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Start with the paper in your hand

Consent forms, device labels and regulator notices are written for agencies and lawyers first. This site turns each one into short directives for the person who has to sign or act on it.

Start every reading from the primary document

Each reading starts from the primary document itself: the notice, the label or the form. Every requirement in it is stripped down to what it asks of the reader. Marketing pages and summaries written by someone selling the treatment are never the starting point.

When a topic touches published research, the study is linked for you to check. Read three papers on metabolism and aging in the original: study linking ideal aging to a lower resting metabolic rate, the presidential symposium on nutrition, metabolism, and aging, and the editorial on how metabolism and inflammation interact in aging and longevity. Trust their wording over ours.

Who these readings are for in Tribeca

These readings are for anyone deciding about a treatment, including readers in Tribeca and the blocks around it. Weighing a cosmetic procedure? Open the national health service's guide to cosmetic procedures, then take the questions it raises to a licensed clinician.

Know which documents get translated

The coverage is plain-language readings of regulator notices, device labeling and consent forms. Each reading ends with what the document asks of you.

Four rules every reading follows

Short directives over long explanations.
Primary sources over summaries.
State what a document asks, and nothing it does not back.
Leave the medical decision with you and your clinician.

Name the document that still confuses you

Pick a question page and read its answer. If a document still confuses you, name it on the contact page.