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World Hepatitis Day: Keeping Your Liver Healthy and Safe
World Hepatitis Day is a time to be informed about the potential risks and treatments for various types of hepatitis to keep your liver safe. Hepatitis refers to the harmful inflammation of the liver due to infection, and it can have several different viral causes….
Three Ways To Play It Safe This Independence Day
July 4th is usually about three things—food, family, and fireworks! While the festivities can be thrilling for kids of all ages, unfortunately it’s also a holiday that sees an uptick in insurance claims. Below are the most common Independence Day risks—and tips for playing safe….
Smokers Applying For Life Insurance – A Quitter’s Silver Lining
The data is in, and the research is pretty unequivocal. Smoking significantly shortens your lifespan and negatively impacts virtually every aspect of everyday health. There are exceptions to just about every rule, like the 85-year-old who’s been smoking their entire life and somehow avoided lung…
Gettin’ Hitched? Better Start Comparing Life Insurance Quotes
While love and marriage often go together like a horse and carriage (as the song goes), the “marriage” aspect of this union often entails much more than just fancy dinners and long walks on the beach. Building a life together often means facing some very…
Health Equity: Leverage Your Health Literacy For Better Insurance Rates
At Health IQ we’ve identified a new asset class we call “health equity.” Just as homeowners can build equity over time, focusing on diet, exercise, and improving one’s health literacy can build health equity. Our “Health Literacy in the 50 States” report shows those with…
The First Life Insurance Offering to Reward Well-Managed Diabetics Living a Healthy Lifestyle
Health IQ and Protective Life launched a first-of-its-kind life insurance product today that will provide well-managed diabetics living a healthy lifestyle a more cost effective option for protecting their families, while encouraging them to live long, healthy lives. The new life insurance offering was designed…
Can You Get Affordable Life Insurance Rates If You’ve Had Cancer?
We’ve compiled some tips for how cancer survivors who choose a healthy lifestyle can get the lowest life insurance rates.
3 Reasons Why Even Healthy People Should Get A Medical Exam When Shopping For Life Insurance
You’re a health conscious person. You eat a healthy diet—with the occasional splurge. You exercise most days of the week. You manage your stress—for the most part. So you might consider the medical exam to be just a hassle when shopping for life insurance. After…
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American Diabetes Month: Tips for Tracking Blood Sugar
For American Diabetes Month this November, we’re following up on some of the latest research. The more we know about how to better manage blood sugar and its impact on the human body the better we will all be able to manage our health. Managing…
Using Social Media Wisely to Maximize Your Mental Health
There are always new studies coming out about how using social media is impacting our mental health. Taken at face value, the results are truly confusing. Some studies report that social media is making us jealous, anxious and depressed, while others find that social media…
Lung Cancer Awareness Month: Showing Your Support at an Event This November
Lung Cancer Awareness Month is a great time to support the fight against the deadliest cancer worldwide. There are a variety of events this November to support lung cancer organizations that help fund treatment, support recovering survivors and family members as well asthe doctors and…
Breast Cancer Awareness: Can Men Get Breast Cancer?
Breast cancer awareness month tends to focus on women since most patients are women, but many people don’t know men can also get the disease. This is because all humans are born with breast tissue and the small amount men retain throughout life makes it…
Flu Shot: How to Stay Healthy This Early Winter Flu Season
The flu shot is a great way to prevent influenza—a contagious respiratory infection that impacts millions of Americans each year. Symptoms include fever, body aches, runny nose, coughing, sore throat and fatigue. While most cases of the flu are mild and people recover on their…
National Health Literacy Day
Health IQ is excited to announce October 15 as the first official National Health Literacy Day. Changing the health of the world requires awareness of one person and one decision at a time. We are committed to raising the collective consciousness and dialogue around the factors that impact individual health by promoting all we as individuals can do to prevent negative health outcomes.
Meningitis: What You Need to Know to Stay Safe at Any Age
Meningitis—inflammation of the brain and spinal cord—is a rare disease, but can happen even to otherwise young and healthy people, so it’s important to know the symptoms. Meningitis is a viral or bacterial infection that causes inflammation of the tissue surrounding the brain and spinal…
Blood Cancer Awareness Month: How to Donate to Make a Difference
September is Blood Cancer Awareness Month, a great time to consider how you can make a difference for people struggling to stay healthy with these difficult conditions. Organizations like the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society are doing a series of blood drives for patients, as well…
Meet the Team
Health IQ’s team is a wonderfully diverse group of people with different approaches and at different stages of our personal health journeys. We’re an insurance company on a mission to reward those living healthy lifestyles.
Learn moreGet a quote
- Special rates for healthy lifestyles
- Savings increase the more coverage you buy
What’s your Health IQ?
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Latest posts
National Health Literacy Day
Health IQ is excited to announce October 15 as the first official National Health Literacy Day. Changing the health of the world requires awareness of one person and one decision at a time. We are committed to raising the collective consciousness and dialogue around the factors that impact individual health by promoting all we as individuals can do to prevent negative health outcomes.
Enough is Enough – Establish October 1st as National Health Literacy Day
On October 1, 2019 Health IQ hopes to celebrate National Health Literacy Day – a day of learning and celebration of healthy lifestyle choices – with the mission of making the country healthier. U.S. Representatives Mike Levin (D-CA) and Greg Gianforte (R-CA) today introduced a…
Health IQ Secures $55 Million In Series D Funding to Expand Special Rate Life Insurance for People Who Live a Healthy Lifestyle
We are thrilled to announce that we’ve secured $55 million in Series D funding led by Greenspring Associates, Aquiline Technology Growth, Hanwha Asset Management, as well as additional financing from existing investors such as Andreesen Horowitz and others. This investment means we can expand our special rates and ways of rewarding clients with healthy lifestyles even further.
Wearing Pink Can Save A Life – Now and Later
Childhood trauma and bullying have health impacts many years later in life. The Health IQ Team is proud to wear pink to raise awareness about the negative long term health effects of childhood trauma and bullying.
Announcing The Health Literacy In The 50 States Report
Health IQ is committed to making the 21st century the century of personal health literacy. Just as reading literacy in the 20th century led to breathtaking advances across the globe, health literacy can dramatically improve lives in this century. The Health Literacy In The 50…
Cast Your Vote For Health IQ’s New Podcast Host!
Health IQ is excited to announce we will be producing our very own podcast, starting with 6 episodes to be released this spring. We will be interviewing some of the leading health conscious professionals in the health, wellness, and fitness industries, as well as featuring…
Health IQ Secures $34.6 Million In Series C Funding Led By Andreessen Horowitz
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 15, 2017 Health IQ Insurance Services (Health IQ), the fastest-growing life insurance company for health-conscious individuals, today announced that it has secured $34.6 million in Series C funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz and has helped clients to enforce $5.3 billion of coverage in just 22 months….
Health IQ’s Latest Ad Campaign
At Health IQ, our mission is to celebrate the health conscious. While we strive to do this every day by rewarding the healthy lifestyles of our customers with the lowest life insurance rates available, we also want to celebrate our customers as the heroes they…
Meet the Team
Health IQ’s team is a wonderfully diverse group of people with different approaches and at different stages of our personal health journeys. We’re an insurance company on a mission to reward those living healthy lifestyles.
Learn moreGet a quote
- Special rates for healthy lifestyles
- Savings increase the more coverage you buy
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