How we read the research

Every entry separates three things that are routinely mixed together elsewhere: what a compound is claimed to do, what has been shown in animals, and what has been shown in people. Where the human evidence is thin or absent, the entry says so in the first paragraph, not in a footnote.

Every factual claim carries the source that was opened, with its date. Regulatory status is stated for the reader's own market and named — approved medicine, unapproved, or sold for laboratory research. Where a dosage appears it is reported from a label, a trial protocol or a published source, attributed and dated; it is reporting, not instruction.

Entries carry the date they were last checked, and are revisited when new evidence appears. A correction is made in place and noted. Nothing in an entry changes because of a commercial relationship.

Last updated: 2026-09. Material updates to this page are dated.

This standard is held by Caroline S. Where an entry has a gap — a compound with no human data, a claim we could not source — it says so rather than filling it.