YOUR CORTISOL IS LYING TO YOU: The Women's Guide to Resetting Your Stress Hormones, Reclaiming Your Energy, and Finally Feeling Like Yourself Again - Softcover

Stein MD, Dr Rachel

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798258276100

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Are you exhausted but can't sleep? Gaining weight despite eating carefully? Snapping at people you love, then wondering who that person was? Lying awake at 3 a.m. with a brain that won't stop?

Your doctor says everything looks fine. But you know it doesn't feel fine.

Here's what nobody told you: you're not broken, burned out, or simply getting older. You're overloaded. And the culprit has a name — cortisol dysregulation.

Cortisol is your body's primary stress hormone, and when it gets stuck in the on position — which modern life is extraordinarily good at doing — it rewires everything. Your metabolism. Your sleep. Your mood. Your hormones. Your ability to feel like yourself.

In YOUR CORTISOL IS LYING TO YOU, Dr. Rachel Stein, MD, draws on fifteen years of clinical practice to explain exactly what chronic stress does to the female body — and precisely what to do about it.

This is not a book about learning to relax. It's a book about understanding the mechanism so you can fix it.

Inside, you'll discover:

• Why belly fat, brain fog, and exhaustion are hormonal symptoms — not personal failures


• How cortisol disrupts estrogen, progesterone, and thyroid function simultaneously


• The truth about why intense exercise can make cortisol-driven weight gain worse


• Why the 3 a.m. wake-up is a cortisol signal, not a sleep problem


• The specific foods, timing, and nutrients that calm the stress response


• How to use morning light, evening wind-down, and breathing to rebuild your cortisol rhythm


• The complete 30-Day Cortisol Reset Plan — structured, practical, and designed for real life

Whether you're in perimenopause, deep in career demands, managing a household, or simply running on empty for reasons you can't explain — this book was written for you.

Your cortisol has been lying to you. It's time to start telling it the truth.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798258276100
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 86