Editorial Standards

Who writes this

Lebene is written by two people. Artur Jankowski has practised and read around wellness for over a decade — breathing, sport, sleep and self-awareness are habits he keeps up rather than topics chosen for search traffic — and works from primary literature on PubMed rather than summaries. What he writes is informed by his own practice as well as the research each article cites. Justyna Jankowska writes the pregnancy, birth and early-infancy articles, drawing on her own experience of pregnancy, labour and the first months with a baby alongside the research each article cites.

How sources are checked

Every identifier cited on this site has been verified against Crossref or PubMed metadata, and the checks run as part of the build rather than by good intentions.

• A DOI must resolve to a paper whose title matches the reference citing it. Resolving alone proves nothing — an audit found 17 identifiers that resolved perfectly to entirely unrelated work, including an obituary.
• The journal, volume and year are checked too. A citation can carry the correct DOI and title above a fabricated journal and volume, and two did.
• Unverified identifiers are removed rather than kept hopefully. If a claim cannot be sourced, the claim goes, not just the link.
• English and Polish versions must cite identically and stay structurally parallel, so a correction cannot land in one language and be forgotten in the other.

How claims are written

The aim is that the confidence of a sentence matches the strength of the evidence behind it.

• A single small study is described as a single small study, not as "science shows".
• Where a popular framework is scientifically contested, the article says so — even when that undercuts the practice it is describing.
• Mechanisms are checked against physiology rather than repeated from other wellness sites.
• Contraindications are named for anything that can genuinely hurt someone, including who should not try it at all.
• Marketing language is not treated as a standard. "Therapeutic grade", for instance, certifies nothing.

Commercial links

Two articles carry affiliate links, and both disclose it at the top. The rule they follow: a paid link may identify a product, it may never assert a health benefit, and it never appears before the evidence and safety sections that qualify it. If a recommendation would not survive without the commission, it does not belong on the page.

Medical disclaimer

Everything here is educational and is not medical advice. It is not a substitute for diagnosis or treatment, and it should not delay you seeking either. See the medical disclaimer for the full statement.