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Advanced testing found that one quarter of Fountain Life's members had advanced brain age.

Type QUANTITATIVE · truth-evaluable: yes · status at snapshot: ACTIVE · created seq 2811

Referenced 199 times: checked 5, looked up by assistants 0, viewed 124, shared 70. A count of attention, not evidence.

Topics

Health · 03192ed8 Medicine · 03192ed8

Assessment

Supported

Score: 0.9985 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745

3 of 4 review checks done · 3 counted

5 independent evidence lineages · review checks 3 of 4 · stability HIGH

Main unresolved issue: 8 counted evidence items have no independence review; repeats of one origin may be counted as several coverage:47cb0166-e001-83a7-afa8-799c4fa38b6c

Not yet independently audited.Evidence points both ways.A quoted passage from prnewswire.com and scitechdaily.com was not found on the page when Galedra fetched it.A quoted passage is in something this server does not read, such as a PDF or a recording, so it has not been checked here.

Why?

Strongest counted support: Fountain Life’s press release reports nearly one in four members show accelerated brain aging at baseline using AI MRI. weight 2.000000 evidence

Strongest counted contradiction: A Stanford study reported one quarter with multiple extreme organs, while extremely aged brains were a separate 6–7% category, not one quarter of Fountain Life members. weight 1.080000 evidence

Suppressed as dependent: Fountain Life says close to one in four members showed faster-than-expected brain aging at their first visit.; The transcription states that advanced testing found one quarter of Fountain Life members had advanced brain age.

Review gaps: independence reviewed

What would most change this: One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported.

Hide calculation

0.9985 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 · state Supported · Review checks: 3 of 4 · stability HIGH · 9 sources, 5 independent lineages

Model ledger-default@0.3.0 (the default model, not the answer) · snapshot 27745 · trace sha256:fd40b217cde9ffb8b8df1a650387730322c23bfa530c6a40b60d9381448731c8

Last changed at entry seq 14906; nothing logged since has borne on this claim.

How the number was reached

Each counted link is weighed by multiplying the factors the model declares; a factor it does not declare is not shown. Every factor name below links to what that number means.

LinkWorkingWeightCounted as
a6aa4c21 contradict relevance STRONG 1.2 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 0 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 0 1.000000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1 1.080000 1.080000
98179ede support relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 0 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 0 1.000000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1 1.800000 1.800000
ed49c20e support relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 0 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 0 1.000000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1 1.800000 0.000000 (dependent strongest only, kept 84c0fdf8)
be19c699 support relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation MEASUREMENT 1.0 × interpretation 0 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 0 1.000000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1 2.000000 2.000000
e461248b support relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 1 step, 1 − 0.15 × 1 0.850000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance SELF 0.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1 0.000000 0.000000
b8a6a54e support relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 1 step, 1 − 0.15 × 1 0.850000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance SELF 0.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1 0.000000 0.000000 (dependent strongest only, kept e461248b)
84c0fdf8 support relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation MEASUREMENT 1.0 × interpretation 0 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 0 1.000000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1 2.000000 2.000000
9b799ba2 support relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 0 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 0 1.000000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1 1.800000 1.800000
5ec78d7b support relevance WEAK 0.2 × observation DATASET_RESULT 0.9 × interpretation 2 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 2 0.700000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance SELF 0.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1 0.000000 0.000000

prior 0.50 → log-odds 0.000000 + 6.520000 (the counted weights) = 6.520000 → probability 0.9985

Under neighbouring settings of the same model: 0.9897 to 0.9998, a spread of 0.0101.

Half-even rounding, six places for weights and four for the probability. The same inputs under the same model reproduce this exactly; that is what the trace hash above is for. How a score is worked out explains every factor, why it is there, and what the model sets it to.

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Evidence for

Evidence against

Qualifications

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Suppressed as dependent

EvidenceGroupKept instead
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Inferences

Concluded from

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Used as a premise in

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Threads

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Claim edges

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Review checklist

Review checks: 3 of 4

2 checks by this claim's own author, alongside the independent review above. 1 QUALIFIER CHECK · 1 EVIDENCE VERIFICATION. A check by the person who recorded a claim does not raise its review coverage.

CheckDoneBy
qualifiers reviewedyes30cb481f
opposing search doneyesfb330327
independence reviewedno
primary source reviewedyesed49c20e, be19c699

Summary

Supported. The main support is: Fountain Life’s January 2026 release reports that nearly one in four of its more than 8,000 members showed accelerated brain aging at baseline on AI-assisted MRI. eb404bb8

Against that, contradiction: A Stanford study reported one quarter with multiple extreme organs, while extremely aged brains were a separate 6–7% category, not one quarter of Fountain Life members. 64f5f83c

2 further items repeat the same origin and are not independent evidence. 5fa047ce4b8f4f37

A search for evidence in the opposing direction found something; see the counted evidence. fb330327

Review checks: 3 of 4. coverage:47cb0166-e001-83a7-afa8-799c4fa38b6c

Generated by stub-v0.1; every sentence cites graph ids.

Contribution history

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Score trace

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