Who is continuous cortisol monitoring for?

People who already track sleep or training and want a hormonal signal measured rather than inferred, people running structured self-experiments who need a baseline, and people whose energy pattern through the day feels wrong and who want to see the shape of it before speaking to a clinician.

Will this tell me what is wrong with me?

No. It measures cortisol and shows you your own pattern. It does not interpret that pattern on your behalf and it does not diagnose. If something feels wrong, a clinician is the right next step.

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Who it's for

The same measurement, three different questions.

Q: Do I need to be an athlete to find this useful?

No. The daily cortisol rhythm governs when you wake and how your energy moves through an ordinary day, which is not a sports question. The athlete guide exists because training adds a specific set of questions, not because training is a prerequisite.

Cortisol is one hormone. The reason people go looking for it is not one thing, and neither is what a continuous record is worth to them.

Written by Benoit Tanguay, founder of Auromone · Last updated 5 August 2026

If you train

Your recovery score and how you feel disagree.

A recovery score is built on heart-rate variability. Cortisol sits on a different axis, and the mornings they disagree are usually the interesting ones.

Read the training guide →

If you self-experiment

Every other input is measured. This one is still a guess.

The recurring failure in self-experimentation is changing something before knowing what normal looked like. A continuous record makes a real baseline possible.

Read the self-experiment guide →

If your day feels wrong

Normal at 8 a.m. tells you about 8 a.m.

Wired at midnight, flattened at three, awake before the alarm. A single sample at a single hour is the wrong instrument for a question about shape.

Read about the rhythm →

What is the same in all three.

Whatever brought you here, the device does one thing: it measures cortisol and shows you your own curve. It does not score you, it does not tell you what your pattern means about your health, and it does not diagnose.

That boundary is not modesty. It is the difference between a measurement and a medical claim, and it is the reason the three guides above answer three different questions rather than handing you the same verdict three times.

If you want the physiology rather than the application, that lives in Auromone Health. If your question is which measurement method to use at all, start with measuring cortisol.

Auromone Curve is a general wellness device under Health Canada and FDA guidance. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, or cure any condition, including overtraining syndrome or any sleep or mood disorder.

Common questions

Do I need to be an athlete for this to be useful?

No. The daily rhythm governs when you wake and how your energy moves through an ordinary day, which is not a sports question. The athlete guide exists because training raises a specific set of questions, not because training is a requirement.

Will it tell me what is wrong with me?

No. It measures cortisol and shows you the pattern. Interpreting that pattern against your history, examination and other tests is clinical work. If something feels wrong, see someone.

I already wear a tracker. Does this replace it?

No, and it is not built to. Heart-rate-derived metrics report something real about the autonomic nervous system. Cortisol is a different signal on a different axis. The useful position is alongside, not instead of.

Whichever way in, it is the same curve.

Cortisol every few minutes, day and night, from the sweat on your wrist. Reserving is free and the card is charged when it ships.

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