Guide 2

Building your profile.

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The difference between a useful AI conversation and a generic one is context. Your data tells part of the story. Your profile tells the rest. A complete profile means every compilation you run carries your full picture: not just numbers, but the conditions, medications, history, and preferences that make those numbers mean something.

What the profile covers

Ten sections in total. Personal context, conditions and diagnoses, medications and supplements, test results, hormonal health, mental health context, procedures, diet, lifestyle, and the doctrine layer. Together they build a health picture that no wearable can capture on its own. You decide how much detail to add and when.

The doctrine layer

This is the most distinctive part of the profile and the one most worth taking seriously. It is where you capture your health values and preferences in your own words. What trade-offs you are willing to make. What has worked for you and what has not. What you want any GP, coach, or AI tool to understand about you before they say anything.

It is also where you tell the AI how you want it to respond to you. Whether you want direct answers or detailed explanations. Whether you prefer recommendations or options. Whether you want it to challenge your assumptions or work within them. A well-written doctrine layer shapes not just what the AI knows about you, but how it talks to you.

A good doctrine layer is not a list of goals. It is a genuine statement of your health values and how you want to be spoken to. It takes a little thought to write well, but once it is there it travels with every compilation.

A useful shortcut

Not sure where to start? Use an AI tool to help you write it. Paste this prompt into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini and work through it conversationally:

"I want to write a personal health doctrine for use with AI. Ask me questions one at a time to help me articulate my health values, what I want from my care, how I like to receive information, and what I want any doctor, coach, or AI to understand about me before we begin."

Take the output, refine it in your own words, and paste it into the doctrine layer. It will be the most useful thing in your profile.

How to approach it

The profile does not need to be complete to be useful. Start with the sections most relevant to your situation and fill the rest over time. If you are managing a condition, start there. If training is the main reason you are here, start with lifestyle and the doctrine layer. There is no wrong entry point.

What you want to avoid is leaving it empty. An empty profile means every compilation starts from scratch. Even a partially complete profile changes the quality of what comes back significantly.

It is not set and forget

Your health picture changes. A new medication. A diagnosis. A shift in how you are training. The profile tracks these changes over time so your compilations always reflect where you are now. When something changes, update it. The record of what changed and when becomes part of your history, and that history is often where the most useful questions live.