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Cortisol, and the rest of what your body is doing.
One of the most written-about hormones on the internet, and one of the least well explained. This is a library about what it actually does.
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One of the most written-about hormones on the internet, and one of the least well explained. This is a library about what it actually does.
Health is the category where confident writing does the most damage, so it is worth stating plainly how these pages are made. Auromone builds a band that reads cortisol from sweat. That is a commercial interest, and you should read everything here knowing it.
What we do
Not from memory, not from another article. Where a figure appears, the study it came from is linked, along with the population and the dose or timing it applied to. This rule exists because it was broken once: an early draft cited a caffeine figure the study did not support.
What we will not do
No page carries a "medically reviewed by" line, because no clinician reviews them. Borrowing that authority without holding it is exactly the practice this company exists to argue against.
What we do
Cushing's syndrome, Addison's disease and HPA-axis dysfunction are real, and explaining them accurately is more useful than avoiding the words. Where a page touches something urgent, it says so early rather than reassuring you into a delay.
What we will not do
The Curve measures cortisol and shows you your own curve. It does not tell you what your curve means about your health, because that is a clinical judgement about a whole person. A lab test ordered by a clinician is the tool that answers a diagnostic question.
Where the honest answer is "the evidence does not support that", these pages say so, including when the claim would have helped us. The adrenal fatigue page argues against a diagnosis a lot of cortisol products are sold on. The cortisol detox page finds no evidence for a protocol with millions of views.
What the hormone is, the shape of a normal day, and what moves it.
Why cortisol decides when you wake, and what a disrupted night looks like from the inside.
The hormone behind the feeling, and what hard training or a long week actually costs.
Cortisol face, cortisol belly, adrenal fatigue, detoxes. What the evidence supports and what it does not.
Cortisol does not act alone. Where it meets the rest of your endocrine system.
Plain-language education on the disorders that cortisol testing is used to investigate. Written for people preparing to talk to a clinician.
If you are new to this, read Cortisol 101 first. It covers what the hormone is, what the daily curve looks like, and how cortisol is measured, and everything else here assumes it.
If you arrived with a specific question, the library above is grouped by the thing you are actually asking about: your nights, your stress, a claim you saw, or a condition you are preparing to discuss with a doctor.
Auromone Curve is a general wellness device under Health Canada and FDA guidance. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, or cure any condition. If you are worried about a symptom, the right next step is a clinician, not a wearable.
No. These pages explain how the body works and what the published research shows. They do not diagnose, and they are not a substitute for a clinician who can examine you, order tests, and read them against your history. Where a symptom could be serious, the page says so and tells you to go and get seen.
Benoit Tanguay, the founder, who is not a clinician. Each page states its sourcing at the top and links every claim. Because there is no clinician backstop, the safety content is over-provisioned and each clinical claim is checked against the source it came from, looking for errors rather than confirmation. More about who writes this.
You should read it sceptically. The check we can offer is that the library repeatedly argues against claims that would sell more devices: that adrenal fatigue is a diagnosis, that a cortisol detox does something, that a supplement will fix a rhythm. Where the evidence is weak, we say it is weak. Where a lab test beats a wearable, we say that too.
Yes. Cortisol does not act alone, and the questions people arrive with rarely stop at one hormone. The beyond cortisol section is where that work starts, and it grows as the coverage does.
Corrections go to hello@auromone.com. Clinicians in particular: if a page is misleading in a way I cannot see from outside the profession, that is the most useful message I can receive.
Start with Cortisol 101