While AI can be a helpful tool, it lacks the clinical experience to make nutrition therapy recommendations, regulation and accountability and ability to assess safety of a recommendation.

In today’s episode, we will discuss the main risks and considerations with using AI for health advice, and some key takeaways to use it safely should you choose to engage in AI based tools for your IBS and gut health management.

YOU’LL TAKEAWAY:

✅ The main downsides to using AI for gut health & IBS advice (lack of regularity, lack of context, data collection & hallucinations)

✅ Why data collection with these large language models (LLM) is something you need to be aware of

✅ How lack of context can result in misleading or dangerous health information

✅ How to navigate information online & use these tools more judiciously should you choose to

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👩🏻‍💻 REFERENCES: ⤵️

1. https://cloud.google.com/discover/what-are-ai-hallucinations

2. https://www.dietitians.ca/About/Learn-About-Dietitians

3. https://hai.stanford.edu/news/be-careful-what-you-tell-your-ai-chatbot

4. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05382

5. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12735979/#sec3-nutrients-17-03828

6. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13244121/

7. https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/dancing-with-the-devil/202506/how-emotional-manipulation-causes-chatgpt-psychosis

8. https://www.cma.ca/healthcare-for-real/can-you-trust-ai-health-advice

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