Frequently asked questions

Some guy that works as an independent journalist. Dr. Trust Me Bro (DTMB) uses wry humor to present evidence-backed reporting on health influencers (“Doc Bros”). We quote their own public claims, official videos, posts, and websites, timestamp the lines, and cross-check them against peer-reviewed literature. The humor is deliberate: memorable copy helps readers spot unscrupulous pitches before they buy the protocol.

A key is 16 digits and takes a few seconds to make at /key. It is not an account: no name, no password, and no email unless you want one for recovery. It exists so the submission forms are not free for abusers, and so you can see everything you have sent us in one place, and unlink or pull back what you sent. Whistleblower tips never ask for a key, because those are meant to be anonymous.

Usually a few minutes. You’ll see status on the report page while we process the transcript.

No. Independent research commentary with wry humor, not clinical advice. Talk to a real clinician for care decisions.

Major claims are matched against PubMed/MEDLINE, Europe PMC, reputable peer-reviewed journals (e.g. BMJ, Lancet, JAMA, NEJM, Cochrane-indexed reviews), and an additional academic literature search for cross-checks.

For YouTube videos, we match quoted phrases to automated transcript segments and link to that moment in the video. Website quotes point to matched page text when found.

Four 0-100 heuristics, not clinical grades: Credentials (a real MD/DO confirmed against the federal provider registry scores high on the degree alone; other licensed clinicians land mid and drop further when they advertise beyond their board's scope; an unverified Dr with no matching license scores low), Manipulation (persuasion density), Sales Funnel (product, coaching, and lab routing), and Bro Energy (Doc Bro delivery). Score 75+ = funnel city; under 50 = mostly evidence. Three of the four also decide the Wall of Fame order, and that arithmetic is public: Manipulation at 40 percent, Sales Funnel at 40 percent, and the gap between 100 and Credentials at 20 percent, scaled to a base worth up to 80. Bro Energy is not in it. Fixed points are added on top, 3 each for credential inflation, undisclosed kickbacks, advice beyond the license, a disclaimer used as a shield or missing while the advice runs beyond the license, and FSA/HSA steering, then 8 more when those last three all apply, and 8 more when a subject's own published wording lists a condition the registry classes under infants and children. That last addition never applies to a doctor the federal provider registry confirms as an MD or DO, and never on the Wall of Shame. Cards show the total clamped to 0 to 100, while the wall is ordered by the full total, which tops out at 111.

Common patterns include affiliate commissions on supplement links, private-label or MLM stacks, lab referral or interpretation fees, in-office dispensing markup, and coaching sold after scary symptoms or 'abnormal' panels. Whistleblower cases against major lab companies (see Blood Money) show how lab billing grift scales, Doc Bro funnels are the retail cousin.

In most states yes, provided the title is tethered to chiropractor, D.C., or doctor of chiropractic wherever it appears. The pattern our scans track is the untethered version: the bare title with the license type missing.

No. None of the 24 recognized physician specialty boards certifies it and no state licenses it. It is a practice style plus a market of private certificates, from physician only fellowships down to mail order doctorates.

Check which track. The functional medicine institute issues FMCP to chiropractors and FMCP-M to prescribing licenses, and the anti-aging academy calls only its MD and DO track Board Certified. The issuers state in writing that the credential grants no legal or specialty status.

Ordering labs is permitted in many states and restricted in some. Prescribing for what a hormone or thyroid panel shows sits outside the chiropractic license everywhere except a narrow New Mexico pathway that is set to expire in 2028.

Yes. Licensure follows where the patient is sitting, so the practitioner needs a license in your state. Confirm it on your state board's lookup before you pay.

Put the name in the free federal NPI registry and read the taxonomy line; codes starting 111N mean chiropractor. Then confirm the license with your state board and run the name through the physician certification lookup, where no record is itself the answer.