Editorial Policy
Last reviewed: July 2026
This is a medical-adjacent site about a health protocol, so how the content is made matters as much as what it says. Here is the standard I hold it to.
Who writes it
Everything here is written by me, Yannick Wolfe, founder of The Scorch Protocol. I recovered from severe ME/CFS and Long Covid and now research and coach the protocol full-time. I am not a licensed physician; the authority here is lived experience plus independent research. Read the full background.
How claims are sourced
Physiological and mechanistic claims are grounded in the peer-reviewed literature wherever possible, including the Khoroshilov absolute-dry-fasting research series, Cahill’s classic starvation-metabolism work, and the osmotic-stress and autophagy literature. The papers behind the protocol are collected on the research page, and key claims link to their source. Where a statement is experience or observation rather than published evidence, it is framed that way rather than dressed up as proof.
How outcomes are reported
The outcomes on the results page are observational and self-reported, gathered through symptom questionnaires people filled in themselves, with no independent assessor and no control group. Because those responses were never verified, that page deliberately reports no participant counts and no success rate. It describes what improves and which profile responds best, states its own limitations, and names the difficult cases I took on with no promise of a result.
Review, updates, and corrections
Protocol pages carry a last-reviewed date and are revised when new evidence or field experience warrants it. If you find an error, email me; substantive corrections are made promptly.
Conflicts of interest
This is transparent: the site earns revenue from the members portal, including private one-on-one work at the top tier. The educational protocol itself is free to read in full. What the paid tiers add is private, hands-on help, verified supplier sourcing for hard-to-get compounds (slow-release T3, peptides, hGH, cyproheptadine) and dosing worked out with you in a consult. That is a real commercial incentive, so I name it here and let you weigh it.
Not medical advice
Everything here is educational and is meant to be used with a qualified clinician, never as a replacement for one. See the medical disclaimer.