Jim McCarter
Physician-scientist (MD, PhD Washington University) and biotech executive who led research and clinical operations at Virta Health and now serves as Senior Managing Director at BioGenerator Ventures and Adjunct Professor of Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine.
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PODCASTS
Oct 15, 2026
DeLoss JahnkeHOST
Whether it went out on its own, on its own strength, or, you know, someone bought it and put it into their own fold.
Jim McCarterGUEST
Yeah, I'd say in some ways, comparing as you said to, you know, an example from the 1990s, is a lot of things have gotten easier in terms of just, you know, incorporating, standing up a company, setting up a website, creating an app.
Jim McCarterGUEST
You can do for, you know, a couple hundred or a couple thousand dollars what might've cost, you know, tens of thousands of dollars in the past in terms of legal fees and, and expertise that you would need.
Jim McCarterGUEST
You know, so much of this is, is, you know, you can leverage, you know, internet services and AI and cloud compute.
DeLoss JahnkeHOST
I don't know where to go with it." It, it probably needs to be beyond that before, you know, it winds up s- like, somewhere in your court.
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Jim McCarterGUEST
So I've become convinced that carbohydrate overconsumption is behind many of the diseases of civilization.
Jim McCarterGUEST
As this cartoon says, that high carbohydrate diet I put you on 20 years ago gave you diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease.
Jim McCarterGUEST
And in 2014, I went further, adopting nutritional ketosis where most calories come from fat and tracking the outcomes.
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