Women's Midlife Specialist

Our Story

Hi there! Welcome to The Women’s Midlife Specialist Facebook site, a place to connect and help you balance your hormones, especially around and during menopause! I’m Dr. Karen Leggett, a board certified physician in family medicine and geriatrics. I’ve spent over 15 years helping and supporting midlife women in balancing their s*x, stress, thyroid, and gut hormones! As you have probably already figured out, the balance of your hormones are vitally important for your overall health and happiness and are the key to slowing down the aging process, staying trim and fit, feeling energized and s*xy, and preventing illness with a strong immune system. (And a whole lot more!) And you can bet I practice what I teach! How we act is dependent upon how we feel, so you have to feel great to really achieve your goals! I had to learn this the hard way, but I am so thankful now for the suffering that I went through because it led me to my passion today - to help YOU. My story might sound familiar to you. A little over 15 years ago I was suffering from profound fatigue with a total loss of passion for life. I was devastated over how I felt and knew it wasn’t normal, or at least it shouldn’t be. Having always been a happy, carefree, and loving person, I was turning into a spiritless robot, going to work every day without excitement and joy in my heart. Every day was a struggle. Though I remained focused on my patients' needs, I felt a distance growing between me and those most important to me, including my beloved husband and son, with whom I had once shared a close relationship. I suffered with terrible insomnia, anxiety, and had no interest in my previously-loved hobbies. I knew how I felt could not be normal. I began to question if I was sick with a possible hidden cancer. I talked with an oncologist friend and he ordered a panel of tests to look for a possible cause of my fatigue. Bone scan, CT scans and blood work, fortunately, were all negative. It was at this time that I realized there wasn’t anything traditional medicine could do for me and it would be up to me to get my life back. I started going to every conference available to physicians by the American Academy of Anti-aging, and focused on all of the possible issues related to fatigue. I focused on how to test and balance s*x hormones and treat with bio-identical hormones, diagnose and treat Adrenal Fatigue, treat metabolic conditions related to hidden thyroid disorders, and diagnose and treat leaky gut syndrome. I put everything I learned into practice for myself, and in an extremely short period of time I was completely recovered from the fatigue, total exhaustion, lack of passion, anxiety, and irritability that I had been suffering from relentlessly. My discovery changed not only my personal life, but changed my career and passion for medicine. As I healed, patients living hours away would find their way to my office for help, sometimes a decade or more after seeking help from other physicians. The rest is history. Since then there have been thousands of women who have benefited from my help with hormone balance. When your hormones are balanced you feel great and create an environment that makes others feel great as well. And this is how you literally change the future of others. When you feel awesome, you really do make the people around you happier and healthier. These ripple effects of your hormone balance really do make the world a better place! Come join us in one of my hormone programs. You'll be glad you did! Hugs, Dr. Karen Leggett