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Enhanced Games - "We're ready to go" on peptides, prepping $1.2B SPAC in May
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In Hims House episode 64, Jonathan Stern hosts Max Martin & Christian Angermayer, co-founders of Enhanced, ahead of their inaugural May 24 Las Vegas games featuring track, swimming, weightlifting, and a deadlift showdown between Thor Björnsson and Mitchell Hooper. They argue that banning PEDs drives unsafe, hidden use and that openly allowing FDA-approved substances under medical supervision, paired with an IRB-approved clinical study of about 40 athletes at a top Abu Dhabi longevity hospital, is both safer and more honest. Enhanced is also building a consumer health and longevity brand selling supplements (Longer+ and Stronger+), hormone therapy, compounded GLP-1s, and approved peptides, with plans to launch more peptides immediately once the FDA reclassifies them in July. Angermayer also discusses his family office Apeiron, his psychedelics company atai Life Sciences, and the recent White House endorsement of psychedelic therapeutics. The company is going public via SPAC in early-to-mid May at a $1.2B valuation under the ticker ENHA, with founders arguing now is the right time to bring fans along as shareholders.
02:40 - The case for allowing PEDs in sports
06:19 - Prize money and equal pay
10:40 - Humans vs robots? 🤯
15:32 - Inside the Abu Dhabi clinical trial
20:07 - Why Abu Dhabi
24:04 - Launching the consumer health line
29:40 - Peptides ready to go
32:32 - Sizing the peptide market
35:42 - The shift to preventative medicine
39:56 - Double digit peptide adoption forecast
43:21 - Apeiron and the next human agenda
47:53 - Psychedelics x White House boost
51:50 - Going public to include fans
55:24 - Telehealth megacycle just starting
58:15 - Sports as customer acquisition engine
01:08:17 - Enhanced’s Longer+ formulation
01:10:57 - Biohacking roots and wrap up
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