We believe medicine should be paid for health, not disease. DrHealthy is built by medical specialists to make prevention practical.
Founder of DrHealthy and medically responsible for its content. Former interventional radiologist and scientist (PhD), who has spent more than fifteen years studying lifestyle and its effects on disease and health. His conviction: our profession isn't just diagnosing disease, it's equally about showing what health looks like. He makes sure every claim on the site is substantiated and graded by strength of evidence.
PhD cum laude (Maastricht University), with around 25 scientific publications (including Radiology, Circulation and European Radiology) and two US patents. Internationally registered medical specialist: the Netherlands (BIG 59043538701), United Kingdom (GMC 4141501) and Dubai (DHA 79157006). The Dutch and UK registrations are publicly verifiable via the BIG register and the GMC register.
Neuroradiologist and medical reviewer of the content. Shares the conviction that a doctor's job is not only to diagnose disease, but also to show what health looks like. Reviews what we write against the current state of the science and makes sure the nuance holds up.
Co-shareholder of DrHealthy and specialist in health insurance and reimbursement. Makes sure the approach is not only medically sound, but also fits within the healthcare landscape it operates in.
We tell you what the science actually says, and we are honest about what is certain and what is not. Every article grades its evidence and shows its sources. We never sell fear, and we never pretend a single trick fixes everything.
Science doesn't stand still, and neither do we. DrHealthy lives by evolving insight: when new, strong scientific evidence appears, we update our information to match. We actively maintain our articles and advice and revise them when better studies come out, so that what you read here keeps pace with the best available knowledge instead of staying stuck in what once seemed true. With every claim we show how strong the evidence is, and we say honestly when something is still uncertain or when we've changed our mind. That way you know that what you read here isn't whatever suits us best, but what is best supported right now.
DrHealthy didn't start at a drawing board. It started with patients. Founder K.Y.J.A.M. Ho worked as an interventional radiologist, treating clogged blood vessels from the inside, with catheters and stents. For years he searched for ways to genuinely help these people better: different stents, different catheters, different anticoagulants. But however hard he tried, it remained tinkering at the margins. The vessels clogged up again, because the cause sat deeper.
What actually made a difference was something else entirely: changing lifestyle. Together with a vascular surgeon, he guided patients toward a mildly ketogenic way of eating, and there something happened that medication and procedures hadn't achieved. Blood sugar came down, the vessels settled, and in some patients glucose regulation improved sharply and type 2 diabetes went into remission. Not by treating a symptom, but by addressing the cause.
That approach simply didn't fit within the hospital. A system built around treating disease has little room for preventing it, and eventually there was no space left within those walls to continue. Rather than let the idea go, it was built further outside. That became DrHealthy.
Underneath everything lies one conviction: a doctor should be paid for health, not for disease. The current system waits until someone becomes ill and only then springs into action, often treating the symptom rather than the cause. We turn that around. Diagnosing what's wrong is our profession. But showing what health looks like, and guiding people there, we consider just as much our profession. That's why DrHealthy is not alternative medicine and not a fad, but evidence based: we look at health with the science in hand, try to prevent disease, and when disease is present, address the cause.
DrHealthy also wasn't invented in a single moment. Over the years, many doctors and specialists from different fields have thought along and helped build it, from internal medicine and vascular surgery to gastroenterology, hepatology and liver disease. Their knowledge and experience helped lay the foundation for what DrHealthy is today. We are grateful to them.
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