About Mike’s Balance
Mike’s Balance is an independent science publication based in Finland. We explore questions about science, society and everyday life through evidence reviews, original data analysis and reproducible calculations. We keep established evidence, preliminary findings, hypotheses and personal observations clearly separated rather than blending them into one level of certainty.
What we publish
What does the evidence actually show?
We trace popular health claims back to their measurements: what was counted, which comparison was made and what the result can legitimately mean. Alongside reviews of published research, we publish original checks of open data, reproducible calculations and carefully labelled personal observations when appropriate.
How we work
Different claims, different confidence
Published evidence, clinical context, preliminary findings, hypotheses and personal observations are presented as different categories, not as interchangeable facts.
Transparency
Who is responsible for Mike’s Balance?
Editorial operator and responsible editor: Ilya Nikitin, Ph.D., based in Finland. Mike’s Balance is an independent editorial project. His academic background is in engineering and measurement science, not clinical medicine.
Editorial contact and corrections: contact@mikesbalance.com. Readers, researchers and journalists can use this address to request a correction, report an error or ask about methods and source data.
Medical information is educational and is not a substitute for individual diagnosis or treatment. Clinical review is credited only when it has actually taken place for a specific article. Our sourcing, review and corrections process is described in the editorial policy, and the people responsible for writing and reviewing content are listed separately.
Publication history
From MarkusBalance to Mike’s Balance
The project began in 2023 under the name MarkusBalance and later adopted the name Mike’s Balance. The archive includes earlier writing about everyday health as well as more recent evidence reviews and original data analyses.
Mikhail Faranov, MD, contributed medical writing and editing until his death in January 2025. Ilya Nikitin, Ph.D., is the current responsible editor. Older articles remain available, but historical authorship does not imply that an article has received current clinical review.
Mike’s Balance is a work in progress. Older pages are updated when better evidence, clearer explanations or corrections become available.