Health information is everywhere. What’s missing is any way to tell what’s actually true. Founded Health is a place to check — every answer traced back to a named, checkable source, with an honest evidence grade to help you decide how to use it.
There was a time when searching for something meant you would probably find it. You typed in a question, and the internet did its best to answer it. That is not quite the world we live in anymore.
These days, almost everything you scroll past — every search result, every feed, every video that starts playing before you have decided to watch it — is built to hold your attention, not to tell you the truth. And those two things pull in opposite directions. The confident claim spreads further than the careful one; the bold headline beats the honest “it depends.” Somewhere along the way, the loudest voice and the most trustworthy one stopped being the same thing — and when it is your own health you are asking about, that is a genuinely unsettling place to be.
Founded Health was born out of that noise: a world drowning in information and misinformation in more or less equal measure, where a worried person at midnight has no real way to tell them apart.
Hi — I am Carolyn. I am a specialist physician, an anesthesiologist by training. I have spent the last twenty years caring for patients in a big-city tertiary hospital and, more recently, a smaller one in a rural community.
If those two decades have taught me anything, it is that what we know about health is enormous, always shifting, and never quite finished — and that with so much of it just a tap away, it is harder than ever to tell solid information from something said with a lot of confidence and not much behind it.
At work, I have a way through uncertainty. When a question comes up that I cannot answer off the top of my head, I know exactly what to do: go find the guidelines and the studies, weigh what they found against how they found it, look for where bias might have crept in, and reason my way to a decision from there.
Away from work, I am in the same boat as everyone else. Health advice has never been louder, or more contradictory. It fills our feeds and our news — delivered by charismatic podcasters, wellness influencers, and celebrity doctors — one telling you a supplement will change your life, the next that it is useless, a third quietly selling you the bottle. Some of it holds up. A lot of it is confident guesswork. And almost none of it comes with anything you can actually check.
I know how to check, but only because appraising evidence is something my training drilled into me for years. So I set out to build something that does that checking for you — something my friends could lean on, and my colleagues could point their patients toward.
Founded Health is that work, done ahead of time. It does not roam the whole internet trying to sort good from bad. It reads only from a fixed list of reputable bodies and research — clinical guidelines, systematic reviews, peer-reviewed studies, all there for you to see on the evidence page — and it tells you plainly how strong the evidence really is. Even when the honest answer is that nobody quite knows yet.
That last part is the one I care about most. So much health advice gets handed to us with a confidence the research underneath just does not support. On Founded Health you will find answers graded Limited, and answers graded Insufficient, because I would far rather tell you that honestly than smooth it over and hope you do not notice.
I am not your doctor, and this site has never met you. But the reading has been done, the sources are named, and every one of them is right there for you to check yourself.
A general chatbot answers from everything it has ever read — forums, blogs, marketing copy and all — and it cannot tell you which of those it leaned on. Founded Health only reads from a fixed list of trusted sources: national guidelines, systematic reviews, randomised trials, and established expert organisations. If the answer is not in those, it says so, instead of filling the gap with something that sounds right.
Every answer comes with a plain-language grade showing how strong the evidence behind it really is, and every source is listed with a working link so you can read it for yourself. You can see exactly how we grade evidence, and what Founded Health cannot do.
And there are no ads, no sponsorships, no affiliate links. No company pays to show up in an answer, and no source is ever included or left out for a commercial reason.
Educational information only. Not medical advice, not a diagnosis, and no doctor-patient relationship is created by using this. Founded Health has not examined you and does not know their history, so its answers may not apply to you. Never delay or disregard advice from a qualified health professional because of something you read here. In an emergency, call your local emergency number.