Welcome to joyspan, the hot new trend in longevity
The San Francisco Standard••health
Key Points:
- The JoyScore Experiment, led by Collider Health CEO Tina Woods, aims to quantify happiness and joy by measuring biometric signals such as brain activity, heart rhythms, and biomarkers during a controlled rave event.
- Participants, including Luke Sequeira and Karim Asry, underwent strict pre-event protocols and wore EEG devices while dancing to specially curated techno tracks, with blood and saliva samples taken before and after to analyze stress and inflammation markers.
- While happiness is difficult to measure objectively, the project seeks to develop a "JoyScore" to optimize wellbeing, addressing issues like loneliness, which is linked to significant health risks.
- Experts caution that physiological signals correlate imperfectly with subjective feelings of happiness, and more research is needed to establish reliable metrics; nonetheless, such
