How OpenAI Is Helping People Take Control of Their Health | Fidji Simo

Too often, we focus on treating symptoms without fully understanding the systems underneath them—or the conditions that allow the body to function well in the first place. On this episode of The Dr. Hyman Show, I sit down with Fidji Simo, CEO of Applications at OpenAI, to explore how AI could help us shift medicine from treating symptoms to restoring systems. We talk about why chronic illness is so often misunderstood, how health data has been fragmented across silos, and what becomes possible when we finally see the full picture. Watch the full conversation on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts. In this episode, you’ll learn: • Why having a diagnosis doesn’t always explain what’s actually driving your symptoms • How connecting your labs, lifestyle data, and health history can reveal patterns you might otherwise miss • What it looks like to move from reactive care to proactive, personalized health • How better context can help you make clearer decisions about food, sleep, movement, and recovery Health isn’t built in a doctor’s office. When you create the right environment, the body often knows what to do—and understanding your own biology is one of the most powerful steps you can take toward creating health, not just reacting to disease. View Show Notes From This Episode Get Free Weekly Health Tips from Dr. Hyman https://drhyman.com/pages/picks?utm_campaign=shownotes&utm_medium=banner&utm_source=podcast Sign Up for Dr. Hyman’s Weekly Longevity Journal https://drhyman.com/pages/longevity?utm_campaign=shownotes&utm_medium=banner&utm_source=podcast Join the 10-Day Detox to Reset Your Health https://drhyman.com/pages/10-day-detox Join the Hyman Hive for Expert Support and Real Results https://drhyman.com/pages/hyman-hive This episode is brought to you by Sunlighten, Paleovalley, PerfectAmino, Seed, Made In Cookware and Fatty15. Visit sunlighten.com and use code HYMAN to save up to $1400. Head to paleovalley.com and use code HYMAN20 for 20% off your first order. Go to bodyhealth.com and use code HYMAN20 to get 20% off your first order. Go to seed.com/hyman and use code 20HYMAN to get 20% off your first month. Head to madeincookware.com and use the code DRHYMAN for 10% off your order. Visit fatty15.com/hyman and use code HYMAN to save an extra 15% on a 90-day subscription. (0:00) Introduction (1:27) Dr. Hyman on the revolutionary potential of ChatGPT Health and the complexity of the body (3:29) Fidji Simo's health journey, challenges in chronic illness, and health system shortcomings (7:42) The role of AI in health care: Empowerment, personalized medicine, and practical applications (20:24) OpenAI's focus on health applications and preventative health with CHATGPT (23:16) True prevention, creating health, and nutrition action through partnerships (29:08) Cultural differences in food, health, and empowering consumers with AI (33:44) AI's role in drug discovery, curing diseases, and democratizing health information (43:12) Chronicle Bio's mission and impact (52:27) Challenges and opportunities at the intersection of health and technology (56:07) Future goals and three key areas of impact for ChatGPT Health (1:00:52) Food system design and its impact on health (1:02:00) Closing remarks

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• 0:00Dr. Mark Hyman?

  Most people know better how to operate their phone or their car than they know how to operate their body. Nine out of 10 people don't know how to navigate their own health information and even most doctors probably don't. And so we have this moment in history where we're in right now, it's going to allow us to really unlock this. Fidji Simo is CEO of Applications at OpenAI where she leads products like ChatGPT and oversees the company's global operations. Big job. She's a veteran tech leader and a former CEO of Instacart and she brings deep experience building and scaling some of the world's most influential consumer platforms.

• 0:29Speaker 01

  I was hospitalized. I developed an infection and the nurse arrives and she's like, I need to administer an antibiotic. I put the name of the antibiotic in ChatGPT and so it immediately told me, hey, this antibiotic is standard. But in your case, it might reactivate a really serious infection that I had had a couple of years prior. So I said that to the resident. The resident was actually totally relieved because she told me I have five minutes to make the rounds. I cannot look at someone else's records five years ago and I'm really glad that you picked that up. One of the most important decisions of my life would have been kind of messed up if it wasn't for AI helping connect the dots. I had seen 20 doctors, but not a single one of them had looked at the whole picture and was able to analyze all of these data

• 1:14Speaker 01

  and give me patterns that you can only detect when you see that whole picture. That confronted me to the healthcare system in a big way and realized all of the shortcomings of being able to treat chronic illness.

• 1:27Dr. Mark Hyman?

  There's a specialty for every part of your body and there's literally a doctor for every inch of you. And I think what most doctors miss is the body's one network and networks are hard to understand. And now with AI and with ChatGPT Health and with Function Health, we're able to start to gather our own data in ways we never could before.

• 1:50Dr. Mark Hyman?

  Welcome Fiji to the podcast. It's so good to have you.

• 1:53Speaker 01

  Great to be here. Thanks for having me, Mark.

• 1:55Dr. Mark Hyman?

  Well, everybody who's listening is probably wondering why I'm having you on the podcast about health. But as it turns out, you've just taken on the role of CEO of Applications at OpenAI, otherwise known as ChatGPT for most people. And you are launching, as your first initiative, the health focus of ChatGPT was ChatGPT Health. To me, that's so exciting because you could have done a million things, but you're focusing on this really revolutionary approach to helping people understand their own health. And most people know better how to operate their phone, their iPhone, or their Android phone, or their car than they know how to operate their body. And we were just chit chatting a little before, we said nine out of 10 people don't know how to

• 2:39Dr. Mark Hyman?

  navigate their own health information. And even most doctors probably don't. You know, honestly, it's hard when you're sick to figure everything out. And so we have this moment in history where we're in there right now, it's going to allow us to really unlock this. And your efforts are really accelerating this. And before we get into kind of what the potential is for AI and health, and what the potential is for people to understand their health better, to end suffering that we now have the answers to, but they're not getting, I want to kind of talk a little bit about your suffering and my suffering. Because we both kind of have a similar history of having a condition that's poorly understood, that's poorly diagnosed, that's

• 3:20Dr. Mark Hyman?

  poorly treated, that causes a lot of pain and suffering. It's not in our head, but is a real phenomenon that happens that we haven't been able to help. You know, maybe you could start out by sharing a little bit about your health journey, and how you got into all this, and why this is so important to you, because you've not just, you know, not just leading this from a, from within AI, but you also have another company that's helping to sort of unlock the mysteries of chronic illness, which I got so excited about when I saw.

• 3:44Speaker 01

  Absolutely. So yeah, to share a little bit about my own health journey, I was very healthy until I got pregnant in 2015. I had a pretty rough pregnancy. And then after the pregnancy, I started having all kinds of weird symptoms. I started fainting a lot, being very shaky, exceptionally tired. And As you can imagine, doctors at the time told me, you're just a tired mom, you're deconditioned. It's okay, like, you know, uh, nothing wrong with you. And I kind of miraculously recovered, you know, nine months later, but uh, after the pregnancy. But uh, a couple of years later, I had the surgery for endometriosis. And after that surgery, the same symptoms occurred. I started fainting a lot.

