Part 1: Suzanne Somers On Hormone Therapy For Menopause

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What an entrance.  Oh, you, good to see you. You've procreated since last year.
That's what happens in this whole anti-aging world. I'm so privileged to be here; I'm so privileged to be your messenger. I know you didn't choose me, and I didn't choose you. I just came from a passion that something was not working right.

I remember when I was a little girl, Elizabeth Taylor was on the cover of Life magazine, and she was on the cover of Life magazine because nobody could believe that a woman could look good at forty. They celebrated forty. I remember thinking she was old, but she looks good.

Well, now forty is, many forty-year-olds are still living with their parents.

And then, in the sixty's, Gloria Steinem was a little older than I am and was on the cover of People magazine because she looked good for forty, and I remember her saying at a press conference that this is what forty looks like. So I'm here to tell you today that this is what sixty looks like.

Thanks to you and what you're doing, I've been deceived and detoxed. I've been, um, HGH-ed and Testosterone-ed and Estrogen-ed and. I do it all, and it's so great. I feel so great. And I believe that right now, we're at a crossroads, and the crossroads is a choice. And I don't know about you, but I don't try to convince people anymore; it's just too exhausting.

It takes too much energy. But at the crossroads, as you know, you can choose where you want or fifty-year-old medicine. If that's what you want, fine, take all your pharmaceutical drugs, and end up in a nursing home.

OR you can jump on this fast-moving train. And this fast-moving train is why we're all here. It is; it makes so much sense. I have always connected dots. That's what I do, and it makes perfect sense to me that as we age and decline, you want to put back what you've lost in the aging process.

Now my husband's cousin is a gynecologist; I won't even tell what part of the country so he doesn't know I'm telling the story about him. Anyway, I was giving a lecture in this part of the country to women, and women, by the way, are so hungry.

So hungry for this information. When I give a lecture in any town, always two thousand and twenty-five hundred, sometimes three thousand women show up. It is so incredible, and you can hear a pin drop because they just want someone to give them some clarification.

And although I never give advice, I'm able to say what I did for myself and then direct them to one of you when I know about you and what you are doing.

So anyway, my cousin on my husband's side of the family came up to me after the lecture, and he didn't come to the lecture because he said, I don't even have time to keep up with standard care. And I thought you were the problem.

And he said to me, Suzanne, Menopause is a natural state. Just let nature take its course. And I said, Then let us die, you won't let us die. We used to die when nature took its course, we used to die at the turn of the century at forty, forty-five, and then antibiotics, sewage, and technology came along. We lived to sixty, sixty-five, and you know how we live to ninety, one hundred, one hundred twenty, some people are going beyond that.

I'll take a hundred twenty, I said, but if they're going to prolong our lives, then I want to have the quality of life because I think there's a racket going on right now, and the rocket in standard care, well-meaning though it is - I'm not putting it down, it's well-meaning - but you don't know what you don't know.

I think at some point, with all the talk about anti-aging, longevity, Bio-Identical Hormones. If I were a doctor who didn't know anything about it and didn't learn it in school, I'd come to one of these conferences. I'd take a course.

I'd go, Hey, what is that you're all talking about? So when they keep us alive this long, we want to have that quality of life, but the racket is that we reach a certain age. For women, it happens so fast it's in our face; we start losing our hormones, then we lose ninety percent of our hormones over a two-year period, and we feel awful. And I know we're not going to live without all I know.

When we live this long, we don't put the warmonger back. You go to the doctor, you say I'm so depressed, and I can't sleep, and I've got allergies, and my eyes are watering, and my skin itches, and I don't have any sex drive, and I just don't feel like I used to feel, and what's the first thing that woman gets? Prozac.
There is not one woman out there with a Prozac deficiency.
And so I watch my girlfriends, and you know for all of you in this business, you can't convince your family, right, and you can't convince your best friends because they've known you forever, and what do you know?

So I have all these girlfriends who are on what I call the men a POS cocktail Prozac, Ambien, Claritin, anti-anxiety pain medication for all the joint pain and hip pain and knee pain knees are going out, hips that are going out, minds that they're losing and what do they get is this menopause cocktail of all these drugs.

Now for those who are really into this, you know that accumulation of chemicals eventually when the family doesn't want to, they feel terrible.

Still, it's just so hard to take care of them anymore, and I'm afraid if I leave her at the house that she'll set the house on fire or she runs away, or he can't remember anything, and so I felt so bad, but I had to put them in a nursing home, but it's a nice one it's a good one.

And that's the racket.

• SUZANNE SOMERS ON HRT FOR MENOPAUSE, PART 1/6
• SUZANNE SOMERS ON HRT FOR MENOPAUSE, PART 2/6
• SUZANNE SOMERS ON HRT FOR MENOPAUSE, PART 3/6
• SUZANNE SOMERS ON HRT FOR MENOPAUSE, PART 4/6
• SUZANNE SOMERS ON HRT FOR MENOPAUSE, PART 5/6
• SUZANNE SOMERS ON HRT FOR MENOPAUSE, PART 6/6

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