THE OCCABUZZ STANDARD
A rating is a claim about evidence, not enthusiasm.
Most of this field sells narrative — "private", "elite", "vetted" — and asks you to trust the tone. We publish the opposite: the exact rule by which every grade is assigned, the formula that resolves it, a worked example you can check, and the one policy that keeps a rating honest. The confidence of our language is bound to the grade — never louder than the proof allows.
Every asset is scored on three independent layers, each 0–100. A thing can have overwhelming evidence and still be useless to you if it does not apply to a healthy operator, or if no one can sustain it. So we grade all three — and refuse to let a strong layer hide a weak one.
Peer-reviewed human data — sample size, effect size, and trial stage. A mechanism that is established, not merely inferred. This is the ceiling: nothing scores above what the trials actually show.
Does it apply to a healthy apex operator, or only to clinical deficit? A drug proven to fix a disease is not proof for the well. The question is always: proven for whom?
Does it survive a demanding calendar? A benefit that requires a protocol no one sustains is a benefit that does not happen. Zero-friction beats theoretically-optimal.
The score is the geometric mean of the three layers, not the average. This is deliberate. An average lets a brilliant marketing story (high Implementation) paper over absent human proof (low Evidence). The geometric mean does not: if any single layer is near zero, the whole score collapses toward zero. A protocol cannot buy back its missing evidence with convenience. A single failed layer collapses the score — by design.
This is not a diagram of the method — it is the method. The three numbers below are the published audit for this dossier; the result is computed by the exact function the whole compendium uses. Nothing is rounded by hand.
apoB causal & actionable — multivariable Mendelian randomization; LDL-C effect reverses to null once apoB is included.
Applies to the healthy operator: this is prevention, measured before disease — not a rescue in the already-sick.
One cheap blood test; Lp(a) measured once for life. The friction is low, but it needs a physician to act on the number.
Demonstrated in humans. Randomized controlled trials or meta-analyses with meaningful sample and effect sizes, and an established mechanism. The strongest grade we publish — and still not a promise.
The instrument is proven, the promise is not. A device or sensor validated against a clinical reference (polysomnography, ECG) — but the health outcome the marketing staples to it is a separate, unproven claim. We grade the hardware, not the hope.
Promising but unfinished. Mechanism is plausible and supported by early human or strong preclinical data, but the proof is still narrow — small trials, unmapped safety windows, effects not yet replicated at scale. Published with its limits stated, never hidden.
Mechanism only. Robust in cells or animals, but human outcome evidence is absent or too thin to act on. Published as a frontier signal for informed operators — explicitly not a protocol.
The invisible grade. Anything that fails a single audit layer never reaches the grid — however loud the marketing behind it. What we omit is as much a part of the method as what we publish.
This is the only fair criticism of any platform that also links to what it rates, so we answer it directly and in public. OCCABUZZ funds its independent research through affiliate relationships on some vetted items. Here is exactly what that does and does not buy:
- 01A grade is assigned on the evidence alone — before any commercial relationship exists, and it does not move because one begins.
- 02Where a molecule or device carries a purchase or affiliate link, that relationship is disclosed on the page itself. It never buys a higher grade, a softer caveat, or a place in the grid.
- 03We are not paid to rate favorably, and a brand cannot purchase its rating. If a graded item later fails, the grade falls — in public, on the record.
Every dossier states, explicitly, where its certainty ends — the exact point past which the evidence stops and speculation would begin. We publish the ceiling, not just the promise. And because the evidence moves, the grades move: each asset carries a revision history and an audit date, and when new data lands, the score is re-cut in public, on the record. A grade that never changes is a grade that stopped reading.
CALIBRATION OVER CERTAINTY.
A standard with no one behind it is a slogan. This one is engineered and audited by a named, accountable operator — Quene Pereira da Silva, Chief Intelligence Officer. The reasoning is on the page, the sources are linked, and the errors, when they come, are corrected in public.
Each asset is scored on three independent 0–100 layers — Evidence (peer-reviewed human data), Context (does it apply to a healthy operator, not only clinical deficit), and Implementation (can it be sustained with zero friction) — then resolved to a calibrated certainty by geometric mean, the cube root of E times C times I. Because it is a geometric mean, a single weak layer collapses the whole score.
No. A grade is assigned on the evidence alone, before any commercial relationship exists, and it does not move because one begins. Affiliate links are disclosed on the page itself; they never buy a higher grade, a softer caveat, or a place in the grid. If a graded item later fails, the grade falls — in public, on the record.
CLINICAL is the strongest grade OCCABUZZ publishes: demonstrated in humans through randomized controlled trials or meta-analyses with meaningful sample and effect sizes, and an established mechanism rather than an inferred one. It is still not a promise — every dossier states exactly where its certainty ends.
It is not published. Anything that fails a single audit layer never reaches the grid, however loud the marketing behind it. The omission is part of the method: what OCCABUZZ leaves out is as deliberate as what it grades.
Yes. Each asset carries a revision history and an audit date. When new evidence lands, the grade is re-cut in public, on the record. A grade that never changes is a grade that stopped reading.
The methodology is engineered and audited by a named, accountable operator — Quene Pereira da Silva, Chief Intelligence Officer of OCCABUZZ. The reasoning is shown on each page, the sources are linked, and corrections are made in public.
The public compendium applies this standard to the field. The Operator Dossier applies it to you.