merchant at no additional cost to you. Every affiliate link is labelled inline at the link itself with the word “Affiliate” or a small AD marker so you can see which links are commercial before you click. We follow 16 CFR Part 465 — the FTC’s endorsement and testimonial rule.
Which categories pay us
- Telehealth providers prescribing GLP-1 medications. Commission paid either per qualifying sign-up or per first prescription fulfilled, depending on the provider’s affiliate program. Most pay between $50 and $250 per converted sign-up.
- Continuous glucose monitors and metabolic-tracking products. Commission paid per qualifying purchase.
- Books, supplements, and adjacent products disclosed inline where they appear.
Which categories do not pay us
- Pharmacies and compounders. We do not accept commissions on prescription fulfilment from independent compounding pharmacies. Where we discuss a compounded option, we link to the pharmacy directly without an affiliate token.
- Manufacturers (Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly). We do not have any direct commercial relationship with drug manufacturers.
- Insurers, government programs (Medicare, Medicaid), or any payer.
- Medical professional networks, ABOM, or any credentialing body.
What does not move our score
Our provider scoring rubric (see methodology) is blind to commission tier. The editor scoring a provider does not see its commission rate at the time of scoring. We have, and will continue to, rank higher-commission providers below no-commission providers when the rubric calls for it. A provider that gives us the best commission rate in the category can still be flagged as the wrong choice for a given reader profile — and frequently is, in our coverage of subscription-lock-in patterns.
How disclosures appear
Three layers of disclosure run on the Site, in order of proximity:
- Inline. Each affiliate link is labelled with an
ADmarker (small superscript) or, for button-style CTAs, an explicit “Affiliate link — we earn a commission” line underneath. - Page-level.Any page containing affiliate links carries a banner near the top reading something like “This page contains affiliate links. We may earn a commission on qualifying sign-ups.”
- Site-level.This page, plus a permanent footer line reading “Some links are affiliate links; we earn commissions on qualifying sign-ups.”
How click-tracking works
Affiliate links don’t point directly at the merchant. They go through our cloaking redirect at /go/[provider]/[product], which logs the click (timestamp, IP address, user agent, referring page, provider, product) and then redirects you (HTTP 302) to the merchant. The log is used for revenue reconciliation against affiliate-network reports — i.e. to catch the network short-paying us — and for basic abuse prevention. We do not share the log with any third party.
You can see exactly where a link goes before clicking by hovering over it — the visible href is always our /go/... URL, and the merchant identity is in that URL.
How we make decisions
The full firewall — who scores, who writes, who has visibility into commission rates, and how corrections are handled — is on our editorial policy page. The four-paragraph version: scoring is blind to commissions; editorial control is independent of affiliate partners; partners have no pre-publication review; corrections are public, named, and dated.
Reporting an undisclosed affiliate link
If you find a link you suspect is affiliate but isn’t disclosed, please email corrections@metabolicledger.com. We treat undisclosed affiliate links as factual errors and handle them through the corrections process in our editorial policy.