Medical review

BodyStats does not currently have a contracted medical reviewer, and does not claim one.

Health content is frequently published with a reviewer's name and credentials attached to work they never meaningfully examined. We would rather tell you plainly where we stand: no page on this site carries a "medically reviewed" badge, a reviewer byline, or a review date, because none has been medically reviewed.

What we do instead, for now

Every formula, threshold and classification is traceable to a named primary source: WHO expert reports, the 2025 Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission, the original Hodgdon and Beckett Naval Health Research Center reports, Mifflin et al. 1990, and so on. They are listed with DOIs on the methodology and references pages. Where a method has a known error band or a documented failure case, the result itself says so. Where a judgement requires a clinician (the preclinical versus clinical obesity distinction, for example, or any calorie target below the safety floors), the site stops and says that out loud.

In place of a reviewer's byline you get an accountable one: every change and correction is recorded publicly on the changelog, and the person who wrote and built every page is named on the author page, with the limits of his expertise spelled out there rather than implied.

When this changes

When a registered dietitian, general practitioner or exercise physiologist is engaged to review this content, this page will carry their name, credentials, registration number and a link to their professional registry entry, and reviewed pages will show the date they were actually reviewed, driven from our database, updated only when a review genuinely happens.