Patient Highlight
Amy Behimer runs the Habit Hub for Autoimmune Health Podcast.
She’s a doctor of pharmacy and coach living with multiple sclerosis who is on a mission to feel healthy with MS. The good doctor helps people use habits to shift from just managing their autoimmune disease to creating autoimmune health.
Each week, she shares evidence based information, real life inspiration from her own life, her clients (the Habit Heroes) and podcast guests - people brave enough to turn a desire for health into daily decisions to create it.
I was lucky enough to be a guest on her podcast and share my own spark to her wonderful message.
Check out the episode I was on and her other stellar guests Apple Podcasts
Feature Story
MS Repair Watch:
two old drugs might
bring new hope
Early results from a phase 2 trial suggest that a combo of two old meds—
metformin, a diabetes drug, and clemastine, an antihistamine, can help repair myelin in people with MS.
We are one step closer to stopping disease progression in MS.
There are 5 major takeaways from the trial:
Primary outcome: 70 people with relapsing MS participated. The half that took the drug combination remained stable while patients in the placebo group experienced common markers of MS progression.
How they checked: A visual evoked potential (VEP) test timed how fast eye-to-brain signals travel. Since the drug group’s test results remain unchanged and the patients on the placebo deteriorated, the study concluded that stable timing on the evoke potentials test suggests remyelination.
Symptom relief?: No participants actually felt better over the 6 month trial period. The test results point to an effect of long-term nerve protection, not quick symptom relief.
Why it matters: With these findings, researchers say that we may be “on the brink” of a new class of myelin-repair therapies—not just immunosuppressive drugs.
Don’t try this at home: The drug combination is only in trials for now; larger/longer studies need to be conducted
Full Article: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/common-diabetes-drug-and-antihistamine-could-together-repair-multiple-sclerosis-damage-trial-finds
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