Prevention first
Following Hippocrates, the best medicine is a healthy lifestyle that prevents illness before it ever starts. Everything we work on is aimed upstream of the problem.
Health & Wellness Coaching
Reach your full health potential
Evidence-led coaching across the six lifestyle pillars of health — so you can take your wellbeing into your own hands, one sustainable change at a time.
Hi, welcome to Evexia Coach. We believe that science-based health and lifestyle information is the best way to empower you to improve your health.
Stef Caraguel — Health Coach
Our mission
Health is a skill.
It should be taught, and practised daily.
Despite spending billions on healthcare, the United States and many Western countries are as unhealthy as they have ever been — and life expectancy is going the wrong way.
Solving that crisis takes a different approach: every individual taking their health into their own hands by leading a healthy lifestyle, in partnership with qualified professionals — health coaches, functional medicine doctors, psychologists.
Knowing what a healthy lifestyle actually looks like should be a basic skill, taught in school and practised every day. Evexia Coach exists to provide that missing education, and to help you turn it into habits that hold.
6 in 10
US adults live with a chronic condition
4 in 10
live with two or more of them
~80%
of US adults are insufficiently active
Sources: CDC chronic disease data (June 2021); HHS Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans.
Take it into your own hands
Our approach
Three principles behind every plan
Coaching at Evexia is built on a simple, unglamorous set of beliefs — the ones the evidence keeps supporting.
Root cause, not just symptoms
When something is wrong, we look for the underlying cause with the help of qualified practitioners — rather than naming a symptom and prescribing a pill. That is what functional medicine is about.
Evidence-based
We believe in the power of scientific evidence. That does not mean rejecting what is not yet proven — it means being honest about how strong the evidence is so far.
Coaching
The six lifestyle pillars of health
Physical and mental health are not separate systems. Coaching covers all six pillars, because moving one of them moves the others too.
Exercise
Increase physical activity — aerobic work, strength, flexibility and balance — in a way that fits the life you actually have.
Nutrition
Eat a healthy diet built on whole foods and high-quality protein, fat and carbohydrate — not on fads or lobbying.
Recovery
Rest and sleep. Balancing workload and recovery is what turns training into progress instead of injury.
Mindset
Manage stress, build mindfulness, and know yourself — self-awareness is the lever behind every lasting behaviour change.
Relationships
Form and maintain meaningful relationships. Humans are social animals, and your circle shapes your habits.
Environment
Reduce exposure to unhealthy environments and risky substances — from alcohol and tobacco to sugar and everyday toxins.
Coaching starts wherever you are today: we pick the pillar with the most leverage, set realistic short-term goals, and build from there.
Start your journeyAbout the coach
Stef Caraguel
A health coach and data scientist who reads the research so you do not have to — then turns it into something you can do on a Tuesday.
Evexia Coach is built on one conviction: people make good decisions when they are given good information. The work is translating peer-reviewed evidence into small, specific, sustainable changes across exercise, nutrition, recovery and mindset — and knowing when to hand off to a physician, dietitian or mental health professional.
Evexia comes from the Greek εὐεξία — a good state of being, good health. That is the target: not a quick fix, but a state you can hold.
Certifications
- ISSA-certified Health Coach & Elite Trainer
- Certified Personal Trainer
- Exercise Therapy
- Weight Management Specialist
- DNA-Based Fitness Coach
- Pn1-certified in Exercise Nutrition
- Data Scientist
Memberships
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)
- American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM)
Stef CaraguelFounder & Health Coach, Evexia Coach
From the blog
Evidence, translated
Longer-form writing on the science behind the pillars — what the research says, and what to do with it.
Lifestyle
Beyond exercise and nutrition: the other lifestyle pillars of health
Beyond exercise and nutrition, you can improve your health by paying attention to your recovery, mood, stress, and relationships.
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Nutrition
Guidelines for healthy eating
Every time you decide what and when to eat, it is a unique opportunity to impact your short and long-term health — one of the most consequential decisions you make.
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Exercise
Let’s get moving!
Given the negative effects of physical inactivity, as covid made it clear, our nation needs to get more active to be healthier. Let’s get moving!
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Framework
A unified view of health
We present a framework, inspired by functional and lifestyle medicine, to promote a unified view of health, where physical and mental health interact.
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Foundations
Welcome to your journey to a better health
The United States, like most countries in the world, is experiencing a health crisis of epic proportion: life expectancy is decreasing despite ballooning health care costs.
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Data & Science
Improving health through exercise and nutrition with data and behavioral sciences
With approximately 80% of US adults and adolescents being insufficiently active, incentivizing them to exercise more has huge health and economic consequences.
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Get started
Ready to take your health into your own hands?
Coaching begins with a conversation: where you are now, what you have already tried, and the one change that would make the biggest difference this month.
No packages to pick from yet — just write, tell me a little about your situation and your goals, and we will work out whether coaching is the right fit for you.
Get in touch
The fastest way to reach Evexia Coach is by email.
- Email stef@evexia.coach
- Read first Start with the articles
Evexia Coach provides health and lifestyle coaching. It does not diagnose, treat or replace medical care — for medical concerns, please speak with your physician.