• 4:26Speaker 01

  Started being very dizzy. My heart would go like uh, super high as soon as I would stand. A constellation of like mystery symptoms. And that's when I was uh, diagnosed with a neuroimmune condition called postural or so static tachycardia syndrome, which is a mouthful that then evolved into chronic fatigue syndrome. And uh, it's pretty debilitating, like, you know, I, I am still dealing with the symptom. And that means that, you know, I can't stand for long periods of time uh, without fainting. Uh, I end up, you know, having um, you know, fatigue much, much faster than normal people. And so, you know, that, that confronted me to the healthcare system in a big way.

• 5:08Speaker 01

  And realize all of the shortcomings of being able to treat chronic illness.

• 5:13Dr. Mark Hyman?

  That's very frustrating as a, as someone who's got access to anything, anybody, anywhere on the planet. And still not to be able to get answers, uh, because we're looking at things through the wrong lens. And, you know, I think, you know, in reading some of the work you've done, I encourage everybody to read your, your um, Substack article on ChatGPT Help, which really lays this whole problem out. And you talk about how you went to different doctors for different symptoms, but you're one body. Uh, and, and everything is connected and there are root causes and there are fundamental biological systems. And I also, when I was younger, first got into all this because I ended up having chronic fatigue syndrome. I went from riding my bike a hundred miles a day and, you know, being able to remember thirty patients' charts without taking any notes all day.

• 5:56Dr. Mark Hyman?

  To not being able to walk up the stairs or know where I was at the end of a sentence. It turned out I had mercury poisoning from living in China and that's a whole long story. But my whole system just collapsed from one day to the next. I went to doctor after doctor, I went to Columbia, I went to Harvard, I'm sure as you did. And no answers, you know, oh, you're stressed, oh, take some Xanax, oh, take some Prozac, you know, like, you know. And uh, I knew I wasn't crazy. And I was a highly motivated, highly engaged person and all of a sudden I could barely function. And it took me a long time to dig out of that. And I think, you know, what I discovered was that the body is this incredibly complex network. As an individual doctor,

• 6:39Dr. Mark Hyman?

  it's very hard to understand that the massive complexity that's the human body. We've got 40 trillion cells. We've got, you know, billions of chemical reactions, billions of trillions of chemical reactions happening every second in the cell in the body. There's so much scientific literature and no one person can put that all together. There is an operating system that's we call network medicine or systems medicine that's preventive proactive predictive participatory, as you've written about. And it's so good at helping people understand these complex chronic illnesses. But but traditional medicine is just so slow to change. You know, as a doctor, I know that, you know, it took 50 years from the time Semmelweis discovered we should wash our hands before surgery till doctors believe that we should wash our hands before surgery,

• 7:20Dr. Mark Hyman?

  right? So it's kind of like that. And now with AI and with Chat GPT Health and with Function Health, we're able to start to gather our own data. We're start to make sense of our own data in ways we never could before. So it's super, it's super exciting. And I think you struggled even as a person who, you know, who's had access to figure this out. And I feel bad because that's really what I get every day because I want to, I want to have people be empowered to end needless suffering and to get help whatever they can from from the world's incredible scientific knowledge that we, most of us don't have the ability to sort through, understand and make sense of. But now we start, we're starting to be able to do that with AI and health, which is pretty exciting.

• 7:59Speaker 01

  And I'll tell you, I mean, your, what you're saying resonates so much. I saw 20 specialists, everyone looking at just like one particular symptom. And if you look at my disease, it's a mix of immune dysregulation, nervous system dysregulation. So that impacts the entire body. But meanwhile, you have the GI doctor that's just focused on your GI symptoms and cardiologist was just thinking that your heart rate is fast, but not really connecting that with the fact that it's a neurological symptom. When I got diagnosed, it was interesting because I had this very naive idea that there were, you know, plenty of doctors behind the scenes who are all working to make sure.

• 8:37Speaker 01

  These conditions would get cured. And I realized, oh, actually, there isn't that much happening that can actually advance scientific discovery. So I ended up hiring a teaching assistant at Stanford to teach me genetics and like basically the whole body system. But I'm like, that's crazy. Like, who has the resources and the time to do that? And that's what made me so passionate about making sure that everyone can understand their own health, level the playing field with doctors, because ultimately it's your life. Uh, and really desilos the healthcare system, which is not working uh as is. And especially when you look at like the burden of chronic illness in the country right now,

• 9:19Speaker 01

  about like eighty five percent of healthcare costs is coming from like these complex chronic disorders. All of these whole time systems, they are not focused on one organ. So you have an entire health system that's very organ focused. And meanwhile, sick people were falling apart from head to toe and are struck with figuring out uh how to get out of that. So, you know, I I'm I'm really thinking about how AI can help, but also how we can like reform the healthcare system to adapt to what people are gonna need in the future.

• 9:51Dr. Mark Hyman?

  Well, I think that's exactly right. I mean, you know, it is is is two-pronged, really. One is helping individuals understand their own health in a way that was never possible before. From their lab data, and function allows people to do that from imaging, and function allows you to do that through wearables, which integrate now into function through any lab that you've ever had done. You can upload into Health Vault and get all that information. And also you can access all the scientific literature in the world and all knowledge expert training and all the genetics and your microbiome and your metabolome and toxin levels and and measuring things that we never could measure before. And now we're doing it at radically deflationary prices and at at great scale.

• 10:32Dr. Mark Hyman?

  No, no individual doctor can make sense of that. And but it but it's going to tell a story about what's going on with you that men otherwise think about. And the narrative you said was really important. There's a specialty for every part of your body, and there's literally a doctor for every inch of you. I mean, it's so it's so. Subspecialized now. And I think what most doctors miss is the body's one network and and networks are hard to understand. They're complex. I mean, you've got biology, you've got chemistry, you've got physics, but you've got all of it together in the body. And it's just impossible reductionist about it. And that's what medicine's been. But now with with our ability to sort of source the whole world's knowledge, sort of like the like a gigantic library of Alexandria in a way. We can suddenly actually have insights about things and learn things.

• 11:17Dr. Mark Hyman?

  So not just for individuals, but also accelerate science and change the paradigm. And I think that's what's exciting to me. So. I think medicine is going to be shifted from the outside, you know, just like many other industries were shifted by. You know, like phones were disrupted by Apple or music by iTunes, Spotify. These are these didn't come from within the industry. And I think this is what's what's so exciting to me because, you know, like you said, doctors try their best, the healthcare system does its best, but it's sort of stuck in this antiquated. Model. I really want to hear how you use AI for yourself because you you've tried to figure this out as an individual, like what's wrong with me? Why do I feel like this? What are the causes? What do I do? Like, what is my doctor not telling me? How have you used it for yourself?

• 11:53Speaker 01

  The main thing is exactly what you said, it's connecting all of the data about me in one place so that it can be analyzed. And like the first time it happened and I connected my health records, my Apple health data. All of my, you know, past labs, my medical history, all in one place in chat GPT and just ask chat GPT like, hey. Are there patterns that you're detecting that would be interesting? I also uploaded my whole genome in there. I was blown away because there had been, you know, again, I had seen 20 doctors, but not a single one of them. I'd looked at the whole picture and was able to analyze all of this data and give me patterns. That you can only detect when you see that full picture. So that has been really helpful in like.

