Axel Bouchon
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 20 Feb
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Well, thanks for having me, Glenn.
Yeah, I mean...
We try to really translate neuroscience into something you can feel.
That's kind of almost like what we do actually since a very long time, to be honest.
Yeah.
Maybe I just take one step back to quickly explain what we are.
Because we're actually a hardcore neuroscience biotech company.
And we started because...
Today, we don't really understand why people get depressed on a molecular level.
So the company, our company tries to find a biomarker for happiness and depression.
What we did successfully like last year, so our medical program, what is one of our major activities is in Stanford with patients.
But then we realized that people who were in our studies actually became happier by just doing the study.
And that led us to creating our emotional fitness club, what is literally like a gym where you train the muscles of your brain, what is kind of your emotions.
And the experiment that you have seen is just a stunt of the fitness club, basically, the emotional fitness club.
Take the example of the phone.
We have seen in the experiments, in the studies, that cortisol, what is the underlying molecule for all our negative emotions, can be overtaken and replaced if you give very strong signals of belonging, like oxytocin for family love or cannabinoids for just friendship.
And this works extremely well when you talk to people, preferably in person, but already when you just talk to them,
we as a human species, we realize how emotions are kind of sounded and then we feel better if we are not immediately attacked.
And that was the experiment.
We felt like, hey, there's so much,
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