Virta Health

The Virta program is excellent, thanks to a well thought out program ran by professionals who really care about your health. My A1c has dropped from over 7 to 5.7. I am taking less medicine, and all my health markers have improved. Cholesterol levels are down, which is very good. HDL is up, which is good. Blood pressure is down, kidney function has improved. My primary care provider is very pleased with my progress. He has lowered the dose of a couple of medicines I am on and if I continue on this track he has talked about taking me off at least one of those medicines. This program isn’t just helping my type two diabetes, it’s improving my entire health profile and saving me money in the long run. It’s not easy, but there is a ton of support and resources. Definitely geared to help you succeed. Glenn

The Virta app is good with connecting to your coach and reviewing the medical information provided. The app is not good with trying to track your daily food intake, especially when they want you to follow a specific diet guideline such as keto. It is impossible to stay within ketosis if you are not aware of the intake of calories on protein and fats and more importantly, tracking carbohydrates. They expect you to use another tracking app to to follow your diet, which kind of defeats the purpose of having this Virta health app. It would be useful to have an accurate food tracking app related to this so all the information can be stored in one place. Using other apps, like MyFitnessPal is less than ideal because the data that they provide is user generated which in turn becomes very inaccurate depending on your selection of choices. The AI generated meals do not include nutritional information so you have to place the information that they provide in the Virta app into another app to track your food and progress. With AI already built in, you would think that it would be easy to provide this information and be able to select the meals and track them

6 months on Virta and counting. very happy with the program. my results in ,so many measures, amazing. BP down no BP meds , No daily insulin injections , no pre meal insulin injections , no invokana , no c pap, no snoring , 25 lbs gone hello 30” jeans. it’s very hard to drop carbs as we all know yet in my weak moments my coach walks me through it and at times carries me thru the storms. my health situation is very ,very complex. the team has to factor diabetes , GI issues , cancer surgery , GI problems and my stubborn Irish personality. they all help so much especially -RH . she is one smart lady. a family member whom is a doctor and professor referred to my accomplishments as ‘ unsustainable ‘ at 3 months. i’ve taken this to heart. and i worked harder work out more and eat better. it’s great motivation when someone so smart sitting on such a high high pedestal doubts me or my resolve. the alternative is going back on pens and pills and circling the drain with my health . ah NO!