Why PREKURE?
Grant and I started PREKURE in 2018 because we kept seeing the same thing: we've never known more about what keeps people well, and yet more people are getting sick. Type 2 diabetes. Anxiety. Heart disease. Things that build slowly, in ordinary weeks, years before they show up at the doctor's.
Our health system is brilliant when you're in a crisis, and stretched thin before one. Nobody's job is to help you change how you live. So we made it ours.
We train PREKURE Certified Health Coaches, taught by a faculty of professors, doctors, researchers and practising coaches. More than 900 so far, across New Zealand, Australia and beyond. What we're all after is more good years, not just more years. We call it healthspan thinking.
For more information on PREKURE's Health Coach training, go to prekure.com.
Dr Louise SchofieldCo-founder & CEO
Knowing was never the problem
Most people already know what would help: eat better, move more, sleep, stress less. If information were enough, a pamphlet would have fixed it years ago. But life is busy, habits are automatic and willpower is unreliable. And good advice is generic, often conflicting, and it leaves you on your own the moment the plan meets a sick child, a hard month or a body that responds differently.
Doing it, in a real week, is the hard part. That's what a PREKURE Coach is for.
What a PREKURE Coach actually does
“Coach” is a term that can get thrown around, and the standard can vary. Ours doesn't. The Royal New Zealand and Australian Colleges of General Practitioners endorse PREKURE for their doctors' continuing education, and every coach listed on PREKURE Health is PREKURE Certified.
That's who's in your corner.
You'll build the plan together, because change you build yourself, with support and accountability, is the change that lasts.
- Goals you choose, broken into actions that fit a real week.
- Someone who remembers what you agreed and asks what happened.
- No blame when something doesn’t happen, just a rethink and another go.
- Your GP and healthcare team in the loop, if and when you choose.
How you'll know it's working
You and your coach will pick something real to aim for, and you'll actually measure it. If it's not budging, your coach will say so and change the plan. And if coaching turns out not to be what you need, they'll tell you that too.
Coaches don't diagnose, prescribe or change your medicines. They help you do the things your doctor wishes there was more time to help you with.
“With PREKURE I've learnt to lean into a different level of trust and care. I've changed my thinking and my behaviours. I feel like I've invested in me. PREKURE, it's all in your name: you are pre-anxiety, pre-type 2 diabetes, pre-failure. These sessions have allowed me to breathe a little, prioritise what is important, and the biggest thing of all is accountability.”