joining us live now is akash bakshi, the ceo of your choice therapeutics. ash, thanks for joining us today. thanks so much for having me. >> you are trying the first ever male birth control pill. >> tell us about it. >> this is in fact not only the first, uh, birth control pill for men, but it is in fact, the first non-hormonal contraceptive that has ever been developed before. the pill has been around since 1960. and yet women have never had a non-hormonal contraceptive pill. and here, 60 years later, we're in the position where we're really developing the first non-hormonal contraceptive pill, and it's being developed for men. >> so can you tell us how it works if it's not hormonal, like with the female birth control pill? right. that hormone works to prevent ovaries from releasing an egg so you can't get pregnant. how does this work for men? >> we actually stop vitamin a from getting into the testis and thereby prevent sperme production from occurring. and so if no sperms are released upon ejaculation, uh- pregnancy is not possible. so it's pretty simple.