The top end: mental health
How are things
up here?
Talking to a therapist can be preventive. You don’t need a crisis to book a check-in for your head.
Tell meCheck Both Ends.
Preventive care shouldn’t stop at one end.
The bottom end: colon health
How are things
down there?
Colorectal cancer screening starts at 45.
Tell meWhat Check Both Ends is
3 out of 5 men already get a preventive colon screening, before anything feels wrong. Only 2 out of 5 men who need it get treatment for their mental health.
They’re already booking one checkup. We use it to get them to the other.
At 45, colon cancer screening is already on the radar. Check Both Ends puts a check-in for your head right next to it. Not a big declaration. Just a routine appointment, the same way you’d get anything else checked.
We make the free resources, the free kit and a song that’s hard to forget. Companies partner with us to bring it to their people and point them to the care they already offer.
Sources: American Cancer Society, men 45 to 75 up to date on screening, 2023. SAMHSA, men with any mental illness who received treatment, 2024.
- 1Take the checkTell us who you are. Get the right next steps in under a minute.Start the check
- 2Know before you goWhat a first therapy session and a colon screening actually involve.Read the checklists
- 3Pass it onPrint the free kit, send a 45th birthday check or tell your HR.Get the free kit
The age the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends average-risk adults start colorectal cancer screening, continuing through 75. USPSTF
Men’s suicide rate compared with women’s: 22.3 vs. 5.6 per 100,000 in 2024, the latest final data. CDC
U.S. suicides in 2024 that were men ages 45 to 64: 12,051 of 48,824. CDC
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Everything is free. Start wherever you are.
Get Checked Take the one-minute check, then find free resources for your mind and your colon.
Before You Go What to expect at a first therapy appointment and a colon screening, and what to ask.
Free Kit Posters, wallet cards and a guide for your doctor. Plus easy ways to pass it on.
About Why we made Check Both Ends, and the song Butt & Brain won’t stop singing.
For Companies What partners get, and four ways to bring Check Both Ends to your people.
For companies
Bring Check Both Ends to your people.
Co-branded materials, routing to your real benefits and a pilot measured on completed care.