• 12:36Speaker 01

  Finding new avenues to explore, getting new ideas, not having to read all of the, you know, studies coming out because. Like, who has the time? Like, I get a summary every morning on like new studies on my condition. I get a summary from like new treatments that people on Reddit are trying out because we spend so much time when we're sick on forums. Trying to figure it out. Now chat G P T does that for me. So that has simplified my life in a very big way. And in an even more concrete way, to give you a real story, um, last year I was having a kidney stone. I was having surgery and I was hospitalized.

• 13:13Speaker 01

  I developed an infection and the nurse arrives and she's like, hey, uh, I need to administer an antibiotic for uh, your, your um, urine test came back, you know, with an infection. And I was like, hey, like, I'm totally fine with that, but can you wait a minute? I just wanna check something. And I put the name of the antibiotic in chat G P T and um,

• 13:33Dr. Mark Hyman?

  Yeah.

• 13:33Speaker 01

  Already had all of my health records, right? And so it immediately told me, hey, this antibiotic is standard for a U T I, but in your case, it might reactivate a really serious infection that I had had a couple of years prior, C D F. And it's like, said like, you really shouldn't use that one. There's a better one to use that will do the job, but without risking, you know, uh, messing up with your microbiome. And so I said that to the resident and I was expecting pushback. And in fact, the resident was actually totally relieved because she told me, she's like, I have five minutes to make the rounds. I cannot look at like someone else's records five years from ago.

• 14:13Speaker 01

  And I'm really glad that you picked that up because that could have been really bad. So I'm glad that I can now give you the right antibiotic. And that made me realize, wow, like again, one of the most important decisions of my life um, would have been kind of messed up if it wasn't for A I helping connect the dots fundamentally.

• 14:39Dr. Mark Hyman?

  It's such an important story. And you're right, doctors are relieved because like, you got five minutes, you got forty patients, you're running around like crazy. You don't have time to research everything, you know, even with with A I, it's still hard. What what did you learn, P G, about your health that was novel or new that helped you when you started to put all your records into chat G P T?

• 14:58Speaker 01

  My whole genome was really interesting because um it's not that I had like genes that were like very clearly pathological. But because of certain components of genes, I was able to. Uh ChatGPT started telling me some potential drugs that doctors hadn't thought about that. Because of my genome could be interesting and they ended up really helping. So that was really helpful. Uh it also detected that, you know, I needed like B vitamins that were methylated and like things that. Doctors hadn't dug into and you know, that was really interesting because. Years ago, there was this promise of genetics, like changing the whole medical world. And the reality is that it doesn't happen, right? It has happened in cancer, but.

• 15:42Speaker 01

  Like for your day to day care for a regular chronic illness, your doctor is not analyzing your whole genome and telling you to change. Your nutrition based on your genome, right? But all of this data is available and actionable and could help patients really improve. And so. To me, like that combination really helped. And then. Combining that with Apple Health and really being able to see like. Oh, actually, your HRV is way better when you go to bed a little bit earlier. Uh and like you have a better symptom day after you do that. Just correlating all of these data sources was really magical. And that's what we're hoping to do with, uh, you know, ChatGPT Health and and making sure that.

• 16:24Speaker 01

  You can have all of the right inputs so that your personalized health agent. Gets to know you better than anyone else and can really do. True personalized advice, which was the promise of personalized medicine. But again, we didn't get there.

• 16:38Dr. Mark Hyman?

  I think you're right. You know, I think a couple of important points here. One is according to some recent data, ninety three percent of your. Health outcomes and longevity are not determined by your genetics or determined by. What we call your exposome, what your genes are exposed to and how they get expressed depending on that. And you you mentioned, you know, something quickly, which which involves you need a different form of B vitamins. We're not looking for mutations, particularly in your genome. We're looking for variations in your genetics that affect how your body functions. And you need a particular form of B vitamin that bypasses a step. It's kind of sluggish. It's not it's not like a pathology per se, but it's just a little bit of a quirk. And, you know, for example, one third of our DNA codes for enzymes. Enzymes run all the chemical reactions in our body. Every enzyme needs a helper. Each helper is a vitamin or mineral. And so there's

• 17:23Dr. Mark Hyman?

  a huge variation. The nutrient needs in a population never is looked at by doctors. They don't even even probably know about half of them know about this. I mean, some of them might know about this gene MTHFR that I think you have. But, you know, it's not that hard. And and now we went from a billion dollar genome when it was first decoded to a $300 genome. So it's really accessible for almost everybody. And all you have to do it once in your life. And so now you're right, you can you can say, hey, what should what should I be thinking about that I didn't know? And how could I be helped? And I wonder if there were any other things that it suggested to you from a causal perspective, or any kind of things that your doctors hadn't suggested besides, like, what vitamins to take, or what drugs to take?

• 18:02Speaker 01

  Yeah, I think it was it was mostly like, um, so so the challenge with chronic illness, as you know, is that you rarely collect one diagnosis. When you have one, you start collecting a lot of problems, which also points to the fact that traditional medicines put labels on conditions, but doesn't understand biology. And so what was actually I've chat GPT tell me like, hey, yes, you have like, you know, five different diagnoses, but fundamentally, it's only one thing you have like this this regulation of the nervous system. And these are even some lifestyle, you know, changes you can make activating the vagus nerve and like things like that, that could potentially calm your system down. And so, again, it's

• 18:45Speaker 01

  like finding pattern across like a variety, a constellation of symptoms and diagnostic, etc. Trying to solve them one by one and trying to solve the underlying problem, which has been just really helpful.

• 19:00Dr. Mark Hyman?

  Well, it's amazing. I mean, without being Doctor, healthcare person, or a tech person, or business person, you sort of stumble upon what is the future of medicine, which is understanding the body as an entire ecosystem that's a network that has root causes, that there's fundamental systems that affect everything. And, you know, in my first book, you know, over 20 years ago, I had a chapter that was called, "If you know the name of your disease, you don't know what's wrong with you." Right? It's just the name of the disease. It doesn't, it doesn't tell you the why. It tells you the what. And I think, you know, saying you have POTS is just the name of a syndrome. It's just a fancy medical word for saying, when you stand up, you get dizzy and your heart rate goes up. That's what it means in English. But it's a fancy word, you know,

• 19:44Dr. Mark Hyman?

  Pauschial Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, blah, blah, blah. And I think, you know, we make all these fancy sounding things when we don't know what we're doing. And, and the truth is, there are root causes. There are reasons this was happening. There is a way to understand how to treat the system. And I think with the advent of AI applied to our personal health data set, which we've never really had the ability to do before, we're going to be able to really accelerate discovery in medicine,

• 20:11Dr. Mark Hyman?

  accelerate people leaving all kinds of chronic illnesses. You know, I was able to cure my chronic fatigue syndrome, which, you know, most people would say is incurable, just like people say POTS is incurable, but it's not. And I'll help you if you want to figure it out. But it's a, so I'm wondering why OpenAI, and you in particular, head of apps, decided to start with health? Was it because of your health condition? Or was it because of the fact that 230 million people a week ask ChatGPT about their health?

