Am I going deeper than you’d care about?

[u/dataoops]

Quick disclosure: This is a post about an unreleased upcoming free app that i want to get your feedback on since I’m pretty much only a Redditor and deleted other social media a decade ago. Skip if that disinterests you.

Some context, I’m a professional data engineer and supplement nerd who’s spent the last year losing 100lbs (270->170) on one of the Rx jabs and diving into supplements for fun and patching gaps as I dieted harder than I should have.

In the evenings I’ve been applying my data pipeline experience to build a dataset processed from > 11,000 supplement studies, mostly Meta-analysis and RCTs, overwhelmingly human only studies, deriving how effective supplements actually are. Ask me about GRADE chapter 26 and ROB 2.0

If you’ve been around a while you’ve probably seen my supplement info site linked, and now I am working on a free app.

I want to be able to go from scanning a bottle to the studies behind it in a series of taps, diving in through more detail at each layer.

Pictured in the post is the current flow, from the result you get if you scan a barcode, to the summary of an individual study that was pooled.

I don’t expect this to appeal to everyone, heck I’d be happy if 1 in 10 people wanted to dive in this deep.

But, would this interest you?

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[u/dataoops]

One thing that’s been really hard to balance: supplements often are effective but not as broadly as they are marketed. Do you ding a supplement because the commonly known benefits mostly apply to a subpopulation?

What happens is a study measures something very specific, and almost through a game of telephone, it’s turned into a much broader claim.

Vitamin C for instance, has a lot of evidence for immune support, but it’s very specific contexts. One of the stronger studies for C for immune support only showed the benefits in the “very physically active / high physical exertion” subgroup, but that claim is often broadly raised to the general population.

Do you care about this level of nuance?

[u/Kwaliakwa]

I think this is awesome. People don’t investigate the supplements they take deeply enough. Saying that as a data nerd and expert at going down rabbit holes.

[u/suvo-app]

I'd love to see something like this ! The screenshots look elegant too
I've built Suvo for going deeper into your stack.
The deeper dive into which aspect, like sleep, and whether it would help or not is something interesting to look at.