Ask HN: Would you Use a "Consumer Reports" for Vitamins and Supplements?
Would you use a website and app that provided unbiased, scientifically backed ratings for health care (starting with vitamins and supplements, then pharmaceuticals, procedures, etc.)? The site would update ratings regularly based on new findings in scientific journals. There would be full transparency on how the ratings are computed and what articles and journals were used as references.<p>I realize there are myriad of health sites from Mayo Clinic to Live Stronge providing health advice but the quality of the sites is very uneven, they rarely provide references, objectivity is unclear, and most importantly they mainly provide articles that require a consumer to wade through numerous content and then make a well informed decision. It&#x27;s time consuming and requires significant judgement. When was the article published? Is there new science published on the topic since the publication date? Several articles provide conflicting or disparate advice. What then? Etc.