Why we exist?
It’s time to level up. The way we design and care for our homes is decades behind what we now know about human health.
For years, we’ve focused on food, movement, and medicine — all while overlooking the foundation they rest on: the home. It’s where we spend the majority of our lives, and the bedrock of the habits and behaviours that shape our health. A well-designed home makes healthy living easier — not harder.
Today, our bodies are under more pressure than ever. From endocrine-disrupting chemicals and poor sleep cues to low-grade environmental stressors that quietly inflame and exhaust, we are constantly bombarded — often silently. But your home is one of the few environments you can truly control. And that control is powerful.
At TheHomeEffect, we’re here to set the standard. Spaces designed not just for comfort or convenience — but for regeneration, clarity, and resilience. Spaces that work with your biology, not against it.
Done right, your home becomes a sanctuary for healing.
Heal while you sleep. Rejuvenate while you rest. Perform while you work — all within the place you spend the most time.
We’re building the UK’s first truly joined-up model for home health — combining science, design, and hands-on support to help people live better. It’s not about doing everything. It’s about knowing what matters, and where to begin.
This is the future of well-being — and it starts at home.
Curious about the science?
Explore Home Health 101 for a guided breakdown of the risks, the evidence, and where to start.
Founder & Chief Health Strategist
Michael Osen
TheHomeEffect began as a quiet conviction — and a deeply personal one.
Growing up, I saw how disruptive ill health could be. How chronic illness shaped my mother’s life, and by extension, all of ours. The causes were complex, but the impact was clear: when health falters, it affects every part of life. It was an early lesson that our health is one of the most valuable assets we have — and one of the hardest to restore once lost. That early experience planted the seed for a career in health — to understand health more deeply, and to help others protect it.
Over time came my own lived experience: Like so many people, I’ve felt the effects of modern living — poor sleep, overstimulation, persistent fatigue. That frustrating sense of doing all the “right things,” yet still not feeling right. Viruses, infections, brain fog, pain — the body subtly struggling to keep up.
Over the last six years, I’ve worked across public health, preventative care, and digital health innovation — focused on how biology, behaviour, and environment intersect. My time in respiratory health made one thing especially clear: invisible forces like air quality and housing shape outcomes more than most people realise. Later, my work in workplace health, tackling stress and burnout through behavioural science and digital tools, highlighted how critical creating space for recovery is — and how rarely we design for it.
The more I learned, the more it became clear — a growing conviction that we’ve been overlooking one of the most powerful levers we have: our homes. Our environment isn’t just a background factor. It’s the foundation.
With a background in systems thinking, the natural inclination to see both the body and the home as systems to be optimised led me into deep research within the space.
TheHomeEffect is born out of the journey to help people create environments that support how they want to feel, function, and live — starting with the place they spend most of their time.
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