Medical Disclaimer

Every finding carries a letter grade from A to E that reflects the strength of the research behind it, based on things like study design, sample size, and whether other studies agree. A grade describes how strong the evidence is, not whether something is safe or right for you. Even an A-grade finding summarizes research on groups of people; it isn’t a diagnosis or a personal recommendation. Research describes average effects in the people who were studied, so your results may differ or may not happen at all, and no outcome is promised. You act on information from this site at your own risk.

Don’t start, stop, or change any medication, supplement, or treatment based on this site without first talking to a qualified healthcare provider who knows your medical history. Using HealthIQ doesn’t create a doctor-patient relationship or any other professional relationship. HealthIQ is not a healthcare provider, and the people who build it are not licensed medical professionals.

HealthIQ doesn’t know your medications, allergies, pregnancy status, or full medical history. If you add supplements to your profile, we only match research to what you entered; we can’t check for interactions with medications you take or flag reasons a finding might be unsafe for you. Supplements such as melatonin, ashwagandha, and iron carry real interaction risks. Dietary supplements aren’t evaluated by the FDA for safety or effectiveness the way medications are, so talk to your doctor or pharmacist before starting one, especially alongside a prescription.

We use AI (Anthropic’s Claude models) to write plain-English summaries and evidence explanations, to pull claims out of podcasts, videos, and articles, to generate your daily idea (based on the goals and age range you provide, not a review of your medical situation), to answer search questions, and to produce Check-a-Claim reports. This text is not individually reviewed by a person before you see it. Claims on some sensitive topics, such as cancer treatment or vaccines, are held for manual review before they’re published, and claims we can tell are unsupportable are filtered out. AI-written text can still contain errors, omissions, or misplaced confidence.

When a claim names a specific study, we try to find that study in public research databases and confirm the citation plausibly matches (title, authors, year). That confirms the study exists and is on topic, not that the full paper supports the claim, because we usually have only the title and summary, not the full text.

Wherever we have a source, the finding links to it so you can check it yourself. Some findings, and some studies mentioned in podcasts or videos, can’t be traced to a source; we label those instead of hiding them, so weigh them accordingly.

Some findings summarize what someone said, for example on a podcast or video. Those statements belong to the person who made them. Our grade reflects how well published research supports the claim; it isn’t an endorsement or a criticism of the speaker, and HealthIQ isn’t affiliated with any podcast, creator, journal, or institution it names. Links to outside sites are there so you can check our work; we don’t control those sites and aren’t responsible for their content.

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