Medical review

The current state, plainly

Appetune does not yet have a named clinical reviewer network. We are recruiting registered dietitians to fill that role.

Until a page has been reviewed by a qualified reviewer, it stays in draft: it is written, it is visible to the editorial team, and it is not published. Advice-bearing pages you see marked “in development” are exactly that.

We are saying this on its own page, in plain language, because the alternative — a vague “medically reviewed” badge with nothing behind it — is the single most common dishonesty in health publishing, and we are not doing it.

What Appetune publishes under in the meantime

A team byline. The Appetune Team is the author and the checker of record for current content. The team byline carries no clinical credentials and does not claim any. Where a page needs clinical review to be safe, it does not publish until it has it.

How review will work

1. Writing. An author drafts the page against named sources and declares them in the page’s own metadata.
2. Editorial check. Structure, voice, and the standards on the editorial standards page.
3. Clinical review. A qualified reviewer, working independently of the author, checks the substance: whether the guidance is accurate, whether the limits are drawn in the right places, and whether the escalation advice is correct and prominent enough.
4. Sign-off. The reviewer’s name, credentials, and the date go on the page. Only then does it publish.
5. Re-review. Pages are re-checked when the underlying guidance, an official label, or a safety communication changes — not on a fixed calendar.

What a reviewer is asked to check

• Is anything stated more confidently than the evidence allows?
• Are the escalation signs correct, complete, and in the right place?
• Could any part of this delay someone from seeking care?
• Does it stay inside nutrition education and out of clinical instruction?
• Is the language free of shame, pressure, and diet-culture framing?

If you are a registered dietitian

We are looking for reviewers, particularly in oncology nutrition, gastrointestinal and bariatric nutrition, geriatric nutrition, and GLP-1 care. Reviewers are credited by name and credential on every page they sign off, and are paid for the work. The contact page is the place to start.