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169 // 6 ways to use AI for better health with Hashimoto’s · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  Have you ever felt confused and overwhelmed with your health?
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  Like your thyroid stuff is just, there's so much to learn.
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  And yes, I have 160 something episodes that you can listen to, to help you with that.
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  I have a program for you to go through to help with that. But sometimes you're
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  just like, I wish that somebody could tell me exactly what is going on right
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  now. And that is what we're going to talk about today.
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  Well, not quite exactly. We're going to talk about how you can use AI in your health.
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  AI is not a replacement for your doctor, but it can help you understand your life.
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  Welcome to the Health with Hashimoto's podcast. This is where you will find
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  clarity and simple, sustainable strategies to feel better.
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  I want to help you figure out your root causes.
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  My name is Esther Yunkin. I am a registered nurse. I spent about 17 years in
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  the emergency department and then got sick and tired of putting band-aids on chronic things.
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  I went back to school and now I have been in holistic health education for about 10 years.
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  I know how exhausting it is to live with fatigue, brain fog,
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  and the ups and downs of Hashimoto's and that is why I'm here.
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  I'm here to cut through the confusion and to give you practical steps that support
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  your body, calm your immune system, so that you can regain your energy and feel like yourself again.
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  Throughout the summer, I was
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  doing a summer short series, which just means they were short episodes.
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  My goal was 10 minutes or less. I didn't always make it, but we focused on tools.
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  And I did think about doing an episode about using AI.
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  And then I was like, wait, no, I cannot do that in 10 minutes.
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  I need a full length episode because there's a lot to cover.
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  And I'm going to tell you, if you don't normally go to the blog,
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  this is one episode where you're going to want to click over to the blog.
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  Because over there, I will have specific scripts for you.
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  I will go over them and explain how to use them later in the episode.
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  If you've never used an AI tool like ChatGPT or Grok or Claude,
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  you have to have good inputs in order to have good answers.
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  Output. And so that is where a good script comes in.
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  And I have those for you on the blog so that you can copy and you can paste right into AI.
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  But first of all, let's talk about like what are some scenarios that you could use AI.
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  First, a real life example from me. If you have ever gone to the link in the
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  show notes that said, you know,
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  get all of Esther's links here and click there, you will see that I have a bunch
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  of different affiliate links and links to my products, links to my programs,
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  links to the school community, all of this stuff.
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  One of those links is to Fullscript.
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  Fullscript, I've talked about it before on the podcast. It's basically like
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  an Amazon of good quality supplements.
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  I do not recommend getting your supplements from Amazon. Fullscript is great.
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  So Fullscript has a ton of multivitamins and I was looking for the best multivitamin
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  that I could get at the cheapest price.
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  With a family of six, I'm not going to waste my money on worthless supplements.
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  At the same time, I'm not made of money either.
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  So I asked Grok. I put in a bunch of different supplements. I said,
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  here's the list of ingredients.
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  Here are all the micronutrients. Here's the cost.
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  And I had to evaluate them based on my conditions. It was so helpful.
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  Could I have done that myself? Yes, I could. Would it have taken more time?
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  Absolutely. because each multivitamin has a huge list of micronutrients, right?
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  And different amounts, different forms. I asked it to compare the forms,
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  like I wanted methylated B vitamins, all of this stuff. It saved me a ton of,
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  time. So using AI for your health can help you save money.
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  I did ask a while ago in our Health with Hashimoto's community over on school,
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  skool.com, and I asked about using AI.
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  Jenna said, when I'm interested in a specific supplement, I asked ChatGPT,
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  what are the top brands and how does it help someone with Hashimoto's?
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  I also had AI review my lab values and help me write a letter to my doctor to
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  ask for a referral to a specialist.
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  That is an awesome use. One of my friends tracks her macros with the help of ChatGPT.
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  Another person in our community said, I have asked ChatGPT to create a meal
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  plan for me and tweak it for my tastes.
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  One of my other friends, she had a medical emergency.
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  A very rare thing happened and she was having debilitating pain and she, with all of that pain.
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  She couldn't think clearly. So she used ChatGPT to track all of her symptoms
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  and to ask what it might be.
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  And it did. ChatGPT did a really good job. And it told her a specific phrase
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  that she had mentioned that she should tell the ER.