• 20:38Speaker 01

  Definitely the leading cause was, we saw that this behavior was already happening. Like, you know, some of the best stories that I hear about ChatGPT are about, like, you know, helping people with their health. It's 230 million weekly. It's 40 million people daily. It's billions of conversations a week. It's 5% of total conversation. So that gives you a sense like of the scale that this is already operating at. So when we saw that, and we hadn't really done anything, you know, super specific for healthcare on the products. We had done a lot on the model side to answer a question in in the right, uh, accurate factual way.

• 21:19Speaker 01

  But on the product side, we realized, actually, there is a lot to do to build upon this use case. And if we could get people to connect to their health records in a much easier way, which right now is very hard. If we could get them to connect to function health and pulling their data from there from Apple Health. Like now, the models are powerful enough that they can extract insights out of this data in a way that no one else can. And so, uh, that was the impetus behind ChatGPT Health. And my own experience certainly, uh, influenced that because I was already really primed to think about how we remove silos. And how like the defragmentation of information could lead to much better insights.

• 22:03Speaker 01

  The other thing that was interesting in my mind is like, you know, as as you know better than anyone, uh, healthcare is really sick care. It's like you go there when you're sick, whereas really what we need is preventative health. But preventative health, when doctors only have fifteen minutes for you, is not gonna happen that way. Whereas with ChatGPT, you can have literally a health coach, like in, you know, in relationship with you every day, telling you like, okay, this is how you slept yesterday, based on the data on your wearing. Today, you should do this kind of exercise, you should eat this kind of food, and then tomorrow we'll reassess again. And like having that kind of assistant, uh, to really help you with your health every day, not just when you're sick,

• 22:47Speaker 01

  not just when you're seeing the doctor, that's really what gives me hope that we could get to the root of chronic illness. Because so much of it is lifestyle related.

• 22:55Dr. Mark Hyman?

  Yeah, I know. I think you just hit on something super important is that most of medicine is focused on disease and on treating disease. And yes, there is prevention, which is, you know, mammograms and colonoscopies and checking your cholesterol and PSA and getting a bone density. And that's all important. That's all important. That's how we typically think of prevention in medicine, you know, take your stat and take your aspirin. And that's okay, but but that's that's not true prevention. That may be be early detection. And and also, um, it's not about creating health. And so what I think for the first time, we're really beginning to understand is what is health? I mean, I never got a class in medical school that said. Here's how to create health, creating health 101 for doctors like didn't exist.

• 23:39Dr. Mark Hyman?

  You know, no clue. If you go to your doctor and say, doc, you know, I'm okay. I don't have a disease, but I want to be like really healthy. Like, what do I do? They go, well, eat better, exercise, get enough sleep, don't be too stressed. Like, it's very platitude-ness and not very specific. And it's not personalized. But now we're having, you know, precision health, precision nutrition, precision medicine in a way that we've never had before. And it really allows us through deep personalization, which can only be done through something like AI, and through understanding the science of health, not just what is the science of disease, but what is the science of health? What is a healthy human? Even defining that, we have never defined that. It's crazy. You know, like, you put your car into the computer at the, at the, at the auto shop,

• 24:22Dr. Mark Hyman?

  and it reads a thousand different metrics and tells you what's a little bit off here. You know, I mean, if your HRV goes down by 10 points one night, it's not a disease, but it's giving you a clue that you're not exactly where you should be, right? So, so that's what's so exciting to me is we're going to be able to help people understand, not just to treat disease or prevent disease, but how do we actually create health? And that's where this becomes really, really exciting for me. I'm wondering, like, how you, how you see ChatGPT Health working along partners-like function and, and collaborating and integrating with them?

• 24:53Speaker 01

  Well, I think partners are absolutely critical because the whole point, as I was saying, was like having one place where all of these different parts of your health can be connected into so that we can see the full picture. And right now, you know, we like rely on partners to be able to do that because everyone has kind of a different lens. Like, you go to Apple Health, and you're going to get a lot of the, you know, lifestyle data. You go to function, and you're going to get a lot of like the biomarkers. Health records are going to tell you a different story. So, to me, it's really about like, how can we partner with as many players as possible so that the end user has a full picture of their health across many different sensors, many different biomarkers. And that way, we can do the best job possible

• 25:38Speaker 01

  at helping them personalize everything for, you know, our lifestyles. So, that's, that's Super important for us. And then there's also a type of partner that's more about being able to take action. You know, we're in partnership with Instacart and I was the CEO of Instacart before coming to OpenAI. And that's a good example of like, you know, nutrition is at so much at the heart of health. Uh, you know, I'm, it's funny that I'm telling you that you're, you're, you're the utmost expert at it. But it's really hard for people to take action on, on advice. Usually, even if you go to a nutritionist, which very few people have the, the, the resources to do. You end up with like a piece of paper, you put it in the drawer, you never look at it again.

• 26:22Speaker 01

  Uh, and what wants is like, can we make it actionable? So with a partner like Instacart, you can go from, okay, this is what you should be eating to like in one tap. Order that and it's at your door in an hour. And like, that's a magical closing of the loop where you really start with, to your point. What is health and how do we help you get there? And then all the way to actions that you can take, uh, in like, uh, as easy a way as possible to, to be able to stick to this new routine.

• 26:50Dr. Mark Hyman?

  I think that's so important, you know, like you're right. I mean, in getting people all the way down the pathway, not just understanding what's going on, like just having an assessment of what their disturbances are in their health or uh, simple things they can do, but how do you take it into action? And how do you kind of close the loop? And, you know, I know Instacart is working on medically tailored meals, for example, and, you know, food is medicine initiatives, which is amazing, right? But it's, it, most people wouldn't know how to do that. I mean, we can tell through function health, you have diabetes, but then it would say, you know, we want you to eat a diet that's low glycemic, higher in good quality fats, lots of fiber, good quality protein. And then, then what? Like then they will turn that into a, a menu plan for a week and then go to Instacart and go shopping for me and

• 27:34Dr. Mark Hyman?

  deliver it to my door and like show me the recipes on how to make them by video. And like, all that's coming really soon, or if it's not already possible.

• 27:42Speaker 01

  The Instacart app in ChatGPT already allows you to do that. It's really magical. Like you can literally just say, I have a family of three, these are our health condition, develop a menu plan for us and then buy all the ingredients. In one tap. And to me, like, that was always my dream of removing friction as much as possible. So that being healthy isn't also overwhelming. It just feels easy. And and I think we finally have the tools to get there.

• 28:08Dr. Mark Hyman?

  Yeah, it's pretty exciting. I'm like thrilled about it. And I think that that the food is medicine part is important. You know, you grew up in a little village in France. You said you need a passport to get to the next village because it was so remote and isolated. And it's this little fishing village in the south of France. And and food is such a part of French culture. And, you know, the freshness of it, the realness of it, the deliciousness of it. It's not just a convenience. It's also centered around connection and family and friends and social connections and, you know, it's all the things we've lost in America. And I and I just see, you know, all this shifting as people start to understand the relationships between their health and food. And, you know, I mean, you know, when you go to the doctor, they don't tell you to

• 28:53Dr. Mark Hyman?

  to do anything about nutrition, you know, I've been trying to work on changing medical education by getting nutrition exams, questions that have a nutrition focus that's based on chronic disease. And and yeah, so doctors are really challenged and this makes it easy.

