Editorial standards

Who writes these

Lumira is a company, not a person, and the guides are published under the company’s name rather than an individual’s. We do not invent authors. There is no Dr. anybody on this site, no clinical advisory board, and no reviewer credential attached to anything unless a named person with that credential actually reviewed it.

If you see a name on a Lumira page, it belongs to someone real who agreed to be there.

How AI is used

These guides are drafted with AI assistance and edited by the Lumira editorial team before publication. That is worth saying plainly, because we build an AI product and it would be strange to be coy about it.

What AI does not do here is decide what is true. Every factual claim is traced to a named source, and the source is linked so you can go read it instead of taking our word for it.

How sources are chosen

We prefer, in this order: peer-reviewed research and meta-analyses; government and major-institution guidance such as the WHO, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the FDA and the FTC; and professional bodies such as the American Psychological Association.

Every link in a References block was checked to load before it was published. Where a source sits behind a publisher paywall, we link the National Library of Medicine record instead, so the citation still resolves to something you can read.

Where the evidence is weaker than the headline

Relationship advice is full of confident numbers with nothing behind them. When the research is thinner than the popular claim, our References say so in the note under each citation rather than quietly leaving it out. Some examples of what that means in practice:

• We do not attach divorce-prediction accuracy percentages to sources that do not contain them.
• Our guide on AI coaching cites the meta-analysis showing conversational agents did not significantly improve psychological well-being, alongside the ones showing they helped with depression and distress.
• Where an effect is small, we say small.

What Lumira is not

Lumira is a consumer wellbeing product. It is not a healthcare provider, it does not diagnose or treat anything, and nothing on this site is therapy or a substitute for care from a licensed professional. If a guide touches on abuse or harm, it links to the organisations equipped to help.

If you are in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services. In the United States, the National Domestic Violence Hotline is available at 1-800-799-7233 and at thehotline.org.

Corrections

Every guide carries a published date and a last-reviewed date. If something here is wrong, we would rather know: write to us and we will correct it and move the review date.