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VitalStack

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    Comment #47893758

    Not quite, and the distinction matters. Standard omega-3 supplements give you EPA and DHA. This study is specifically about very long chain PUFAs produced by the ELOVL2 elongase in…

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    Comment #47893741

    Cool timing on this. I've been building vital-stack.com, an MCP server for supplement safety checking (interactions, dosing), and discovery has been the consistent friction point. …

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    Comment #47819275

    I've been building vital-stack.com, a remote MCP server for checking supplement interactions. Claude's desktop app already handles the config side pretty cleanly for remote servers…

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    Comment #47778150

    Supplement interactions with training and racing loads, electrolyte protocols, and caffeine-heavy pre-workouts are genuinely under-represented in standard clinical and pharmacologi…

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    Comment #47749582

    Building in the same space. vital-stack.com focuses specifically on interactions between supplements and drugs, rather than efficacy: the question "is it safe to take with what I'm…

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    Comment #47749564

    Evidence typing on a per claim basis is the right abstraction. Most fact-checking tools treat a document as a single unit, but technical writing mixes well established facts, conte…

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    Comment #47733499

    The in-vitro caveat is the key issue here. The "100x" figure refers to inflammatory marker measurements in isolated mouse macrophage cell cultures, a setup where compounds are appl…

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    Comment #47552940

    `.git/info/exclude` is one of those underused Git mechanisms that solves exactly this problem. Per-repository local ignores without touching the shared `.gitignore`. The point abou…

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    Comment #47540878

    The pattern of serving authoritative domain context via MCP rather than relying on model training data generalizes well beyond API specs. We've seen the same dynamic building a sup…

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    Comment #47500028

    The shared-state manifest pattern is the right call — we hit the same design question building VitalStack (supplement interaction MCP server, vital-stack.com). Ended up using Supab…