• 29:08Speaker 01

  Less than twenty hours of medical school spent on nutrition, which is crazy when you realize that like, I think something like eighty percent of chronic illness has a diet component. It's like, it was crazy. So, yeah, I totally agree. And yes, growing up in France, you know, food was sacred. Like, it was at the center of everything. And and here, I think it's more considered like sustenance, right? And and I think reestablishing the relationship that people have with food is really important.

• 29:38Dr. Mark Hyman?

  You know, Function, we we kind of help you sort through the massive, massive data. I think the Function app within that's integrated into ChatGPT will help people understand their their data in a broad level and help guide them on action plans. I've been playing with it. It's pretty amazing. And integrating that with like all the tools to be able to kind of execute on the recommendations, whether it's what supplement to buy or what food to eat or what what thing's going to help you, what drug could help you. It's going to be pretty profound. It's a really important event and it hadn't existed before. And I'm really glad to see you started there because it is like you said, something people are using every day. I mean, people are, I don't Google a billion searches on health every day. And now chat GPT in some ways is replacing Google. I don't, I don't know if I last time I used Google, honestly.

• 30:22Dr. Mark Hyman?

  So I hate to admit that because my friend is one of the founders of that. It's, it's, it's a, it's a really exciting moment. I'm very curious to hear your vision of, if you had a crystal ball, where you see, you know, this movement between AI and health intersection going in like one year, three years, five years. Because even in the couple of years that we've had chat GPT and AI that's accessible as a consumer facing product, which I learned was not even meant to really succeed at all. It just took off, you know, as an accident. It was kind of a side thing. Where do you see, you know, this going? Because it's just, even in the few years that it's been happening, it's accelerated so fast.

• 31:03Dr. Mark Hyman?

  And I, and I wonder from the perspective of healthcare, from individual self-care, from research, like what are the areas that you see us, us being able to really accelerate human evolution?

• 31:13Speaker 01

  We've talked a lot about like what's going to happen on the consumer side. And I think ultimately it's really about empowerment. We're going to empower people with health information. They're going to be able to make better decisions about their health and, and just have a lot more data to optimize their health. So I think this is going to be reflected directly into our outcomes. We haven't talked as much about the provider side, but we're also really invested here. We just launched OpenAI for healthcare with a ton of great institutions like UCSF, Boston Children, Central Children, HCA, where these institutions are deploying chat GPT world to world for their doctors to be able to assist them

• 31:55Speaker 01

  in clinical decision making, to be able to reduce sedative load. And so we're really thinking of it as like equipping both sides so that doctors can be more informed. Because to your point, they cannot read the thousands of studies that come out every week. They can be more informed. They can make better decisions because. They can look at the full picture of the patient. And then when they meet with the patient, the patient is also better informed about their health. And that creates a much better dialogue between our doctor and patient. So that's really the end state. And then beyond that, I think the thing that gets me very excited is that I think we're finally getting at a level of intelligence of our models that can really find novel insights and novel science.

• 32:39Speaker 01

  So when I look at, um, you know, all of the diseases that have not yet been cured, I hate calling them incurable. Because I believe that it's just a matter of time. Um, I, I really think that, um, some models are getting smart enough. So that's a timeframe from kind of identifying a condition or the way to having a drug ready for it. All of these steps are going to be reduced by AI. We're going to identify drug targets way faster. We're going to develop these drugs way faster. We're going to get them through regulatory approval, which as you know, takes forever right now, much faster. Um, and by using AI at every level. And so that, that's why, you know, I think when a couple of years ago, we were talking about curing all diseases in our lifetimes. That sounded a little bit like science fiction.

• 33:24Speaker 01

  I actually think that we're closer than ever. Um, as long as we can, you know, uh, update all of our, uh, pretty outdated, uh, processes and regulatory, uh, framework to this new world that would allow us to massively accelerate the pace at which scientific discovery happens.

• 33:44Dr. Mark Hyman?

  I, I think you're so right about that. I think it's going to accelerate the development of, of, of drugs and of discovery in so many ways. And, and, but I also think it's going to do something else. And I, I don't know if you've thought about this, but I'm hoping you have because you know, your, your company Chronicle Bio, which is related to help people solve these quote incurable diseases like chronic fatigue and POTS syndrome and.

• 34:08Dr. Mark Hyman?

  You know, many, many other conditions that are chronic and often intractable. I think what's going to happen is going to be acceleration of medical understanding, not just about how to develop better drugs, but about root causes, about mechanisms, about novel therapeutics that involve food is medicine, that involve other therapies that are kind of outside traditional medicine that could accelerate healing that are being applied across different things like, you know, novel therapies, for example, like plasma free system is being used for autoimmunity, that's being used for long COVID, that's, you know, that is still sort of on the margins, is part of traditional medicine, but hasn't been used for that. So there's, there's a lot of things that I think are going to happen that are both accelerating the way we, we do medicine already faster and better, which is important, but,

• 34:51Dr. Mark Hyman?

  but also to kind of emerge a new paradigm of medicine where we can actually understand the body as a network where you, you know, even if you get better at, at each specialty, the body still isn't organized like a bunch of parts. It's a, it's a system. And that, that's what's so exciting to me about, about the use of this technology and AI to help understand these massive data sets, look at patterns, discover things that never were seen before, understand this. And I know that's doing this for 30 years. Like I collect massive data sets on people compared to the average doctor. I mean, I look at everything you possibly think of looking at and, and I sort that through my, my own little, you know, brain here, which can only hold so much, but I know I've seen patterns in the data that nobody's ever described before.

• 35:34Dr. Mark Hyman?

  For example, I know when someone comes in, they have a heavy metal toxicity. First of all, most doctors don't look for it, but when they do, I, I see they have methylation problems, they have low glutathione, they have low zinc, they have lots of oxidative stress, they have low amino acids, they have a whole series of patterns that, that I've never seen written up in a book or a paper before. And I'm like, oh, this is interesting, you know, and I, and I, you know, I see this with autistic kids too. There's all these genetic variables and all these different metabolic changes and they're not being described widely because doctors aren't looking for them. And, and there's a, there's a joke I often tell when I'm giving lectures about this guy who drops his keys on the street and his friend comes by and he sees him looking under this lamppost and he's like, what are you doing? He's, I'm looking for my keys.

• 36:17Dr. Mark Hyman?

