Health Claim Explorer A reference tool
Source: American Heart Association · 2025 Guidelines
Educational · Not medical advice

Cross-check what you saw online against the real emergency-care guidelines.

Most health misinformation on social media isn't malicious — it's just outdated. This is a fast way to look up what the current American Heart Association guidelines actually say, see common false claims debunked side-by-side, or check a claim of your own.

    Five common claims, fact-checked against the source.

    These are claims that circulate on TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook — many from videos with millions of views. Each one is compared directly to the current AHA guidelines, with a short explanation of why the wrong version spreads.

    Check a claim against the guidelines.

    This mode uses OpenAI's API to compare any health claim you paste against the AHA documents loaded into this site. It needs your own OpenAI API key — it's not free for the site to use, so we let you bring your own. Your key never leaves your browser and we never see it.

    Don't have a key? Get one at platform.openai.com/api-keys — add ~$5 of credit and you can check thousands of claims. (Note: an OpenAI API key is different from a ChatGPT Plus subscription. The API is the pay-as-you-go developer tool.)

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    Comparing the claim against the AHA guidelines…