Your personal orthomolecular health advisor.

The American Association of Poison Control Centers tracks every reported toxicity event in the United States. Their annual reports — published in Clinical Toxicology and going back nearly four decades — show zero deaths from vitamins. Not in 2021. Not in any single year that data has been collected. None from B-vitamins, none from C, none from D or E, none from multivitamins. No deaths from minerals, amino acids, or herbal supplements either. Compare that with the leading classes of pharmaceuticals, where annual fatalities run in the tens of thousands.

That's the foundational argument of orthomolecular medicine, and it's the reason the field exists. olivetwell will recommend protocols, let you build a stack, and review what you're taking — because that's what the literature does. What it won't do is pretend supplementation is dangerous when six decades of clinical data say otherwise. If you're on prescription medication, talk to your doctor about interactions. Otherwise, this is one of the safest categories of intervention in the literature.

ChatGPT is trained on the public internet. It will tell you what's popular, not what's true — and on orthomolecular topics, what's popular is usually conventional medical orthodoxy that dismisses the field entirely. olivetwell is grounded in a curated library of primary sources from Linus Pauling, Abram Hoffer, Frederick Klenner, Robert Cathcart, Carl Pfeiffer, William Walsh, Andrew Saul, and Helen Saul Case. Every answer cites where it comes from. You can read the source. That's the whole point.

Yes — that's actually one of the reasons olivetwell cites primary sources. A claim with a citation to a 1971 Hoffer paper is something a thoughtful physician can engage with. A claim from "an AI app" is something they'll dismiss. We built the citation behavior specifically so you can take the literature into your appointment, not as a replacement for it.

olivetwell was built local-first. Your supplement stack, your symptom logs, your lab values, your notes — that information lives on your device, not on a server somewhere. It doesn't get warehoused, profiled, or aggregated for analytics. The only things that touch our backend are the bare minimum needed to make the app work: your account login, and a synced copy of what you save so you don't lose it if you change phones.

We don't sell data. We don't share with advertisers. We don't run ads. We don't use your conversations to train AI models — not ours, not anyone's. The full list of subprocessors we use, and exactly what each one does, is in our Privacy Policy. We're not a HIPAA-covered entity, but we're built to operate as if we were. If you want stricter privacy than your medical chart at any practice that takes insurance, you have it here.

No. The orthomolecular tradition does not work that way. The premise is that good nutrition, supported by appropriate supplementation, runs alongside conventional medical care — not against it. Over time, lab values may improve to the point where a prescribing physician chooses to taper or discontinue a medication; that decision belongs to your doctor, not to an app. olivetwell will never instruct you to stop a prescribed medication. Always consult your prescribing physician before any change to a medication regimen.