I don’t think Somers is an anti-aging prophet. I do think she’s rather interesting and decorative. If her book was marked down to a few dollars on sale at the Barnes and Nobles I’d buy it and take a look at what she has to say. I like reading and blogging about all this celebrity anti-aging stuff. But I would do it more out of interest and curiosity than because I was seeking real medical, diet or health advice.
When Suzanne Somers showed her daily vitamin and hormone regiment on the Oprah Winfrey show, it confirmed my belief that she is a bonafide health nut. I think she takes some 60 pills, forty in the morning with a smoothie and 20 at night. She’s really big on bio-identical hormones. Somers says she uses estrogen, progesterone, and estriol. I hate that hormone stuff and I hate swallowing pills. I’d rather be itchy, bitchy, sleepy, sweaty, bloated and dried up than to take all those pills and hormones regularly, but hey it’s a free world.
I seriously doubt the safety of having to take all these pills as well as the all the menopause hormones, naturally derived or not. This is medical stuff. Anyone taking that many vitamins a day, natural or not, I have to wonder about the validity of their advice. This woman has a mind of her own and no matter how much she gets criticized by doctors in the medical community, she is going to get her word out. I thought it was hilarious when Samantha was in possession of her book in Sex in the City 2 the Movie. Some famous women (like Samantha) seem to feel that natural hormones are truly helping their menopause symptoms. There probably are some benefits to such therapies but I for one am not symptomatic enough to want to ever go there. Stay tuned for a follow up beauty article on the trendy bio-identical hormones.
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