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What's the quality of the guide?
The site varies from entry to entry; I think the good entries are fairly good by my standards, and I link them in my own nootropics page. The main author silverhydra and myself agree on many things and he does have a basic appreciation of the applicability to nootropics of the various statistical/meta points I emphasize. (I don't have their interest in fitness and weightlifting, and I'm not really keen on using affiliate links or selling guides, but those are small sins.)
My site, so obviously biased, but entire spectrum of health and wellness vouches for us: http://examine.com/testimonials/
Testimonials aren't very strong evidence, since they can be heavily filtered, which is why any third rate book or website can feature a list of impressive-looking testimonials even when 99% of people said "this is a pile of steaming crap, ignore it". A testimonial from gwern means much more to me then what a hundred cherry-picked PhDs say.
(That being said, it looks like a very good website, congrats)
Fair enough.
It is very high. They have a ton of citations in the page for every supplement. For each health claim for each supplement they list an effect size and a level of evidence based on the citations. They call this the human effect matrix and an example for fish oil is here. Not all the pages are as extensive as fish oil, obviously, because it is one of the most-studied nutritional supplements available.
Edit: I see now that you are probably referring to their "Reference Guide" rather than the site itself. I have never read it, I was only commenting on the information available on the site.