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About Wellness Desk
Wellness Desk is an editorial site covering the wellness products people actually buy — supplements, skin and shave, and the small number of measurements worth tracking. We read the label, find the studies, and say plainly whether the dose in the bottle matches the dose in the research.
What we cover
Six topics, each with a stated lens:
- Sexual Health — the category with the widest gap between marketing claim and label content.
- Supplement Science — the literacy column: proprietary blends, third-party testing, cost per serving.
- Skin & Grooming — where the correct answer is usually cheap and boring.
- Nutrition — whole-diet evidence rather than single-nutrient hype.
- Stress & Focus — adaptogens and stimulants, sorted by whether human trials exist.
- Longevity — biomarkers you can act on.
We go deep rather than wide: within each topic we care most about the ingredient categories where dosing and form decide whether a product does anything at all — L-citrulline versus arginine, KSM-66 versus generic ashwagandha, magnesium glycinate versus oxide.
What we don't do
We have not run hands-on product tests, laboratory assays or clinical trials, and we do not claim to have. Our work is reading ingredient research and comparing it against what is disclosed on a label. Where the evidence for an ingredient is animal-only, in vitro, or a single small trial, we say so on the page rather than in a footnote. We also keep ingredient studies separate from finished-formula outcomes — a study on an ingredient is not a study on the product containing it.
How we evaluate a product
- Clinical dose versus label dose. Most products under-dose the ingredient they advertise. We compare what the studies used to what's in the bottle.
- Form and bioavailability. The same ingredient at the same milligram count is not the same product.
- Proprietary blends. A blend that hides per-ingredient amounts gets marked down, without exception.
- Third-party testing. Whether anyone outside the company has verified what's in the bottle.
- Mechanism honesty. Whether the claimed mechanism matches what the ingredient is actually shown to do.
Who owns this site
Wellness Desk is a site created and owned by Shane and Max Company, a Delaware corporation doing business as JOYMODE. The same company owns and sells JOYMODE, one of the brands reviewed on this site. Where a Wellness Desk review covers a JOYMODE product, that ownership is disclosed on the review page itself.
Shane and Max Company
190 Christopher Columbus Dr.
Jersey City, NJ 07302
United States
How we make money
Wellness Desk may receive commissions, or be sponsored directly by the manufacturers, for content on our site. That relationship never determines a ranking or a rating — see the affiliate disclosure for the full detail and the editorial policy for how we keep the two separate.
Not medical advice
Wellness Desk publishes consumer research, not medical guidance. Supplements can interact with prescription medication — nitrates and PDE5 inhibitors especially. Talk to a clinician before you start anything.
Contact
Corrections, questions and press: see our contact page.