Cortisol Fix: Why you're exhausted, wired, and can't lose weight-and exactly what to do about it (Gut and Hormone Health Series) - Softcover

Moretti, Heidi

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798988469889

Publisher: Healthy RD, The, 2026

Synopsis

Are you exhausted, wired, and struggling to lose weight no matter what you try?

The answer may lie in a hormone your doctor has never tested for. Cortisol Fix is the first practical, evidence-based guide to understanding how chronic stress silently drives weight gain, fatigue, gut problems, hormonal chaos, and mood disorders — and exactly what you can do about it naturally.

Heidi Moretti, MS, RD is a registered dietitian and functional-medicine practitioner with 26 years of clinical experience. After watching patient after patient fail with conventional approaches — medications, diets, and diagnoses that missed the mark — she identified the common thread: cortisol imbalance. In this book, she gives you the tools her clients use to finally get results.

Inside you'll discover:

• Why cortisol — not calories — is behind stubborn weight that won't budge
• How childhood stress, trauma, and modern technology rewire your stress hormones
• The cortisol-inflammation loop driving chronic fatigue, gut problems, and brain fog
• Proven natural tools: adaptogens, magnesium, GABA foods, and targeted herbs
• How to build cortisol-balancing meals — with a full recipe chapter and meal plan
• Sleep, exercise, hypnotherapy, EMDR, and acupuncture strategies that actually work
• Why conventional medicine misses cortisol — and how to advocate for yourself

Whether you're dealing with burnout, hormonal imbalance, anxiety, or unexplained weight gain, Cortisol Fix gives you a clear, science-backed roadmap to healing your stress response from the inside out.

"Normal and optimal are two different things. You deserve optimal."

Also by Heidi Moretti: Period Fix and Gut Fix.

About this title

About the Author

Heidi Moretti grew up on a farm and ranch in Montana, where she learned early that food, land, and human health are the same story. She was the kid who brought a journal on camping trips and wrote down everything she saw — every bird, every plant, every shift in the light — because the natural world felt less like a backdrop and more like the point. That curiosity about how living things work never left her. It just eventually found its way into a clinical nutrition practice.
 
She is a registered dietitian and Certified LEAP Therapist with a Master of Science in Nutritional Sciences, post-graduate training through the Institute for Functional Medicine, and 26 years of clinical experience specializing in chronic stress, hormonal health, gut dysfunction, and food sensitivities. One of a limited number of practitioners nationwide certified in mediator release testing and the LEAP protocol, she spent more than two decades at Providence Saint Patrick Hospital in Missoula before founding The Healthy RD LLC and co-founding ALIGN Wellness — bringing the functional medicine approach she had been practicing quietly inside a conventional system out into the open.
 
She has published peer-reviewed clinical research as principal investigator, including studies on vitamin D3 and heart failure, biotin deficiency and restless legs syndrome, protein supplementation in dialysis patients, and nutritional status in Asian dialysis populations.
 
The Cortisol Fix is the third book in her Fix Series, alongside The Gut Fix and The Period Fix. She practices via telehealth from Missoula, Montana.

From the Back Cover

<b>FOR EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN TOLD THEY ARE FINE AND THEY ARE NOT.</b><br><br>Fatigue that sleep doesn't fix. Weight that won't move. Anxiety without a clear reason. A body that feels like it's working against you &mdash; and a doctor who keeps saying your labs are normal.<br>This is not aging. This is not anxiety. This is not in your head.<br><br>This is cortisol &mdash; and there is a fix.<br><br><b>WHAT YOU WILL FIND INSIDE:</b><br><br>The gut-cortisol loop &mdash; and how to break it The magnesium depletion cycle running silently behind your symptoms 29 herbs matched to your exact symptom profile 19 nutrients with clinical dosing and brand guidance The cortisol plate &mdash; eat with your hormones, not against them Food sensitivity testing &mdash; why the standard test misleads and what works instead Meal timing, a one-week plan, and 30 original recipes.<br><br><b>The book your doctor never wrote you.</b><br><br><br><i>Also by Heidi Moretti:</i> <b>The Gut Fix &#183; The Period Fix</b><br><br><br><b>HEIDI MORETTI, MS, RD, CLT</b> is a registered dietitian and Certified LEAP Therapist with 26 years of clinical practice in Missoula, Montana, specializing in chronic stress, hormonal health, gut dysfunction, and food sensitivities. She is the author of The Fix Series and practices via telehealth at The Healthy RD.<br><br><br><i>Health &amp; Wellness / Women's Health / Nutrition</i>

From the Inside Flap

You've seen the doctors. Run the tests. Followed the advice. And you've been told, again and again, that everything looks normal.

But you're exhausted in a way that sleep doesn't fix. You're gaining weight despite eating well. You're anxious without a clear reason, foggy when you need to be sharp, and running on empty at the end of every day.

Something is not right. And cortisol may be the answer nobody has given you yet.

Cortisol-your body's primary stress hormone &mdash; is one of the most powerful and least addressed drivers of chronic illness in people today. When it runs unchecked for months or years, it quietly depletes the nutrients your body needs to function, disrupts your gut, throws your hormones into chaos, and leaves you with a symptom list your doctor can't explain and a lab report that says you're fine.

The Cortisol Fix</i> changes that.

Written by registered dietitian Heidi Moretti, MS, RD, CLT &mdash; a certified food sensitivity specialist with 26 years of clinical practice &mdash; this is the most comprehensive nutrition guide to cortisol dysregulation available. Inside you'll find:

-A complete supplement protocol covering 19 key nutrients &mdash; with clinical dosing, preferred forms, and specific brand guidance
-29 herbs and spices matched to your exact symptoms &mdash; from anxiety and burnout to poor sleep, low mood, and fatigue
-The gut-cortisol connection &mdash; and how to break the cycle keeping your stress hormones chronically elevated
-Food sensitivity guidance including why the test most doctors order gives misleading results &mdash; and what to do instead.
-The cortisol plate &mdash; a simple meal structure designed around your body's natural stress hormone rhythm
-A one-week meal plan, Sunday prep guide, and 30 original recipes

This is not a book about managing stress. It's a book about fixing what chronic stress has already done to your body &mdash; nutritionally, hormonally, and from the gut up.

Edition details

• Publisher: Healthy RD, The
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798988469889
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238