EvidenceOverHype exists because most of the health "tricks" going viral right now are answered with either blind praise or blanket dismissal — and neither one actually tells you what's true.
Every week, a new "trick" goes viral — a mullein leaf remedy, a salt trick, a tropical loophole — usually introduced through a long video that opens with a compelling personal story and ends with a product. Most people don't finish the video. They're left with a term they half-remember, a vague sense that something in it might be true, and no easy way to check.
Search for that term afterward, and the results split into two unhelpful camps: pages that repeat the video's claims uncritically to sell the product, or generic health content that dismisses the whole idea without engaging with what was actually said. Neither gives you what you actually want — a straight answer about what's real.
Each investigation on this site starts by accurately recapping the claim itself — the study cited, the mechanism described, the story behind it — before we evaluate anything. We don't strawman the claim to make it easier to dismiss, and we don't repeat it uncritically to make it easier to sell.
Then we check the actual ingredients or mechanisms involved against the published research and rate them on our Evidence Meter — a consistent four-tier scale from Unsupported to Established, so ratings are comparable across every article on the site rather than buried in prose.
Some of our investigations link to the product discussed, and we may earn a commission if you buy through that link. We're upfront about that on every article it applies to, and it never changes a rating — the science is evaluated on its own, before any purchase decision is made. If a claim doesn't hold up, we say so, commission or not. Full detail is on our methodology page.
EvidenceOverHype is run by a small editorial team that reads the underlying research so you don't have to dig through it yourself. We're not a hospital or a medical practice, and nothing here replaces a conversation with your own doctor — our job is narrower and more specific: telling you honestly what the evidence does and doesn't support for the claim in front of you.
Seen a claim you want us to look into, or think we got something wrong? We'd genuinely like to hear it — visit our contact page to reach us.