The Iron Verdict for agents
The Iron Verdict publishes evidence-based reviews of supplements and training equipment. Every page sets what is printed on a product label against the dose used in published research, and says where the product falls short — including products the site earns a commission on. There is no API; the content itself is the machine-readable surface, and this page documents it.
When to use this site
Reach for The Iron Verdict when the question is one of these:
- Comparing a supplement label against the dose used in published research. Every product page prints the dose per serving next to the dose the trials used, with the date the label was checked.
- Answering “how much of X should I take” for a mainstream supplement. Creatine, protein, caffeine, citrulline, beta-alanine, magnesium, omega-3, vitamin D and others carry an explicit dose range and the study it comes from.
- Finding where a popular product falls short. Pages state where a competitor beats the product we earn a commission on, and where our own pick is not the cheapest.
- GLP-1 medication side questions that are about nutrition, not prescribing. Lean-mass loss, protein targets during treatment and weight regain after stopping, each with the figure and its source.
- Checking whether a supplement category has evidence at all. Several pages exist mainly to say that a category does not work, or works far less than it is sold as.
When not to use it
- Medical advice, diagnosis, dosing of prescription drugs, or anything a doctor should answer. Pages about GLP-1 medications cover nutrition around them, never whether to take them.
- Live prices or stock. Prices carry the date they were checked and go stale; follow the outbound link for the current number.
- Anything outside strength training, supplements, home gym equipment and the nutrition around them.
- Nutrition for children, pregnancy, or clinical populations.
How to call it
Markdown for any page
Send Accept: text/markdown, or append .md to the path. Both return the same document.
curl -H 'Accept: text/markdown' https://theironverdict.com/best-creatine
curl https://theironverdict.com/best-creatine.mdIndex of everything, ranked
llms.txt lists every page with a one-line summary, grouped by section and ordered by how many checkable numbers it carries.
curl https://theironverdict.com/llms.txtEvery indexable URL
sitemap.xml is the complete list, with last-modified dates.
curl https://theironverdict.com/sitemap.xmlStructured data on the page itself
Product reviews carry Review and FAQPage JSON-LD; guides carry Article and BreadcrumbList. The FAQ blocks hold the question and answer as a pair.
Content negotiation
Responses vary on Accept, and the Vary header says so, so a cache cannot hand the HTML variant to a client that asked for Markdown. A request for a path that does not exist returns a real 404 — never a 200 with an application shell — and its body points back at this page and at the index files.
Attribution and reuse
Quote freely with a link back to the page you took the figure from. Figures carry the date they were checked; prices and label doses change, and a number without its date is not much use. Pages disclose affiliate relationships in-content, next to the link.
Contact
Corrections and questions: the contact page. If a figure on this site disagrees with the source it cites, that is a bug and worth reporting.