The limits
What this site will not do.
This node carries more body material than any other in the family, so the boundary sits tighter, not looser. The limits are stated plainly rather than buried.
- Sell supplements, equipment, programmes, or protocols
- Tell you what to do with your body
- Replace any clinician
- Pretend the body has a single right answer
- Pretend my body is yours
- Promise dramatic change, peak performance, or anything ending in -ness
- Become a brand, a method, a course, or a movement
- Pretend the science is settled where it is not — fascia, the gut microbiome, long-term post-alcohol nutrition all have evolving evidence bases. The page names where the cautious read sits.
The lines that are brightest
This site will never tell anyone to stop drinking suddenly, and will never set out a taper, a dose, a medication schedule or a home detox. Alcohol withdrawal is one of the few withdrawals that can kill, and it has to be managed by a clinician. Where withdrawal appears here at all, it appears so that you can recognise it and get help — not so that you can manage it yourself.
It will not give you a dose. Not a milligram, not a litre count, not a step count, not a number of hours, not a form of supplement, not a frequency and not a duration. The figures on these pages are one man's own, reviewed by his own clinician, and they are published as an order of magnitude rather than an instruction. The number for your body is your clinician's to set.
It will not read a blood result. Not a single marker, not a trend, not a comparison with a reference range, and neither a reassurance nor an alarm. An abnormal or unexplained result is a doctor, now, rather than a search engine. The one thing this site is good for there is helping you write the question you are going to ask at the appointment.
Not medical advice, and not a clinician of any kind
Everything here is educational. Nothing on this site, including anything the SI (super intelligence) guide generates, is medical, clinical, nutritional, physiotherapeutic or psychiatric advice, and none of it substitutes for a doctor who can see you, examine you and take a history. This site is not a clinic, a doctor, a hepatologist, a physiotherapist, a dietitian, a sleep clinic or a helpline. It does not assess, diagnose, treat, refer or place anybody.
The post-alcohol body is a clinical body. Anything on this site that intersects with your medication, your liver function, your kidney function, your blood pressure, your heart, your sleep apnoea, a pregnancy, a diagnosis you already have, or your mental health belongs with a clinician who knows you.
One body, one place, one history
The practice described here is a man in his fifties, of broadly European ancestry, living in a sub-tropical climate with year-round sun, who came out of detox without a co-occurring serious mental illness, without a complex polysubstance picture and without a chronic disease constraining diet or exercise. Any of those changes the picture materially. The sun material in particular qualifies hard for any reader north of about fifty degrees latitude, and the limits are set out in full here.
This site is written about alcohol. If drugs are the question, much of the thinking transfers — the slowness, the small daily things, the clinician as the partner for the body — but the medical facts do not, because withdrawal, overdose and organ-recovery pictures differ by substance. That part is a doctor or a local drug service.
What the SI guide is
It is an SI, not James, and it says so. It cannot see you, cannot examine you, cannot arrange anything, cannot contact anyone and cannot monitor you. It can be wrong. It is bounded deliberately: no diagnosis, no severity rating, no dose, no supplement regime, no timetable, no reading of a result, no named clinic or practitioner, and no price for anything.
It is not a crisis service and nothing here is monitored by a person. Do not name your employer, your clinic, your doctor or other people in a chat window, and do not paste documents: nothing written there is confidential or privileged. If today is urgent, the safety page is the right page and your local emergency number is the right call.
If any of this reads as unhelpfully cautious, the alternative is a site that hints at clinical answers it is not qualified to give, about a body it has never examined.