About VEGALYSIS: what it is and what it is not

What the tool does

• Takes blood-test values — entered manually or recognised from an uploaded report (PDF or photo).
• Normalises units to a single canonical form, including the Cyrillic spellings used by Russian labs.
• Compares each value against the range considered favourable in the plant-based literature — often tighter than a lab's statistical reference interval.
• Surfaces interconnections: which markers distort one another, and why a "normal" result does not always mean all is well.
• Builds a summary and a list of topics to raise with a professional, and points out which basic tests are missing from the panel.

What the tool is NOT

This matters more than anything else on this page, so it is stated plainly.

• It is not a medical service and not telemedicine. The tool does not provide healthcare in any form.
• It is not a diagnosis. The tool neither establishes nor rules out any disease.
• It is not a prescription. No dosage, drug or supplement is prescribed — any mention is reference information.
• There is no attending physician behind the tool, and it does not replace a consultation. The materials were prepared by developers from open sources, not by medical professionals.
• Any decision is yours and taken at your own risk. We strongly recommend discussing conclusions with a professional — see the Terms of Use.

Why plant-based specifically

A plant-based diet has its own predictable arithmetic of deficiencies: B12 is absent from plant foods, non-haem iron absorbs less readily, EPA/DHA depend on ALA conversion, and iodine, zinc, selenium and vitamin D rely on a narrow set of sources.

Generic calculators miss this: they compare a value against the average lab reference and cannot see that on a plant-based diet "bottom of the range" and "sufficient" are not the same thing.

Where the ranges come from

From peer-reviewed publications, clinical reviews and plant-based nutrition guidance. Every marker in the guide lists its own sources with links you can open and read in full.

The distinction matters: a lab "normal" is a statistical interval covering most people tested, including those with hidden deficiencies. An "optimal" range is the level research associates with better outcomes. Our bounds are therefore often stricter than the lab's, and the discrepancy is not an error but a different question asked of the data.

Who makes it

The service is built by the WonderTech product studio. We are engineers, not physicians, and we think it is right to say so plainly rather than to imply medical expertise. Our contribution is elsewhere: gathering the sources, turning them carefully into a reproducible algorithm, and showing the user all of its inner workings.

If you are a clinician, dietitian or researcher and spot an inaccuracy in a range, a rule or a reading — write to us. Substantiated corrections with a source are folded into the catalogue, and changes are marked with an update date.

Limits of applicability

The tool works only with the data you enter and knows nothing of your wider clinical picture. This is not a formality — these are the method's real limits:

• symptoms, examination, history, medication and chronic disease are not taken into account;
• rare conditions and atypical combinations of values are outside the algorithm's coverage;
• recognition of an uploaded report can misread values and units — always check the result against the original;
• some unit conversions are inherently ambiguous; there the tool does not guess but flags the value for checking;
• the tool is not for emergencies: with severe or worsening symptoms, seek medical help rather than spending time on lab interpretation.

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