About

There is no shortage of health information online. What is in short supply is somebody willing to tell you when the evidence is weak.

My name is Donald Bailey. I am not a doctor and I do not play one on the internet. My background is finance, accounting and law — three fields that all come down to the same habit: read the source document, check whether the claim matches it, and be suspicious of anyone who does not want you to look.

That habit is what this site is. When a headline says an herb “reverses” something, I go find the study behind it. Usually the study is smaller than the headline suggested, ran for less time, measured something slightly different, or compared against nothing at all. Sometimes the research is genuinely encouraging. Both of those are worth knowing, and both get written up here the same way.

What you will and will not find here

• You will find plain-English summaries of published human research, with a link to every source so you can read the original yourself.
• You will find an honest note on how strong the evidence is, including when the answer is “not very”.
• You will not find promises that anything here will cure, treat, or reverse a disease. Studies describe what happened to a group of people under specific conditions. They are not a prediction about you.
• You will not find advice to stop, start, or change a prescription. That conversation belongs with your doctor or pharmacist, who knows your history and can see your labs.

How the guides are paid for

The articles are free. The longer guides are paid downloads, and that is the whole business model — no supplement sales, no affiliate links buried in the text, nothing on this site that pays more when a particular herb looks good. If a guide concludes the evidence for something is thin, that costs me nothing, which is exactly the arrangement I wanted.