About
Crunchy, with a bibliography
Root & Remedy is for people who would rather start with food, sleep, daylight, walking, and kitchen plants — and who still want a link they can click. “Crunchy” here does not mean anti-medicine. It means whole-person first, then an honest look at what NIH, NCCIH, and similar public bodies actually say.
Library notes are written against those pages. Custom questions are answered by a model that may only cite URLs from a fixed catalog of public research sites. If a made-up link slips through, it is dropped. That is the whole product idea: folk practice, checkable sources, no shop.
Important limits
- This is not medical advice, diagnosis, or a treatment plan.
- It is not for emergencies. Call 911 in the U.S., or 988 for a mental-health crisis.
- Do not stop a prescribed medicine because of something you read here.
- Herbs and supplements can interact with medicines — tell every clinician what you take.
- Pregnancy, children, and serious illness need a licensed clinician, not a website.
Sources we trust
Answers may only point at these kinds of pages — mostly NIH, NCCIH, ODS, CDC, and MedlinePlus.
- Sleep Disorders and Complementary Health ApproachesNCCIH / NIH
- About SleepCDC
- Sleep Deprivation and DeficiencyNHLBI / NIH
- Meditation and Mindfulness: Effectiveness and SafetyNCCIH / NIH
- Yoga: Effectiveness and SafetyNCCIH / NIH
- GingerNCCIH / NIH
- Probiotics: Usefulness and SafetyNCCIH / NIH
- Indigestion (Dyspepsia)NIDDK / NIH
- Magnesium — Fact Sheet for ConsumersODS / NIH
- Vitamin D — Fact Sheet for ConsumersODS / NIH
- Omega-3 Fatty Acids — Fact Sheet for ConsumersODS / NIH
- Dietary Supplements: What You Need to KnowODS / NIH
- How Herbs Can Interact With MedicinesNCCIH / NIH
- Complementary, Alternative, or Integrative Health: What's In a Name?NCCIH / NIH
- Anxiety DisordersNIMH / NIH
- StressMedlinePlus
- Sleep DisordersMedlinePlus
- Health Topics A–ZNCCIH / NIH
- Dietary Guidelines for AmericansUSDA / HHS
- Nutrition.govUSDA