Everything sort of starts to dry up.īut when we’re talking about PCOS, the challenges actually are magnified. Our hormones have a lot or our hormones are very active in our brain. Our weight changes, becomes more difficult to lose weight. But basically, as our hormones change, we have more difficulty sleeping. But I too was having hormonal issues and that’s what lead me into getting so focused on women’s hormones. Well, as we all know and I’m maybe just moving out of midlife, I just had my 57th birthday yesterday. But maybe you can kind of give us a little bit fuller picture. I kind of alluded a little bit to what might be going on with women, with PCOS as they enter midlife. We’re going to be talking about challenges of midlife with hormonal changes. You also recently coauthored a book with Brian Tracey, a book titled Success Manifesto, Get Energized, Focused and Downright Sexy Now.
She has been the president of the Leggett Medical Group since 2004 and started the women’s midlife specialist practice in 2012 where you developed a comprehensive yearlong mentorship program for nurse practitioners to teach them how to care for midlife women’s hormonal imbalances.īut most recently, you opened a program to women across the world through the internet, guiding women to balance their own hormones through the Master Hormone Madness program. She’s dedicated to helping midlife women balance their sex, adrenal, thyroid and gut hormones and loving every minute of life. Karen Leggett is a board certified family and geriatric physician who has practiced functional medicine for over 15 years. Well, I wanted to just give listeners a little bit of your background. I am so happy to be here and offer whatever I can. She’s going to be sharing with us how women with PCOS should really empower themselves in order to advocate for themselves in the doctor’s office. I have brought in the midlife health expert and this is Dr. I think it’s just a lot of doctors aren’t quite sure what to do with this patient population. That’s really one few kind of finish your fertility journey and trying to conceive and you’re kind of reaching your midlife point and entering into perimenopause and even beyond menopause.Ī lot of women, if you haven’t been diagnosed with PCOS by this point, I think the diagnosis gets a little bit trickier because for a lot of us, our cycles become much more regular as we enter our 40’s. Today, we’re going to be talking about, I was thinking it’s sort of the forgotten women with PCOS but it’s really I think more of the under-served women with PCOS. I’m a certified health coach and I’m the founder of PCOS Diva. Hello and welcome to another edition of the PCOS Diva Podcast. She has also just celebrated becoming a best selling co-author with Brian Tracy in a book titled Success Manifesto, Get Energized, Focused and Downright Sexy Now, having reaching 4 best seller lists on Amazon to date. Leggett has opened her programs to women throughout the world through the internet, guiding women to balance their own hormones through her Master Hormone Madness programs. She has been President of Leggett Medical Group since 2004 and started the Women’s Midlife Specialist practice in 2012 when she developed a comprehensive year-long mentorship program for nurse practitioners to teach them how to care for midlife women’s hormonal imbalances in busy office practices. Since then, Dr Leggett has been dedicated to helping midlife women balance their sex, adrenal, thyroid and gut hormones, and loving every minute of life. Leggett was back to her happy, passionate and energetic self.
At that point, she devoted herself to studies through the American Academy of Anti-aging, focusing on full body hormone balance and setting into action everything she had learned. Fortunately, being a physician, it didn’t take her long to find out that conventional medicine had nothing to offer her. Though she has always believed in integrative medicine, her commitment to holistic care came to its strongest test when 18 years ago, at the age of 39, she found herself struggling with profound fatigue, insomnia, anxiety, and a lack of passion for life. She received her medical degree from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed both a family medicine residency and geriatric fellowship.