Episode Details

Can artificial intelligence help uncover what short medical appointments and isolated symptom checkers often miss?

Haresh Patel joins Dr. Michael Haley to explore the mind-body connection, root-cause healthcare, and why a patient’s complete life story may contain important clues about chronic illness.

Haresh spent 55 years searching for answers to a complex collection of symptoms. His journey included suspected food allergies, chronic urticaria, repeated specialist visits, expensive symptom-suppressing treatments, childhood trauma, unresolved grief, and an unexpected experience that changed the course of his health.

The turning point came when practitioners stopped looking only at his current symptoms and began asking about his entire history.

In this episode, Haresh explains why medical records, injuries, diet, stress, emotional experiences, major life events, and physical symptoms may need to be examined together rather than separately. He also introduces Sanare Health, an AI-assisted platform designed to help patients organize their histories into practitioner-ready summaries.

Sanare Health is not intended to diagnose illness, prescribe treatment, or replace a qualified healthcare professional. Its purpose is to help patients communicate a more complete story and help practitioners recognize patterns that might otherwise remain hidden.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR ABOUT:

• Why complex health problems are difficult to understand during brief medical appointments

• Haresh’s misdiagnosed food allergy and eventual diagnosis of chronic urticaria

• The possible connections among stress, grief, emotional patterns, and physical symptoms

• Why a chronological health story may reveal patterns that individual tests do not

• How AI can help patients organize medical records, symptoms, treatments, and life events

• Why asking the right questions is essential when using artificial intelligence

• How Sanare Health is designed to support both patients and practitioners

• Tinnitus, Diet Coke, candy, and recognizing personal symptom triggers

• Why some processing aids and sub-ingredients may not appear on product labels

• The value of considering conventional, functional, Ayurvedic, and alternative perspectives

• Why Haresh encourages people to become the CEO of their own health

• Learning to express grief, laughter, and emotion later in life

ABOUT HARESH PATEL

Haresh Patel is an entrepreneur, author, and the founder and CEO of Sanare Health. Before entering the healthcare technology space, he spent decades building Silicon Valley technology companies, including Mercatus, a private-markets financial technology platform that was acquired by State Street.

His memoir, The Ghost in My Body, documents his decades-long search for health answers, the childhood loss of his mother, and the experiences that inspired his work.

EPISODE CHAPTERS

00:00 What symptom checkers may be missing

00:42 Haresh Patel’s 55-year search for answers

04:26 Why chronic symptoms can remain unexplained

06:12 The limitations of brief medical appointments

09:18 Becoming the CEO of your own health

10:08 Misdiagnosed allergies and chronic urticaria

13:10 The Ayurvedic doctor who asked different questions

15:04 When did your stress first begin?

17:32 Childhood bullying, loss, and emotional disconnection

18:51 A spiritual explanation for physical symptoms

19:58 Traveling to Bodh Gaya

23:13 What happened after the ritual

23:57 The mental, emotional, and spiritual sides of health

26:02 How Sanare Health uses artificial intelligence

28:57 The doctor who examined Haresh’s whole story

30:52 A platform for patients and practitioners

34:32 Can AI remain open to alternative healthcare?

36:28 Tinnitus and root-cause investigation

40:09 Diet Co