Karen Betten, MD

Karen Betten is a board-certified Family Medicine physician also board-certified in Integrative Holistic Medicine, leading Betten Integrative Medicine in Portage. After more than a decade caring for women with bioidentical hormone therapy, she started the practice to restore the personal relationship medicine can lose, working outside insurance and large hospital systems to make real time for patients.

She studied at Hope College, earned her medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, and completed her Family Medicine residency in Beaver, Pennsylvania. Collaborating with other physicians early on introduced her to food as medicine, leading her toward further training in integrative and functional medicine and medical acupuncture.

Her focus today is preventive and lifestyle medicine, especially women's health through perimenopause and menopause, treating sleep, nutrition, stress, and movement alongside hormones. She and her partner Matt also co-founded a regenerative farm raising nutrient-dense food, an extension of her belief that lifestyle shapes health.