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Jane Ann was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes 15 years ago. At the time she weighed nearly 300 pounds. She was facing numerous health difficulties and she knew she had to make some big changes to her lifestyle.
“My legs would swell to the point that they would almost seep, like a blister,” Jane Ann told The Doctors. “My hands would go to sleep and tingle. I was getting neuropathy in my feet.”
Like the 20 million Americans who have diabetes, Jane wasn’t excited about taking six to eight pills per day and injections before each meal.
“I thought that this was my life,” she says. “Medication, struggling to be healthy, being tired.”
Jane Ann heard about a clinical study called Virta right from the start the project wasn’t about weight loss it was about getting diabetes under the control.
“The goal is to help reduce your medication – maybe even get off of medication – and put your concentration onto nutrition,” she said.
Jane changed her diet to low carb, high fat, and moderate protein meals. She was committed and the results have been astounding. He glucose dropped from 338 to 83. As a byproduct she lost 80 pounds.
“I am doing absolutely fabulous!” Jane Ann said.
Remember type 2 diabetes isn’t just about weight. Sami Inkinen, founder of Virta, was a fit triathlete when he was diagnosed with the condition.
“For decades, I thought that as long as you eat well and exercise quite a bit, you will avoid type 2 diabetes,” he says. “As an extremely fit triathlete, he thought he was not at risk. “And then to my huge surprise, I found I was pre-diabetic.”

Silicon Valley's investors are trying out ketogenic diets, which involves extreme carb restriction.

• Some are reporting rapid weight loss and better energy.
• Side-effects also include crankiness and bad breath.
• A venture-backed company is hoping to reverse type 2 diabetes with "nutritional ketosis."

Voi olla, että Suomessa kiistetty aineenvaihduntasairauksien tehokas ennaltaehkäisy ja hoito tuleekin maan rajojen ulkopuolelta. Ruokolahden "viisas", Sami Inkinen kuuluisien tutkijoiden tukemana soveltaa hiilihydraatteja (sokereita) rajoittavaa hoitomuotoa (vhh) erinomaisin tuloksin. Virta Health:n tuloksia kannattaa seurata tarkoin, jos vaikka sittenkin; ylipaino (myös lasten), tyypin 2 sokeritauti, sepelvaltimotauti, aivohalvaukset, rasvamaksa, kihti ja mitä niitä vielä olikaan nimikkeitä metabolisena oireyhtymänä tunnetun (MetS) tautisikermän alla opittaisiin hallitsemaan Suomessakin.

Ruokolahti on tuottanut maailmalle muitakin kuuluisuuksia. Oli onni oppia tuntemaan Alvari Vilska, myös Amerikoissa menestynyt Suomesta pois työnnetty tutkija, joka erikoistuneen lääkärin (fysiologia) opeilla toimikin sitten fysiikan professorina. On täällä siis ennenkin vältetty tiedon leviämistä tylsistyttävän konsensuksen konstein ja muusta vaikenemalla & vaientaen

On sitten niitäkin, joiden mielestä keto on väärin, koska eläimet ja ympäristö.

Detta är en extremt intressant studie med många relevanta frågeställningar och genomfunderade resonemang, väl värd flera blogginlägg.

But he stressed that the lifestyle changes to reverse the condition “are not rocket science” and do not require special diets, supplements or medication.
“Just a focus on being more active and on eating natural fresh food while minimising sugars and starches.”

...That’s an enormous problem to solve — and a pile of potential cash and customers to be won—which is why diabetes is attracting entrepreneurs like ants to a dropped ice cream cone. One of those entrepreneurs is Sami Inkinen. He was a co-founder of the real estate site Trulia and has long been an endurance athlete, competing seriously in triathlons and Ironman events. In 2014, he and his wife rowed from California to Hawaii. None of this fits the typical profile of a diabetic, yet in 2011, soon after yet another triathlon, Inkinen was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. And like many driven, super-smart data geeks, he dove into research to understand everything about his condition.

Soila Solano injects herself with insulin at her home in Las Vegas on April 18. Solano was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes six years ago. Nearly 10 percent of the U.S. population has diabetes, the most expensive disease in the world.
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That journey led him to Dr. Stephen Phinney, a medical researcher at the University of California, Davis, and Jeff Volek, a scientist at Ohio State. Phinney and Volek wrote two books together about low-carbohydrate diets and published scientific papers describing how constant adjustments to diet and lifestyle can reverse diabetes in many patients. Diabetes is almost never treated that way because the program is too hard for most people to stick to. It requires so much coaching and scrutiny by medical professionals, you’d pretty much have to hire a live-in doctor.
Inkinen convinced Phinney and Volek that technology could essentially re-create a live-in doctor and diabetes coach in a smartphone. Together, the three founded Virta Health in 2014. The company stayed in stealth mode until now, launching in March. “It felt like a duty to do this,” Inkinen tells Newsweek . “Here is an epidemic of epic proportion, and nothing is working. We can combine science and technology to solve the problem at much lower cost and do it safely.”
Here’s how Virta works and why its approach is so important to the future of health care. On the front end, Virta is software on a smartphone. Diabetics who sign up agree to regularly enter data: glucose levels, weight, blood pressure, activity. Some do this by manually entering information; others use devices like a Fitbit or connected scales to automatically send it in. The app also frequently asks multiple-choice questions about mood, energy levels and hunger — more data that the AI software crunches to learn about the patient, look for warning signs and symptoms and guide Virta’s doctors.

On the back end, Virta hires doctors who get streams of updates from Virta’s software and use the data to help them make decisions about how to adjust each patient’s diet and medications or anything else that might affect that person’s health. “Any clinical decision is always made by a doctor,” Inkinen says. “But the software increases productivity by 10-X.” (That’s 10 times, in Silicon Valley–speak.) When all this works and the patient follows the program’s strict dietary and medical controls, diabetes can be reversed, clinical trials of Virta’s system have shown. Around 87 percent of patients who had been relying on insulin to control their condition either decreased their dose or eliminated their use of insulin completely—a success rate that matches that for bariatric surgery, which is an expensive, invasive, last-ditch effort for severe diabetics.

Virta leverages AI software, smartphones and cloud computing to allow its doctors to continually interact with many times more patients than they can in a clinic or hospital, and it gives its diabetic patients a cross between a pocket doctor and a guardian angel. The result is a promising treatment for diabetes that could get many sufferers off medication and keep them out of doctors’ offices and hospital emergency rooms. And that, in turn, would greatly lower the overall cost of diabetes...

Inkinen was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.