Original research monitoring

Evidence Change Tracker

A public, append-only record of evidence-grade changes. Each event records what moved, when it moved, why the conclusion changed, and the triggering source IDs when they are available.

State of Supplement Evidence 2026 Citation Explorer

Recorded changes

Evidence upgrades

Evidence downgrades

The append-only tracker is live, but no historical grade-change events have been recorded under this provenance system yet. The site will not backfill invented C→B or B→A histories from the current database snapshot. The first real reviewed change becomes the first public event.

Quarterly report model

Quarterly editions are generated from this ledger: records whose rating changed, upgrades, downgrades, and claims whose conclusion changed. New sources that do not change a grade remain discoverable in the Citation Explorer rather than being mislabeled as a grade-change event.

Learning context

How this concept connects to supplement decisions

Quarterly public history of evidence-grade upgrades, downgrades, and conclusion-changing research recorded by The Hippie Scientist. Learning pages explain the reasoning layer behind the herb and compound library. They are designed to make mechanisms, evidence quality, safety tradeoffs, and product claims easier to interpret.

Use Evidence Change Tracker to build better questions before choosing a supplement: what outcome is being targeted, what mechanism is claimed, what human evidence exists, what dose was studied, and what risks could change the answer for a specific person?

Mechanistic plausibility is useful, but it should be weighed against trial design, safety history, product quality, and the possibility that a simpler intervention may be more appropriate.