Mara Castro spent 10-15 hours with Claude building a supplement protocol from her lab results. Within days she felt emotionally unstable. Her naturopath found a problematic supplement in the plan. She argues AI can help but misses the context human experts bring to health decisions.
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I have a love-hate relationship with Claude. I like originally, like, really, really loved him. And now there's been some things that I'm seeing where recommendations can be inaccurate, especially for me. I've gone through a pretty insane health journey. I have dozens and dozens of tests over the years and I have like a whole project in Claude about my health. And I went back and forth with it for maybe 10 to 15 hours. I created this plan. So the first time that I didn't use a coach or practitioner, to give me a new protocol based on my recent labs, I started to feel crazy, like more and more emotionally irregular. I was like, okay, I have to go figure out, like, there must be something that I'm taking that wasn't actually aligned. And my best friend happens to be a naturopathic doctor and a hormone expert as well. So she looked at my plan and she's like, I cannot believe you're like, you're taking one supplement that is doing the complete opposite of what you want it to be doing. And I got off of it and a couple days later I felt great. So I think there's going to be a lot of recognition over the next few years of people like, oh, I'll just use AI for this, and then realizing actually like there's so many factors to look into, and someone that's actually specialized in that thing and can take all the context is going to be really important.
