"Reversing obesity, reversing diabetes is possible. You don't just have to manage a chronic condition." - Steve Hastings

Steve Hastings, Leader of Health Plans at Virta Health, joined me to share Virta’s strategy to help members reverse type 2 diabetes, prediabetes, and obesity. He also shared their findings on just how important food is to our overall health and the power it has as medicine.

If you’ve listened to pretty much any episode of Self-Funded with Spencer, you’ve heard my thoughts on the importance of healthy nutrition and eating, and how so many of America’s chronic health problems are due to what we eat. Steve shared how they put together effective plans that actually work to help people lose weight, and keep it off, without using GLP-1s or other drugs. And, if a member needs GLP-1s, they work to create a strategy to make sure the drug is effective and they can maintain that weight loss.

Join us on Self-Funded this week to learn how it’s possible to reverse diabetes and obesity!

Chapters:

00:00:00 Meet Steve Hastings
00:02:53 Food As Medicine
00:07:47 Membership-based Primary Care
00:15:29 Nutrition-Based Reversal of Diabetes and Obesity
00:17:35 America’s Obesity Health Crisis
00:20:03 Long-term Health Goal Support
00:27:42 Tailored Nutrition Plans To Reverse Diabetes
00:35:55 Mental Health Improvement From Weight Loss
00:49:00 Optimizing Health Outcomes Through Food

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