Every year, the World Health Organization (WHO) selects a theme from the focus areas of concern, hoping to attract the attention of countries around the world. Singularity cakes still remember that the theme of World Health Day a year ago was diabetes. According to the 2016 Global Diabetes Report published by WHO, as of 2014, there are an estimated 422 million adults with diabetes worldwide. Among them, type II diabetes accounts for about 90%.

So far, the only clinically proven method of "reversing type 2 diabetes" is metabolic surgery. Metabolic surgery, also known as weight loss surgery, as the name suggests, is to treat type 2 diabetes caused by obesity and overweight, and to achieve a therapeutic effect by minimally invasive surgical methods to change the gastrointestinal structure or reduce gastric volume.

Two common metabolic procedures, cuff gastrectomy (left) and gastrojejunostomy (right)

But the way of surgery still makes many people hesitate, so a startup in San Francisco in the United States "stands out", they want to reverse the disease through personalized nutrition programs, one-on-one sports guidance and remote monitoring, and Help patients get rid of drugs! The company is Virta Health, and just a month ago they just completed $37 million in financing.

In the statement, Virta Health co-founder and CEO Sami Inkinen said they first demonstrated that this method can replace metabolic surgery to treat type 2 diabetes. In the future, their goal is to achieve 100 million patients by 2025. reverse.

Sami Inkinen

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