Editorial Standards

Daily Restore publishes practical education about sleep, recovery and daily restoration. Because our topics touch health, we hold ourselves to standards closer to a health publisher than a lifestyle blog. This page explains exactly how our content is made, so you can judge for yourself whether to trust it.

What we are — and what we’re not

Daily Restore is an educational publication. We are not a medical organization, and nothing we publish is medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Every article carries this disclaimer, and we mean it: for decisions about your health, especially with an existing condition, pregnancy or medication, a qualified healthcare provider outranks anything you read here — including us.

What we can do well is translate: take the research on sleep, muscle recovery, temperature exposure and stress regulation, strip the hype from it, and turn what remains into routines that work in real lives.

How we source

Primary sources only for claims. When we state something about physiology or the effect of a practice, the claim traces to peer-reviewed research, institutional sources (universities, health authorities), or recognized medical references — never to other blogs, influencer content or manufacturer marketing. Where we cite, we link the source directly.

We report the strength of evidence, not just its existence. A single small study, an observational cohort and a body of randomized trials justify very different language. We use graded wording deliberately: “research suggests,” “is associated with,” “evidence consistently shows” — and we say plainly when evidence is weak, mixed or missing. If we can’t find good evidence for a popular claim, the article says so.

Hype gets named. A recurring format on this site is the honest verdict — separating what a trend’s evidence actually supports from what its marketing claims. When the answer is “mostly placebo” or “ahead of the science,” we publish that, including about things we could profit from recommending.

Health claims policy

We follow a conservative claims standard aligned with EU rules on health communication:

  • We do not claim that any practice, food or product cures, treats or prevents disease.
  • We do not use unauthorized health claims for foods or supplements under EU (EFSA) regulations.
  • We describe mechanisms and associations honestly, with their uncertainty attached.
  • Safety information is never edited out for flow. Where a practice carries real risk — cold-water immersion is the clearest example — the safety section is a required part of the article, not a footnote.

Product recommendations and how we make money

Daily Restore is building a small, curated shop of recovery tools, and some articles reference or link to products — ours or others’.

Our rules for this are strict:

  • Education first, always. Every routine and practice we publish works without buying anything. Products are optional accelerants, and our articles say so explicitly.
  • Recommendations follow evidence, not inventory. If the honest verdict on a product category is “weak evidence, buy it only if you enjoy it,” that’s what the article says — including for products we sell.
  • Commercial content is visible as such. Product mentions in articles are clearly presented as recommendations, never disguised as neutral reporting.
  • No pay-for-coverage. We do not accept payment to feature, review or rank products in editorial content.

Corrections and updates

Science moves, and we move with it. Articles display their last-updated date. We review our most-read articles periodically and revise when new evidence changes a conclusion — including reversing ourselves when warranted; the revision is noted in the article. Trend-focused articles are re-checked more frequently, since that’s where claims shift fastest.

Found an error? Tell us via the contact page. Substantive corrections are made promptly and transparently.

Authorship and AI

Daily Restore publishes under a single editorial identity — “Daily Restore Editorial” — rather than individual author personas. We think this is more honest than the alternative common in wellness publishing: invented experts with borrowed credibility. Our content earns trust through the sourcing and claims discipline on this page, which you can verify in every article, not through credentials we’d have to ask you to take on faith.

Our content is researched, structured and edited with the assistance of AI tools, under human editorial direction and review against the standards on this page. Responsibility for everything published on this site rests with Daily Restore as an organization.

Questions about these standards, or how we work: contact us. More about who we are and why this site exists: About Daily Restore.

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