Who checks this, and what checking means here.

Every guide is researched, written, and checked by the Restadian editorial team. Checking means the claims are traced to sources you can open, the rating is applied against a definition written before the guide, the limitations are stated on the page rather than left implied, and the timing advice is expressed relative to your own schedule rather than a clock.

That is editorial review. It is not clinical review, and the difference matters enough to say plainly: nobody with sleep-medicine credentials has read these pages and signed them.

A byline is a claim about who stands behind a page. Attaching an authoritative-sounding name, or credentials the writing does not actually have behind it, would make a page look more trustworthy than it is — which is the opposite of what a byline is for.

So the team signs the work, and the guides stay unpublished until they clear editorial review. A named expert reviewer network is being assembled. It is being built on top of the editorial standard, not used as a substitute for it.

When a named person with relevant credentials has read a guide, three things appear on that page: their name, their credentials, and the date they read it. The review date becomes theirs rather than the editorial team’s, and it drives when the page is scheduled to be looked at again.

A reviewer’s name will never appear on a page they have not read. If a guide is updated substantially after review, the page says so and the review date does not silently carry over.

Nothing on Restadian is a diagnosis, and no amount of review would make it one. The site explains how sleep timing works and what the evidence supports; it does not assess you, and it cannot see your history.

Persistent insomnia, witnessed breathing pauses, and sleepiness that affects driving are reasons to speak to a clinician regardless of what any page here says.