Part 3: Suzanne Somers On Hormone Therapy For Menopause

   To be 61 and not be on drugs. It’s possible if the patient is willing to do a little work. It’s elite; it’s expensive; I look forward to when we get a younger group in government which is probably going to take 10 or 20 years so that they will understand that everybody should have access to your kind of medicine.

But in the meantime, those who can access it are leading the pack and looking good and are creating a template for others who aren’t engaging this to say I want what she has. I find people saying that to me all the time, I want what you have.

I go, here’s what I do, here are the doctors I go to, and I go to doc search because everybody’s real good at different things. And so I’m the contractor, and then I go to all my doctors for different things: my thyroid, my energy, my bio-identical hormones, my gynecologist, and it’s incredible.

You’re not working doctors against one another; you’re gathering information, and information is power. You want your patients to have knowledge so that you don’t have to start at rock bottom every time they come in. Whenever I send a woman or a man to one of you, I always say do me a favor.

You don’t have to buy it; go to the library and check out my books or one of my books. Read it, read the whole thing so you’ll be empowered with the knowledge and understand when he’s talking about your T-3, your T-4, and IGF-1 and your adrenals, so you’ll know what he’s talking about.

You know you doctors have time, but you don’t have all the time in the world, and a lot of you are so busy you’re going from morning to night. So knowledge is power for the patient; knowledge is an advantage for the doctor so that you can start here rather than starting at the bottom.

This is an amazing time right now; I’m going to have my stem cells banked. I’m doing a little research on newfergin to find out what the is and what the consequences are before I do that.

Once that feels okay to me, the idea of having my own stem cells banked bionically so I can access that when I’m 119 and want to live one more great year, I’ll do it. This is the future, the future is now, the future is here right now, and you know it, you know it better than I do.

What I also love about what you all are doing is how you are loving your work. Yeah, you’re tired; yeah, you work all day. But every single one of you that I talk to says that this is the most rewarding work that I have ever done because people are getting better.

If people are responding to you the way they respond to me with women hugging me and kissing me and thanking me, and I go, I didn’t do anything I just sent you to the doctor.

I can imagine what you’re getting and how beautiful; that’s why you went into this business. That’s why you wanted to be a doctor, heal, and don’t want to do any harm. It’s not creative to put a human being on one drug after another. It’s not creative.

You’re doing creative medicine; you’re doing what they call the art of medicine. That’s what I admire, and that’s what I respect. The art of medicine, and it is.

Every individual needs to be listened to. Every individual needs to take in their history and understand where they’ve been, where they’re going, and who they are right now.

When you get it right, when you hit that sweet spot and men are the next frontier in this whole thing. Your male patients. Why is it that you can’t get a man to go in and have your hormones checked?

They somehow think it’s all tied up in erections. They’d rather take Viagra, but why not go to the source and go to the base of why you would want Viagra? It could be a testosterone loss.

Testosterone is incredible; my husband is 71. You know, I used to watch him fading on me. He would fall asleep in the mornings about 10 years ago, fall asleep mid-morning, fall asleep mid-afternoon, fall asleep while I was making dinner fall asleep after dinner, and go to bed then fall asleep.

I said to him one day; you’re like an old cat. You’re fading in front of my eyes; I said why don’t you go to my doctor and look what hormones did for me, so he went, and it turned out he was so low on testosterone and DHEA. It’s so easy for men to rub that on their thighs daily. He said he had been working out, and nothing was happening to his muscles. It’s like my muscles are shrinking.

Now I watch him as he works out. He has free weights at the base of the bed, and I watch him at night before he goes to bed. We have a mirror right there. It’s just there. It’s not over the bed.

So I see him right before he gets into bed. He’s standing there going like this in front of the mirror. I know he’s preening for me, but he’s really happy about all this cut definition at 71, and his shoulders are straight again, and he’s got a waist again, and he’s got energy and color in his face, his face isn’t pasty.

He’s not low on Thyroids; he’s not low on anything. It is a joy for the two of us to be hormonally happy with pheromones, HGH, testosterone, DHEA, pregnenolone, estrone, progesterone, and people.

It’s thrilling, so my husband has a coterie of friends who can’t sleep; they’re up all night, their voices are getting high, and big bellies, small breasts, the whole thing, and he can’t reach them. It’s like me when you’ve known someone all your life they think, what do you know and I’m sure all of you run into this with your own family and friends.

When you feel this good, you just want to save the whole world, and then you realize that you can’t. You have to put the information out there, and those who really want it will start coming towards you and wanting what you have.

It’s an incredible thing. We, women, have an opportunity now where we don’t have to fall apart. We don’t have to be genetically disposed to have big butts and big arms and depression. It’s no longer our sentence.

Do you know how great it is to know that’s not what we have to accept? It makes aging fantastic. I shout it from the rooftops, and for men, you don’t have to get grumpy, and you don’t have to lose your muscles, you don’t have to lose your libido, and you don’t have to have heart disease because of your loss of testosterone.

You don’t have to have any of these things if you just jump on the fast-moving train, and oh, what a train it is, it’s a superliner. There’s an incredible quote by Arthur Schopenhauer about truth.

Truth has three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is proven and accepted as self-evident.

That is what you are all doing now. There’s the ridicule, there’s the violent opposition, but I believe with all my heart in the next 10, 20 years for sure that everyone will know that you were right. Thank you!

• 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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