Medical Disclaimer

Staq is not medical advice

The FDA has not evaluated these statements

Statements about dietary supplements on Staq have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. The products shown on Staq are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

Dietary supplements are not reviewed or approved by the FDA before they are sold. Staq does not make, sell, test or verify any product.

Dose ranges

Where Staq shows a dose or a dose range for an ingredient, it is the amount that published studies used. It is not a recommendation and it is not a dose for you. Doses in studies vary widely, study participants are not you, and many compounds have no established human dose at all. The right amount of anything for you, including none, is a question for a clinician.

Calculators and other tools in Staq do arithmetic on numbers you give them. They do not tell you what to take.

The AI starter staq

If you ask Staq to build a starter staq, an AI model writes it from a few things you told us: your goals, the approach you chose, your sex, age, height and weight, and what you already take. It does not know your medical history, your conditions, your medications, your allergies or your lab results, and no clinician reviews it.

A starter staq is a starting point for a conversation with a clinician. It is not advice, a prescription or a plan for you to follow. It can include items that are wrong for you, and the reasons it gives for each item are AI-written and can be mistaken.

When to take extra care

Supplements and other compounds can interact with medicines and with each other, and can affect medical conditions. Speak to a clinician first, every time, if any of these apply:

• you are pregnant, trying to become pregnant, or nursing;
• you take any prescription or over-the-counter medication;
• you have, or think you may have, a medical condition, including a heart, liver, kidney, thyroid, blood-clotting or mental health condition;
• you are about to have, or have just had, surgery;
• you have had an allergic reaction to a supplement or a medicine.

Staq is for adults. Nothing on Staq is written for anyone under 18, and people under 18 may not use it.

Peptides, hormones, SARMs and research compounds

• Many of these compounds are not approved by the FDA, or by any regulator, for human use. Some are prescription drugs. Some are controlled substances.
• Whether it is legal to buy, possess or use them depends on where you are, and it changes. Finding that out is your responsibility.
• Products labelled for research use are not made for people to take. Nobody checks what is in them, how pure they are, or whether they are sterile.
• For many of them there is little or no research in humans. A study in animals or in a dish says very little about what happens in a person.
• Staq does not sell these compounds, does not tell you where to get them, and does not allow users to do so. Seeing a compound on Staq, or seeing that other users say they take it, is not a reason to take it.

Scores and flags

A product score, an evidence grade and a StaqScore are Staq's opinion about two things: what a label says (the ingredients, their forms and amounts, and how fully the label discloses them) and how much published research stands behind those ingredients. A StaqScore also looks at how the products in a staq fit together.

• A score is not a judgment about you. It does not say a product is right for you, that it will do anything for you, or that you should take it. A high score is not a reason to start something and a low score is not a diagnosis.
• A score is not a laboratory result. Staq does not test products, and cannot tell you whether what is in a bottle matches its label.
• When Staq flags something in a staq, for example a total that is above a published upper limit or two items that overlap, that is arithmetic on label amounts and published reference values. It is not a finding about your health. The absence of a flag does not mean a staq is fine for you: Staq checks a limited set of things and does not know your medications or conditions.
• Scores can be wrong. They depend on catalog data and on a methodology that changes.

Research summaries

The plain-English summaries of published studies on Staq are written by an AI model. They can misstate what a study found, leave out its limits, or be out of date. Every summary links to the original study. Read the source, and remember that one study, especially a small or early one, rarely settles anything.

Catalog data

Product information on Staq comes from product labels, public label databases, retailer listings and brand websites. It can be incomplete, wrong or out of date, and manufacturers change formulas without notice. Always read the label on the product in your hand. If it differs from what Staq shows, the label is what you have. You can report an error through Support.

What other users say

Posts, comments, staqs and lists are written by other users. They describe one person's own experience or opinion. Staq does not check them, does not endorse them, and they are not advice. Someone else's staq was not built for you.

Your decisions are yours

Staq does not promise that any product will do anything for you. You are responsible for your own decisions about what you take, and you make them at your own risk, ideally with a clinician. This disclaimer is part of our Terms of Service, which limit Staq's liability.

Staq cannot answer medical questions. For anything else, see Support or email support@trystaq.app.