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Summary: Finally Some Answers!
Comment: After having gone to both women and men doctors who want to just throw antidepressants at me (and I'm not even depressed) I was fed up with the traditional medical community. I had done some research and also signed up for a women's clinic plan online that sort of helped a little with some herbs, vitamins and a diet plan, but I was getting very discouraged with my fatigue, mental fog, aches and pains, bloating and not sleeping through the night. I saw Suzanne Somers promoting her new book on Hannity and Colmes one night and it sounded interesting - especially the part about the hormones. Once I got the book, I had a hard time pulling myself away from it. She covers all parts of wellness from bioidentical hormones to proper food, vitamins, herbs, exercise and cutting edge therapies, and she has been through all of the same problems. She and the doctors interviewed go into great detail of how the body works and reacts to the assaults of processed food, synthetic hormones, and other toxins. She is using most of the treatments that she discusses with the many doctors in the book. This was one book that I felt seemed written to truly help people - not to just sell books. I was also pleased that she gives a list of doctors, etc. at the back of her book so that you can get going on feeling better. I am going to make an appointment with one of the doctors. After reading this book, it is the first time that I felt any real hope that I could change things and not just give in to getting old and decrepit. This isn't just for women either - it has a tremendous amount of information for men and their issues as well. It's very exciting.
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Summary: Life changing
Comment: Chapter 10 will change the way you think about aging, and Chapter 14 will change the way you think about food and nutrition. It's worth the time and money to read.
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Summary: A must Read, but a little wordy
Comment: Suzanne Somers does a great job of explaining bioidentical hormones with her group of doctors. She is very repetitive and the treatments recommended will financially break the average person. The recommendations, however, are insightful and well worth a try, if you can afford to. I did get some supplementation ideas from this book and will give that a go. We will see if BREAKTHROUGH medicine makes it into mainstream and our health insurances pick up some of the tab, because what she says does ultimately make sense.
If I could afford to, I would do all the tests recommended and get on these natural alternatives, now before I age and before I get sick.
This book is recommended and the rating of a 4 is because she is longwinded and repeats herself. Otherwise, read and enjoy, I did in a couple of days. It has a lot of useful information.
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Summary: Finally!
Comment: Finally!!! Someone who is credible(Suzanne Somers)is getting this info out to the public in a format that is reaching and convincing us. These ideas are not new; my chiropractor/naturopath has been espousing them for years. The problem we face is getting the traditional medical community to loosen their grip on the ineffective, traditional medical model, come on board, and work on illness prevention and the promotion of good health, as opposed to reactive pill popping. I live in Pittsburgh and have had no success in finding a doctor who will prescribe more than minimal doses of BHRT. Hopefully, it is coming... For your health and wellness, you must read this book.
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Summary: SERIOUSLY FLAWED RESEARCH AND ADVICE, BUT SOME NUGGETS OF WISDOM AS WELL
Comment: As a research scientist, I would have to say that this is the type of book that gets consumers in trouble. There's some excellent advice, but it is mixed with information that is downright wrong, presented by "experts" whose credentials are outright fraudulent. Take, for example, she devotes her last chapter to David Schmidt's pseudo-research, a man with dubious credentials (on some of his youtube videos, he has people with false credentials endorsing his claims about energy patches, etc., and Schmidt and his products are amply featured on scam-watch websites). Her negativity about statins is also biased and flawed. A search of the national medical database (free abstracts at pubmed.gov) will show that statins improve health; but if you really want to encourage people not to take them, Somers could have looked closely at the findings that these drugs lower cardiovascular risk by 25%. That may sound meaningful, but when you dig a little deeper, you'll find that your risk of having a medical crisis is lowered from 5% to just under 4%. Statistically, you've made a 25% improvement, but you've only lowered your chances by 1%. So is it really worth the expense, and potential side effects for that 1%? That choice is the reader's, but we should be given more accurate information. Somers' book miserably fails, leaving the average reader oblivious to which data are factual or fictional. Why do people believe celebrities more than good researchers? I and Dr. Newberg at the University of Pennsylvania answer these types of questions in our book, Born to Believe: God, Science, and the Origin of Ordinary and Extraordinary Beliefs. Her info on hormones is mixed and confusing, but her information on low doses of lithium I found intriguing. Ultimately, you, the reader, are going to have to do a lot of research on pubmed.gov to separate the truth from the bunk, which is why I recommend other books and authors. Overall, her advice to eat fruits and vegies and to stay away from processed food is probably the best overall advice in this book.
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