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La ciencia de la saliva en la que confían la investigación y el deporte de élite, que lee tu ritmo hormonal en casa.

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The Problem With Traditional Testing

Most hormone tests capture a single moment. But hormones are dynamic: they shift across the day, the month, and a lifetime. A single reading can miss the pattern that matters.

Why Saliva?

Saliva measures free cortisol,3 the biologically active fraction your body is using right now.4 Non-invasive, comfortable, and simple to repeat at home.

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Free cortisol Non-invasive Simple to repeat at home

Why Timing Matters

Hormones keep two kinds of time. Some shift hour to hour across a single day; others rise and fall across the month. A single test, taken at one moment, can see neither rhythm.

Across the day

Cortisol is the clearest daily signal: it climbs after waking, peaks about thirty minutes later (the cortisol awakening response5), then eases through the evening.2 Melatonin and testosterone follow the same circadian pattern.

6 am 6:30 am 12 pm 10 pm HIGH LOW
Upon Waking 30 Min After Waking Before Bed

Across the month

Estrogen, progesterone, LH, and FSH rise and fall across the menstrual, follicular, ovulatory, and luteal phases, shaping energy, mood, sleep, and stress resilience week to week.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% Menstrual Follicular Ovulation Luteal 1 7 14 21 28 Cycle day
Estrogen Progesterone LH FSH

3

measurements a day

Upon waking, thirty minutes later, and before bed: enough to trace the shape of your cortisol day, not just a single point on it.

On waking Morning
30 min later Midday
Before bed Evening

Why Frequency Matters

One test is a snapshot. Three is a rhythm. Repeated over time, a personal baseline. Sampling across the day surfaces patterns a single measurement can miss.1

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Understanding your body begins with noticing its rhythm.

Why Smartphone Analysis?

Your phone becomes the reader.8 Quantitative image analysis standardizes interpretation, with no lab and no separate device.

Hands holding a phone showing the Hormony® app reading a cortisol result

Proven Technology, Refined in Elite Sport

Hormony® uses lateral flow immunoassay,67 one of the most widely used rapid-testing formats in the world.

The same saliva method has tracked recovery and resilience in elite athletes for more than a decade.9 What once lived in performance labs now fits into your morning.

10+

years in elite sport

Why Representation Matters

Women are not one population. Geography, lifestyle, and life stage all shape hormonal health.10 Better data, drawn from more women across Asia, Latin America and beyond, makes better insight for every woman.

Science Meets Technology

Testing
AI Insights
Symptom Tracking
Education
Longitudinal Monitoring

Learn More

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References

  1. Adam, E. K., & Kumari, M. (2009). Assessing salivary cortisol in large-scale, epidemiological research. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 34(10), 1423–1436.
  2. Clow, A., et al. (2010). The cortisol awakening response: more than a measure of HPA axis function. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 35(1), 97–103.
  3. Gozansky, W. S., et al. (2005). Salivary cortisol determined by enzyme immunoassay is preferable to serum total cortisol for assessment of dynamic HPA axis activity. Clinical Endocrinology, 63(3), 336–341.
  4. Kirschbaum, C., & Hellhammer, D. H. (1989). Salivary cortisol in psychobiological research: an overview. Neuropsychobiology, 22(3), 150–169.
  5. Stalder, T., et al. (2016). Assessment of the cortisol awakening response: expert consensus guidelines. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 63, 414–432.
  6. Koczula, K. M., & Gallotta, A. (2016). Lateral flow assays. Essays in Biochemistry, 60(1), 111–120.
  7. Posthuma-Trumpie, G. A., et al. (2009). Lateral flow (immuno)assay: its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 393(2), 569–582.
  8. Mudanyali, O., et al. (2012). Integrated rapid-diagnostic-test reader platform on a cellphone. Lab on a Chip, 12(15), 2678–2686.
  9. Papacosta, E., & Nassis, G. P. (2011). Saliva as a tool for monitoring steroid, peptide and immune markers in sport and exercise science. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 14(5), 424–434.
  10. McKinsey Health Institute. (2024). Closing the women's health gap: a $1 trillion opportunity to improve lives and economies.

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