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  And the ER doctor later told my friend Kristen, it was because you said this
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  single sentence that I knew what to look for.
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  So in that case, she was not using ChatGPT to be her doctor.
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  She was using it to track her symptoms and to give good questions to her medical
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  team and also to give them the information that they would feel is pertinent.
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  She wanted to take out all of the emotion out of her symptoms and she wanted
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  to just give them the facts in the most helpful way.
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  So AI is a great tool for your health. So here are six different ways that you
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  might want to ask AI to help you with your health, specifically with your immune
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  system and your thyroid, Hashimoto's.
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  Number one, lab value analysis.
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  So Hashimoto's requires regular thyroid lab monitoring.
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  You know that, right? It might be every three months for you.
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  It might be every six months. It might be every year. Right.
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  Every so often, you are going to go get your labs done.
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  I do have numerous episodes on what your different lab values mean,
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  what you might want to do in response to them, but plugging them into AI is super fast.
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  So a script, again, this is going to be on the blog, so you can copy and paste,
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  a script that you might want to use when you're sharing your screenshot of your
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  lab results would be this.
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  I'm sharing a screenshot of my recent lab results, including reference ranges.
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  Please interpret them for me using functional medicine ranges.
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  Especially for thyroid labs.
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  Explain the results in simple terms. Please highlight any abnormal or borderline
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  values and what they might mean and suggest questions to ask my doctor.
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  So there's a couple things that I did in that script. Number one,
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  I said that it was going to be a screenshot.
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  Like I'm not asking you to type everything, but thankfully the AI models can read the screenshots.
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  I'm also suggesting that you're using functional medicine ranges because they
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  have more narrow results.
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  We want to use the functional medicine ranges, not the standard broken Western
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  medical ranges because they're based on a sick population.
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  So the upper and lowers can often be out of what you want for ideal, right?
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  And then you're also giving it clear goals. You're asking for simple explanations.
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  You're asking it to flag abnormal or borderline things, and then you're providing
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  a very clear request for questions for your doctor.
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  Are you going to use all of these questions for your doctor? Maybe, maybe not.
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  Probably not. But it's giving you a starting point. It just makes things easier for you.
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  Again, AI is not a replacement for your doctor, but it can help you understand
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  your labs. It can help you track your symptoms.
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  It can help prepare better questions so you feel more confident
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  in managing your overall health. So you've looked at your labs.
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  What's something else that you can do with AI?
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  You can ask it to help you with your medication information.
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  Maybe you're going to ask it, you know, to explain levothyroxine if you're taking that.
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  Or maybe you're taking LDN or you're about to start it and you want to know
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  a little bit more about that.
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  Of course, episode 129 is all about LDN.
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  It's an interview with pharmacist Steve Anderson.
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  I find that particular episode to be so helpful.
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  So helpful. Absolutely go listen to that one if you have not already.
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  I feel like it is one of the top episodes that anybody should listen to if they're
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  trying to catch up on the Health with Hashimoto's podcast.
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  So you can ask about medical information.
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  And here is a script for that one. You might say something like,
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  hey, I'd like information about my medications to better understand my treatment.
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  Here are the details. And then you're going to list your medications in your
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  supplements along with their doses and how many times a day you take them.
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  And maybe when you take them, like levothyroxine, you're going to take first
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  thing in the morning, at least 30 minutes before you have any calories or coffee.
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  You want to make sure that you're taking that on an empty stomach.
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  So you're going to tell them all of that, tell it all of that.
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  And then you're going to tell AI.
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  Explain what each medication does, its side effects and how it's typically used,
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  highlight any precautions I need to know about, and suggest questions to ask
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  my doctor about these medications.
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  And again, you're taking the medications. And when you got them,
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  especially if they're prescription medications, you probably talked to the pharmacist.
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  So you're going to be able to disregard most of the questions.
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  But as you read through them, I mean, it only takes AI like,
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  you know, less than one second or two seconds to pop up all of those questions.
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  So you're going to read through them. And you're like, okay,
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  I don't need to ask those.
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  But this one out of the 10, that one I'm actually interested in.
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  So that I'm going to ask the doctor.
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  This is a great way to get more personalized information from your doctor without
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  wasting time because, I mean, we all know a doctor or nurse practitioner,
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  they do not have a lot of time to spend with you.
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  A third way that you can use AI in your tools for your health is symptom tracking and analysis.
