Minor knee pain? Check WebMD. Sneezed six times in a row? Check WebMD. Stood up too fast and now stars are the only things I see circling my vision? You guessed it…check WebMD.
There was a time when I quickly went to the popular health info site every time a minor/major health issue boosted my anxiety levels and caused me to rush online to look for answers about my current symptoms. Now I don’t just stop there once I get some worrying data on whatever’s ailing me — I hit up my local medical office and get some tests done just to make sure I stay on this Earth a whole lot longer.
I’ve been getting used to every part of ChatGPT lately by finding the best uses for its plugins, generating prompts for a bevy of situations, asking it philosophical questions and doing anything else that comes to mind. I’ve been tinkering with ChatGPT Health for a week now, which is a dedicated platform inside the chatbot that answers your health-related inquiries while securely connecting your personal medical records and wellness apps.
And now, I think I’ll refrain from abusing WebMD ever again. The seven prompts I used to test ChatGPT’s latest feature helped me out a ton and I’m confident it will do the same for you.
Mapping out a custom sickness prevention roadmap
For starters, ChatGPT Health is available on both desktop and mobile via ChatGPT itself. iOS devices are only supported on mobile at the moment, with Android support coming at an unannounced date.
On desktop, simply open ChatGPT and open your sidebar by clicking on the icon at the top left of your screen. Then click on More to access Health, then choose Connect Health to connect the app to any of the supported U.S. healthcare provider portals you use, add any lingering health conditions, mention the medications you may be taking and include any data about your family medical history.
Click on the three dots above the prompt menu inside ChatGPT Health to add new info on your emerging active conditions, current medications and family history, too.
Accessing ChatGPT Health on mobile is as simple as clicking on the top left icon on your screen, opening the More menu and tapping on Health to get the whole process started from there (also be sure to link to your Apple Health app information if you’d like). Once ChatGPT Health is active, you don’t have to stay inside its dedicated tab to ask health-related questions from that point forward. Do as I did and simply mention @Health alongside your next prompt to do so.
After asking ChatGPT for the best prompts one should use to get the best results out of ChatGPT Health, it gave me a bunch of starter prompts that push the new feature to be your best digital medical adviser. A good example of my fruitful time spent with ChatGPT Health came from putting this prompt to use:
Based on my age, sex, family history, lifestyle, and risk factors, create a personalized preventive health checklist. Include recommended screenings, vaccines, routine checkups, healthy lifestyle priorities, and questions I should discuss with my healthcare provider over the next year.
I filled in the blanks about myself by telling ChatGPT Health that I’m 38, male, have a family history of diabetes & suffering strokes, have a lifestyle defined by being active during my daily walks & (sadly) sitting down for hours while I work and me being privy to 0 risk factors in my life. With all that information on hand and access to my Apple Health data, ChatGPT Health laid out an extensive personalized preventive health checklist for me to stick to.
The top five, easy-to-implement priorities it told me to abide by include:
- Get an annual physical with blood pressure, cholesterol, and diabetes screening
- Add consistent strength training twice weekly
- Break up long sitting periods during work
- Optimize diet around heart and blood sugar protection
- Build a clearer family history timeline (especially ages when relatives developed diabetes/strokes)
And finally, it summarized its advice by stating this: Your current profile has several positives: you’re active, you report no current risk factors, and you’re thinking preventively at 38—an age where small changes can have a large impact on your long-term health.
6 other prompts that proved to be extremely useful
The six additional prompts that I put to good use to learn more about my body, what actions may be helping/harming it and what sort of habits I can add to my life to remain in a decent physical state are the following:
- Turn ChatGPT into your personal health coach: Act as my evidence-based health coach. Based on my age, lifestyle, goals, and current habits, identify the three areas that would have the biggest impact on my long-term health. Create a realistic 30-day improvement plan with small daily actions, explain why each one matters, and suggest ways to stay consistent.
- Understand symptoms without spiraling: I'm experiencing these symptoms: [describe them]. Help me think through the most common and least concerning possibilities first, then explain the more serious possibilities that shouldn't be ignored. Tell me which symptoms would require urgent medical attention and what additional information would help narrow things down.
- Decode confusing medical information: Explain these lab results, medical notes, or diagnosis in plain English as if you're talking to someone with no medical background. Tell me what each item means, whether it's typically concerning, what questions I should ask my healthcare provider, and what lifestyle changes—if any—might be helpful.
- Build healthier habits that actually stick: Help me create a sustainable daily routine that improves my sleep, nutrition, movement, stress management, and energy. Design it around my schedule and current habits, and suggest the smallest changes that would produce the biggest long-term results.
- Prepare for a doctor's appointment: I'm seeing my doctor about [condition or concern]. Help me organize my symptoms, timeline, medications, questions, and health history into a concise summary. Then suggest the most important questions I should ask during the appointment.
- Evaluate health advice you find online: Evaluate this health claim using current scientific evidence: '[paste claim].' Explain what high-quality research says, whether the evidence is strong or weak, where misinformation commonly appears, and what conclusions are actually supported.
The takeaway
ChatGPT Health stands out to me as an extra source of information I can use to gain insights into my current conditions, learn about the best practices needed to improve my health & retain its good state, spot any patterns according to the data listed across my Apple Health stats, etc.
Understanding and organizing my health information so I’m better prepared to ask the right questions whenever I sit in front of my doctor is the biggest benefit of this new ChatGPT feature. I’m now awaiting the moment when Voice Mode becomes a part of ChatGPT Health so I can ask it if eating Cookie Crisp cereal at 3 am two times a week is good for me or not…
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