What the Healthcare System Won't Tell You: Donna Figueroa on Hormones, Healing, and Functional Medicine After 60

Donna Figueroa spent her entire career in women's healthcare — as a board-certified nurse midwife and nurse practitioner — and still didn't know how to help herself when perimenopause hit. Aching joints, failing eyesight, pending hip surgery, and a medical system that told her to simply buckle up. Instead, she discovered functional medicine, uncovered food sensitivities, a gut infection, and heavy metal toxicity — and healed without going under the knife. At 60, she went surfing to celebrate. Now the founder of Midlife Midwife Functional Health in Leesburg, VA, Donna helps midlife women find their optimal wellness by addressing root causes rather than masking symptoms with medication. Her story is a blueprint for anyone who has been told to simply accept how they feel.