Ageless The Naked Truth About Bioidentical Hormones
July 25, 2009 by Healthy Foods · Leave a Comment
Ageless The Naked Truth About Bioidentical Hormones
Can you really feel better as you get older?
Is aging without illness possible?
Is your own internal fountain of youth waiting to be discovered?
Yes, yes, and YES! says Suzanne Somers, the bestselling author of The Sexy Years. It can all be true when you take advantage of the new science of antiaging medicine—a revolutionary approach to achieving the ageless life.
Suzanne Somers introduced millions of women to bioidentical hormone replacement therapy and changed the way we look at menopause with her groundbreaking book, The Sexy Years, and the overwhelming media response to its publication. Now, in Ageless, Suzanne introduces an inspiring, medically validated approach to reversing the aging process and maintaining a healthy, vibrant, mentally sharp, sexually active life—while building the body’s natural defenses against age-related diseases.
Ageless is jam-packed with new, updated information on bioidentical hormone replacement and antiaging that will change your life forever. Suzanne talks about:
• Antiaging medicine and how it can help work against the environmental assault that is making us sick, including how to detox the body of harmful pollutants and chemicals and strengthen our weakest glands and organs
• Menopause, which can become an enjoyable passage once the body is in perfect hormonal sync with bioidentical hormone replacement therapy
• The dangers of perimenopause and how women can treat it
• Why so many hysterectomies are unnecessary, how birth control pills may have contributed to the rise of hysterectomies, and how to restore your body to perfect hormonal balance after having one
• How andropause is a real condition for men, and how men can lose weight, regain their youthful physiques, and restore heath, energy, and sexuality, all through bioidentical HRT
• The importance of sleep and the healing work that nature does during this time to balance hormones and increase energy
In this “antiaging bible,” Suzanne brings together prominent, Western-trained antiaging doctors who are at the forefront of a medical revolution to show how the traditional medical approach is woefully inadequate and outdated. Its standard of care has been to treat all symptoms with drugs, but in Ageless you will find out how this approach does not make us better. With antiaging medicine you can heal your body rather than keep a chronic condition at bay with drugs. Ageless shows you how to keep your “insides” young, and how this manifests on the outside.
What could be better than having your doctor tell you that you have the bones of a twenty-year-old, or the heart of a thirty-year-old? You can be young on the inside if you follow the advice in Ageless. Suzanne reveals the secrets to youthfulness that everyone can achieve and shows us all how to live the ageless life!
How young is your energy?
“The second half of your life can be better than your first half. A better life, a healthier life, a life of youthful energy comes from embracing antiaging medicine, and bioidentical hormone replacement is a big component. . . . The second half of life can be wonderful. I know it because I am living it. This new approach to health gives you back your lean body, shining hair, and thick skin, provided you are eating correctly and exercising in moderation. This new medicine allows your brain to work perfectly and offers the greatest defense against cancer, heart attack, and Alzheimer’s disease. Don’t you want that?” —From the Introduction
Also available as a Random House Large Print Edition
From the Hardcover edition.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Very Informative
I normally can’t sit down long enough to read a book, but I found this very interesting and informative. She really makes you stop & think about your surroundings & lifestyle. I have gathered a lot of information for my family & friends to discuss with their doctors. It is a must read book.
4 Stars This book is anti-vegetarian
I have been a vegetarian for 3 years and it has balanced my hormones for the most part - naturally. I feel much better as a vegetarian and I’ll never go back to meat or dairy. I believe Suzanne is accurate in most things, but I don’t agree with the way she dealt with vegetarianism. The book says accurately that you need a high-fiber diet to get rid of excess bad estrogen, yet she recommends meat and dairy, which have no fiber or healthy phytochemicals. Meat has a place in this world for survival purposes, but meat is not necessary for optimal health.
The vegetarian woman in the book with health problems was on birth control pills, etc. One doctor said vegetarians don’t make enough cholesterol and therefore don’t make enough hormones. There are many unhealthy meat-eaters. Just because some meat-eaters are unhealthy, does that mean all meat-eaters are eating an unhealthy diet?
Suzanne eats meat, yet she still needs BHRT. If meat-eaters had all this wonderful cholesterol to make all these hormones in the body then they wouldn’t need BHRT. The book implies it’s best to eat a meat and dairy diet, but I don’t see any real evidence to support this thinking. All people, regardless of their diet need BHRT at some point for an optimum life. It seems like it’s usually meat-eaters who have hormone imbalances. When meat-eaters in the book have hormone problems, Suzanne never attacks a meat-eating diet. But if a vegetarian has a hormone problem, of course, it’s partly because of vegetarianism.
