How this is sourced
These are the rules the content is written under. They are not aspirational — they are the working standards the project has used from the start, published here so you can hold the site to them.
Every claim links to its source
A claim that cannot be pointed at a specific paper does not go on the site. As of the last build, 56 of the 58 findings in the research library link to a PubMed or DOI record. The remaining two cite a book and a podcast alongside journal work — they carry a full written citation but no link, because no DOI exists to link to, and inventing one would be worse than the gap.
Claims stay correlational when the evidence is
Cohort studies show association, not cause, and the writing has to reflect that. The sauna data is the clearest example: frequent sauna use travels with lower cardiovascular mortality, and that page has a section explaining what an observational study cannot prove. "Associated with" is not hedging — it is the accurate verb.
The library only grows
A newer study joins the library; it does not replace an older valid one. Swapping a good study for a fresher one is how a citation list quietly becomes a list of whatever was published most recently, and it destroys the record of what was known when.
Errors get corrected, not deleted
The exception to the rule above is an outright error — a wrong attribution, a swapped figure, a misquoted finding. Those are corrected. Three citations on this site named the wrong journal (Patrick & Johnson was attributed to FASEB J rather than Experimental Gerontology, Batulan to Frontiers in Neuroscience rather than Immunology, Touroutoglou to J Neurosci rather than Cortex). Each was checked against the DOI registry and fixed in place.
Doses are reported as the study used them
Where a page gives a dose, it is the dose the research used, not a rounded-off version. Where a trial dose exceeds a regulatory safety limit — as the PMS vitamin B6 trials do, at around 50 mg/day against an EFSA upper limit of 12 mg/day — the page says so and says not to self-prescribe it. A trial dose is not a recommendation.
Contraindications are stated
Pages that tell you to do something physical say who should not do it and why: cold-shock response and never entering cold water alone, alcohol as the factor in most sauna deaths in the Finnish data, cardiac screening before maximal intervals, omega-3 with anticoagulants, piperine raising blood levels of prescription drugs.
Nothing here is medical advice
It is educational content written by someone who is not a clinician. It does not replace a doctor who knows your history, and any decision about medication or hormone therapy belongs with one.
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