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slug: protocol-claims
title: "How Claims Work: Voxel Atoms, Tiers, Weights, and Honesty Gates"
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created: 2026-06-29T16:54:16.839Z
updated: 2026-10-08T11:49:53.935Z
summary: "The body is always doing two things at once: breaking down and building back. A condition persists when breakdown outruns repair. Most drugs used for symptoms suppress a signal without fixing the tissue that caused the signal. This ledger"
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# How Claims Work: Voxel Atoms, Tiers, Weights, and Honesty Gates

*The body is always doing two things at once: breaking down and building back. A condition persists when breakdown outruns repair. Most drugs used for symptoms suppress a signal without fixing the tissue that caused the signal. This ledger*

## Regeneration vs degeneration — where this fits
The body is always doing two things at once: breaking down and building back. A condition persists when breakdown outruns repair. Most drugs used for symptoms suppress a signal without fixing the tissue that caused the signal. This ledger maps compounds studied for repair pathways: new blood vessels, repair-cell migration, nerve regrowth, gut lining, neural connections.

## What it is
This entry is a protocol for how claims are built and checked inside the ledger. It defines voxel atoms, tiers, weights, and honesty gates. No compound data is stored here. The entry tracks how any future claim gets counted or removed.

## How it works
A claim enters as a voxel atom.  
Step 1: the claim is tagged with a tier (human, preclinical, anecdotal).  
Step 2: a weight is assigned based on source type and quality.  
Step 3: an honesty gate checks for retraction, cut, or challenge.  
Step 4: active claims remain in the count; retracted or cut claims stay on the ledger but are excluded from active totals unless the query asks for inactive data.

## Why it would work (logic chain)
If claims are not tagged and weighted, counts mix strong and weak data. If honesty gates do not run, retracted items stay mixed in. If tiers stay fixed, human data stays separate from animal data and from single reports. The system therefore produces counts that reflect source strength rather than volume alone.

## Why people take it
People do not take this protocol. It is a method for organizing data, not a substance.

## How many people take it
Zero. The ledger records zero users for this entry.

## Evidence inventory
Sources total: 0.  
Studies catalogued: 0.  
Reddit posts: 0.  
X posts: 0.  
Other anecdote sources: 0.  
Claims marked human: 0.  
Claims marked preclinical: 0.  
Claims marked anecdotal: 0.  
No human studies, no animal studies, no anecdotes are present.

## What scientists say
No scientist statements are recorded for this entry.

## What people say on Reddit
No Reddit posts are recorded for this entry.

## What people say on X
No X posts are recorded for this entry.

## What we do not know
How the weighting rules will shift if new source types appear. Whether future honesty gates will add new challenge categories. How many inactive claims will accumulate over time.

## Safety and limits
This entry contains no compound. No safety data or limits apply.

## Facts

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