VirtaHealth launch today
Big, exciting announcement today in the world of low carb treatments for Diabetes.
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https://www.dietdoctor.com/news Links and photos in above article or go directly to VirtaHealth https://www.virtahealth.com |
Interesting and encouraging with Virta and HEAL Clinics starting up, we now have opportunities for people with diabetes, pre-diabetes and weight issues to get help with programs based on low carb approaches. Positive results will encourage more people to seek help from these practices. Good news!
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Great stuff. It's actually a new approach to health care that should catch on.
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They've got a beautiful and informative website. Lots of studies. I especially enjoyed seeing the photos of all the "team members" from engineers to physicians.
IMHO, the future of affordable health care in this country begins with more people living healthy lives. The hope offered by Virta (online, for anyone) is impressive. I am not being paid to say this. |
The company press release: http://www.businesswire.com/news/ho...70308005226/en/
37 million in VC backing. Dr Peter Attila is also an investor and an advisor. His analysis of "Is Type 2 diabetes reversible at scale?" http://eatingacademy.com/nutrition/...eversible-scale |
If I knew anyone with T2, I'd send them immediately to Dr. Attia's website linked by Janet above. The statistics and research are just the latest compelling evidence in one of the biggest health breakthroughs since Mr. Banting.
It's not just a diagnostic breakthrough. Virta itself is evidence of new opportunities in the use of the internet for health care, at enormous savings and convenience for everyone. At least those privileged with internet access and the ability to use it can find a way to life-saving treatment. In the past couple of weeks, I managed to request a thyroid test from my doc, and then get a refill for my long-standing medicine, with one phone call. Frankly, I didn't think it would work. But it did. This is the way healthy people should get routine care. Let public dollars help sick people. Meanwhile, outfits like Virta create brilliant new models. Spread the word. (I don't own stock. Maybe I should.) |
I recently listened to the three podcasts of Jimmy Moore interviewing Gary Taubes. His description of how the first nutrional science study got messed up was very instructive about how revamping science is such a daunting undertaking.
Apparently, Dr. Attia is "taking it to the streets" by reaching out to patients, not scientists, and bypassing that whole batch of egos, expense, and ossified publications. Patients have real motivations to simply do what works. I think this is a clever move for lots of reasons. |
Barb, No stock, private with that nice chunk of change from the VCs. TRulia sold for $2.5 billion stock for stock to Zillow, so Sami is not hurting.
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As you said, this is an impressive board, team members, research, everything about the roll out classy and able to be scaled up. Reaching out to companies, healthcare systems, insurance companies too, not just individuals. |
I agree that Virta has a very sound model and investors with deep pockets who are more than invested financially to make this work. Being able to tap the verticals here in strategically finding its place as a team of diabetes specialists with a solution is a very good way to position themselves and encourages physicians, health groups, and insurance companies to partner with them. They've clearly identified their role, which is very critical in this day and age of competing dietary protocols related to weight loss. Virta resolves T2 diabetes, end of story. I, too, am impressed with their message and the restraint they showed while developing a message, documenting patient histories, and crafting an extremely effective website. They represent the new model of health care that is poised for success.
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Insurance industries should welcome it. Promoting and improving health is less costly than dealing with ill-health.
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I couldn't find any information on the site about cost. Part of the absurdity of our current health care in the US is that many diagnostic tests along with "treatments" that don't work and even cause harm get covered by insurance but testing and treatments that may actually be beneficial and at least don't cause harm don't get covered. After a lot of useless testing and appointments to try and figure out what was wrong with my gut, all covered by insurance and all providing not a clue, I paid out of pocket for Enterolab testing which I learned about on line through a forum, which was not covered by insurance, and which then set me on the right track towards recovery. Sometimes it feels like we live in some kind of delusional reality out of Through the Looking Glass. I hope this model becomes successful and becomes part of the mainstream so that it isn't only available to those with fairly deep pockets.
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Oh, gosh, preach it, Jean. Massage has been shown to have health benefits, but try to get an insurance company to pay for it. A weighted blanket helps with a lot of sleep issues, but they will only pay if it is for an autistic child. "Health coaching" like this service would save so much money in the long run. |
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My heath would have collapsed without the supplements I tried, and some of them I still take. I would never get financial help with them. Even something that is medically necessary, like my husband's methylated B vitamins, is off limits to reimbursement.
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https://www.dietdoctor.com/type-2-diabetes-reversible
Within this post, are four articles about the launch of VirtaHealth. The Medium article is by a hard to convince VC, his thought process on the Virta concept. The last article is from Forbes, and ends on how LC/Keto is not sustainable because, after all, donuts are delicious :lol: A few comments so far in Forbes, most from LCers who state that it is indeed sustainable way to eat. |
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