How Telluric works
Telluric publishes research on foods, herbs and nutrients. We gather studies and traditional sources, grade the research, and show you what it says. You choose how much detail you read.
We don’t give advice. Always consult qualified healthcare professionals before making healthcare decisions.
This guide follows what each plan includes, starting with what everyone has.
1 · Forage: search
What it is. One search box for a food, herb, nutrient or health condition.
Who has it. Everyone. Free, and visitors who aren’t signed in, get 3 searches a month. Pro, Premium and Founding search as much as they like.
How to use it.
Type a name. If we hold research on it, its card opens.
If we don’t, Pro, Premium and Founding members can choose Research it. We gather the research and build its card. While that runs, the card reads “We’re researching ….” You don’t have to wait on the page.
If nothing matches, the search says so. We may hold the subject under another name, so try another name you know it by.
Search a health condition to see the foods, herbs and nutrients with research recorded for it. This shows what the research found. It isn’t a list of what to take.
To look around without a name in mind, choose Browse what we’ve gathered.
A subject you’ve saved opens again without using a search.
On Free, once this month’s searches are used, cards don’t open, Safety included, until next month or until you choose a paid plan.
2 · The tabs on a card
Each card sorts what we hold into tabs, in this order.
Findings. What the research found, finding by finding. Each research finding carries a grade:
The kind of study sets the highest grade a finding can get:
A Strong · Randomized trials, and systematic reviews or combined analyses of studies
B Moderate · Studies that follow groups of people over time, or compare people with and without a condition
C Limited · Surveys and other studies that observe people without testing anything on them, reports on a few cases, and reviews that don't combine their results
D Preliminary · Lab and animal studies, reports of a single case, and comparisons between whole populations
A grade can sit lower than its kind of study allows, for example when the research looked at something close to the subject rather than the subject itself, measured a related outcome rather than the outcome itself, or was done in cells or animals rather than in people.
Findings from historical texts and current monographs carry a worded label instead of a grade:
Traditional · From historical herbal and medical texts we hold. It records how a plant was used and described in those texts. It isn't a grade, and it isn't a finding that the use works or is safe.
Current · From herbal monographs that health authorities publish for use today. It records what an authority's monograph says about a plant. It isn't our grade of the research, and it isn't a finding we made.
Some findings show which way a measure moved:
Went up · Went down · The measure named beside it rose or fell in the research.
No change found · The research measured it and found no change.
Studies disagree · Two or more studies we hold found different results for it.
These say which way a measure moved, not whether that's good or bad. They sit beside the grade, not inside it.
The grade rates how strong the research is, not which way the result went.
Safety. The warnings on record for a subject.
Mechanisms. Research on how a subject works in the body.
Synergies. Research on combining a subject with other foods, herbs or nutrients.
Practical Use. How a subject is prepared and used, from the research and the monographs we hold. For some subjects with a safety concern on record, we don’t show how to prepare or dose them, and the card says so.
Related Recipes. Recipes that use the subject (see section 6).
Who has them. Findings and Safety: everyone, within Free’s searches. Mechanisms, Synergies and Practical Use: Pro, Premium and Founding. Related Recipes: Premium and Founding.
3 · Reading levels
What it is. Quick, Standard and Research are three wordings of the same facts. Quick is the shortest and plainest. Research keeps the study details. Changing the level changes the words, not the facts. Every safety warning appears at every level.
Who has it. Free, and visitors who aren’t signed in, read Quick on every tab. Pro, Premium and Founding read all three. Recipes have one wording.
How to use it. Choose a level at the top of the card, and it applies to everything on it. Where a finding has no Quick wording, you’ll see the Standard wording in its place. Where the paper we hold gives no more detail, Research shows the Standard wording.
4 · Abstracts and papers
What it is. Each research finding names the paper it comes from. You can read the paper’s abstract on the page, open our page for the paper, and follow its DOI link to the original.
Who has it. Pro, Premium and Founding.
How to use it. Choose Read abstract under a finding, or the paper’s title to open its page.
5 · The Journal
What it is. Essays on the research, with citations to the papers we hold.
Who has it. Free, and visitors who aren’t signed in, can read one essay at Quick. Pro, Premium and Founding read every essay at every level, with its links to the papers.
How to use it. Open the Journal from the menu. One essay is open to everyone, and the rest open with a paid plan.
6 · Recipes
What it is. A recipe library you can search. Tap an ingredient to open its card. A recipe says what’s in a dish, not what it does for your body. For some ingredients with a safety concern on record, we don’t show recipes.
Who has it. Premium and Founding, including saving recipes.
How to use it. Search by dish or ingredient, or open the Related Recipes tab on a card.
7 · The Kitchen
What it is. A meal planner for the week ahead, built from the recipe library.
Who has it. Premium and Founding, including saving your plans.
How to use it. Choose + New plan, give it a name, and choose Create plan. Your week opens as a grid of days and meals. Choose + in an empty meal to pick a recipe, Swap to change one, or × to remove it. To add brunch, sides, desserts, drinks and starters, tick Show extra slots. Set a plan's status from its label: Mark in progress, Start cooking or Archive. When your week is set, choose Generate market list.
8 · The Market
What it is. A shopping list made from the meals in your Kitchen plan, or one you start yourself.
Who has it. Premium and Founding.
How to use it. Choose Generate market list in the Kitchen, or open the Market, pick a plan and choose Generate from plan. To start a list of your own, choose + New manual list. Items are grouped by aisle. Tick the box beside anything you already have, and it moves to Got it. Tick it again to put it back. When an ingredient is used in several recipes, each recipe's amount shows under the total. Choose edit to set one amount instead, such as "1 bottle", and it stays even if you re-import. If your plan changes, choose Re-import from plan. Add your own items with Add, and choose Print to take the list with you.
9 · The Grove
The Grove (not open yet).
10 · Your membership
Plans. Free; Pro, $19 a month; Premium, $29 a month; and Founding.
All Premium features at a founding rate of $149 a year, locked for as long as you keep your membership.
Cancelling and refunds.
You can cancel any time on your membership page. You keep access until the end of the period you've already paid for, and you won't be charged again. Monthly plans aren't refunded for part of a month. If you cancel an annual plan, we refund the full months left in your year, counted from the end of the month you cancel in. The month you cancel in isn't refunded. If we charge you twice, or charge you after you've cancelled, we refund that charge in full. To ask about a refund, email admin@tellurichealth.org.
What Telluric is. Telluric publishes research; it doesn’t advise. Always consult qualified healthcare professionals before making healthcare decisions.
Questions. Email admin@tellurichealth.org.