About these articles

Who writes this

These articles are written and edited by the developer of the DosePulse app. I'm a developer, not a clinician or a researcher. What you'll find on this site is the background I've gathered on each supplement DosePulse helps you track. What it's actually doing in the body. What the evidence shows. Where it can genuinely help, where the claims overshoot, what's worth knowing before you take it.

If you want clinical advice, talk to a clinician. If you want a clear, honestly framed take on what the evidence actually says about a supplement, written like a knowledgeable friend telling you what they found, that's what these articles try to be.

How articles get written

The general approach is to read across the established sources, draft something honest, then re-read it like a skeptical reader would. Numbers get cross-checked. Claims that can't be backed get cut. Where the evidence is mixed, that gets stated plainly instead of dressed up. This is a working method, not a fixed protocol, and it gets refined as the project moves.

The bar isn't "comprehensive medical reference." It's the article a knowledgeable friend would write if they cared about getting it right.

What I lean on

The references below are the starting base. They're conservative, well-curated, and a good place to anchor anything an article says about a supplement. They're not the full picture, though. The supplement literature evolves faster than official fact sheets keep pace with, and meaningful information often lives outside the mainstream curation: emerging trials, practitioner experience, named books, and reasoned analysis from independent researchers. Where a specific author or book gets cited in an article, that work is named openly so readers can follow up themselves.

Roughly in order of trust within the conservative consensus:

NIH Office of Dietary Supplements — the authoritative US government supplement fact sheets. Conservative, sourced, regularly updated.

Examine.com — supplement summaries with grade-rated evidence tiers. Subscription is paid; the free tier covers most of what's used here.

PubMed — for primary studies and systematic reviews when ODS or Examine reference them.

Cochrane Library — for the supplements where Cochrane has reviewed the evidence.

Beyond those, the orthomolecular medicine tradition is part of the background reading. It goes back to Linus Pauling and continues through clinicians like Robert Cathcart, Abram Hoffer, Thomas Levy, and Andrew Saul. Orthomolecular work takes nutrient-based therapeutics seriously, often at higher doses than mainstream guidance allows. The evidence is mixed in places, but the tradition has produced real research and clinical observation that deserves engagement rather than dismissal.

Independent researchers, clinicians, and content creators also shape the perspective. Names like Joseph Mercola, Thomas Levy, Thomas DeLauer, Eric Berg, David Brownstein, Jason Hommel, Rajagopal Sekhar, Derrick Lonsdale, Antonio Costantini, Hans Nieper, Morley Robbins, and many others have introduced a lot of readers (myself included) to supplements and protocols the conservative channels rarely cover. I don't endorse every claim any of them make. Their work does consistently raise angles, studies, and forms that the mainstream sources skip, and that's part of why it gets cited here. Where any of their work is the actual reference for a specific claim, the source is named openly in the article so readers can follow the chain themselves.

Manufacturer-funded studies get read too, and they're flagged as such when cited.

What you won't find here

No "miracle cure" framing. No invented studies. No doses without a source. I don't recommend supplements for medical conditions, because that's a clinician's call, not mine.

Last updated

The date on each article reflects the last time it was checked against current sources. Articles get revised when newer evidence changes the picture.

Contact

Spotted an error, or have a study you think belongs here? Email fractal.studio.dev@gmail.com. Honest feedback makes the next pass better.