Fitness & nutrition · the evidence, mapped
Claims, mapped to their evidence.
Getting lean isn't a mystery. It's a settled question buried under noise.
Naulus reads the literature at scale, grades how strong each finding is, and keeps the citation, so you can check it yourself. No affiliate links. Nothing for sale.
The truth about getting lean isn't hidden. It's just drowned out.
Extract. An extraction pipeline reads peer-reviewed papers and pulls out the discrete claim each one makes, with the population, the effect, and the supporting quote.
Verify. Every source is resolved to a real, citable paper. Citations are checked against Crossref before a claim is allowed to ship. No fabricated references.
Grade. Each finding is rated for how strong the evidence is, and the weight of evidence, how much research refutes a claim versus supports it, is shown for the myths.
“I don't want you to trust me. I want you to check the studies.”
The corpus
claims catalogued from the literature
rated strong or good evidence
of sampled citations resolve against Crossref
How it works
Extract
An extraction pipeline reads peer-reviewed papers and pulls out the discrete claim each one makes, with the population, the effect, and the supporting quote.
Verify
Every source is resolved to a real, citable paper. Citations are checked against Crossref before a claim is allowed to ship. No fabricated references.
Grade
Each finding is rated for how strong the evidence is, and the weight of evidence, how much research refutes a claim versus supports it, is shown for the myths.
What the evidence says
All myths“Carbs (and sugar) make you fat”
“It's mostly genetics — some people just can't get lean”
“Your metabolism is broken or slows to a crawl”
“More training — and training to failure — is always better”
“Cardio is the key to fat loss”
“You have to eat “clean” — some foods are off-limits”
Browse by topic
All research- Hormonal9.0k
Insulin, leptin, thyroid, the signals behind hunger and storage.
- Energy balance5.6k
Calories in vs out — the master lever.
- Mixed4.2k
Claims spanning multiple mechanisms.
- Adherence2.8k
The behaviours that make a plan actually stick.
- Macro partitioning1.7k
Where the calories go: muscle vs fat.
- Cellular1.2k
What happens inside the cell.
The method