The Test Tank and the Open Sea
A great many substances kill cells in a dish, including several you would never swallow. Getting from that observation to a benefit in a living person requires crossing two gaps that most prostate supplement claims never cross.
A hull tested in a tank tells you something real, and nothing certain about a storm off the Cape. These three keep the two apart.
Every finding we report carries the type of study that produced it — cells, animals, or people. Those are not three strengths of the same evidence; they are three different claims. Wherever a result comes from a dish or a mouse, the sentence says so.
Knowing how to grade a study makes you harder to sell to. It has nothing to say about your body, and it settles no question about what you personally should take, avoid, or investigate. That belongs to a physician who can examine you.
Early findings are genuinely interesting and we report them as early findings, without the upgrade that usually happens somewhere between the journal and the label. We sell no supplement, hold no affiliate arrangement, and publish no testimonials.
Nothing here is a verdict on any particular substance, in either direction. A compound whose evidence is currently preliminary may turn out to work, and saying the evidence is thin is not the same as saying the thing is useless. It means the question is open. Equally, nothing here is a reason to stop or start anything on your own — including anything a clinician has already recommended to you.
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If we have labelled a study as human when it was not, or missed a trial that has since reported, send the citation.