How anything here gets written.

• Education, never adviceEvery page is written to explain a concept, not to prescribe a course of action for you. Nothing here is a diagnosis, a treatment plan, or personal medical or nutrition advice, and no page is written on the assumption that a reader will act on it in place of a clinician.
• A number needs a sourceAny numeric claim, threshold, equation or reference range has to name where it came from. The same rule is enforced in the app's own codebase: a threshold without a cited source does not get merged. If a page states a figure and you cannot see its source, that is a defect worth reporting.
• Prefer the primary sourcePeer-reviewed literature and guidance from named bodies such as the NIH, WHO, CDC, ACOG, ACSM and the relevant professional associations come first. Secondary summaries are used to orient, not to substantiate. Anything sourced to a blog, an influencer, or an unattributed statistic does not go in.
• Estimates are labelled as estimatesPopulation equations applied to one person carry real error bars, and pages say so rather than presenting a predicted figure as a measurement. The same convention holds in the app, where calculated records stay marked as calculated.
• No outcome or health claimsNo page promises a result, a rate of progress, or a health benefit, and nothing here claims to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any condition. Claims about the app are limited to what the shipping build actually does.
• Cut what the evidence will not carryWhen a claim does not survive a check against the literature, it comes out, including when it was already shipping. The cycle-phase calorie and intensity modulation removed from the app is the worked example, and it is documented publicly rather than quietly dropped.

Everything is written by Manikanta Sirumalla, who founded AutoClosure, builds Zealo, and is a graduate student at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Every article carries his byline because he wrote every article.

He is a software engineer, not a clinician. No page on this site is medically reviewed, and we do not claim otherwise, list a review board, or attach clinician names to content. Sites that invent that layer of authority are the reason it is worth stating plainly.

What replaces it is the sourcing rule above, plus a published corrections process. Method and accountability, rather than a credential this site does not have.

Some subjects carry more risk than others. Anything touching the menstrual cycle, hormonal health, PCOS and other endocrine conditions, iron status, or supplementation gets a stronger disclaimer, because a reader on those pages is more likely to be managing an actual diagnosis and the cost of substituting general content for clinical care is higher.

On those pages we also avoid anything that reads as a protocol: no dosages, no phase-based calorie or intensity prescriptions, and no interpretation of test results. The Science & Evidence page explains where that line was drawn in the product itself.

Articles show a publication date, and a modified date once they have been revised. When a page changes because it was wrong rather than because it was expanded, that goes in the corrections log.

There is no advertising on this site, no sponsored content, no affiliate links, and no paid placement of any product or supplement. The only thing it promotes is the app it belongs to, and the About page states which parts of it are actually shipping today.

Questions about any of this go to hello@reptrackpro.org.