Not in the traditional sense — there's no meal plan, no banned foods, and no calorie target. It's a tracking and scoring system for the lifestyle factors that drive inflammation.
A lower FAD Score means your recent food, sleep, alcohol, exercise and stress inputs are estimated to be adding less inflammatory load. It's one useful signal among many, not a full medical picture.
No. THE FAD does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, and it isn't a substitute for professional medical advice or lab testing such as an hs-CRP blood test.
No — the score is designed to work with imperfect, real-world logging, and the 7-day rolling average smooths out any single day's gaps or slip-ups.
There's a free tier with manual logging and your daily score, and a Premium tier with the AI coach, photo-based meal scoring and deeper analytics. See the App & Pricing page for details.
Wearable integrations (Apple Health, Google Fit, Garmin, Fitbit, Whoop) are on the roadmap and rolling out progressively.
It's built from published research across nutrition, sleep, exercise physiology and stress biology. See the Research library for an overview, and The FAD Score page for the exact weighting model.
It isn't designed as a weight-loss tool — it doesn't track calories at all. In practice, many of the same changes that lower your Food score also support a healthier weight over time, but if weight loss is your main goal, pair THE FAD with a dedicated calorie tracker. See Inflammation & Weight Loss for the full picture.
THE FAD doesn't recommend specific supplements or doses. See Supplements & Inflammation for a general, non-prescriptive overview, and talk to your doctor before starting anything new.
It's an estimate, not lab-grade precision — designed for consistent weekly tracking rather than perfect single-meal accuracy. Manual entry or barcode scanning is better for packaged foods. See How Photo Food Logging Works.
THE FAD doesn't assert a universal "safe" number — current public health guidance has moved away from that too. See How Much Alcohol Is Too Much? for a plain-English summary, and talk to your doctor about your personal risk.
No — THE FAD's model is built for adults. See Inflammation in Children for why, and talk to a pediatrician for anything related to your child's diet or health.