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This is Dissected — honest verdicts on any treatment, pharma or natural: what works, what doesn't, who gets hurt even when it works, and who profits. Every source funder-flagged. What is this? →

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All verdicts

Ashwagandha, Dissected.

For chronically stressed adults taking a standardized root extract at roughly 300–600 mg/day for 8–12 weeks, ashwagandha likely reduces perceived stress scores and likely…

MODERATE evidence
Real, but oversold

Intermittent Fasting, Dissected.

Intermittent fasting works about as well as every other diet — which is to say, it works if it helps you eat fewer calories, and no better. Head-to-head trials keep findi…

MODERATE evidence
Fine, not magic

IV Vitamin Drips, Dissected.

The IV vitamin drip solves a problem you don't have: a working gut already absorbs nutrients, and working kidneys promptly discard the surplus — bypassing digestion adds …

STRONG evidence
Skip it

Detox Cleanses, Dissected.

You already own a detoxification system: a liver and two kidneys, running continuously, free of charge. No commercial cleanse has been shown to remove any named "toxin" —…

STRONG evidence
Save your money

Homeopathy, Dissected.

The remedy is water: at typical homeopathic dilutions, not a single molecule of the named ingredient remains, and every rigorous review finds effects indistinguishable fr…

STRONG evidence
Placebo

IVF Add-Ons, Dissected.

IVF itself works — that is not the question here. The question is the menu of paid extras stacked on top: embryo glue, assisted hatching, endometrial scratching, immune t…

STRONG evidence
Mostly upsell

Full-Body Checkups, Dissected.

The annual "full-body checkup" is a product, not a medical recommendation. Randomized trials of general health checks keep finding no reduction in deaths — while the 60-t…

STRONG evidence
A product, not medicine

Antidepressants, Dissected.

For severe depression, antidepressants genuinely help and can be part of saving a life — the effect is real, replicated, and grows with severity. For mild, everyday miser…

MODERATE evidence
Conditional

Stents for Stable Angina, Dissected.

If you are having a heart attack, a stent can save your life — that is settled and this page is not about it. If you have stable chest pain, three landmark trials across …

STRONG evidence
Oversold

Ozempic & GLP-1s, Dissected.

For people with type 2 diabetes, and for people with obesity plus heart-disease risk, GLP-1 drugs are the real thing: roughly 15–20% body-weight loss in trials and — rare…

STRONG evidence
Works, with catches

Multivitamins, Dissected.

For healthy adults who eat a normal diet, a daily multivitamin does not reduce deaths, heart disease, or cancer — the largest reviews keep failing to find those benefits,…

STRONG evidence
Mostly marketing

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How Dissected works

What is Dissected?

A free treatment auditor on health.ai. Type any drug, supplement, therapy, or procedure and get an honest verdict: what the evidence shows, what it doesn't, who gets hurt even when it works — and who profits at every stage. Pharmaceutical and natural treatments are held to the same standards: our homeopathy verdict and our stent verdict are equally blunt.

How to use it

  • Search any treatment from the top bar. If we've dissected it, you'll land on its verdict.
  • No verdict yet? Hit “Demand it.” The queue is public and demand decides what we dissect next — leave an email and you'll get the verdict the moment it publishes.
  • Rule first. Verdict pages ask for your call — Works / Overhyped / Doesn't work — before the reveal. It's optional (“Just show me” skips it), but it's the honest way to notice what the marketing has already done to you.
  • Play the daily game. Placebo or Not? — ten treatments, three buttons, one score. Same deck for everyone each day; share your 🟩🟥 grid and challenge someone.

How to read a verdict

  • The badge (Works, with catches Conditional Placebo) — our one-line finding.
  • The evidence meter — how solid the science behind the verdict is (strong / moderate / weak / unknown). A “Placebo” verdict can have strong evidence: we're very sure it doesn't work.
  • Tier chips on each claim — where it comes from: meta-analysis > trial > observational > opinion. Higher tier, harder to argue with.
  • 💰 The Money Map — who profits at every stage, including who funded the studies we cite. The wellness seller's margin gets audited alongside pharma's.
  • The Minority Report — who gets hurt even when the treatment works for most people, and how to tell if you might be in that group. We never let the 5% disappear into the 95%.
  • The other side — the strongest honest case against our own verdict, written to win. If we can't survive our own counterargument, we shouldn't publish.
  • Sources — every claim links to its study, and every study carries a 💰 COI flag telling you who paid for it.

Why trust it?

  • AI-researched, human-checked. Five adversarial research passes, then a person reads every verdict before it publishes.
  • No ads. No affiliates. Ever. We sell nothing on any verdict page, and every page discloses how we make money (optional Pro subscriptions to health.ai's AI tools).
  • Corrections are public. Substantiated errors get fixed within 48 hours and logged permanently on the page. Found one? Use the challenge link on any verdict.
  • Evidence-weighted, never popularity-weighted. Reader votes are compared against verdicts, never used to change them.

What Dissected is not

Not medical advice. Verdicts describe evidence about populations — they can't know your history, your medications, or your situation. Never start or stop a treatment because of this site: bring the “questions for your doctor” from any verdict to a qualified clinician instead.