Taming Diabetes
Forbes India|September 29, 2017

Medication apart, keeping the silent killer at bay requires behavioural changes. Abhishek Shah steps up to the plate with Wellthy Therapeutics, an AI-based mobile app with a focus on results

Isaac Wolfe
Taming Diabetes

Smruti Daru is a woman who juggles many roles: Colleague, mother, daughter, wife. Her waking hours are brimming with tasks and expectations—from preparing meals for her school-going son to stressful assignments at work.

In 2009, when she was 53, Daru was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes— a condition where the body loses its ability to respond to insulin, leading to high blood glucose levels. Unlike with type 1 diabetes, where the patient is administered insulin through injections, type 2 diabetes can usually be managed through diet, exercise and pills, at least initially.

Following the diagnosis, Daru was prescribed medication and advised on the lifestyle changes needed to keep her diabetes in check. However, she found it impossible to tweak her schedule. And before she got accustomed to it, her initial dose of pills had to be doubled and then quadrupled. “I didn’t know what was happening to my body, I felt helpless,” she recalls.

Stories similar to Daru’s have become increasingly common in India. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are 54 million type 2 diabetics in India, earning the country the infamous moniker of the ‘diabetes capital of the world’. WHO data shows that diabetes caused 1.5 million deaths globally in 2015, and that number is only increasing. The gravity of the situation clearly demands an approach that goes beyond traditional diagnosis and treatment.

Enter Abhishek Shah, the 34-year old CEO of the Mumbai-based digital therapeutics company Wellthy Therapeutics, which focuses on type 2 diabetes care through its Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based mobile app.

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