About Cortisol+ & Our Editorial Standards
Meet the publisher of Cortisol+, understand our editorial process, and find product limitations, source standards and contact details.
Updated September 9, 2026 · By Cortisol+ Editorial
Why we build Cortisol+
Cortisol+ helps people explore stress and recovery patterns using the wearable signals they already collect. It brings HRV, heart rate, sleep and activity into an accessible daily view. Our responsibility is to explain both the useful context and the limits of those signals.
Who is behind the app?
Cortisol+ is built and operated by Elevated Systems LLC. Mikah Albertson leads the product. We are a software publisher, not an endocrinology practice.
The site's “Cortisol+ Editorial” byline identifies the publisher's editorial work. It does not mean a clinician has reviewed the page. We will name a medical reviewer, their relevant qualifications, the scope and date only when that review has actually taken place.
What the product can and cannot do
The app calculates a wellness score from biometric inputs. It does not measure cortisol concentration, diagnose a medical condition or establish that a treatment works. We have not established clinical accuracy against laboratory cortisol testing. Read the methodology for the scoring inputs, weights and assumptions.
Editorial standards
- Sources: link research and authoritative clinical references next to material factual claims. A source link must support the actual claim, not simply discuss the same topic.
- Limitations: distinguish an association from cause and effect, a small trial from a general recommendation, and a wearable estimate from a clinical test.
- Authorship: disclose that we publish the app being discussed. Product comparisons identify their sources and whether hands-on testing was performed.
- Dates: keep the original publication date separate from substantive update dates. A site rebuild does not constitute a new medical review.
- Automation: generated drafts require editorial review before publication. Software checks catch malformed content, not scientific errors.
- Corrections: revise unsupported claims, keep useful existing URLs and document meaningful corrections. Older content is being reviewed; a publisher byline is not a claim of independent clinical review.
Corrections and contact
Send a page URL, the claim in question and any supporting reference to admin@elevatedsystems.info. The same address handles support and press requests.
On September 9, 2026 we revised our product explanation and website tools to distinguish wellness observations from cortisol measurements, removed unsupported review markup, and began correcting the site's most-used educational references.
See our privacy policy, terms, official download page and press resources.