Stress changes at more than one speed
A demanding day and a sustained period of strain are related, but they are not the same input. Observational research has found associations among cortisol, testosterone, and health outcomes, yet an association is not a personal prediction.
This is exactly the kind of signal that benefits from time layers.
How Dr. Testo keeps the layers separate
| View | Role |
|---|---|
| Starting | Preserves the assessment-era state |
| Base | Represents the slower pattern |
| Today | Makes current context visible |
If a stress entry is missing, the model should not silently convert that absence into a negative score. Unknown stays unknown.
From awareness to a protocol action
Tracking only becomes useful when it helps decide what happens next. When Life Stress is assigned to Required Core, the action and its check-in sit in the same working surface. Progress then shows the accumulated history rather than asking the user to reconstruct it from memory.