Gut-Brain Connect: How metaMe’s Digital Therapeutic Hopes To Rewire IBS Treatment

metaMe Health CEO and ex-Takeda executive Tim Rudolphi and partner firm Indegene’s senior vice president Marut Setia discuss with Scrip plans for the FDA-authorized, gut-directed hypnotherapy Regulora, including an openness to outcomes-based pricing and the wider go-to-market strategy.

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Digital Therapeutics Set To Redefine IBS Therapy? • Source: Alamy

There’s a growing body of science on the gut-brain connection and that gut-feeling or gut-wrenching pain may well be a type of message from your enteric nervous system or “second brain”, as medical experts refer to it. Importantly, that “brain in your gut” communicates effectively with the big brain in the head.

“Our two brains ‘talk’ to each other, so therapies that help one may help the other,” notes Dr Jay Pasricha,...

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