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Polsen Health CEO and co-founder Timothée Manschot joins the Healthcare Tomorrow Podcast to reveal how a screenless wearable is helping people understand their stress responses, one of the biggest hidden drivers of long-term ill health.
In Pitching The Future – A Healthcare Tomorrow podcast, a new audio series shining a light on medtech visionaries, we dig into the Eureka Moment behind their innovation, the wider problem it’s solving, and its potential impact on the future of healthcare.
Today, we’re talking about stress and the toll it takes on our long-term health. Chronic stress is closely linked to many of the conditions putting the most pressure on health systems. Yet most of us have very little insight into how our bodies actually respond to stress day to day.
That’s the gap Polsen Health set out to fill. The Amsterdam-based company has created what it calls the NOWATCH Awareable, a screenless wearable that doesn’t push scores or demand your attention. Its Reactivity Monitor captures heart rate, motion and skin activity every second to track how long stress lasts, how quickly you recover, and how often it strikes. When a stress response begins, the device gives a gentle nudge to pause before it escalates.
So what was the spark behind NOWATCH? And could understanding stress be the key to genuinely preventive healthcare? Timothée Manschot, CEO and co-founder of Polsen Health explains more…
