How To Use Ai To Optimize Your Health
A Step-By-Step Guide
Recently, I had the most satisfying medical consultation I’ve ever had. It was with in AI chat.
Let me be clear — I’m not suggesting we replace human doctors with AI. But after literal decades of frustrating 15-minute appointments and disconnected specialists, I finally had all my questions thoroughly answered. There was zero gaslighting nor dismissal which I, like many women, have experienced many times when I brought my symptoms and concerns to a specialist. And it was productive: I discovered what was working for me and what supplements to stop.
You don’t have to go as deep as I did. If you follow these steps, you’ll get a thorough analysis and health game plan:
A Step-by-Step Guide to creating your own AI medical team
1.
I used Claude.ai (though you could use ChatGPT). I started with this initial prompt:
“You are a team of medical doctors and specialists with expertise in holistic health, autoimmune disorders*, and longevity. You have extensive experience in analyzing complex medical data and identifying patterns across different health metrics. Please analyze all of my health data with particular attention to how different systems in my body interact with each other.
*Note: I specified autoimmune disorders because that’s my issue, but you can replace this with any condition you’re dealing with
2.
I uploaded my health data and history and described what it was:
- PDFs of all my lab work
- Exported Apple Health data. This will probably be a huge file. Mine was, so I extracted from it only the more recent data for key indicators of my health: HRV, my cycle, sleep and resting heart rate.
- All other health data (DEXA scans, VO2 Max, RMR, data from your smart scale, etc)
- Dates and descriptions of any treatments I’ve had
- All the supplements
3.
I then wrote my detailed health history, my current supplements, and described my current diet and lifestyle. If you are taking medications, add details of these and your doses.
4.
You can copy & paste the prompt I used to get a full analysis:
Please provide a complete analysis of my health data addressing:
- Identify any concerning patterns or trends
- Point out areas showing improvement
- Highlight any areas of decline
- Note any interesting correlations between different health metrics
- Create graphs showing the trends in my key biomarkers over time
- Analyze the effectiveness of my current treatments
- Suggest specific optimizations for my:
- Supplement protocol
- Diet
- Exercise routine
- Most Effective Treatments
The Results
Claude gave me an extensive analysis and I spent the next two hours in conversation with my own health data. I asked it to find patterns in my health and it did. I asked if my expensive hyperbaric treatments were working (seems like they are). I asked it to make a game plan for my treatments and supplements.
The experience was surprisingly intimate. There was no waiting room, no clipboard full of forms to fill out, and no feeling of being rushed. Instead, I had an AI system that could instantly cross-reference every data point of my health history, identifying patterns I never noticed and making connections that might take a human doctor hours to piece together.
What struck me most was how the AI connected dots across different aspects of my health. It noticed my sleep quality and HRV declined when I was premenstrual. “Your vitamin B supplementation might actually be too high,” it told me, pointing to a subtle trend in my blood work that showed my levels had been creeping up over the past 2 years. I learned I needed more salt, not less.
And two weeks later, a functional doctor affirmed every single piece of the AI’s advice.
A Low-cost/ free medical team
AI makes expert analysis far more accessible to people without extra funds for experts or trips to fancy biohacking spas. You could even get a basic analysis from the free versions of Claude & ChatGPT, but I recommend investing the $20 to be able to upload all of your health data and have a deep dive.
There are a few start-ups that are offering a similarly thorough analysis of your biomarkers. They make expert medical advice accessible but still cost far more than the $20 subscription fee I pay for a month of AI. There’s Function Health, which offers comprehensive lab work and analysis from expert doctors for $499. I also joined Superpower (still in BETA) for a similar price point. While I hear excellent things about Function Health and my own experience with Superpower was great, the analysis I received from my expert wasn’t nearly as thorough as my own AI research, because she didn’t spend 2 hours answering my questions like the AI did.
The technology is still new yet this experience has made me optimistic about AI’s potential to fill in the gaps made by the modern American medical system. While it’s not a replacement for medical care, it’s an incredibly powerful tool for empowering yourself to understand your own health data.
But I have to write this disclaimer: Always verify AI’s suggestions with your doctor before making significant changes to your health routine.
