How Healicus makes money — and how that does not change what we recommend.

What Healicus is

Healicus is an information service. We publish reference material on biomarkers, evidence-anchored longevity practices, and the peer-reviewed sources behind each. We are not a lab, a clinic, or a medical device. We do not interpret your specific values, we do not deliver care, and we do not sit in the clinical chain between you and any provider.

Where revenue comes from

Healicus has two sources of revenue.

1. Affiliate commissions on referrals.When we link to a lab, a supplement, or a programme that has signed an affiliate agreement with Healicus, the partner pays us a small commission if you order through that link. The price you pay is never higher because of it — affiliate fees are part of the partner's marketing budget.
2. Healicus+ subscription (optional). A flat monthly fee unlocks higher caps on AI search, voice, and tracking features. Healicus+ has no clinical content gated behind it; the reference material is free for everyone.

How affiliate and editorial links differ

You will see outbound links in two flavours on the site:

• Sponsored / affiliate link. Labelled Sponsored on lab partner tiles, marked rel="sponsored" in HTML. Healicus earns a commission if you transact through this link. The partner is in an active commercial relationship with Healicus.
• Editorial / plain referral. No special label. No commission. We link to it because it is a place that does the thing the reader is asking about. Treat it like a citation — we link to journal articles the same way.

Partners can move from editorial to affiliate over time as commercial agreements come into place. They do not move the other direction without the editorial team also re-confirming that the partner still meets the quality bar.

Editorial independence

Whether or not a partner pays us a commission is decided after our editorial team has already decided to include them. The opposite — adding a partner because they offered a commission — is forbidden by our internal editorial policy.

Concretely, the rules our editors follow are:

• Quality and evidence-anchoring decisions come first. A partner is included on the strength of what they offer.
• We will turn down affiliate agreements with partners whose quality does not meet our bar, even when the commission is attractive.
• We do not let a partner edit, review, or veto the content of any marker page, practice page, dispatch, or guideline.
• We do not pre-share unpublished editorial content with partners.
• We disclose this policy publicly — this page is part of that disclosure.

What Healicus never sees

When you click through to a lab, the order, the sample, the payment, and the result all live on the lab's systems. Healicus does not receive your lab values. The lab's privacy policy and clinical processes apply once you arrive on their site. If a lab flags a result as needing attention, that notification comes from the lab — not from Healicus.

What you should do if you spot a problem

If you believe an editorial recommendation is inconsistent with this policy — or that a partner is misrepresented anywhere on the site — write to editorial@healicus.com and we will investigate.

See also: Privacy Policy · Terms of Use · Marker reference.