How my personalized AI health consultant helps me answer ‘WTF’ medical questions

As someone who’s had autoimmune and allergy issues most of my life, I’ve become somewhat accustomed to my body doing bizarre and unexpected things. But especially in the last 15 years, I’ve had a range of symptoms that my doctors have not been able to account for, and questions they haven’t been able to answer. A few examples:

• Why do I have extreme hormonal fluctuations, my body expanding and shrinking like a balloon, seemingly at random?

• Why do I get an occasional rash on my insole after autoimmune treatments that is a perfect oval shape??

• I recently had off-the-charts high platinum levels — is this concerning, and what could be potential sources of this exposure?

Unsolved mysteries like these, however minor, contribute to a feeling of being out of control. And when my body is doing odd, seemingly random things, I crave a sense of order and reason. I want to at least understand why these things might be happening, so that if needed, I could take some sort of action.

Inspired by Jared Zimmerman’s recent article about creating a medical second opinion GPT that used his health records in its reasoning and responses, I decided to put together a quick prototype for myself. Here’s what I did and what I learned.