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Robert E. Ratner discusses how hard it is to live with diabetes and keep up with 24/7 medical monitoring and medicine dosing, and the promise of reversing diabetes with Virta. (00:29) "I hate the term 'non-compliant.'"

Ratner is an advisor to Virta Health, an online specialty medical clinic that reverses type 2 diabetes—lowering HbA1c to non-diabetic range while eliminating diabetes medications. Virta’s clinically-proven intervention is based on technology-enabled continuous remote care delivered by licensed physicians and a unique individualized nutrition protocol emphasizing carbohydrate restriction and nutritional ketosis.

Robert E. Ratner is Professor of Medicine in the division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at Georgetown University School of Medicine, and a Healthcare Industry Advisor to Virta Health.


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Transcript:
When you talk to people with diabetes, invariably what they will tell you is, “I wish I could take a vacation from this disease. I wish that I could turn it off for a little bit.” It's always there. It's 24/7. They need the support to be able to deal with something 24/7.  

Frequently, people say the problem is that they're just noncompliant. I hate that term. Ask yourself a very simple question. The last time you were given a ten-day course of antibiotics for an upper respiratory tract infection, a urinary tract infection, whatever, and there were 40 pills in that bottle, four times a day take a pill. At the end of ten days, how many pills were left in the bottle?

Even the most compliant patients frequently miss a dose. That's just with one pill four times a day. Now we're talking about every minute of every day: what do I eat, when I'm going to exercise, when is my next meal, what medicine have I already taken, what medicine do I need to take, what's my blood sugar now, what's it going to be after I finish my exercise? This is a constant disease. It never goes away.  

If we can make it easier for people with diabetes to live with their disease in a healthy manner so that they don't have to be thinking about it 24/7, if we are able to integrate a healthy lifestyle into their daily lives with the appropriate support, everybody will benefit.