Virta Health is a US telehealth company delivering a nutrition-first treatment to reverse type 2 diabetes and metabolic disease via remote clinical care.
Virta Health is a telehealth company that treats type 2 diabetes and metabolic disease through a nutrition-first programme, aiming to reverse the conditions without medication or surgery. The treatment changes how the body is fuelled - through real food eaten to satisfaction and without calorie counting - and is delivered in the United States via continuous remote care.
The company's clinical offering rests on the Virta Care Platform, which combines personalised nutrition plans, dedicated health coaches, medical supervision and a member community within a mobile application. Members are supplied with meters, strips and connected scales for biomarker monitoring. Reported outcomes include a 63% rate of members eliminating diabetes medications, an average A1c reduction of 1.3%, and more than 1m pounds of total weight lost by members.
Technical work spans telehealth and remote care delivery, mobile health applications, biomarker monitoring, connected health devices, metabolic science and nutrition, and clinical research. Virta states that its approach is backed by the largest study of type 2 diabetes reversal ever conducted, and it frames its remit as treating the root causes of metabolic dysfunction rather than managing symptoms. The company sells into health plans and employer benefits as well as direct to consumers, and cites a mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people.
