About iboga.co
Who we are, how the site is funded, and why it carries no clinic referrals, no affiliate links and no sponsored placement.
iboga.co is an independent information site about iboga and ibogaine. It is funded by its founders, carries no advertising and no affiliate links, and refers no one to any clinic. It is not a treatment provider, and it has no commercial interest in whether you seek treatment.
Why this site exists
Search for iboga or ibogaine and you will mostly find two kinds of page: encyclopaedic entries that stop at the pharmacology, and clinics that sell treatment. The first tells you what the molecule is. The second tells you what it will do for you, in language written by people who are paid if you believe them.
Between the two there is very little: no independent account of what the evidence actually supports, what the law actually says in your country, what the risks actually are, and where the Bwiti tradition this plant comes from fits into any of it.
That gap is the whole reason for this site.
What we publish
Nine sections, each with a hub and its own pages: the plant, the science, safety, legality, treatment, the Bwiti tradition, first-hand experiences, comparisons with other substances, and a news thread following policy and research.
The sections that carry medical claims, meaning safety, science and treatment, are reviewed by a named physician before publication, and the review date is published with the page. The legal pages carry a verification date, because a statute that was accurate eighteen months ago may not be today.
How this is funded
The site is funded by its founders. It has no revenue.
That is not a temporary arrangement waiting for a better one. The absence of revenue is what makes the rest of this page possible to write, and the commitments below are worth exactly as much as the funding model that permits them.
If that ever changes, it will be stated on this page before it takes effect, and the change will be dated. A disclosure added quietly after the fact is not a disclosure.
What we will not do
These are not aspirations. They are the conditions under which this site is worth reading at all.
- No affiliate links. Not to clinics, not to retreats, not to supplement vendors, not to books.
- No lead generation. We do not sell, share or broker contact details, and we run no forms whose purpose is to pass you to a provider.
- No sponsored content. No paid placement, no gifted trips, no “partnership” that shapes what appears here.
- No named clinic recommendations. We publish criteria for evaluating a provider, and the questions worth asking. We do not tell you where to go.
- No sourcing of the substance. We will not tell you where to buy iboga or ibogaine, in any jurisdiction. Pages that answer that search answer it with the law and the risks.
What we are not
We are not doctors giving you medical advice. Nothing here is a substitute for a consultation with a physician who has seen your ECG and knows what else you are taking.
We are not neutral about safety. Ibogaine has killed people, mostly through cardiac events, and we say so on every page where it is relevant. A site that treated that as a detail would be lying by proportion.
We are not the Bwiti. We report on the tradition with the help of a correspondent in Gabon; we do not speak for it, and we do not sell access to it.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, we want to know, and we publish the correction rather than editing quietly. The procedure is on the contact page.