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VO₂max & Longevity

48 sub-claims across 10 physiological categories — reconciled from two independent fact-checks against 78 peer-reviewed sources, from Holloszy (1967) to Mandsager's 122,007-person cohort.

5.04×

hazard ratio — low vs elite fitness

The protein stack, stripped to the evidence

Whey · creatine · glutamine · EAAs — a two-tier audit of the four supplements most often stacked for muscle gain and fat loss, with effect sizes, conflicts of interest, and an honest debunk of BCAAs-as-muscle-builder.

+0.30 kg

FFM gain · whey + RT (Morton 2018)

Drinking water safety in Greece

Microplastics, PFAS, fluoride and lead — graded for evidence and mapped to what actually ships to a Greek address.

9.29×

nanoplastic rise in hot PET

Creatine, stripped to the evidence

A synthesis of 685 controlled trials and ~26,000 participants — separating what creatine reliably does from industry hype and unsettled science, with a sex-specific antidepressant signal in women.

685

controlled trials synthesized

Magnesium, stripped to the evidence

Nine forms compared, three upper limits reconciled, and the L-threonate premium audited — which magnesium is worth paying for, at what dose, and where the literature is funded by people who sell it.

9

magnesium forms graded

The Incretin Decade: GLP-1, dual & triple agonists

GLP-1, dual and triple agonists graded for evidence — the efficacy ladder, the organ-outcome dossier, what really happens to muscle, the drugs that try to spare it, and the hype the randomized trials are quietly deflating.

28–30%

peak weight loss (retatrutide, TRIUMPH)

Do hot drinks cause cancer?

A viral chart says the hot-drink–cancer link collapses under age adjustment — and coffee is genuinely exonerated. But the headline drops the one signal that survives every control: scalding liquids and the esophagus.

5.7 → 0 pp

hot-drink cancer gap, erased by age

Your daily omega-3 regimen, graded

Three multi-oil softgels plus three fish-oil caps — what 900 mg of EPA+DHA actually buys across nine health domains.

900 mg

EPA+DHA — 90% of AHA floor

Twenty patches, one billion cells

First-in-human engineered heart muscle in advanced heart failure — the BioVAT-HF readout, read alongside the field's graveyard and a founder's conflict of interest.

+6.9 pp

LVEF gain at latest follow-up (n=16)

Zinc picolinate, audited

Statistical significance, conflicts of interest, sample-size weighting and replication status across every major zinc claim.

33–42%

cold-duration cut (lozenges only)

Do food additives hurt the gut?

Carrageenan, emulsifiers, titanium dioxide, sweeteners, maltodextrin — a graded audit of the additives most accused of harming the intestine. Real, reproducible mechanism in cells and mice; thin, additive-specific, often-null human proof.

0 / 5

additives with proven human gut-disease causation

Does omega-3 speed up cognitive decline?

A critical appraisal of a contested, unverified observational finding (Liao et al. 2026) and the viral claim it triggered.

β +0.823/yr

ADAS-Cog13 slope (unverified)

NMN & NR efficacy, audited

A zero-bias meta-analysis of 26 randomized trials — what raising blood NAD⁺ does, and what it doesn't.

60–200%

blood NAD⁺ increase

Sodium butyrate for gut health, audited

“Very good for the gut” — a vital colonic molecule wrapped in an overstated bottle. Separating butyrate's strong gut biology from the mixed human trials, the bioavailability wall, and the fibre that does the job better.

≈2%

of an oral dose reaches the blood — little reaches the colon