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Mini-Courses are formally structured lessons built around clear learning objectives, with a scaffolded progression designed to build understanding step by step. They're hosted on our learning platform (Thinkific), which enables progress tracking, and structured lesson delivery.
Mini-Courses are free to enroll in but require a free account to access, since the platform tracks your progress across sessions and devices. If you want a traditional course experience with a clear sense of structure and completion, our mini-courses are built for you.
Three free courses in one structured path. You start by learning how misleading fitness claims are built, then apply that reasoning to the supplement aisle, where a handful of products hold up and most do not, then to peptides, where the marketing has run furthest ahead of the human evidence. Sixteen short lessons, three guided case studies, three research investigations and peer-reviewed citations throughout. Roughly three to four hours, self-paced, no prerequisites, no brands or affiliates. Educational content only, not medical advice.
A free, self-paced micro-learning course on what the human research actually says about the supplements you see everywhere. Across six short lessons you'll work through the strong evidence behind creatine, caffeine, and protein, the thinner support behind popular sellers, how third-party testing and U.S. supplement regulation really work, and how to judge a claim before you pay for it. Roughly two hours, 60+ peer-reviewed sources, no product recommendations. Educational content only, not medical advice.
Peptides are marketed everywhere for injury recovery, muscle growth, fat loss and anti-aging, but the claims have raced far ahead of the human research. This free, self-paced mini-course gives you a structured hour to understand what a peptide actually is, why the label alone tells you nothing about safety or effectiveness, and how to judge the evidence behind any supplement claim. You'll review what human trials really show for oral collagen peptides on joint pain, skin, strength and muscle protein synthesis, then examine the evidence gaps, safety unknowns and regulatory status surrounding injectable "research peptides" such as BPC-157, TB-500 and growth hormone releasing peptides. Three lessons, a fictional injury-recovery case study, a guided research investigation, and peer-reviewed references throughout. Educational content only — no doses, no protocols, no medical advice.
All three awareness mini-courses in one enrollment: heart disease and cholesterol, prediabetes and A1C, and protecting muscle during GLP-1 weight loss. All three take about three hours to complete. Enjoy our signature learning activities like deep research investigations and case studies to encourage self-directed learning and critical thinking when it comes to your health.
If you've been told you have prediabetes or a borderline A1C, or your family history makes you want to understand your risk, this free diabetes course is a clear place to start. Six plain-English lessons explain how insulin resistance develops, what an HbA1c test actually measures, and why prediabetes is often a reversible window of opportunity. You'll learn to read your numbers in context, sort modifiable from non-modifiable risk factors, and apply flexible nutrition principles for steadier blood sugar — no extreme diets required. You'll also discover how movement and muscle contraction pull glucose from the bloodstream even when insulin resistance is present, and how to exercise safely. The course closes by helping you build a realistic plan covering nutrition, movement, sleep, and stress that survives everyday life. It takes about an hour, is completely free, and completing it unlocks 20% off the full Health & Wellness Foundations course. No medical training is needed — just a desire to understand your blood sugar numbers and take action.
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Every day, millions of people scroll past fitness ads, influencer reels, and transformation posts that promise results the evidence doesn't support. If you've ever wondered how to spot bad fitness advice before wasting money or energy on it, this free one-hour mini-course gives you a practical answer. Designed for beginners, it walks you through seven short lessons that teach a repeatable five-question framework for testing any health claim. You'll learn to recognize layered truths — claims that start with a real fact and stretch it into an unsupported promise — along with survivorship bias, post hoc reasoning, and missing context in social media advice. An interactive case study uses an AI chatbot to practice the framework, and a research investigation shows how to trace marketing claims to regulatory records and consumer reporting. By the end, you'll be able to separate useful fitness information from marketing hype across ads, podcasts, and social posts. It's completely free and self-paced, so there's nothing to lose — enroll and start thinking more critically about the fitness advice you see online
Losing weight with a GLP-1 medication like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, or Zepbound is only half the goal — keeping your muscle while the pounds come off matters just as much. If you're taking Ozempic or Wegovy and wondering how to keep your muscle while the weight comes off, this free mini-course explains exactly what you can do about it. In five beginner-friendly lessons, you'll learn how semaglutide and tirzepatide affect appetite and "food noise," why body weight, fat mass, and lean mass are different things, and how to set a realistic daily protein target even on low-appetite days. You'll also get a simple strength training plan you can follow at home or in the gym, built specifically for people using these medications, plus a case study and optional research activities. The whole course takes about an hour, it's self-paced, and no fitness or nutrition background is required. When you finish, you'll have a practical plan for preserving lean mass, strength, and bone health while you lose fat — and a better sense of how to keep the results long-term. It's completely free.
Most of us were never taught what our cholesterol test results or blood pressure numbers actually mean, yet these numbers shape important conversations about heart health. This free heart health course was written for beginners with no medical background — just an interest in understanding your own numbers. In seven short lessons, you'll learn how cardiovascular disease develops, from endothelial injury to atherosclerosis and plaque buildup, and what that silent process has to do with heart attacks. You'll learn to read a lipid panel, including LDL, HDL, triglycerides, VLDL, and non-HDL cholesterol, and understand what systolic and diastolic blood pressure really tell you. The course also explains why visceral fat and waist measurement can add information that body weight alone misses, and how to weigh health claims critically. All sixteen self-paced items take about an hour to complete, and enrollment is completely free. When you're done, you'll be able to walk into your next doctor's appointment with better questions and a clearer sense of your heart health.
