About The Health Shift
The Health Shift is an independent health education platform built around a simple idea: understanding health should make it easier to do something with that knowledge.
Health information is everywhere, but it is often fragmented, contradictory or difficult to translate into everyday life. One source focuses on nutrition, another on sleep, exercise, stress or mental health. The individual pieces may be useful, but health does not work in separate compartments. The Health Shift brings those pieces together.
Our aim is to help people understand how different aspects of health interact, and to turn that understanding into small, realistic changes that can be tested and adapted in daily life. Rather than prescribing one ideal lifestyle, we focus on helping people make choices that fit their own circumstances, needs and priorities.
Our Approach
The Health Shift is grounded in evidence-based health education, lifestyle medicine, behaviour change and mind-body medicine.
We look at health broadly: from food, movement and sleep to stress, relationships, environment, habits and personal growth. These areas influence one another, and their effects depend on the person and the context in which they live.
That is why you will find both explanation and practical tools throughout The Health Shift. Articles explore the science and ideas behind health. Health Shift Experiments offer small changes you can try for yourself. Our Toolbox contains practical resources designed to help turn information into action. Over time, The Health Shift will also offer in-depth courses that bring these ideas together in a more structured way, helping you understand specific areas of health and work through them step by step.
The goal is not perfection. It is to understand a little more, notice what makes a difference, and make changes that are useful enough to become part of real life.
Independent Health Education
The Health Shift is an educational platform, not a substitute for individual medical care.
We aim to distinguish clearly between established evidence, emerging research and areas where uncertainty remains. Health information is reviewed with attention to scientific quality, practical relevance and the limits of what research can tell us.
You can read more about how our content is created and reviewed in our Editorial Policy.
About Saartje Jooris
The Health Shift was founded by Dr Saartje Jooris, a Belgian general practitioner and lifestyle medicine physician with a longstanding interest in how behaviour, physiology and the conditions of everyday life shape health.
Her professional background spans general practice, lifestyle medicine and further training in mind-body medicine, breathing and emotional regulation.
The Health Shift grew from a recurring problem she encountered both professionally and personally: people are often given plenty of health advice, but much less help understanding how the different pieces fit together or how to turn that advice into changes that are realistic enough to maintain.
She created The Health Shift to bring those pieces together, with an emphasis on practical, evidence-informed changes rather than rigid rules or idealised versions of healthy living.