Virta Health raises $45 million in investment to expand low-carb treatment of type 2 diabetes

Virta Health has just raised another $45 million in investment, after a highly successful one-year keto trial showing that type 2 diabetes can be reversed. The series B raise increases their total funding to more than $75 million.

This is taking the company another step closer to their ambitious mission: reversing type 2 diabetes in 100 million people by 2025. It also shows that some very smart people in Silicon Valley – the investors include Venrock, Obvious Ventures and Founders Fund – believe in the promise of a ketogenic diet to revolutionize the treatment of type 2 diabetes.

Earlier

1-year results of the Virta Health keto study

Reversing diabetes with Virta on The Doctors

Virta

Type 2 diabetes

Diet Doctor podcast #7 – Megan Ramos
54:01
In the seventh episode of Diet Doctor Podcast, Megan Ramos, co-director at IDM program, talks about intermittent fasting, diabetes and her work together with Dr. Jason Fung at the IDM clinic.
How to reverse diabetes type 2
10:23
Dr. Fung's diabetes course part 1: How do you reverse your type 2 diabetes?
Living low carb with Chris Hannaway
08:19
What does living low carb look like? Chris Hannaway shares his success story, takes us for a spin in the gym and orders food at the local pub.
Therapeutic fasting
46:09
What if there was a more effective treatment alternative for obesity and type 2 diabetes, that is both simple and free?
The essential problem with type 2 diabetes
05:13
Dr. Fung's diabetes course part 2: What exactly is the essential problem of type 2 diabetes?
How to formulate a low-carb keto diet
48:32
Low-carb pioneer Dr. Eric Westman talks about how to formulate an LCHF diet, low carb for different medical conditions and common pitfalls among others.
The perfect treatment for diabetes and weight loss
45:20
Do doctors treat type 2 diabetes completely wrong today – in a way that actually makes the disease worse?
The problem with sugar
50:01
Is it fat or sugar that has triggered the unprecedented epidemics of obesity, type 2 diabetes and metabolic disease? Taubes at Low Carb USA 2017.
Diet & diabetes – how to normalize your blood sugar
16:26
Dr. Eenfeldt's get-started course part 3: How to improve type 2 diabetes dramatically using a simple lifestyle change.
My Big Fat Diet
42:31
What would happen if an entire town of First Nation people went back to eating the way they used to? A high-fat low-carb diet based on real food?
How to help patients reverse type 2 diabetes
27:43
How exactly do you as a doctor help patients reverse their type 2 diabetes?
Carb-Loaded
1:14:40
This may be the best (and funniest) low-carb movie ever. At least it's a strong contender.
"I have been following the wrong advice!"
16:39
How Antonio Martinez finally managed to reverse his type 2 diabetes.
LCHF and diabetes: science and clinical experience
45:59
What is the root of the problem in type 2 diabetes? And how can we treat it? Dr. Eric Westman at the Low Carb USA 2016.
"I knew nothing"
28:51
How come Professor Tim Noakes completely changed his view on what constitutes a healthy diet?
"We are not designed to be chronically ill"
25:54
80 pounds lighter and no medications
09:12
Is it possible to reverse your diabetes with the help of a strict low-carb diet? Definitely, and Stephen Thompson did it.
How to cure type 2 diabetes
24:25
In this interview Dr. Jay Wortman tells us how he cured his own type 2 diabetes and then did the same for many, many others.
What's it like being a low-carb doctor on TV?
17:40
What’s it like working with patients and giving controversial low-carb advice in front of a TV audience?
A disease of insulin resistance
09:32
Part 3 of Dr. Fung's diabetes course: The core of the disease, insulin resistance, and the molecule that causes it.
"Type 2 diabetes management can be pretty simple"
18:52
Dr. Sadhra advises aspiring doctors that managing type 2 diabetes can be pretty simple as long as you eat low carb. Medications are not the first line of treatment.
The 2 big lies of type 2 diabetes
42:54
Why is the conventional treatment of Type 2 Diabetes an utter failure? Dr. Jason Fung at the LCHF Convention 2015.
Motivating people to change their lives
51:45
How do you help and motivate people to start and stay on a low-carb diet?
The science of low carb
16:07
Here Dr. Eric Westman – one of the researchers behind the modern scientific trials of low-carb diets – takes you through the results.

How to reverse type 2 diabetes

10 comments

1
Steve
April 6
How can I invest too?
2
Cookie
April 6
I'd like to invest too!
3
Kim
April 6 5
I've lost 93 pounds following the low carb lifestyle in the last year. It definitely works.
4
Fox
April 6
You don't "reverse" or "cure" diabetes...you can control it... I'm sure a low carb diet will yield huge benefits for those with type 2 diabetes...but resume a "normal" diet and their symptoms will most certainly return...because they have a n insulin resistance disease....

Reply: #10
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Witch's falls
April 6
Good luck getting people to stick to this. Won't happen.
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Sprout
April 7 8
Actually, it's quite easy to stick to, once you detox from the carbohydrate addiction we're all suffering from, at least in America. I've lost better than 50 lbs on a medically supervised very low carb diet, and I feel great. Fat is not the enemy, and the added, sometimes hidden sugars in processed foods are driving the obesity epidemic. Try it, before you scorn it.
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Rob Jobe
April 7 3
I’m sticking to it after being Type 2 for ten years never having AC1’s being below 10 with drugs and on the Canada Food Guide I’m now 5.7 average on Keto with no meds. Down 60 lbs too.
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Christine Kemp
April 7 1
Low carb diet does work if you give it a chance. It's easy. My a1c is 6.8 and never felt better.i not only do this for my diabetes but all so for my over all health.
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Louise Scofield
April 7 2
Yup, I've been low carb for 15 months. My A1C is 5 now, instead of 13.5
It is NOT a diet, it is a lifestyle.
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Reply to comment #4 by Fox
Gentiann
April 9 2
You just don't resume a "normal" diet. It's easy with keto because you don't have cravings anymore.
If the "normal" diet is what made you sick in the first place, what the point to resume it ?