I Asked AI to Help Me Fix My Health. It Asked Better Questions Than My Doctor.

I want to be careful about how I frame this, because the last thing I want is to contribute to the growing pile of content that positions AI as a replacement for medical professionals. It isn't. Full stop.

But something interesting happened when I started applying the same AI-as-thinking-partner approach to my health that I'd been applying to my finances. And it's worth sharing honestly.

The data I had

I'm a data person. I wear a Garmin. I track sleep, HRV, training load, and recovery scores. I've had blood panels done. I know my testosterone levels, cortisol rhythms, vitamin D levels, and iron levels. I've been sitting with this data for a while, doing what most people do with health data: occasionally glancing at it, feeling vaguely informed, and continuing exactly as before.

After the HYROX race and the subsequent audit of how I was actually living, I decided to try something different. I compiled everything into a single brief: blood markers, training data, sleep patterns, energy levels across the week, and subjective notes on when I felt strong and when I felt depleted. Nearly five years of data.

Then I gave it to an AI and said, "Don't tell me what's wrong. Tell me what questions I should be asking."

The questions

What came back was a list of questions I hadn't thought to ask. Not because I'm not intelligent, but because I was too close to my own situation. The AI had no investment in protecting my sense of identity as a high-performer. It just read the data and responded to what was there.

Some of the questions: Was my training volume appropriately sequenced relative to my recovery capacity, or was I treating high-effort weeks as equivalent regardless of what came before? Were my energy crashes mid-afternoon correlated with specific training types or with overall sleep debt? Was I actually recovering between sessions, or was I accumulating fatigue across weeks and interpreting it as a motivation problem?

These weren't questions AI answered. They were questions AI helped me formulate, clearly, specifically, with language I could use in a conversation with my doctor or coach.

What changed

My next GP appointment was different. Instead of receiving information, I was driving a conversation. I had specific questions, specific hypotheses, and specific data to reference. The appointment went twice as deep as it normally would have, not because my doctor was different, but because I arrived prepared.

This is what AI can do that most people aren't using it for. Not a diagnosis. Not treatment. Preparation. Synthesis. Question formation. Getting you to the conversation better equipped than you'd have arrived on your own.

In my best-selling Keynote, I have consistently told the story of how Google's existence has made us second guess to our GP, the most revered professional in our lives. But few go into that conversation prepared.

Practical AI: Build your health brief

Before your next doctor, physio, or specialist appointment, try this. Spend 15 minutes writing a brief that includes:

• Your current symptoms or concerns (be specific about frequency, severity, patterns)

• Any data you have (sleep, HRV, blood work, weight, energy levels)

• Your current habits (training, diet, sleep routine, stress levels)

• Your goals (what does "healthy" actually look like for you right now?)

Paste that into your AI and ask: "Based on this, what questions should I be asking my doctor that I probably haven't thought to ask?" Then take those questions to your appointment.

AI's objectivity is something magical to experience. It has the very real ability to help us see past our own limitations and ask new questions.