Not a clinician
- I am not a doctor, a nurse, a dietitian or an endocrinologist, and nothing on this site is a consultation.
- No page here is medically reviewed, because no clinician reviews them. You will not find a "medically reviewed by" line anywhere on this site, and if you ever do, it is a mistake and I would like to know.
- I cannot tell you what your symptoms mean. Neither can the device I am building. That is a judgement about a whole person, made by someone who can examine you.
Who I actually am
I am Benoit Tanguay, the founder of Auromone, a Québec company building a band that reads cortisol from the trace of sweat on your wrist.
My background is product and data. For over a decade I worked as an AI and data product leader, making complicated data genuinely usable: helping establish data platforms and AI products across several companies, shipping generative-AI features into production, and contributing to a startup that was acquired. None of that is a health credential. It is the reason I am comfortable reading a study's methods section and uncomfortable summarising one without opening it.
Why cortisol, specifically
My mother lives with Addison's disease. Her adrenal glands were removed, so she takes medication daily to stand in for cortisol her body cannot produce. It is an approximation of a rhythm most people never have to think about, and watching it up close is what made the most influential hormone in ordinary life feel like something that ought to be visible.
That is the motivation, and it is worth being precise about what it is not. The Curve does not manage, monitor or treat Addison's disease, and I will not imply otherwise. People who depend on replacement medication depend on their endocrinologist, not on a consumer band.
How these pages are made
- Numbers come from an opened source. If a figure appears, I have read the paper it came from, and the page links it along with the population and the dose or timing it applied to. This rule exists because I have broken it: an early draft cited a caffeine figure from memory that the study did not support. Catching it is why the rule is written down.
- Sourcing is to primary literature and guidelines: Endocrine Society clinical practice guidelines, NIH and MedlinePlus, StatPearls, and peer-reviewed research. Each page states its own sourcing at the top.
- Safety content is over-provisioned. Because there is no clinician backstop, pages that touch anything urgent say so plainly and early rather than reassuring you into a delay.
- Claims that would help me sell get the same scrutiny. The library argues that adrenal fatigue is not a diagnosis, that cortisol detoxes have no evidence behind them, and that a lab test beats a wearable for a diagnostic question. Those conclusions cost me something, which is roughly the point.
If something here is wrong
Tell me and I will fix it and say what changed. 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.
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 Addison's disease. If you are worried about a symptom, see a clinician.