Disclaimer & Terms

An evidence reference, not medical care

Humanedy summarizes published trials in people, for education, and that is all it does. Nothing here is medical advice, and using this site creates no clinician-patient relationship. Nothing here diagnoses, treats, cures, or prevents any disease or condition. In an emergency, call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room — do not wait on anything read here, and do not delay or set aside your own clinician's care because of something on this site. Talk to your clinician about your case: their knowledge of your health history is the one thing a trial cannot give you.

What a grade means

Every grade is Humanedy's reading of the human trials behind one ingredient and one claim — never a rating of an ingredient in general, and never advice to take, buy, or avoid anything. How We Grade sets out the ladder, from A to Insufficient. A trial reports an average in the people it studied; an individual result can differ. Grades weigh benefit only — harms print on the panel as cautions, and a strong grade is not a finding that an ingredient is safe for you.

The record moves

Each panel links the studies it rests on, and its summary is our reading of them. Research changes — trials are corrected, added to, and sometimes overturned — and a grade can change with it. We work to keep every page accurate and complete, but we do not promise that any page is either: a summary can carry an error, and the trials printed are the ones the grade rests on, not the whole of medicine. Links lead to other people's papers and sites; a link is not an endorsement, and what sits at the other end is theirs.

Labels and dose checks

Where a panel names a product, it does so for one reason: to set the dose on that product's label beside the dose the trials used. Naming a product is not a recommendation of it. The check holds only for the label as it stood on the date printed on the panel — labels change, and the label in your hand is the one that counts. Supplements are not approved by the FDA for effectiveness before they are sold, as medicines are. They can also change how medicines — and each other — work, and the risk runs higher in pregnancy and nursing, for children, around surgery, and alongside serious illness or regular medication. Before you start, stop, or combine anything, talk to your clinician or pharmacist.

Supplements only — and nothing is for sale

Humanedy grades dietary supplements only. Prescription drugs, medical foods, and therapeutic diets are not graded as supplements and never anchor a dose check; where a trial used one, the panel says so in its record. Humanedy sells nothing, ranks no products, and takes no money for a grade — no affiliate fees, no sponsored placements, no commissions. If that ever changes, it will be disclosed where the link or placement sits, not only on this page.

Mandy, the guide

Mandy is this site's guide: a way of finding and understanding what is already in the book. She is not medical advice, and she does not know your case. Her answers are drawn from this site's record and nowhere else, and like any summary, she can get a detail wrong. The panel she points you to is the record — check it before you rely on her answer.

Terms of use

This site is written for adult readers; where a panel covers trials in children, it is written for a parent or guardian to take to the child's clinician. You may read and print pages for your own use. The text, grades, and dose checks are Humanedy's work — do not republish them, sell them, or copy them in bulk without written permission. The site is provided as it stands, without warranties of any kind, and decisions you make with what you read here are yours; Humanedy is not liable for them. We may revise this page, and the site, at any time — changes take effect when posted here, and using the site afterward means you accept them. Our Privacy Policy is published and linked from here. Questions about these terms: humanedyhq@gmail.com.