  He said, well, where did you lose them? He said, I lost them down the street. He said, why are you looking over here? He says, well, the light's better over here. So we tend to look where we can find things easily, but now we're then say the problem is. And I think the root cause approach to medicine, the systems approach, people like Leroy Hood, who's doing the Phenom Health Project, they're thinking like this. They're thinking about this new paradigm. And I think that's where, where there's going to be a whole acceleration. Because yes, we want to do all things to get to better drugs and better discovery and so forth. But I think the biggest flip is going to be real, really changing the actual medicine we're doing and helping people create health and dealing with these chronic conditions that are in quote incurable. In fact, it's funny you said that because I'm launching

• 36:58Dr. Mark Hyman?

  a new feature on my podcast called The Incurables. And it's for people like you who've been through the healthcare system, who've tried everything, who've done everything, and who were told there's nothing to do except take this drug, maybe it'll help your symptoms, but you're going to have to live with it forever. And the truth is, you don't. If you understand how to solve the puzzle, you can actually help people get better. And that's, that's, that's the beauty of this.

• 37:19Speaker 01

  I think the problem we have, right, is that because we don't have the data, we are not able to subsegment like the people with these conditions so that we can find the exact thing that works for them. You, you mentioned my company Chronicle Bio, like that was the impetus behind it. We realized we're not going to find cures for long COVID overall, because long COVID is 20, there's probably 20 biological processes under that or cure for part. And so what we decided to do was actually create the company that partners with clinics to get biological data from patients and analyze everything on the samples, genetics, multiomics, proteome, metabolome, et cetera, so that we can actually

• 38:00Speaker 01

  subsegment those populations. And I think that's really the promise of big data plus AI that's going to allow us to find the subsegments of population and be able to do better by them. I'll tell you a story, like we, at some point throughout my journey of trying to fix the problem, I opened up a clinic for these conditions and we were running clinical trials and we were running a particular drug for On COVID and we had people that went from completely bedridden to completely functional. And uh but the clinical trial failed in absolute and the reason is there wasn't enough like segmentation of the patients to realize.

• 38:42Speaker 01

  Okay, on those it's gonna be miraculous and on all of those it's not gonna work. And so they killed the program and now we had patients in tears saying like this drug would save my life and it's not available. And to me, that's the greatest tragedy. So if we can have the right data, so we identify the right population of patients, the right treatments for them. And then that can accelerate clinical trial approvals for these subconditions. I think that's the holy grail and that's where AI is gonna really shine.

• 39:10Dr. Mark Hyman?

  A hundred percent. That's why I I said earlier about in my first book where I said, you know, just because you know the name of your disease, it doesn't mean you know what's wrong with you. It's it's just a label and that label could represent ten or fifteen different problems. And you know autism isn't one thing, Alzheimer's isn't one thing, you know, POTS isn't one thing, chronic fatigue isn't one thing. It could be caused by Lyme disease or by mold toxicity or by mercury or by some type of microbiome issue or by uh some other weird infection that you don't know of or long COVID and all these things, but you you have to be able to just figure that out. And and given our current way of seeing things and thinking about things, we have a thinking problem in medicine.

• 39:49Dr. Mark Hyman?

  And that's that's really where we're gonna be able to think differently with with the use of these tools in a way that we never did before. And it's not gonna come, I don't think it's gonna come from inside healthcare. I think it's gonna come from outside healthcare. And and basically companies like OpenAI are going to be driving change from the outside in. And companies like Function are gonna be driving change from the outside in where we're, I mean, think about it like where where could you get massive data sets on your human biology before? Without spending a fortune, without having to go through your insurance company, like Function has unlocked that. There's just people are desperate because they're not getting the answers from the healthcare system. I'm I'm very excited about this for for individual empowerment. We we say, you know, our goal is to help you be the CEO of your own health, right?

• 40:31Dr. Mark Hyman?

  We we also say, you know, we want people to help people live a hundred healthy years. I would also add to that. We want people to feel a hundred percent. You know, living a hundred other years is great, but it feel crappy now like. We want people to get there faster.

• 40:45Speaker 01

  And also like I I just think is um a moment in time where access is gonna change dramatically. I mean, function is a way to give access at a low price point to things that were reserved for the elite before. Chat G P T does something similar of giving you access to great medical information. And one thing that was striking for me is that seven out of ten of the queries, health queries in chat G P T are actually happening after hours. And so that that tells you, you know, like, there is demand to have answers about your health at times where the healthcare system isn't even available to you at all. We are also seeing a lot of demand in rural areas where, you know, the hospital is like many miles out.

• 41:28Speaker 01

  And so there is like this, um, you know, direct access to to health information that I think is gonna really democratize um just, you know, health knowledge in general.

• 41:38Dr. Mark Hyman?

  I think you're right, and I think, you know, as we understand the science of creating health, you know, we're gonna be able to help people even without healthcare, because most of health doesn't happen in the doctor's office. And so we will guide people in ways where we we we can make it much more accessible, affordable. And I'm thinking about function in a way that i is going to help people all around the world by the things that it learns. And if you're in Syria alone somewhere and you have some condition, you're gonna benefit from all the insights so that somebody who maybe can't get a lab test, we can infer what's going on from the patterns in the data that they're sharing. And it's kind of an exciting thing, because all of a sudden it's gonna democratize healthcare, decentralized healthcare, make it, you know, really affordable or often free for people.

• 42:23Dr. Mark Hyman?

  You know, and I think I think there's a free version of Chat G P T, right?

• 42:26Speaker 01

  Absolutely.

• 42:27Dr. Mark Hyman?

  Is there?

• 42:27Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 42:28Dr. Mark Hyman?

  Yeah, okay, so that's what I'm imagining, like, there are people will be able to query their data and and learn from the world's sort of best best knowledge sources and and insights from the best doctors.

• 42:39Speaker 01

  And Chat G P T Health, which we've been talking about, is available in the free tier. So the goal is really to make it as accessible to everyone as possible.

• 42:47Dr. Mark Hyman?

  Oh, that's amazing.

• 42:57Dr. Mark Hyman?

  I want to ask you how I get off the waitlist.

• 43:03Dr. Mark Hyman?

  I click, I want to get on the waitlist, I want to try it more, but I tried the integration with function, which is very cool. And I was like, well, this is amazing. And it gives you a lot of deep insights. And I want to ask you a little bit more about Chronicle Bio, because this is a passion project. It's not like, you know, you're not busy, you're at OpenAI, you're CEO of Instacart, you're on the chairman of the board of Instacart, you were at Facebook for a decade, you have another nonprofit or something, company, you have, you know, now you started another company, like, I don't know what you do, how you do, if you sleep, I know you have a daughter and a family. What, I know why you started it. Tell us more about how you're thinking about it. And you mentioned a little bit about the data sets you're collecting, but who's guiding you? How are

• 43:47Dr. Mark Hyman?

  you thinking about these conditions? And what are you hoping to kind of discover?

• 43:51Speaker 01

  I think for me, it was really seeing this moment in time where some models were becoming so much more powerful, but the data sets weren't fully there yet, right? Like on, on these conditions like long COVID, MCF, spots, which are still considered somewhat mysterious. If you look at what has been done, a lot of studies are like with 100 patients and maybe just looking at genetics, another 60 patients somewhere else, looking at, you know, maybe gut microbiome, but no one was creating what I call almost the infrastructure of the disease, which is really like, like looking at tens of thousands of patients and really having the full data set on all of them. And that's, you know, that's because that requires some funding, and that

• 44:36Speaker 01

  requires infrastructure, partnering with all the clinics, making sure they collect data consistently. I mean, it's a, it's a real engine that we're building. But I, once we have that, we're going to be able to get to cure so much faster. Because when I got sick, I went and I talked to a lot of my biotech and pharma CEO friends, because I was telling them, like, it's not as if these conditions that I have are rare, like, we're talking hundreds of millions of patients all combined. It's a huge market. Why are you not developing like cures for these conditions? And I mean, we don't even have any cures in the pipeline, like, you know, they're not being like really prioritized.

