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Podcast: StartUp Health NOW Podcast
Episode: Sami Inkinen of Virta Health on AI-Native Healthcare and Reversing Metabolic Disease
Description: In this Apollo House 2026 fireside chat, StartUp Health community member Sami Inkinen, CEO & Founder of Virta Health, shares how a personal diagnosis of pre-diabetes led him to build one of the fastest-growing companies in metabolic health.
Virta Health is proving that Type 2 diabetes and obesity can be reversed with nutrition, supported by technology and AI. Inkinen discusses how Virta has built one of the largest longitudinal biomarker datasets in metabolic disease reversal and is deploying AI agents, supervised by clinicians, to support patients every day.
He offers blunt insight into the current standard of care...