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Inside Google Research: The Anatomy of a Personal Health Agent and My Own AI Journey

by Jason

My Journey Using AI as a Personal Health Coach — and What the Research Says

Over the past year, I’ve been using AI as my daily health coach and assistant. It started with simple metrics—steps, sleep, heart rate—and grew into something more: a system that analyzes my data, explains what it means for me, and helps me follow through with realistic goals. As I’ve built this “Health” project, a new research paper from Google Research, The Anatomy of a Personal Health Agent, perfectly explains why this is working so well—and what’s coming next.

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From Wearables to Real Guidance

My routine now looks like this: I wake up, review sleep and recovery signals from my wearable, and get a quick read on what today’s training should be. If my knee is feeling off, the plan adapts. If my sleep was short, I shift intensity and aim for a longer cooldown and earlier lights-out. This isn’t just logging; it’s coaching.

Why the Paper Resonates

The Anatomy of a Personal Health Agent outlines a multi-agent framework that mirrors how my own setup works. Instead of one catch-all bot, the system coordinates three specialist “brains”:

How It Shows Up Day-to-Day for Me

What the Evaluation Found

The paper benchmarked this multi-agent approach across 10 tasks with 7,000

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