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Summary: I did feel sexy until .....I read this book!
Review: Suzanne Somers is likable. What's not to like? She seems like a nice person but this book is an info-commercial for bioidentical hormones and Ms Somers is shilling for the companies who manufacture them. I was feeling kind of sexy until I read this book.Now I'm sorry I bought it.S
According to Suzanne,after a "certain" your life will be miserable, shortened, and you won't remember who you are because your mind will go south along with all your vital organs! Women will put "men-on-pause" because they will have no sex drive. Your vagina dries up along with your brain cells.You can't lose weight and you become a lumpy, bitchy, tired waste of existence.Life, as you come to know it, is in a word, lousy. However,there is a light at the end of the tunnel and you too can be saved through the miracle of bioidentical hormones, just like Suzanne. Wow!She makes it seem that you cannot live unless you take these products.
Her book is loaded with testimonials from doctors and friends but it somehow seems as if this is just one more of Ms. Somers products( you know like the ones she pushes on Home shopping networks). My advice? Don't buy the book unless you like salepeople who are sharks.
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Summary: Saved and Reborn
Review: Ten years ago I had to give up my gym workouts because I was getting hot flashes, shaking and sweating. Exercise made it worse. Doctors diagnosed "estrogen withdrawel" and prescribed Premarin and Progesterone. These made me feel worse, gain 80 lbs., and I was vomiting daily from the Progesterone. I suffered ten years with an aching back, hair thinning and falling out, feeling like I would rather be dead. I felt like this while having to take care of elder relatives! Then after hearing Suzanne, I went to one of the doctors in the book and after three weeks I am back to my old self again, able to get out of bed and go out again. This was truly the most diabling condition of my life. I thought it was over and that I'd be better off dead than suffering. Thank God for Suzanne and the bioidental hormonres.
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Summary: Way too pat for comfort.
Review: Either Ms. Somers was brain washed or is getting some baksheesh from the doctors she is pimping in this book. There is more to the management of menopause and aging than a few little bioidentical hormones that will get you back in balance. It seemed that she was repeating a mantra that was not very compelling-to me and possibly not to herself. It's obvious that the writer has had plastic surgery, and while I don't begrudge her that (as her looks are her meal ticket), it's naive of her to have us believe her apparent eternal youth is all due to natural estrogen and progesterone. And while the (hand picked) interviewees in the book give lip service to having menstrual periods at 60 and 70, no one discusses this in any detail. Do they get PMS? Is the flow heavy? Are these like the periods we experienced in our 20's and 30s? Does ANY woman of 70 or more STILL want to be bleeding every month?!
I have not read any of Ms. Somer's other books, and after reading this one, believe I will not seek them out. I am glad she has been able to make her dysfunctional childhood lucrative, but my belief is that far too much is glibly glossed over in this book.
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Summary: Interesting
Review: Suzanne Somers offers an interesting solution to something that effects all women eventually. But, as with all medical advice, effectiveness depends on the individual. I suggest buying it and evaluating it for yourself. Debbie Farmer, parenting columnist and author of 'Don't Put Lipstick on the Cat'
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Summary: Risk of taking hormones as a breast cancer survivor
Review: Although I love the concept of taking bioidentical hormones for the promise of postmenopausal health and vitality, I am very concerned about the signal Suzanne sends to breast cancer survivors and those at high risk for the disease. I think Suzanne may be sending a dangerous signal by leading people to believe that hormones are safe as long as they are natural. I don't think there is any confirmation of that for those at high risk or for those who have had breast or ovarian cancer. As for myself, I have the BRCA gene and am at very high risk. (...) IT IS VERY SEDUCTIVE TO THINK BIOIDENTICAL HORMONES ARE SAFE ELIXERS. I STILL FEAR THERE IS RISK. AND WHERE ARE THE STUDIES THAT COMPARE CONVENTIONAL HRT WITH BIOIDENTICAL HRT?
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Summary: If you'd trust Dr. Ruth to give you acting lessons....
Review: then you should read and trust this book.
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Summary: horgnome conection
Review: This was not very helpful for me.
Maybe it is because I am pushin 70.
But I have found that Cinnamon does the trick.
Just eat it on every other meal.
Francis
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Summary: Suzanne Somers is great but she is not a doctor!
Review: While I enjoyed this book and found Suzanne Somer's story interesting it did not offer any solutions for my similar problems, i.e.- menopausal symptoms, diet concerns, exercise regimen, etc. However, I was able to find the solutions I needed to help me feel better in the 30 Day Natural Hormone Plan by Dr. Erika Schwartz. The Sexy Years is a nice story but I needed a real doctor to help me.
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Summary: She's not a doctor, but brings the best to you.
Review: Don't hold it against Suzanne that she's a celebrity, not a doctor. She has rounded up the best west coast doctors and interviewed them so you can find out the truth about bioidentical hormones. She recommends using a compounding pharmacist, and that's the best idea, but on pages 79 and 80, Dr. Schwartzbein tells how to get standard products from your regular pharmacy to get good results. Learn the difference between the junky, scary hormones in the news and the good ones that can help you.
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Summary: Applause from a bioidentical hormone consultant
Review: As a board-certified OB-GYN M.D. who has prescribed bioidentical hormones for more than 15 years, I can strongly endorse this book and its recommendations. Sommers' personal experience -- detailed down to her personal hormone dosing schedule -- and the recommendations of her consulting physicians will be highly informative and motivating for post-menopausal women. (I know that for a fact, since five readers have visited my office this week alone.) These women have been at a loss about how to proceed in the face of research demonstrating the health risks of conventional hormones such as Premarin. Thanks to Sommers' celebrity status and her solid health recommendations, women will have somewhere to turn for answers. It took exceptional bravery for Sommers to write a book that takes the pharmaceutical industry to task for their financially motivated role in medical opinion and practice. It's that influence, she observes, that has kept women on hormones derived from horse urine, which, studies now show, pose a risk of cancer and heart disease. Sommers shares the secret about which most conventional MDs remain clueless: bioidentical hormones have long been known to resolve the common problems associated with conventional hormones. I can vouch for Sommers recommendations since I have seen them resolve the typical problems of bloating, weight gain, depression, and worse. What's more, I have had only two patients with breast cancer in fifteen years of prescribing only bioidentical hormones. Sommers speaks the truth without reservation, and women are so ready to listen.
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