Using AI to build your protocol
You can upload this guide to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok, give it your full case, and work through a protocol with it in an afternoon. It is a remarkable tool. It is also not your doctor, and neither am I. Here is how I would do it.
Why this works now
A hundred entries, two scores each, an interactions table, a capability matrix and a phenotype map are a lot to hold in your head. A modern AI assistant can hold all of it at once, cross-reference your case against it, and answer the question you actually have: "given my disease, my medications and my budget, which three of these should I read first, and in what order would I try them?" Because every entry carries a stable ID, the model can cite the exact page, and you can check it.
What context to give it
Diagnosis and disease location
Crohn's, UC, indeterminate or microscopic; ileal, colonic, left-sided, pancolitis; when you were diagnosed and what your last scope showed.
Medications, with doses
Everything, including the ones you stopped and why. This is where the interactions table earns its keep.
Diet, symptoms, budget
What you actually eat, what you cannot tolerate, how many bowel movements, pain, energy, sleep, and how many products you can afford at once.
What you already take
The tracking sheet from the four questions. If you do not have one yet, this conversation will build it.
The prompt
Then take it to the room
Print the output. Bring it, with the tracking sheet, to your gastroenterologist, your GP or your integrative practitioner, and let them edit it. An AI cannot see your scope, your labs in context or your history the way they can, and it will sometimes be confidently wrong. The point is not to replace the appointment. It is to walk in with a page of good questions instead of a bag of bottles.
Three honest limits
A model can misread a table, blend two entries, or agree with you too easily. Ask it to cite the page, then check the page. Ask it what would change its answer. And never let it adjust a medication; that sentence is in this guide more than once on purpose.
READ & SHOP
Explore related supplements
Vitamins & Minerals
Vitamin B12
Absorbed only in the terminal ileum, so ileal Crohn's and resection make deficiency likely. A Dutch RCT found extra B12 does not relieve fatigue in people who…
The Five
Vitamin D3
Vitamin D is less a vitamin than the precursor to a hormone, and its receptor is found on nearly every immune cell in the gut. Deficiency and insufficiency are…
The Five
Curcumin
Curcumin is the yellow pigment of turmeric root and the most-studied plant compound in inflammatory bowel disease. It has randomized trials in ulcerative colitis, a…
Options to explore with your care team. These are not a recommendation to take them together. Andrew earns a commission on Fullscript purchases. US shipping only.