About Us

In December 2013, during a New Year’s meditation retreat in upstate New York, Sab Kanaujia, a veteran digital media entrepreneur at a personal inflection point, met three people who would profoundly shape his life and work. The retreat was led by Bob Thurman and Sharon Salzberg, pioneers of mindfulness in the West. Also present was a humanitarian officer from the United Nations, whom Sab would marry within ten months; Sharon later became godmother to their first daughter.

That retreat marked a turning point. Committed to a more purpose-driven life, Sab left the media industry to explore how technology could improve human wellbeing, and with Bob’s guidance founded Mindwell Labs in August 2019 as a consumer mental health company, its name suggested by Bob’s wife, Nena. Over time, Sab recognized a deeper parallel between his work in media and the state of modern healthcare: just as media had evolved from static, population-based broadcasting to personalized, real-time experiences using user data, healthcare remained largely reactive, relying on population averages from panels and scans.

He became convinced that the autonomic nervous system is the missing foundation for truly personalized, preventive care. That conviction led Sab to our Chief Medical Officer, an interventional cardiologist who had spent more than two decades building and validating a branch-level autonomic protocol over 20+ years of clinical practice. With that clinical foundation and an expanded team spanning medicine, AI, and engineering, Sab launched Autonomic Health in November 2024 to bring that protocol out of the clinic and into everyday life through software, AI, and wearables.

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