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Holistic Core Labs articles

Plain-language research notes for evidence-aware readers. One study summary and one claim audit, fortnightly.

Methodology · 6 min read

Four Questions to Ask Before You Believe a Wellness Headline

A headline rarely tells you what was measured, in whom, for how long, and at what dose — so we go looking for all four.

Methodology · 5 min read

The abstract is a summary written to be persuasive — here is how to read it as a skeptic instead of a customer.

Study Watch · 6 min read

A marker that moves is not the same as a life that changes, and confusing the two is the most common reading mistake.

Study Watch · 5 min read

Two numbers buried in the methods — how many people and for how long — often matter more than the result itself.

Mechanism Notes · 6 min read

Explaining how something could work is not evidence that it does, and the gap between the two is where claims hide.

Mechanism Notes · 5 min read

A '50 percent improvement' can mean almost nothing, and learning to convert it back to plain numbers is a quiet superpower.

Claim Audit · 6 min read

These phrases feel like guarantees but legally promise far less than they imply, so we read them word by word.

Reader Questions · 5 min read

A reader asks why studies bother with placebo groups when feeling better is the goal — the answer is about knowing why.

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