How we make money — and what that means for you.

Bowel Brief participates in affiliate programs, which means some of the product links on this site and in our newsletter are tracking links. If you click one and then make a purchase, we may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. That commission is part of how this site stays free, ad-free, and free of paid sponsorships in the editorial.

Our editorial decisions are not for sale. We do not let merchants pay to be recommended, pay to be ranked higher, or pay to remove negative coverage.

Bowel Brief is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Our Amazon tracking tag is bowelbrief-20.

We are also a publisher in the Awin affiliate network (formerly ShareASale), which allows us to partner with smaller, niche-relevant brands directly — supplement companies, pelvic-floor programs, gut-testing labs, and similar. Each Awin merchant sets their own commission rate; you'll see Awin tracking applied automatically when you click any product on our site that is part of that network.

We may add additional networks (Impact, Partnerize, ClickBank, Thorne's direct program, and others) over time as we cover more product categories. Whenever we do, this disclosure is updated and the affiliate relationship is called out on the relevant article.

Every product we recommend is selected because it earns its place on evidence — ingredients, dose, manufacturing standards, third-party testing where applicable, and the experience of real users with chronic constipation. We routinely call out products we won't recommend (low doses, junk fillers, theatrical packaging, brands with weak transparency) even when those products would pay us more. We've turned down sponsorship offers from brands we don't believe in.

Where multiple products solve the same problem at meaningfully different price points, we'll usually recommend two: the best-in-class option and the budget option. We try to make it easy for readers to choose based on their own situation, not on what pays us best.

You pay the same price whether you click our link or buy direct. If a brand offers an exclusive Bowel Brief discount that beats their public price, we'll say so explicitly. Otherwise, the link is a convenience for you and a small contribution to us.

If you'd rather not use an affiliate link, you can always search for the product directly. The recommendation is the same either way; it's the work we did beforehand that matters.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission requires publishers to clearly and conspicuously disclose any material connection — including affiliate relationships — to their audience. This page satisfies that requirement, and we additionally repeat short disclosures on every product card, every product page, every newsletter edition that recommends a product, and inside the 72-Hour Reset Protocol PDF. We do this because the rule is right: you deserve to know who's getting paid when you click.

If you have a question about a specific recommendation, want to know whether a link is affiliate or not, or want to suggest we add or remove something, write to [email protected]. See our privacy policy for how we handle your message.