Diagnosis attestation

Diagnosis attestation is the toggle in Gluten Hero Settings that confirms the user has a documented celiac diagnosis and a written instruction to follow a gluten-free diet. Until the toggle is on, the Reports tab and the year-end export are hidden.

The toggle exists because Gluten Hero is not the document of record. The actual substantiation chain (diagnosis, prescribed-diet instruction, receipts) lives outside the app: pathology report from the diagnosing physician, clinical letter or chart note, and the underlying receipts the app summarizes. The toggle is the user's attestation that those documents exist.

The gate is deliberate. Producing a year-end report sized like a Schedule A medical claim when the household does not actually have the diagnosis and the prescribed-diet instruction would be a setup for a problem at tax time. The Reports tab is hidden until the user affirms the chain is in place.

Once attestation is on, the Reports tab unlocks: Insights, Items, Travel, Medical, and Compare tabs are all available, and the PDF and CSV exports are generated on request. The toggle can be flipped off again at any time without losing data; the receipts and items stay logged, the reports are just hidden.

A common question: does the user need to upload the clinical letter into Gluten Hero? No. The app does not store medical documents. The letter lives wherever the household keeps medical records (a folder, a secure cloud drive, a healthcare portal); Gluten Hero never sees it. The attestation toggle is a yes-or-no confirmation, not a document upload.

The Settings toggle is the only place attestation can be turned on or off. For the diagnosis side of the chain, see Celiac disease and Clinical letter.