Using AI for Health Questions: What Helps and What to Avoid

More people are asking AI health questions before, after, and even instead of seeing their doctor. Some answers are helpful, and some are misleading or just plain wrong. In this episode, Dr. Scott Saunders, MD walks through how AI chatbots actually work and how to use them wisely for your health.

Plus, Dr. Saunders answers viewer questions on a variety of health topics including mammograms after 65, Epstein-Barr virus, probiotics, blood pressure and dementia, calcium, and statins.

In this episode, Dr. Saunders covers:

• How AI chatbots come up with answers (and why they sound so sure of themselves)
• Why AI tends to give you the “standard of care” and how to get past it
• The prompts Dr. Saunders uses to find possible causes of symptoms
• How to use AI to understand lab results and prepare questions for your doctor
• Ways to double-check AI answers and spot a mistake
• Using AI to check medication and supplement interactions
• Why AI and continuous glucose monitors still need your judgment
• Privacy concerns when sharing health information with AI

Timestamps

• 0:00 — Why AI and health care matter right now
• 1:02 — How an AI chatbot comes up with answers
• 4:40 — What AI means for your health care
• 11:50 — Why so many people use AI instead of the doctor
• 13:43 — The best prompts for health questions
• 17:28 — Using AI to understand your lab results
• 20:48 — How to spot AI mistakes and double-check answers
• 24:23 — Asking AI about medications and supplements
• 26:46 — AI and continuous glucose monitors
• 32:25 — Privacy and AI
• 35:19 — What AI can never do in health care
• 36:36 — Viewer questions begin
• 48:09 — Pro and prebiotics
• 53:31 — Calcium, vitamin D, and vitamin K
• 54:03 — Statins, cholesterol, and stroke prevention

Products mentioned in this episode — use code Saunders25 for 25% off:

• Healthy Gut Restore
• CinnaChroma
• Healthy Heart Solution Kit (Digital)
• Healthy Heart Solution Kit (Print)

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