ABOUT WHAT I TRIED
There’s a Difference Between Reading About Something and Hearing From Someone Who Tried It.
That’s why What I Tried exists.
Why We Built This Site
Search almost any health, fitness, recovery, or wellness topic and you’ll find thousands of pages explaining what something is.
What’s often harder to find is a straightforward account from someone saying:
Here’s what I expected.
Here’s what actually happened.
Here’s what I wish I had known.
That’s the gap we’re trying to fill.
Experience Isn’t Evidence
A person’s experience can be interesting and useful to hear, but it cannot establish whether a treatment, product, medication, supplement, or experimental compound is safe or effective.
That’s why we try to keep two things separate:
Stories describe what an individual says happened to them.
Research examines what published evidence can actually tell us.
We don’t want one confused with the other.
We Don’t Need Every Story to Have a Happy Ending
Someone may have had a great experience. Someone else may have had a terrible one. Another person may have tried something and noticed absolutely nothing.
All three experiences can be worth documenting.
We don’t rewrite someone’s outcome to make a story more exciting, and publication on What I Tried should never be interpreted as an endorsement of what that person chose to do.
Want to Tell Your Story?
If you’ve tried something as part of your own recovery, fitness, weight-loss, or wellness journey, we’d like to hear what actually happened.
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