Our Mission
Proper Health is an AI-augmented social health and longevity platform providing permissionless access to community-curated knowledge, products, and services. We empower users to create, share, customize, and track health interventions and protocols while building a network where content improves through collective intelligence rather than commercial interests.
Core Values
Our community is built on these foundational principles:
- Practicing Compassion with Untruth: We acknowledge that we could be wrong in our understanding. Instead of fighting over what is true, we seek truth together through respectful dialogue. We recognize that if we have to fight for truth, we've already lost the opportunity for collective growth.
- Open Source Health Knowledge: We provide visual, intuitive git-style processes to leverage collective intelligence and create reusable building blocks of health knowledge. We empower users to "fork" content, make improvements, and suggest changes through an accessible interface that doesn't require technical expertise. Proposed changes can be upvoted, debated, and refined by the community, enabling evolutionary improvement without forcing consensus.
- Evidence-Based and Science-Informed Approach: We encourage the use of specific quotes from linked journal articles, scientific research, clinical trials, and documented outcomes to establish credibility and drive evidence-based content. This helps distinguish between established knowledge, emerging research, and personal experience.
- Multiple Schools of Thought: We support the creation and refinement of different health approaches and philosophies, allowing each to develop independently rather than forcing consensus. Our platform enables the community to tap into the collective wisdom of diverse perspectives, recognizing that health optimization may follow different valid paths for different individuals.
- Transparency: All content is traceable with clear attribution. User interactions fuel a mathematical model that transparently calculates both content credibility and user topic-specific authority. This creates a self-reinforcing system where demonstrated knowledge increases user authority, which in turn enhances content credibility across our network.
- Health Impact as North Star: Unlike platforms driven by engagement metrics, our success is measured by real health improvements among our users. Users gain a health impact score as their own health benefits from the protocols and interventions they apply. They also earn a health influence score based on how much they contribute to the health of others through their content, suggestions, and community participation. This influence extends to bringing new users onto the platform and helping them succeed in their health journeys. These transparent metrics drive our community forward, creating a virtuous cycle where personal improvement and helping others are equally valued.
All community members must adhere to these rules when contributing to Proper Health:
1. Remember the Human
- Treat others with respect, kindness, and empathy.
- Acknowledge that behind every account is a real person with real health concerns.
- Consider how your contributions might affect people in vulnerable health states.
- Avoid personal attacks, harassment, or bullying, even when disagreeing.
- Clearly distinguish between established medical consensus, emerging research, personal anecdotes, and speculation.
- Provide sources for health claims whenever possible, especially by linking to specific quotes within journal articles.
- Do not post content that could cause serious physical harm by contradicting established medical consensus.
- Avoid fearmongering or creating unnecessary anxiety about health conditions.
Never promote dangerous self-medication or advise against seeking professional medical care.
3. Privacy and Data Ownership
- Respect user privacy and confidentiality.
- Never share another user's personal health information without explicit permission.
- Understand that while aggregated, anonymized health data may be used to benefit the community, individual users maintain ownership and control of their personal health data.
- When sharing your own health journey, consider carefully what personal details to include.
4. Quality Contributions
- Focus on creating reusable, well-documented protocol building blocks.
- Make your content clear, well-organized, and actionable.
- Use appropriate tagging to help others find relevant information.
- When suggesting improvements to protocols, provide clear rationale and evidence.
- Design protocols that can be effectively tracked and measured.
5. Collaborative Improvement
- Review changes suggested by others with an open mind.
- Use the platform's fork, suggest, and review mechanisms constructively.
- Accept that your contributions will evolve through community input.
- When disagreeing, focus on the content rather than the contributor.
- Remember that competing approaches provide value through diversity of perspective.
6. Content Licensing and Attribution
- All user-generated protocols and interventions on Proper Health are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Always attribute original creators when building upon their work.
- Understand that your username will be cryptographically linked to your contributions.
- Respect that published content becomes part of the community's shared knowledge base.
7. Marketplace Ethics
- Clearly disclose any financial interests or affiliations when recommending products or services.
- Evaluate products and services based on evidence of efficacy, not commercial incentives.
- Recognize that product recommendations should serve users' health goals, not drive unnecessary consumption.
- Understand that the marketplace exists to connect users with helpful resources, not to maximize platform time or engagement.
8. Compassion with Disagreement
- Approach differing protocols and interventions with curiosity rather than confrontation.
- Seek to understand before seeking to convince.
- Remember that health is deeply personal and perspectives may reflect individual experiences.
- Use evidence and reason rather than emotion or rhetoric when discussing controversial topics.
- Value the evolutionary process of competing approaches rather than forcing consensus.
9. Tracking and Measurement
- Contribute honestly to efficacy tracking of protocols and interventions.
- Share relevant health metrics when comfortable to help establish evidence.
- Respect that health impact scores are based on real-world outcomes, not popularity.
- Use lab results and biometric data responsibly to validate or challenge protocols.
Moderation and Authority
Our platform balances open exchange with quality and credibility:
- Topic-Specific Authority: Users build credibility in specific health domains based on their contributions and expertise.
- Community-Led Review: The accept/reject/modify system for suggestions is guided by those with relevant topic authority.
- Health Impact Metrics: Content and contributors are evaluated based on measurable health outcomes, not engagement metrics.
- Transparent Process: All moderation decisions and authority calculations are visible and understandable.
- Appeal Process: Users can challenge moderation decisions through community review.
Technical Integration
- Health Tracking: Connect your devices and labs to track protocol efficacy.
- Content Verification: All content is cryptographically signed, with origins traceable.
- Decentralized Hosting: Content will eventually be hosted on a permissionless P2P network, ensuring it remains freely accessible.
- Privacy-Preserving Research: Contribute to health research through privacy-protecting technologies like homomorphic encryption.
Health Disclaimer
Proper Health is a platform for information sharing and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions regarding a medical condition.
Rewards and Recognition
- Health Influence Score: Contributors earn recognition based on the real health impact of their content.
- Revenue Sharing: As the platform grows, contributors may receive rewards proportional to their health influence, not based on driving commercial transactions.
- Community Status: Build topic-specific authority through quality contributions backed by evidence.
Continuous Improvement
These guidelines will evolve as our community grows and as our understanding of health and longevity advances. We welcome your input on how to make these guidelines more effective in supporting our mission.
By participating in Proper Health, you agree to follow these community guidelines and to help create a collaborative environment where health and longevity knowledge can flourish for the benefit of all.
