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The evidence behind what you recommend

Practitioners get asked about supplements every day. A patient brings in something they read online. A colleague mentions a recent trial. A new product shows up on the shelf. Part of the job is knowing what’s current and what can be trusted, and there’s more of it every year.

Learning a new ingredient used to take an evening of reading, taking notes, and sorting out sources that didn’t agree. With Qaytona it takes minutes. The Snapshot is a two-minute read, and the full monograph is there when you want more detail. Other summaries often say more than the studies behind them. Qaytona cites a source for every claim, so you can see where each one comes from.

The problem

Supplements reach the shelf without the review a drug goes through. Checking them falls to the practitioner, and that job runs into three problems.

A text exchange. Patient: Is ashwagandha safe with my thyroid meds? Practitioner: Good question. Let me check. Patient: I keep seeing it on TikTok for stress. Practitioner: It’s everywhere right now. I want to see what the studies say. Patient: You sell it though, right? Practitioner: I do. That’s why I want to be sure. Patient: How long will that take? Practitioner: Give me a week.
  1. Trust. Many practitioners stock the products they recommend. Patients know that, and some of them wonder whether a recommendation is for them or for the practice. Answering that well takes a source with no stake in the sale.
  2. Time. Patients expect you to know every supplement they bring up. Nobody does, and there’s rarely time to look one up during a visit.
  3. Personalization. An ingredient that suits one patient can be wrong for the next. Getting it right means knowing the ingredient and knowing the patient, then weighing the two. That’s hard to do when the ingredient details have to come from memory.

What Qaytona is

Each monograph covers one ingredient. What it’s used for and how strong the evidence is. The dose that was actually tested. What to watch for, who shouldn’t take it, and what it interacts with.

Every clinical claim links to the paper or agency page it came from. The evidence comes from PubMed, NIH, NCCIH, Memorial Sloan Kettering, ClinicalTrials.gov, and the FDA’s adverse event reports. What practitioners and patients report online is shown too, labeled as word of mouth and kept apart from the evidence.

Each monograph is checked claim by claim against its sources and held for review before it goes live. The full process is on the methodology page.

How we work

  1. Nothing to sell. Qaytona doesn’t sell supplements, carry affiliate links, or run ads. You can show a monograph to a patient and it won’t pitch them anything.
  2. Evidence and hearsay stay apart. Every claim is cited. When the evidence is thin, the monograph says so, and what people report online is labeled as exactly that.
  3. The tested dose, not the label dose. Dosing rows show what was studied, in what form, for what outcome. Every row carries a citation.

Who it's for

  • The practitioners who get the most from Qaytona stock supplements in their practice, and have long wanted a source with no stake in the sale.
  • It’s just as useful if you don’t sell anything but get asked about supplements every week, or if you teach the people who will.
  • Clinics use it so patients get the same answer from every practitioner. Whoever is asked, and whoever decides what the clinic stocks, is working from the same evidence, and new staff start from it too.
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