Reference
Glossary
The vocabulary of the platform, in plain language. For how these fit together, see the Documentation.
C
- Consent
- An explicit, affirmative action to allow health-data processing. Recorded on your member record and never assumed or downgraded silently.
- Community group
- A member-proposed space organized around a shared goal, condition, or life stage. Reviewed before it opens.
E
- Evidence grade
- A single letter, A to D, summarizing the strength of human evidence behind a claim. Describes how established something is, not how strong its effect is.
F
- Field Notes
- Concise, evidence-graded summaries drawn from the Libraries and Regulatory Atlas, one card per compound or intervention (peptides, supplements, protocols, devices, traditions). Each is a structured record (grade, mechanism, measures, sources), not an article.
I
- Illustrative only
- A label on example cards (e.g. study cards) indicating the content is a demonstration, not a medical claim or a live result.
- Invite key
- A personal key that notifies you by email when a proposed community group you are waiting on is ready.
M
- Mechanism
- The plausible biological reason an intervention might work, stated plainly and kept separate from proof that it does.
- Member
- A signed-in account holder. Members can trace verdicts to their sources, join groups, and enroll in studies.
- Method
- The pipeline every entry moves through before earning a grade: gather, weigh, grade, record.
Q
- Quantitative measures
- The specific, measured outcomes reported in studies, with their direction and size.
R
- Record
- The audit trail behind a verdict: the sources read, how they were weighed, and why a grade landed where it did.
S
- Study
- A structured observation members can opt into, showing its focus, category, and the measures it tracks.
V
- Verdict
- A graded conclusion about an entry, always attached to its record. A verdict without a record is treated as provisional.
Ē
- Ēnel Index
- Ēnel's owned effect measure: the central estimate of how much an intervention helps, drawn from real-world evidence and read on a 0 to 1 scale. Always reported with its 95 percent credible interval, never without the uncertainty.