Protocol Arena

Sleep week: whose routine has the best evidence?

Round closed Oct 18

Submit your routine. We grade every part by the evidence for your goal, what it costs, how risky it is, and who profits from it. Readers vote too — but votes get their own leaderboard and never change our score.

No protocols published yet this round — be the first.

§ Method

How the score works

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.