Axel Bouchon

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 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.

And we 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

negative connotation in the media that is not like really human to human interaction that we wanted to reproduce the data we have seen in our study that when you calmly talk to someone, you are actually developing an interesting conversation because we're humans.

And that was literally

I mean, to me, huge surprise, very, very nicely reproduced.

So we had like 250 conversations and over 300 voice messages.

And we have not listened to all of them, but I think over 200, we have not found a single negative, aggressive conversation.

I think the connection to suicide rate is most probably a long conversation where we need an hour together.