Economist turned founder Mette Dyhrberg didn’t plan to enter healthcare; she just wanted her life back. After collecting six autoimmune diagnoses in her twenties, she started tracking everything she was doing, eating, and feeling for months and months. She then used that data to uncover the cause of her symptoms and reverse them within 16 months, something that the medical community was not able to do. That personal discovery turned into MuneHealth, a platform created to help patients with autoimmune diseases find and fix the unique triggers keeping them sick.
Key takeaways from our conversation:
From patient to pioneer: “I went from being disempowered as a patient to empowered as a human.” Mette’s decade-long experiment with her own health became the foundation for a data-driven approach to autoimmune recovery.
Precision over restriction: “82% of what the triggers are is dietary.” MuneHealth replaces elimination diets with AI-guided tracking that pinpoints exactly what’s causing symptoms—no guesswork, no deprivation.
Human support, powered by tech: “We just use tech as a vehicle for delivery.” A few minutes of tracking a day and personalized guidance from experienced care teams, each of whom has reversed their own autoimmune disease, help patients change behaviors that truly heal.
Access through insurers: With autoimmune disease disproportionately affecting women, MuneHealth currently partners with UnitedHealthcare to bring the program to more patients who’ve “given up hope of feeling like themselves again.”
Scaling empathy: Mette believes healthcare change starts with results, not lobbying. “If you can deliver results powerful enough, that has to be the way forward.”
With MuneHealth, Mette Dyhrberg proves that data and empathy together are not only the foundation for a successful company, but they can help rewrite what it means to truly live with autoimmune disease.
Learn more at munehealth.com and listen to her full story on The Irresistible Factor podcast.
