Sleep
How Much Sleep Adults Actually Need, and Why Consistency Matters
Seven to nine hours covers most adults, but a steady wake time may do more for how you feel than the total on any single night.
Healthy Living
Twelve topics covering the habits you actually control — what you eat, how you move, how you sleep, how you handle stress, and the screening that catches things early.
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Twelve topics, one shelf
Each topic answers the question first, gives you the key points, then a short checklist you can start this week.
Healthy Living
Healthy living comes down to a small number of habits with strong evidence behind them: sleeping 7 to 9 hours, meeting the 150…
ExploreNutrition
Good nutrition is built on dietary patterns rather than individual foods or nutrients. Mediterranean and DASH patterns —…
ExploreFitness & Exercise
Adults should aim for 150 to 300 minutes a week of moderate aerobic activity, or 75 to 150 minutes of vigorous activity, plus…
ExploreSleep
Most adults need 7 to 9 hours of sleep a night, and consistent timing matters as much as duration. Sleep quality is shaped by a…
ExploreMental Wellness
Mental wellness is the day-to-day capacity to handle stress, connect with people, and function — not the absence of difficult…
ExploreStress Management
Stress is the body's response to demand, driven largely by adrenaline and cortisol. Short bursts are normal and useful;…
ExploreHeart Health
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in most high-income countries and is substantially driven by modifiable…
ExploreWeight & Metabolism
Body weight is regulated by biology, environment, and behaviour together. A 5 to 10% weight loss produces meaningful…
ExploreHealthy Aging
Healthy aging is about protecting function, not just adding years. Strength and balance training, adequate protein, bone…
ExploreMen's Health
Men's health priorities centre on cardiovascular risk factors from early adulthood, colorectal cancer screening from 45, an…
ExploreWomen's Health
Women's health priorities span cervical screening from 21, breast cancer screening beginning in the forties, colorectal…
ExplorePreventive Health
Preventive care covers screening tests, vaccinations, counselling, and risk assessment intended to catch problems early or…
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When a topic is not enough
Topics are the overview. The guides library goes several layers deeper on the same ground.
Everyday Health
The five or six habits that do most of the work: sleep, food, water, movement, stress, and mental wellbeing.
ExploreMetabolic Health
How weight, blood sugar, insulin sensitivity, cholesterol, and blood pressure fit together — and what actually moves…
ExploreHealthy Aging
Protecting strength, balance, bone, and brain so that added years stay useful years.
ExploreHeart Health
The numbers that drive cardiovascular risk, and the eating and activity patterns with the strongest evidence behind…
ExploreMen's Health
Screenings worth keeping on schedule, cardiovascular risk in men, and mental health that too often goes unspoken.
ExploreWomen's Health
Screening schedules across the decades, bone health through menopause, and heart disease in women.
ExploreCancer & Prevention
What screening can and cannot do, the exposures that matter most, and sun protection that works.
ExploreDigestive Health
How digestion works, why fiber matters more than almost any single food, and habits that ease reflux.
ExploreBrain Health
What the evidence supports for protecting thinking and memory — sleep, stress, movement, and vascular health.
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New on healthy living
Fresh from the Health Captain blog, with hand-picked guides as a fallback.
Nutrition
Most Adults Get Half the Fiber They Need. Here Is the Fix.
Guidance lands around 25 to 38 grams a day. Legumes are the densest everyday source and the easiest single upgrade to make.
Mental Wellness
The Three Habits With the Most Consistent Mental Health Evidence
Sleep, movement, and connection are not a substitute for treatment, but they measurably affect mood and are available on a bad week.