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Every byline is a real person with a real CV.

Four full-time researchers, three rotating contributors, and a three-person science advisory board. We list our credentials, our priors, and the things we're not qualified to opine on.

Core team

Full-time research staff.

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Aarav Subramanian

Founder & Editor-in-Chief

Former biotech analyst. Built the original ingredient database in 2024 after spending six months trying to compare three "clinically dosed" pre-workouts and giving up.

MSc Biochem, IISc ISSN-cert sports nutrition
42 guides118 reviews
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Dr. Meera Nair

Lead Researcher · Clinical

Practising clinician for nine years before joining full-time. Reviews any guide touching pharmacology, drug-supplement interactions, or chronic-condition contraindications.

MBBS, AIIMS MD Internal Medicine
28 guides61 reviews
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Rohit Venkatesh

Data & Database

Owns the schema, the scoring engine, and the supplier-data pipeline. Wrote the changelog tooling that publishes every change to a public commit log.

BTech CS, BITS Pilani Ex-Razorpay
312 ingredients catalogued
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Priya Kothari

Reviews Lead

Runs the product-review pipeline end to end: sourcing units off-the-shelf in 4 cities, blind data entry, and the rubric scoring panel. Writes most of the reviews we publish.

RD, ICDA-registered MSc Nutrition
14 guides97 reviews
Contributors

Rotating writers from outside the building.

Independent practitioners who contribute on specific topics. They're paid per piece, declared in every byline, and bound by the same conflicts policy.

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Sanjana Kapoor

Sports nutrition

Strength coach and writer. Contributes the lifting-adjacent guides — protein, creatine, pre-workout — and reads our drafts for whether they survive contact with an actual gym floor.

NSCA-CSCSPn. L1
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Dr. Tarun Bhattacharya

Sleep medicine

Sleep-clinic specialist. Reviews any guide that mentions melatonin, magnesium-for-sleep, or shift-work circadian protocols.

DM PulmonologyBSSM-cert
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Anjali Warrier

Women's health

OB-GYN with a research focus on iron, folate, and PCOS supplementation. Currently leading our women's-health vertical buildout.

MS OB-GYNFOGSI member
Advisory board

External oversight, no editorial control.

The advisory board reviews methodology revisions, vets controversial calls, and signs off on each year's rubric update. They do not see drafts before publication.

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Prof. Vikram Rao

Pharmacology · NIPER

Drug-supplement interaction expert. Sets the bar on what we flag in the contraindications field.

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Dr. Shilpa Desai

Public health · ICMR alum

Vitamin D and iron deficiency epidemiologist; keeps our population-prevalence numbers honest.

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Hemant Krishnamurthy

Analytical chemistry · ex-FSSAI

Designs the third-party lab protocols we commission for purity and label-honesty investigations.