I recommend AGELESS to men and women of all ages. I think Suzanne is a great person and she should be honored for all she has done because I doubt she needs the money. Thank you, Suzanne.
5 Stars Ageless
My husband & I found this book to be very good in its information on Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy and understanding what it is and does. Suzanne interviews many doctors and gets the feedback from them on this fairly new idea for hormones. Excellent reading and highly recommended.
5 Stars AnonymousThis is an excellent book. I would highly recommend it for both men and women.
Anyone interested in the subject of Bioidentical Hormones should read this book. I have read other books on the subject by medical doctors and her book is very easy to read and understand the subject. She is not just writing about it, she has lived it. I also highly recommend Stop the Age Clock: Look 20 Years Younger, 20 Pounds Lighter and 200% Prettier in Only 20 Days Worth reading!
5 Stars I needed this book 20 years ago.
I’m 66 and have had menopausal problems for 20 years. This book was an eye-opener, especially the information about bio-identical hormones. It has good references about how to find a doctor who has a clue. I have referred this book to my daughters and daughter-in-law in the hope that they won’t have to suffer like I have. I love Suzanne and her earthy style of writing!
Eat to Live The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss
June 14, 2009 by Healthy Foods · Leave a Comment
Eat to Live The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss
A revolutionary new diet that has saved the lives of dangerously overweight individuals by letting them eat more of the right foods-and that can help anyone lose weight, from a quick 10 pounds to 40, 50 or more.
User Ratings and Reviews
1 Star Not for me
I really wanted to like this book but I just found it too impractical. There’s a lot of good info here but ultimately its not sustainable, at least for me. Your mileage may vary.
There may be people who can go 6 weeks eating only fruits and vegetables but I’m not of them. I find it hard to believe anyone can eat a big salad for lunch, and then have a salad with two sides of steamed veggies for dinner. And then repeat this for six weeks. Good luck.
A much better book for me was Burn The Fat, Feed the Muscle. Its a more balanced approach and recommends eating to fuel muscle growth instead of eating to starve your fat off. The book recommends eating lean proteins, complex carbs and healthy fats in 6 small meals a day, and then burning your fat off by at least 30 min/day of intense cardio. This works for me - I’ve lost 20 lbs in 2 months, with about 10 more to go. I’m never hungry, have waay more energy and have given up red meat completely. I wanted to splurge and celebrate my 20 lb weight loss the day the scale read 169, but the funny thing is, the last thing I wanted was some food that was bad for me. I went for a run instead. Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle. It works.
5 Stars Great Book !!!!
This is a very good eating plan. I do not consider it a diet because you are usually not hungry and you are eating very well. For the first time in my life other than being pregnant my fingernails are healty, very strong and growing like never before. A friend has lost almost 40 pounds so far on this plan. I would suggest this book for anyone wanting to get healthier and or needs to lose some weight.
5 Stars life-saving, inexpensive medical advice
Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss
This inexpensive book by Dr. Fuhrman, a practicing board-certified Family Physician, might be more appropriately titled: “Eat To Live, How to Avoid Diabetes, Heart Attacks, and Breast and Prostate Cancer.” He presents the powerful evidence that supports a plant-based, low-fat, whole food diet as a cure (not just treatment) for adult onset diabetes and for coronary artery disease, the two most common dietary complications of our Western, meat and dairy-based diet.
The health implications of this information are so urgent in our society that I have purchased several copies of the book to share with friends and family.
5 Stars Fabulous book!!!
Everyone should own a copy of this book. Everyone should READ this book! And, start to shift bad habits, into healthy, life-prolonging, disease preventing habits. You are what you eat!! Don’t continue to be sucked into the media pressure of consuming things that are killing you. Educate yourself (this book is a great start) and then start to make changes to your diet and nutrition at a pace you can handle. New habits can be formed… but, good health isn’t for people that “need it” — it’s for people that “want it”. Do you family a favor… and “want it” - so they can enjoy spending time with a healthy version of you 
5 Stars food guru
What a great book! Mark BIttman referred to Dr. Fuhrman and I’m so glad I read both books by these guys. I even purchased the Eat for Health 2 book set and dvd, it’s made a tremendous difference in my energy & my husband & my health. Read it, try to incorporate even a few of Dr. Fuhrman’s ideas, you won’t regret it!