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  Now, AI is just a robot. It is very good at looking at data.
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  So if you're giving it your symptoms, and I understand it's not private.
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  It's just not. There's no expectation of privacy when you're using AI.
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  Some of the AIs are a bit more private than others. So maybe you're not comfortable
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  with this. I am not saying that you should do all of these.
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  Do what is comfortable for you and what is helpful for you.
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  I don't mind telling a robot that I am feeling more tired this month.
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  And then it'll tell me, oh, it's fall.
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  And that's very common. I mean, I'm guessing that's what it would tell me.
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  I have an episode last year, I think, about the October slide.
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  Very common in autoimmune things that in the fall, at the change of season,
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  when things are getting colder, people with autoimmune conditions often have
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  a flare-up of their symptoms.
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  So maybe I'm not remembering that, or maybe I didn't know that in the first place.
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  Like, why am I so tired? Why is my fatigue so much worse in October and November?
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  And maybe I'm using AI to track that, and hopefully it will come up and tell me that.
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  So how can you use AI to track your symptoms?
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  Great question. Again, the more detailed information you give it,
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  the better the output would be.
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  So you can describe your symptoms, your frequency, severity,
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  timing, medical history, lifestyle.
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  You can ask, I always do this, ask AI to ask you for more information when it would be helpful.
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  Say, what other questions do you have? I love that question to AI.
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  What other questions do you have before you get started, before we get started?
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  And it'll tell you, it'll give you a list of questions or it'll say,
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  I don't, I have no further questions. Let's get started. Perfect.
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  So here is a script for tracking your symptoms.
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  I have blank Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and I want to track my symptoms over time.
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  Please help me organize the following information.
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  Symptoms, when they occur, related lifestyle factors, and any medications or
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  supplements I'm currently taking.
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  Now you're going to give the AI the answers to those. So symptoms I'm experiencing,
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  you're going to list them off.
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  When they occur, if you know that, you're going to put that in.
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  And then you're going to say, I would like you to, number one,
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  identify possible patterns or triggers.
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  Number two, suggest what I should keep monitoring.
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  Number three, highlight any red flags that may need a doctor's attention.
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  And number four, summarize the data in a way that's easy to review before appointments.
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  Please ask if you need more details. Now, a symptom tracker is going to be a
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  thread or a message that you're going to probably keep coming back to.
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  And on most of the AI models, you
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  can keep track of your conversations and some
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  of them you can even pin to the top it depends on what platform you're using
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  and sometimes it depends on if you have the free version or the paid version
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  but if you're tracking your symptoms that's probably something that you're going
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  to want to come back to and you know add more details every every once in a
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  while or a couple times a day whenever you're noticing that you are having symptoms.
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  A fourth way you can use AI to help you with your health is to look for drug
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  and supplement interactions.
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  Now, some of these we know and some of them we don't. We don't know what we don't know, right?
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  And so AI can help you with that. So one thing that you may or may not know
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  is that you can't take thyroid medications with calcium.
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  They interfere, the calcium interferes with the absorption.
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  And that's one simple thing that you might not have known. And maybe when you
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  tell AI, hey, I take levothyroxine and I also take calcium every day.
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  And then the AI is going to say, oh, by the way, don't take those together because
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  they have an interaction or, you know, contraindicated together.
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  An example script for this one is going to be super basic. I'd like to check
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  for potential interactions between my medications and my supplements.
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  Here's the information. Do you have any questions before we begin? That's it. So simple.
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  So you're just going to ask that and then you're going to give it a list of
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  your medications and your supplements.
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  And then, you know, a couple of seconds later, the AI is going to tell you any
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  potential interactions or what you should know.
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  All right, number, what are we on? Five? I think we're on five.
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  How about appointment preparation? We've been kind of doing this one throughout
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  because a lot of the scripts tell the AI to suggest questions to ask at a future medical appointment.
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  But you can also do an AI session specifically to prepare for your next nurse
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  practitioner appointment or doctor appointment or endocrinologist appointment, whatever, right?
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  And this one can be broad or general. Perhaps you've been listening to the Health
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  of Hashimoto's podcast.
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  You have listened to all 160, 170 episodes.
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  You're like, okay, I have these questions that I really want to ask.
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  And you're going to have AI rank them based on your symptoms.
