Personalized Precision Healthcare - part 5 - Your HealthCode™

Understanding HealthTypes™ and Individual Differences

Stop fighting yourself and start working with your biology

One of the most important foundations of Precision Healthcare is understanding one simple truth:

We are all different.

When health is approached from the assumption that everyone is the same, outcomes are limited, and can even exacerbate problems, because what is right for one person is not necessarily going to be optimal for someone else.

For example:

  • eating protein may be extremely healthy for one HealthType™ but not for another
  • exercise early morning may suit and be highly beneficial for one HealthType™, but very stressful and non-beneficial for someone else
  • whilst eating carbs may be necessary for a 'Sensor' HealthType™ it is likely to have adverse digestive effects for a 'Guardian' HealthType™

So the Precision Health model begins by recognising differences - and then progressively refining how this is understood. 

A reminder summary:

The six HealthTypes™ represent groups of individuals with shared tendencies based on:

  • Morphological structure and body shape

  • Genetic and hormonal dominance

  • Disease predispositions

  • Behavioural tendencies

  • Organ size, function, and development

  • Relevant genetic clusters and molecular pathways

These groupings allow us to see meaningful patterns - whilst still respecting individuality.

 

From “Everyone Is the Same” to Individual Precision

The way people are understand in Precision Healthcare is addressed in layers, with each layer drilling down deeper into a person's unique differences.

The old (and still currently prevailing) paradigm of healthcare is everyone is treated the same (= 'generic healthcare').

In Precision Healthcare, the layered approach allows one to understand oneself progressively deeper, step by step:

  • Step / Layer 1: You discover which of the 6 unique HealthTypes™ you are through the Precision Healthcare Shae™ Assessment

  • Step / Layer 2: Your HealthType™ is further refined by its position on the HealthType™ circle

  • Step / Layer 3: You discover which unique HealthCode™ you are expressing

 

Simple and Complex

This journey of discovery of your HealthType™ and HealthCode™ is simultaneously easy and complex. 

It's simple because all the work has been done for you: in under 30 minutes, by taking a few anthropomentrical body measurements and answering a short health questionnaire, you discover which of the 6 HealthTypes™ you are. Then all you have to do is start following the tailor-made guidance and advice for your HealthType™, which is all inside the Shae Precision Healthcare app. 

It's complex due to the incredible in-depth technology which has been developed and built for over 25 years. The wealth of information plugged into this system is quite simply mind-boggling, the culmination of millions of hours of research taken from hundreds of thousands of humans. But just like when you use a website, you don't have to worry about what is going in the 'back-end' - you just take advantage of the 'front end' - the user interface - which is the Precision Healthcare Shae app.

Once you have determined your HealthType™, and when you are ready to learn more, you can start to drill down into the next layer of knowledge about your unique biology:

Whilst there are six primary HealthTypes™, each one is further refined by numbers around the HealthType™ circle.

  • Clinically there are 72 key numbers 

  • Each of the 360 degrees around the circle represent a graded variation

Most likely you do not need to concern yourself with too much of this information until you are already familiar with and working with the protocols. And often it's useful to have a Precision Healthcare coach to explain these deeper nuances. However, for those who are keen to already know more, here is a bit more information on these deeper layers...

Your number on the circle influences how your HealthType™ is expressed.

If your number falls near the boundary between two HealthTypes™, you may express traits from two different HealthTypes™.

Each number represents a cluster of tendencies rather than a rigid rule.

 

Your HealthCode

A HealthCode™ drills down even deeper than your HealthType™. It is your unique biological fingerprint.

It's 100% individual to you - derived from your DNA, organ function, hormone levels, and how your mind communicates with your body. And it can be measured.

Your HealthCode connects to your genes, influences how your organs work, determines your hormone profile, and shapes your emotional landscape. It's the biological source code that runs you.

Because there are 7.5 billion people on the planet, many of us share similar HealthCodes™. Those clusters—the patterns that repeat across people—are what we call the six HealthTypes™: Activator, Connector, Guardian, Diplomat, Sensor, and Crusader. You fall into one of those regions on a 360-degree circle based on your physiology.

Your HealthCode™ goes deeper than just your HealthType™.

It has three layers:

  1. Your primary type drives your physical needs, nutrition, and how your body processes the world.
  2. Your secondary type shapes how your mind works—how you think, process information, solve problems.
  3. Your tertiary type influences how you learn and connect socially.

This is where the Precision Healthcare Shae™ app comes in.

When you take your assessment you get your HealthType™ result, and this gives you access to your HealthCode™ - translated into practical guidance.

It tells you exactly what to eat, when to eat it, which exercises suit your body, how you recover best, what your natural strengths are, and how to build a life that actually works for you, not against you.

The real value isn't knowing the number. It's using it to stop fighting yourself and start working with your biology. 

 

Beyond Biology: Life Experience Matters Too

When assessing a person’s HealthCode™, biology is only part of the picture.

Other influences include:

  • Education and knowledge

  • Life experiences and challenges

  • Parenting and mentoring

  • Cultural and societal norms

  • Early-life experiences (ages 0–7), including trauma or belief formation

For example:

  • A Crusader raised in Australia may express very differently from a Crusader raised in Samoa

  • Early subconscious experiences may either align with—or conflict with—biological tendencies

 

Supporting Alignment, Not Suppression

Every individual is the sum of their biology and their life experiences.

The goal of understanding HealthTypes™ is not to label or limit people—but to:

  • Allow individuals to be who they are

  • Understand where experience and biology may be misaligned

  • Support gradual realignment with biological needs

When individuals are supported to live in alignment with their biology, long-term health, resilience, and wellbeing improve

 

Start Simple

If this all sounds a bit overwhelming, don't worry. One only has to start simple, and move to the next step when ready.

Even just making the simplest of adjustments can make dramatic differences to health and wellbeing.

For example, just exercising or eating at a different time of the day (Shae™ will tell you exactly what time is best for you) can bring huge results.

All you have to do is find out what HealthType™ you are, start following the guidance in the Shae™ app, making one small change at a time.

And if you need more help get on board with a Precision Healthcare coach who can personally guide you, just like a trainer at a gym. 

 

Discover your HealthType™

If you'd like to discover your unique HealthType™ join the 5 Day Health Challenge - 29 June - 3 July NZT 2026

Sign up to the enews list for updates on the homepage of my website www.artofhealth.co.nz 

 

Missed a previous post in this series? Catch up:

Part 1 - how it all began

Part 2 - your phenotype

Part 3 - embryology & morphology

Part 4 - your HealthType

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