01 / UNDERSTANDING
What changes as men age?
Prostate anatomy, benign enlargement, inflammation, and how symptoms differ from a cancer diagnosis.
Independent men's health education
Understand your health.
Navigate what matters.
Helping men navigate health information, medical decisions, and treatment options.
Health topics
Knowledge for the decisions that matter.
Our first focus is prostate health, from understanding the basics to navigating screening, diagnosis, and treatment conversations.
Featured topic · Prostate health
Prostate health & prostate cancer
Learn how prostate conditions differ, what common tests can and cannot tell you, and which questions to bring to your healthcare team.
Explore practical, source-linked guides on rising PSA, advanced testing, active surveillance, treatment choices, recovery, and navigating access to care.
Open the prostate health guideProstate health · Practical guides
Find the answers behind the next decision.
Start wherever you are: an unexplained PSA result, questions about testing, a surveillance plan, treatment choices, recovery or an insurance obstacle. Each guide explains what matters and which questions to bring to your care team.
When PSA is rising
What the number can mean, when to repeat testing, and how to plan the next step.
Read the guideTests that clarify the picture
MRI, biopsy, Grade Groups, genomic scores and why results can disagree.
Read the guideActive surveillance
What real surveillance involves and when changing findings deserve review.
Read the guideChoosing a treatment
Compare surgery, radiation, surveillance, side effects and second opinions.
Read the guideRecovery and life afterward
Continence, sexual health, follow-up PSA and the practical recovery plan.
Read the guideInsurance and access
Prior authorization, appeal steps and preventing administrative delays.
Read the guideQuestions worth exploring
Start with a question, not a headline.
The questions that shaped our first six practical guides.
02 / SCREENING
What does a PSA result really mean?
Screening choices, the limits of a single test, and why individual risk and follow-up matter.
03 / DECISIONS
How are treatment options weighed?
Understanding different approaches, potential side effects, and the questions that help inform care discussions.
Our approach
Good information makes room for nuance.
Men’s Health Compass translates medical evidence into clear explanations, practical knowledge, and better questions, helping men understand their health and navigate decisions with their healthcare professionals.
Health decisions are personal. Our role is to explain the evidence and tradeoffs, not to tell readers what treatment to choose.
This publication is being built as a living educational library. New research will be considered in context, not treated as a breakthrough simply because it makes news.
Sources first
Link to primary research and established medical institutions wherever practical.
Clear about uncertainty
Distinguish established evidence from early findings and unanswered questions.
Careful updates
Identify publication and review dates when detailed articles are added or revised.
Readers decide with clinicians
Provide education, not personal medical advice or individualized diagnoses.
Research & updates
The science evolves. The explanations should too.
We are establishing a research-update library to cover meaningful changes in evidence, clinical guidelines, diagnostic tools, and treatments. Updates will be published only after source review, with a clear distinction between early findings and established guidance.
Our first six independently researched prostate guides are available. They are educational resources, not clinically reviewed recommendations. Research updates will be published as evidence is checked and the relevant guidance changes.