How To Do Your Own Health Research Effectively (v. 14)

Including my Master Health Libraries & Prompts. Updated: Dec. 15, 2025

“Do Your Own Research” (DYOR) is almost a meme disclaimer at this point, but most people don’t DYOR because they don’t have time or they were not taught how to do it. Keep in mind, 99% of public school kids are taught to remember and repeat, while only “gifted” students are taught critical thinking.

Research is getting much easier in some ways now, and also harder in some ways. We can do instant fact checks, but we can also fact-check the fact checks which takes more time. Things are changing so rapidly that within some months, this post will be out of date.

What I want to stress here is that you will waste a lot more time if you don’t DYOR effectively, because you’ll be listening to people who you shouldn’t waste time listening to, and even implementing terrible strategies for your mental, physical, spiritual health that cost you a lot more than just time.

Below, I will focus on health research, but most of what I’m saying can be generalized to other kinds.

Note: Some people think th…