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What if “normal” isn’t healthy?
Too many women are told their symptoms of fatigue, hormonal chaos, anxiety, digestive issues, inflammation, or autoimmune flares are normal despite feeling anything but well. Restoring Balance offers a powerful, evidence-informed alternative to the conventional model of women’s healthcare that too often overlooks root causes and lived experience.
Written by a mother-daughter duo—Alexia Soteropoulos, MD, a functional and integrative health practitioner, speaker, and women’s health expert, and Paula Soteropoulos, MS, a biotech entrepreneur, venture investor, and women’s health advocate—this book blends medical science, systems biology, and real-world insight to help women understand why their bodies feel out of balance and how to support healing from the inside out.
Rather than chasing diagnoses or relying solely on prescriptions, Restoring Balance reframes women’s health through a holistic lens, one that considers hormones, nutrition, stress, trauma, immune function, environmental exposures, sleep, and lifestyle as interconnected drivers of well-being. The authors explore why women are disproportionately affected by autoimmune disease, bone loss, chronic inflammation, and hormonal disruption and why popular health trends and one-size-fits-all solutions often miss the mark.
Compassionate, practical, and deeply empowering, Restoring Balance will give readers:
- A clear framework for self-healing grounded in nutrition, movement, sleep, and emotional health
- Insight into conditions that affect women only, disproportionately and differently.
- Elucidate the interconnections between hormonal imbalances and transitions, gut inflammation, chronic stress and environmental triggers.
- Guidance on integrative and complementary therapies
- Practical strategies for restoring balance at every life stage
- A forward-looking vision for improving women’s health in medicine and the workplace
Written for women seeking clarity and agency in their health journey, Restoring Balance also speaks to clinicians, employers, and leaders invested in advancing women’s care. The book offers a grounded, evidence-informed perspective on what becomes possible when science, lived experience, and prevention work together. With the right conditions in place, the body’s capacity to heal, adapt, and thrive is not an exception but an expectation.
Compassionate, practical, and deeply empowering, Restoring Balance is written by a biotech executive and a medical doctor—mother and daughter—who have lived this journey and addresses the following topics:
- Nutrition and movement
- Sleep and lifestyle
- Stress, trauma, and emotional health
- Digestive issues
- Hormones and endocrine disruptors
- Fatigue
- Integrative and complementary therapies
- Autoimmune disease
- Bone loss
- Chronic inflammation
- And more.
About the Authors
Learn More:
AlexiaSoteropoulosMD.com
AnasomaWellness.com
Dr. Alexia Soteropoulos, MD is a functional and integrative health practitioner, culinary medicine coach, speaker, corporate wellness and workshop facilitator, and author focused on helping people reclaim their health. She earned her undergraduate degree in psychology and her medical degree at Tufts University School of Medicine, and brings additional training in functional medicine, Ayurveda, and herbalism.
Her approach is rooted in root-cause medicine: understanding the underlying drivers of gut, hormone, energy, and mood challenges rather than managing symptoms in isolation. Her own journey through chronic symptoms that conventional medicine could not resolve became the foundation for her clinical philosophy and her mission to help women go beyond symptom management and restore genuine vitality.
Dr. Soteropoulos is the founder of Anasoma Integrative Wellness—working with clients all over the globe in her virtual and Boston-based integrative health practice.
Learn More:
PaulaSoteropoulos.com
PAULA SOTEROPOULOS, MS, is a visionary leader in biotechnology and a passionate advocate for women’s health. With more than 35 years as an entrepreneur, executive, and venture investor, she has focused her career on advancing innovative therapies for difficult-to-treat diseases and personalized medicine.
Paula has served as CEO, chairman and board director, founding and leading companies that have brought transformative treatments to patients worldwide. Alongside her work in biotech, Paula is deeply committed to addressing the longstanding gaps in research and innovation for women’s health conditions. She mentors and advises emerging and women’s health companies, championing investment, advocacy, and solutions that bring greater equity and impact to healthcare.
Paula earned an executive management certificate from the University of Virginia—Darden Graduate School of Business Administration and both Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from Tufts University.
Praise
“The guide offers a refreshing perspective on the female body, describing it as 'a complex, intelligent ecosystem capable of incredible healing when supported holistically.' An emphasis on attunement rather than compliance also makes this book unique in its genre.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Drawing on insights from the realms of medicine, science, and personal experience, Restoring Balance is a persuasive and supportive guide to the nuances of women’s health.”
—Foreword Clarion Reviews
“Just as women deserve agency in their careers and leadership journeys, they deserve agency and literacy in their health. Restoring Balance equips women with the knowledge to advocate for themselves and make informed decisions, while also challenging healthcare systems to evolve. It is both an empowering guide for individuals and a thoughtful blueprint for broader systems change.”
—SHEILA GUJRATHI, MD
Biotech founder and CEO; physician-scientist; bestselling author, The Mirror Effect
“We are going through a renaissance of women’s health that seeks to understand health and disease states with more depth and sophistication. . . Restoring Balance provides a guide book on how to navigate many of the challenges a woman might face in her life.”
—ANDREW LENHARDT, MD
Integrative physician; author, The Best of All Worlds and Emotional Intelligence in a Complex World / Substack “Middle Ground Medicine”
“Restoring Balance challenges the normalization of women’s symptoms, reframing them as signals of underlying biology. This book brings a much-needed scientific and systems-level perspective, linking the complex foundational biology of conditions that uniquely and disproportionately affect women with the realities of their lived experience.”
—ASHLEY ABEL, PHD
Founder and CEO, Metri Bio (Endometriosis Therapeutics)
“Restoring Balance reframes women’s health with the depth and integration it has long deserved. As a breast cancer survivor, I recognize the power of moving beyond symptom management to truly understanding the body as a system. This book is both validating and empowering—offering women a path to reclaim agency, restore vitality, and trust the signals that matter most.”
—CYNTHIA BENTZEN MERCER, PHD
Bestselling author; human capital strategist
“This book offers a timely and much-needed rethinking of how we approach chronic disease—particularly in women, who too often find their symptoms minimized, treated in isolation, or dismissed altogether. By integrating the rigor of modern medical care with a systems-level, functional perspective, the authors highlight the central roles of nutrition, movement, sleep, and social connection in addressing the underlying drivers of chronic disease and advancing more effective, patient-centered care.”
—MARY LYNNE HEDLEY, PHD
venture partner, Third Rock Ventures; senior scientific fellow, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
“Women have been navigating a healthcare system that hasn’t always fully reflected their needs. Restoring Balance doesn’t just highlight these gaps; it offers practical solutions to help women improve their health and their lives while supporting clinicians in a more integrated approach to care.”
—AMANDA BANKS, MD
Former biotech CEO and chief medical officer; founder, Banks Advisory; author, Hijacked
“Restoring Balance does an exceptional job of translating complex biology into clear, actionable insights for women. Drawing on scientific rigor, lived experiences, and the realities of current healthcare delivery, it bridges the gap between understanding and application in a way that is both credible and empowering, not only for women but for all stakeholders in the biotech and broader healthcare ecosystem.”
—GRACE COLON, PHD
Biotech CEO, board member, and entrepreneur; women’s health advocate
Media, Speaking, and Events
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