• 45:16Speaker 01

  And the answer was simple, like the CEOs were saying, like, we don't understand these diseases. We don't understand the different subtypes. We don't understand like biologically how they function. So it's still too risky for us to invest in these conditions until someone has really established. What are the subgroups? How do these diseases work? What are the real drug targets? And so I think we're really at the moment where if, thanks to Chronicle Bio, we get all of this data, combined with all of the great models coming out of OpenAI and labs like that, we're going to be able to all of a sudden find totally novel insights. And we're already seeing it, you know, we had some publications around findings like

• 46:00Speaker 01

  tens of genes that correlate with your likelihood of developing these conditions, which in the past you couldn't really do. You could do just kind of one gene directly responsible, but gene combinations were still very complicated to establish. Now we can figure that out. We are planning on overlaying that with like, why viruses are a big trigger for these conditions? What happens to your immune system during these moments that lead to you not recovering? Also, why are these conditions affecting eighty percent, like eighty percent of patients are women and only twenty percent are men? We should have an answer to that. That seems pretty extreme. Like, we should know why women are more affected. And the reality is that we don't have answers to this question because,

• 46:45Speaker 01

  again, the healthcare system has looked at the symptoms and putting Band-Aid on the symptoms instead of the root biology. And I think the only way is to do the hard work of collecting that data, that true biological data, and then using AI to find novel insights on top of it.

• 47:02Dr. Mark Hyman?

  I think you're right. And I think, you know, that's, that's going to accelerate discovery, not just around those things, but even things like autoimmune diseases and even chronic diseases in general, because they're all sort of the same. And, you know, there aren't that many causes for disease. There's many diseases and each disease may have multiple causes and need multiple treatments. And I think, you know, the, the promise of network medicine is understanding the multi-causal nature of disease and the need for multimodal treatments, meaning it's not just one thing, not like a single drug for a single disease, you know, like we learned with Louis Pasteur, the bacteria that caused pneumonia that treat with penicillin. We've followed that paradigm for the last hundred plus years, and it's

• 47:43Dr. Mark Hyman?

  great for infectious disease, sometimes, not always. So it's not just the bacteria or the virus, it's the host that matters too. And, and, and actually it was Claude Bernard, another Frenchman who, who had an argument with Pasteur, saying it's the biological terrain that matters, not the bacteria, not the pathogen. And Pasteur on his deathbed goes, yeah, I think you're kind of right. You know, I think the biological green matters a lot. And I think when I said, what is, what is health? It's really about understanding how to create a healthy soil. Now, traditional medicines, like industrial agriculture, we pour chemicals on the plants and the soil to try to make it do stuff, which is like using pharma, which can be helpful. But it's, it's, it's rather than asking, how do we

• 48:27Dr. Mark Hyman?

  create a healthy soil where disease can't grow? And, and how do you create health? And when you do that, disease often goes away as a side effect. When you remove the impediments to health and you add in the ingredients for health, the body often knows what to do to repair. And that's, that's a lot of, I think, where the solutions are going to be coming from that you're looking for is, is not just one thing or one drug or one pathway, but really understand the complexity, which only can be done through big data and AI, and understanding things through this new lens. And, you know, if I were to say to you, like, what are the laws of biology? You know, you might say, well, maybe evolution, but there wouldn't be a set of laws that you could say, here's the laws of human biology and human disease. We don't have that. We have

• 49:09Dr. Mark Hyman?

  that for physics. You could say, I know the laws of physics, thermodynamics and gravity and this and that and the other thing. I mean, I learned that, you know, in, in college, I forget a lot, but I know they exist. But biology, we haven't actually described them. It doesn't mean they're not there. You know, what's the nature of nature? That's really the question we're asking. And, and we're going to unlock that out with AI. And in, in systems, network, functional medicine, whatever you want to call it, that's what we've done. It's really tried to understand what are the fundamental systems in the body that can explain everything. And, you know, we talked about the microbiome, the immune system, the mitochondria, energy system, the detoxification system, your circulatory transport system, your communication system, which is hormones, neurotransmitters, peptides, cytokines, everything,

• 49:53Dr. Mark Hyman?

  and your structural system and how those are influenced by external factors, you know, genetics and toxins and allergens and microbes and microbiome and stress and diet. And then all the things you need to thrive, you know, the right food and nutrients. Like you said, you need special forms of nutrients for you, Fiji, that somebody else doesn't necessarily need, you know, what's the right amount of exercise and sleep and, and, and light and clean water and connection and love and meaning, purpose. These are all the ingredients for health. So when we understand this paradigm, we have the equations, so to speak, the laws of nature on how to solve this. I mean, the French actually were pretty good, like Pierre Laplace, another French guy, he, he also said the same thing. He said, you know, we

• 50:34Dr. Mark Hyman?

  can explain an enormous number of observed phenomena by a small number of general laws. And we have 155,000 diseases in our ICD 10 classification of disease system that we have in medicine. It's crazy. Like we don't have 155,000, 155,000 diseases. We have a few simple laws that explain all of them. Right? And, and inflammation is a big thing. The microbiome is a big thing. You know, the role of toxins is a big thing. The role of microbes is a big thing. So we can start to understand things through a new set of lenses and see different things. Like when you, when you, you know, like,

• 51:09Dr. Mark Hyman?

  I was at this party this weekend in South Africa at a wedding and they had astronomers and they had this incredible telescope that looked at the Orion Nebula and it was like taking this pictures every like four seconds or something. And I was like, you get to see stuff or I could see Jupiter and the rings on Jupiter and the moon. So all of a sudden, you, you know, you look with a certain set of lenses, you can only see certain things. You look with another set of lenses, you can see something else. So what's happening now with technology and AI, what you're doing with chat G P D health and function is is actually going to put on different set of lenses and see what we need to see. And Chronicle Bio, I'd love to offline talk to you more about this because I have a lot of thoughts about it. And I think, you know, it could be, it'd be really interesting to have a conversation at some point.

• 51:48Speaker 01

  And, you know, I can so relate to what you're saying. For example, in my case, I have both endometriosis, which is considered reproductive health problem and

• 51:57Dr. Mark Hyman?

  It's also autoimmune.

• 51:59Speaker 01

  Neurological, but apparently you're seven times more likely to develop endometriosis when you have parts and vice versa. And so in the medical, current medical language, these are two totally different diseases. You look at the statistics, it's like, clearly there's a correlation. That's probably inflammation. That's probably immune related. But we haven't gotten to this level of understanding. So that's the thing that I think is going to be really magical in the next year. It's getting to those root causes.

• 52:27Dr. Mark Hyman?

