What kind of support an entry rests on
A badge does not rate how true something is. It says where the backing comes from — including when there is no factual claim to back at all.
The entry summarises material published by a national health body such as NIH's NCCIH or NHLBI. Educational context, not a verdict about you.
The entry teaches a research-methods idea drawn from a published methodological guide, and explicitly does not turn personal observation into clinical evidence.
The entry explains what regulators say advertisers and labels may claim — FDA labeling rules and FTC substantiation standards. It is not legal advice.
The entry states how this project intends to behave. It makes no claim about any product, ingredient or health outcome, so there is nothing to cite.
Framing, identity and values. Again: nothing empirical is asserted, so no source is owed.
Source for every mission
| Mission | Basis | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Intro | No external factual claim — Welcome aboard |
| 02 | Agency | NCCIH — Know the Science · research literacy; distinguishing anecdote, claim and evidence |
| 03 | Method | AHRQ — Design and Implementation of N-of-1 Trials · prospective comparison, predefinition, repetition, and the limits of informal self-observation |
| 04 | Agency | NHLBI — How Sleep Deprivation and Deficiency Affect Health · sleep deficiency can affect learning, focus and reaction; not presented as diagnosis or cure |
| 05 | Regulatory | FDA — Dietary Supplement Labeling Guide, Claims · FTC — Health Products Compliance Guidance |
| 06 | Method | AHRQ — N-of-1 Trials guide · context, design, repeatability, limits of uncontrolled observation |
| 07 | Editorial | No factual efficacy claim. A research-integrity promise; formal publication-bias claims will carry primary sources before they are made |
| 08 | Regulatory | FTC — Health Products Compliance Guidance · FDA — Structure/Function Claims · evidence must match the exact advertised claim |
| 09 | Editorial | No scientific or product claim. An explicitly unbuilt concept; product, privacy, security, legal and health review are required before any capability claim |
| 10 | Charter | No external factual claim — the charter |
| 11 | Agency | NHLBI — How Sleep Deprivation and Deficiency Affect Health · sleep and fundamentals as Strong context for interpreting a stack claim; not a product rating, dose, or recommendation — Sleep before stack |
What has to be true before something is published here
- The claim is stated precisely enough to be checked — no "science-backed" without saying which science.
- The source is read, not just the headline, and its limitations travel with it.
- Uncertainty is shown rather than smoothed away, and a null or inconvenient result is kept.
- General education is distinguished from individual guidance, every time.
- A human reviews health-adjacent content before it goes out; the fictional and AI-assisted nature is disclosed with it.
A disclaimer at the bottom cannot repair a misleading overall impression at the top. If those two ever conflict here, the impression is the thing that was wrong.
What this project will never do
- Claim Cillian personally used, tested, reacted to or benefited from any product — he is fictional and has no body, licence or history to draw on.
- Diagnose, prescribe, or tell anyone what to take, how much, or what to combine.
- Advise on medication changes, interactions, or how to manage an adverse event.
- Call a supplement safe, effective or "clinically proven" without precise scope and qualified review.
- Fabricate a reviewer, testimonial, citation, lab result or app capability.
- Hide an affiliate, sponsor or gifted-product relationship — there are none at present, and any future one will be disclosed with the content it touches.
- Target minors, or trade on anyone's addiction, eating disorder, anxiety, depression, disability or desperation.
Questions involving symptoms, medicines, doses, pregnancy, mental health or an adverse event belong with a qualified clinician or pharmacist — never with a comment section, and never automated here.