HOW SIMPLE HABITS CHANGE COMPLEX DISEASES - Mette Dyhrberg, CEO of MyMee

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I had the honor of interviewing a gifted economist, successful entrepreneur, socially responsible healthcare consumer and digital health expert who has been able to "bio-hack" her own struggle with autoimmune disease and personally helped many others with similar conditions - Mette Dyhrberg, CEO of an innovative platform called MyMee that manages a wide range of autoimmune diseases. Make sure to listen as she shares many details of her personal and entrepreneurial journey to integrate her background and analytical approach while critically improving the course of complex disease conditions with limited treatment options for many patients in the process. 1:42 - Mette suffered from autoimmune disease for 20 years and has developed a protocol that allows patients to identify triggers in order to reverse symptoms of their immune conditions. MyMee's digital platform has helped reverse symptoms of >67 different autoimmune diseases of the >100 known such conditions. While autoimmune diseases can attack various different areas and targets, the digital platform asks why it attacks the body and what causes its symptoms. 3:45 - Is MyMee a digital therapeutic and what were the requirements of its approval? 4:50 - How long did it take you to build this platform? I started out 10 years ago, journaling and keeping a spreadsheet to see the effects and causality between what I was doing and how I was feeling. After 5 months, I was no longer at cardiac risk, prior to which I was required to have weekly EKGs, take blood thinners and cholesterol medications since I was 24. And after 16 months, I was able to become symptom-free, and have been drug and symptom free ever since. While I was working at my last company, I became extremely fascinated with the idea of biohacking and over the first couple of years I helped 33 other patients achieve the same results I had obtained. 9:36 - What are some success stories of COVID long-hauler patients that are utilizing your MyMee digital health platform? 12:09 Can you describe the platform and your healthcare team that interacts with patients at MyMee in more detail? Our platform is comprised of 3 parts: - 1) self-tracking of patient symptoms and body signals - 2) converting the noise of the data collected into understanding using computers and analytics that identify the triggers of the symptoms and find solutions - 3) transforming data analytics into behaviors through interactions with a healthcare team of nurse practitioners, dieticians, nutritionists, and doctors that have previously reversed their own autoimmune conditions 15:50 - How can patients access your platform and how does it integrate into the physicians’ clinical work flow? 19:15 – What are some learnings or future plans to work with other health payers? 20:46 – What is the primary lesson you have learned throughout your journey building this novel digital health platform? 23:56 – Could you share one final message with our listeners as well as how they can contact you? As someone who has been struggling with autoimmune disease for 20 years, I understand that the element of hope becomes challenging but ever so critical. In fact, what I call the “hope bank” can get empty when no approach seems to work. So I would like patients with such complex chronic conditions to understand that there is something they can do whether it is MyMee or something else. There are life habits such as sleep that have significant impact on their disease that they may not always take into account. So it is important for listeners to understand that the help and the hope in these conditions stem from small, incremental baseline habits and changes in behaviors. They can visit MyMee.com and contact the MyMee team which has this name because of the ideas that the platform mimes you and is a mirror of yourself as instead of implementing hundreds of rules and restrictions to manage disease, we help you find a blueprint to understand what exactly works for you.