Twin Health

“Do you know what your metabolism looks like? I don't know mine, either. If we did, it could help with our overall health.” Our chief medical officer Lisa Shah sat down with CNET's Lisa Lacy to discuss the need for true personalization in metabolic health and how Twin Health is using artificial intelligence to reverse metabolic diseases like diabetes while helping people understand how their behaviors lead to their condition, empowering change. At Twin Health, we create a digital map of each of our members’ one-of-a-kind metabolism. Our Whole Body Digital Twin™ uses data from sensors and clinical labs, as well as learned preferences to create a replica of your metabolism, providing the highest level of individualized recommendations to improve nutrition, sleep, activity and stress. The digital twin learns more about you over time and encourages behavior changes that you can maintain. #DigitalTwin #WeightLoss #Diabetes https://lnkd.in/eh5swBVu

In a recent Q&A with Kaushee Ganeshan (from Health AI Insights), our Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Lisa Shah, explains how our digital twin AI creates a virtual replica of an individual’s metabolism and behavior patterns and provides deeply individualized insights, helping people achieve small, meaningful wins throughout the day. Lisa writes “The digital twin comes to understand my routines, my preferences, my unique biology, and can suggest lifestyle tweaks throughout the day to help me stay on track in my weight loss journey. And, it will tell me when I’ll be able to eliminate my medications if I stay on track.” Read Lisa’s Q&A here: https://lnkd.in/eKY_sm6x #DigitalTwin #WeightLoss #HealthyWeight

Weight loss can be difficult, and the emergence of GLP-1s has made this process more complicated and expensive. In a recent Q&A with RamaOnHealthcare, our chief medical officer, Dr. Lisa Shah, explains how the same technology that was once used to send rockets into space is being deployed to transform metabolic health and, now, help people lose weight sustainably. Lisa writes “Our Healthy Weight approach helps members sustain a healthy weight without high-cost drugs by keeping members off high-cost prescriptions or helping them sustain results when they come off their medications.” #HealthyWeight #DigitalTwin #WeightLoss Read Lisa’s Q&A here: https://lnkd.in/euSA7Sty

One of our first Twin Health members, Devlin was profiled by Business Insider. In this article, he shares more about how he’s put his type 2 diabetes in remission with his digital twin. Devlin doesn’t have to give up one of his favorite foods, pancakes, he just makes them a little differently now. 🥞 Read more and get his recipe here: https://lnkd.in/ezsdneHM

One of our first Twin Health members, Devlin was profiled in a four-part series in Business Insider. We’re proud of the work we’re doing to help members with diabetes or obesity heal their metabolism and safely eliminate medications. And we are thankful to Devlin for sharing his experience. “Every time I went to my doctor, it was like, ‘well, that’s not working,’ here’s another prescription, here’s another prescription. At some point, I just sort of lost hope, and I said, ‘Forget it. I’m just going to die young.” With Twin, Devlin was able to see daily, detailed insights on how sleep, movement, and nutrition can work together to heal his metabolic system and spark a radical life change. Digital twin AI is a new kind of precision medicine. At Twin Health, we are helping people understand how their unique biology and deeply individual preferences interact and can be used to live a healthier life. Read more in Business Insider about how the Twin Health program has put Devlin’s disease in remission: https://lnkd.in/ewsqfZgf

We are extending our Whole Body Digital Twin™ AI platform, already proven to help members achieve remission of type 2 diabetes and eliminate medications, to address the challenge of #obesity and #weightloss. Our new Healthy Weight solution combines #DigitalTwin AI and compassionate clinical care to help members achieve a #HealthyWeight that they can sustain without medication. The solution is already being deployed at innovative employers across the U.S. including Applegreen, Bayview and Dayforce. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eUpjHryP

🌟 Introducing a Fresh Look at Twin Health 🌟 We are proud to unveil our refreshed brand identity today! Our new Twin Health logo design includes colorful shapes in the form of a heart, symbolizing the individuality and personalization that is fundamental and unique to the Twin Health experience. We believe health is deeply personal. Our mission is to empower everyone to live longer, healthier, and happier lives, on their own terms. Twin Health enables each member to create a Whole Body Digital Twin™, informed by their unique health data and life experience. The result is care that's tailored, personal, and uniquely effective in the healing of metabolic disease like diabetes and obesity. Our new logo reflects our commitment to this personalized approach, emphasizing healing, longevity, and compassionate care. Thank you for your support and take a look at our refreshed brand here: www.twinhealth.com #BrandRefresh #PersonalizedCare #MetabolicHealth

In a business environment where employers are already spending about $245 billion annually on medical costs associated with diabetes, GLP-1 medications are only accelerating that trend. Traditional digital health approaches, as the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) report highlighted earlier this year, aren’t providing them or their employees any relief. Neither medications or traditional digital platforms are changing the trajectory of this health crisis for employees. A new Modern Healthcare article authored by Gabriel Perna highlights why our partner Andreas Mang at Blackstone Equity Healthcare has championed Twin Health among the private equity firm’s portfolio companies. Employers that partner with Twin are enabling their employees to make individualized, continuous diet and lifestyle adjustments that improve their metabolic health – seemingly small adjustments that deliver sustained results. “I think this is indicative of what the employer side in this whole equation of healthcare has the power to do,” Andreas told Modern Healthcare. “If you bring people together, you can really do some pretty amazing things and get at a meaningful piece at least of improving healthcare.” Blackstone has successfully held healthcare costs to roughly 2% over 10+ years and delivered an NPS around 80, achieving some of the highest satisfaction scores in the industry. The Blackstone results speak for themselves: 98% of employees participating with Twin use the technology five days a week with 92% using it every day. This sustained engagement has helped members with a starting BMI of 30 or higher lose an average of 13 pounds after six months. That six month point is where a majority of members begin eliminating their diabetes medications altogether. Nearly 62% of these highly-engaged members have eliminated GLP-1s, 90% have eliminated SLT-2s and 61% have eliminated all high-cost medications. This is the power of digital twin technology. It’s an approach that understands every person is an N of one – an individual with their own unique behaviors, biology and preferences. Read more about Twin Health’s partnership with Blackstone, and how we’re helping our members heal their metabolism, get off GLP-1s and reverse diabetes below.

The results are in – spending on GLP-1s is now the highest of any drug class in the nation. A new study from the AJHP found that GLP-1s contributed to a 13.5% increase in national drug expenditures. Last year, spending on #semaglutide (the active ingredient in #Ozempic and #Wegovy) doubled to a staggering $38.6 billion – more than any other drug in the U.S. GLP-1s have an important role to play in combating our metabolic health crisis, but they aren’t for everyone, forever. The costs are unaffordable for many, with side effects and unsustained outcomes once the drugs are removed. https://lnkd.in/gbyHT8bj

Last week, Oprah Winfrey enthusiastically endorsed GLP-1 drugs in an hour-long special on primetime television, opening up a national conversation about treatments for obesity. We believe the conversation should be taken in a different direction. Our Chief Medical Officer, Lisa Shah, penned the following response, published in STAT yesterday. While GLP-1s will have a role to play for some, they are expensive, unsustainable for most, and address the symptom rather than the cause of chronic metabolic disease. Read Lisa’s oped here: https://lnkd.in/eYpxzkth