Food as Medicine Platform Offers Personalized Nutrition Therapy with Josh Hix Season Health

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Josh Hix, the CEO of Season Health, has developed a food as medicine platform that combines registered dietitian services, food delivery, and medical nutrition therapy. This makes it easier for patients to access food benefits and eat healthier. The rise of GLP-1 agonist medications for weight management has highlighted the need to develop personalized nutrition plans to help patients maintain a healthy lifestyle. There is growing interest in food as medicine as it is increasingly recognized that improving nutrition can help prevent and manage many chronic health conditions.

Josh explains, "I think many people, if not most, do better with a GLP-1 and some form of medical nutrition therapy, dietician services, etc. We hear from a lot of folks that GLP-1 helps turn down the cravings and the food noise. While they're on the drug, whether that's for a month or a year, that's the best time to start to figure out how to eat better and to form some new habits, to eat more whole foods, to find things that they like in the absence of some of the cravings for more processed foods or otherwise. And start building habits around these new choices."

"What we hear from a lot of people, both patients and doctors, is that many folks are not able to stay on GLP-1s for all that long. Sometimes, their insurance coverage is short, and the insurance company will only pay for a certain period of time. Sometimes, folks are non-responders. I'm not sure that there are more studies on seniors than others that don't respond to the drugs. Some people have side effects, and some don't want to be on them forever. So, the number that I've heard most frequently cited is that only about 25% of people who start on a GLP-1 are still on it a year later. So I think that it may turn out that these are very, very powerful interventions for a quarter of patients or so, but that many people need more. It's either GLP-1 and a lifestyle intervention, some other form of therapy, or just something altogether different."

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