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  And hey, by the way, did you know that I have a 10 questions to ask your doctor PDF?
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  If you don't have that already, I will link that down in the show note.
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  I'll put it in the blog post too.
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  It is free, and the first couple pages tell you about why each question is important
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  and what you might want to do with the answers.
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  And then the final page is printable, so you can actually just take that page
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  right with you to the doctor, and you can jot your notes, or you can just remember
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  what questions you're having.
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  But we're talking about AI, but also go get that PDF.
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  So when you're preparing for your appointment, maybe you're curious about what
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  other questions you could be asking. So how can you, or what's a script that
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  you could use? You could say, hey, I am preparing.
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  I almost always say hi to my AIs when I am starting the conversation. Almost always.
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  I'm also polite and I use please and thank you. Do I need to?
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  I don't know, but I just do.
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  So I say, hi, I'm preparing for a doctor's appointment and I need help organizing
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  my thoughts. Here's the information.
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  Here's the reason for my visit. Here are my current symptoms.
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  My recent labs or tests. Again, you can just put in a screenshot of that if you want.
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  And that would be pertinent if you're getting your labs done,
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  not through the doctor that you're seeing.
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  Because if your doctor ordered the labs, then they have them right there.
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  This would be if they're from outside.
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  Or you can just give it to AI no matter what, because maybe it's looking for
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  those functional medicine ranges, and it's going to give you a specific question to ask.
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  Anyway, you're also going to tell it what medications and supplements you're
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  taking, and then give it some context.
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  And then you're going to say this. Suggest specific questions to ask my doctor
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  based on my symptoms, labs, or medications.
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  Highlight topics to prioritize during the visit. Please clarify if you need more information.
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  Again, I always give AI a chance to ask for more information before I set it
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  going for that conversation.
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  All right, and the sixth way that you might want to use AI as a tool to help
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  you in your health is nutrition planning.
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  Like we all know there's so much diet advice out there, right?
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  And maybe you've tried different things.
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  So I have asked AI to give me 10 different meal plans that are all gluten-free and kid-friendly.
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  I have asked AI after I interviewed Sally K.
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  Norton on the podcast about oxalates. I asked AI to give me some low oxalate
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  meal recommendations because my brain was.
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  I was overwhelmed and no idea where to start. Maybe you felt the same way after
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  that episode. I know I got a lot of feedback after that one.
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  AI was helpful. And so maybe AI can be used by you for your diet.
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  And again, of course, remember that AI is not replacing your doctor or nutritionist, but it is a tool.
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  It can help you understand your health better. It can help you track your symptoms.
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  It can prepare better questions. It is a tool. It's not a replacement for a
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  real person. It is a tool.
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  And so when you're using it for your diet, I already told you a couple of the ways that I've used it.
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  Like, give me 10 meal ideas for this or prepare a meal plan for the next seven days.
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  Sometimes I have no idea what to make. So I will tell AI I have X,
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  Y, and Z ingredients. What can I make? And it'll give me some ideas.
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  The other day I had searched all over the internet so many times to find a recipe
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  for sloppy joes using garden fresh tomatoes. Couldn't come up with one.
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  Asked AI and boom, there was a recipe.
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  All my family liked it. It was delicious. So when it comes to meal planning
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  and diet stuff, there's no one script that I have for you because you can use
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  it in so many different ways.
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  Like I said at the beginning of the episode, one of my friends uses it to track her macros.
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  I have never done that, but I'm sure it'd be great because AI uses data. It's data-driven.
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  Does it get it wrong sometimes? Yes. Does AI hallucinate sometimes?
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  Absolutely. Always double-check your facts. Always double-check its recommendations.
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  Always, always, because it does hallucinate. It does make things up.
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  AI is a tool. It is a very powerful tool, and it often is super, super insightful.
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  But AI is not a replacement for a real person.
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  AI is a tool that can help you understand your labs, track your symptoms,
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  and prepare better questions. It can help you manage your overall health.
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  But AI is not a replacement for a real person.
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  AI is not a replacement for thinking for yourself.
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  I would love to hear how you are or will or have used AI.
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  Come over to our Health with Hashimoto's community over on school.com and let's chat about it.
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  Please discuss any changes with your trusted healthcare provider.
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  there. You do not have to figure your health out alone.
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  I'll see you next time on the Health with Hashimoto's podcast.