Oct 3, 2020
Sarah Hallberg was charged with
setting up a clinic to treat obesity and researched her way into a
remarkable finding: the low-fat emphasis engrained in medical
school as preventative of obesity had no real backing in actual
outcomes. This started her journey that led to
type 2 diabetes treatments centered on a low-carb
intervention.
Listeners will hear about
Dr. Sarah Hallberg is the
Medical Director at Virta Health; previously, she founded Indiana
University Arnett's Medically Supervised Weight Loss Program and
still serves as their Medical Director. Even before medical school,
she focused on physiology, exercise, and nutrition and fitness
facts.
Her research into obesity before the clinic opened aligned with
type 2 diabetes causes. She gives listeners an intriguing story
about the dramatic effect the low-carb diet had on her patients at
the Indiana University Clinic. In fact, the plan quickly morphed
into a type 2 diabetes diet. Her work with the clinic and Virta
Health on low-carb plans is reversing type 2 diabetes with diet and
exercise in numerous patients.
Dr. Hallberg gives listeners a
helpful picture of how this plan works as she defines what low carb
means in her clinic. Generally, if under 25% of daily calories come
from carbs, or if one consumes under 125 grams of carbs per day,
it's considered a low-carb diet by professionals. But she utilizes
an even lower number, with less than 10% of calories from carbs a
day, or less than 50 grams per day. She's careful listeners
understand that this is NOT a no-carb approach and some carbs are
good providers of micro nutrients and such.
A small amount of those carbs will come from dairy and the biggest
amount comes from non-starchy vegetables and seeds. She gives an
interesting description of the physiology for these interactions as
well as how adding whole-food fats make a difference. Finally she
describes how the Virta Health plan and application works. It's a
direct-to-consumer product and provides users with frequent
personalized contact with a health coach.
For more about the program,
see virtahealth.com.
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