  Yeah, that's what I spent my whole life doing. So as we sort of think about what's important to get right and as we're thinking about, you know, the intersection of health and technology and how people live their lives going forward, like what, what is, what is what keeps you up at night? What are, what are the things we have to get right as we go forward in this, in this new era of health and technology?

• 52:45Speaker 01

  First off, you touched on it, but trust is really important. Like if, if users are developed trust in the technology and know that the technology has their back and is helping them lead a better life, I think that's already a big part of the problem. And that's why we are focused so much on, you know, privacy, encryption, all of the things that we put in place because if you don't have that at the start and users don't trust that technology is going to do what's the right thing for them, you can't do anything else. So I think it's like step number one. And then from there, it's like, how do You add utility and I think um the advantage of a tool like chat G P T that's so uh general is that it helps you with every part of your life.

• 53:28Speaker 01

  So you naturally reach for it when you have a health question. A lot of people don't think of it as a health tool, they just think of it as an assistant. And then they ask the health question and they realize, oh, wow, that's like really helpful. I'm gonna put a lot of my health information there so that I can get more out of it. And so really like demonstrating utility both for patients and for doctors is gonna be really important. And then I also think, you know, there is a like general uh perception which we need to address. I think uh I think A I is gonna be incredibly helpful for doctors and you see some doctors really embracing A I in a big way. You also see some resistance and some tension being like, oof, is that gonna like get in the way of the doctor patient relationship, et cetera?

• 54:13Speaker 01

  And so if we can really show like the healthcare system what they have to gain from being ahead on embracing technology and having that as a big differentiator to improve patient care and also to improve burnout for doctors. Because we shouldn't forget that there's a massive burnout epidemic of doctors. And if like we can give them the tool so they can give even better patient care with less burnout, less administrative burden, we're gonna lift the entire system up. So my hope is actually that like, you know, people on all sides embrace technology as an ally and that the responsibility is on us, technology builder, to build it in a way that is responsible to really address their needs.

• 54:56Dr. Mark Hyman?

  It's gonna solve a lot of problems. The the the physician burnout thing is real. I mean, I know I do a different kind of medicine and it takes me two or three hours to properly prepare the data from a medical history, from their previous results, from their lab data. And organize it so that I can be ready to look at it to make a decision about it. And then I can think about it and I can use my license and my forty years of medical training and experience to actually think as opposed to be just organizing like a paper pusher. And it's it's kind of it's made my life so much easier as a practicing physician, which which which is just so easy. And I think it allows it's gonna allow better patient care, better connection, more streamlined efficiencies.

• 55:40Dr. Mark Hyman?

  But but more importantly, I think it's gonna it's gonna shift the paradigm to where we're really gonna, you know, unlock a lot of understanding of human biology and and so much suffering for people like you and for people like me, who had to deal with stuff that didn't have answers, you know, I've I've had so many things. I even had C. diff like you, which was no fun. Yeah. No, it's no fun. So like, look, going forward a year from now, where where do you hope ChatGPT Health will be?

• 56:07Speaker 01

  I think we will likely be even more of a connector between all of the different aspects of your health and be able to help you take action on your health even in a more easy way. I'm very excited to have ChatGPT Health also become proactive. So like right now, you go to ChatGPT, you have to be the one kind of typing a question and getting an answer. I think once we have all of this knowledge about you, we can proactively tell you every morning like, hey, this is what you should do to optimize your health. And that level of proactivity, I think, will really enlighten a lot of people who want to like do more for their health but don't know where to start. So having that as a proactive agent that has your back, that knows everything about

• 56:52Speaker 01

  all of the aspects of your health and helps you take action in the real world will be very helpful. And then if the same happened on the on the kind of healthcare side, you can imagine these tools really coming together and like the future appointment between a patient and a doctor being both more efficient but also much more focused on the right issues because everyone will have been briefed ahead of time, have the right data, and the conversation can really focus on how to make that person better instead of a doctor staring at a screen, typing away administrative stuff for the, you know, fourteen out of fifteen minutes with a patient. So we really hope that it can it can really help improve that relationship as well.

• 57:33Dr. Mark Hyman?

  So it sounds like three big areas, you know? Let's say health consumer or patient empowerment around their own health information data, helping streamline healthcare itself and how healthcare providers interact with people and accelerating research. And I think, I think there's, there's one area I think that it's worth doubling down on, which is individual empowerment and how that requires your own personal health data set. You know, I've, I've had the rare privilege of working in environments where I could collect large data sets on everybody. I could do their whole genome sequence. I could do their microbiome. I could do the toxin levels. I could do all the hormones, nutrition, all this stuff I said, and spend three hours with them and talk about it all and understand it all. That's still sort of rare for people.

• 58:18Dr. Mark Hyman?

  But now with, with function, we're able to, to begin to help you collect your own data set because the, the, the output of chat G P health is only going to be as good as the data it has on you as an individual. Like you, you Fiji put in all your stuff from everywhere into chat G P, right? But, but it was hard to get all that information and the healthcare system, you know, isn't so great at helping you figure these things out. Like, well, why do you want to do this test? Like, you know, like, why do you want to do that test or the insurance isn't going to pay for this or, but imagine if, if the individual now can, can bypass that and collect their own data sets from everywhere, from their wearables, from Omics, from their microbiome,

• 59:01Dr. Mark Hyman?

  from lab data, from imaging, from their medical records and all that goes into the system, then it becomes so much more valuable. And that's why I love the integration with function health and, and chat G P to help because it's, it's, it's unlocking something that was never before possible in human history.

• 59:16Speaker 01

  Yeah, I totally agree. And, and I agree with like the better the sources of information, the better the advice we're going to be able to give. I totally agree with your point on tests. Like one of the recommendations from chat G P was actually looking at my health records and saying, hey, you're still missing these two or three tests that would paint a complete picture. And I asked my doctor and she was like, oh yeah, actually we, we should order that. And so I think having that complete picture is going to be super important and any company that can help us, you know, aggregate that will be very helpful.

• 59:51Dr. Mark Hyman?

  Well, I'm excited, excited for this and excited for our integration and working together and thinking about how to really end all the suffering that people are struggling with it. And honestly, given our knowledge that we have in the world now around how to create health, most people don't have to suffer from that. And that's kind of my mission in life is end needless suffering for billions of people.

• 1:00:09Speaker 01

  I shall, I hope.

• 1:00:10Dr. Mark Hyman?

  Yeah, I think you do. Obviously, with Chronicle Bio is clearly something you're, you're not just talking about. You're doing, in addition to the work you're doing at OpenAI. I just hope you take care of yourself and, and, and make sure you stay in good health because we need to.

• 1:00:25Speaker 01

  Thanks, Mark. I will. Thank you so much for having me. This was great.

• 1:00:30Dr. Mark Hyman?

  My pleasure. Maybe one day we have octopus pie in your town on a set day in France.

• 1:00:34Speaker 01

  That I can tell you, if everyone was eating everything from my hometown, health outcomes would be fantastic.

• 1:00:42Dr. Mark Hyman?

  That's true. That's true. Well, thank you so much and thanks for your work you do. And we'll see you soon.

• 1:00:48Speaker 01

  Thank you for having me. Bye.

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