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Suzanne Somers’ ‘Bombshell’ Redefines Aging
In her new book, Suzanne Somers reveals the secrets behind some cutting-edge medical advances that she believes could revolutionize the way we think about getting older.
Suzanne Somers is 65 years old, but you’d never know it from looking at her.
Somers, an actress, author, and breast cancer survivor, has the blonde hair and enviable figure of a woman half her age. And it’s not just cosmetic. She feels as young as she looks.
“I’m in great health, I’m sexual, and I’m not on any drugs,” she says. “I used to think that aging was unpleasant, but I now know that it can be the best time of life.”
In fact, she says, she’s never felt better or sexier.
Beyond Traditional Health Care
So what’s Somers’ secret? Has she found the ever-elusive fountain of youth?
Not exactly — but she has found a team of progressive doctors and researchers who may be able to simulate it. They, along with their discoveries, are the subject of Somers’ new book, Bombshell: Explosive Medical Secrets That Will Redefine Aging.
The book, a series of profiles of and interviews with 15 physicians, spotlights a dozen bombshells, or breakthroughs, that Somers says will change the way we think about getting older. Among the biggest of these, she claims, is a supplement that could significantly extend the human lifespan, a natural alternative to bypass surgery, stem cell research to end cancer, and a skin patch that uses nanotechnology to slow down or prevent free-radical damage to cells.
“This book is meant to blow your mind with the possibilities for your future and present health,” she writes in the intro to Bombshell No. 1. “A lot of the information… is outside the box. The new stuff is not what shows up from most orthodox medical doctors, but here is presented by cutting-edge Western-trained doctors, scientists, and professionals…the best of the best.”
Somers is famous — or infamous, depending on whom you ask — for her alternative approach to health. In recent years, she’s become known just as much for her unconventional medical views as for her roles on sitcoms such as Three’s Company and Step by Step.
In 2006, Somers started a national debate on The Oprah Winfrey Show when she advocated for bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT), a controversial (and non-FDA approved) treatment for menopause that was also the subject of her book Ageless. Then, in 2008, she sparked another much-publicized dispute, this time with the American Cancer Society, by promoting alternative therapies over standard treatments like chemo and radiation. And last year, more than a decade after a lumpectomy to remove a tumor in her right breast, she became the first American participant in a clinical trial for cell-assisted lipotransfer, an innovative (and, it should be noted, still experimental) stem-cell procedure that literally regrew her breast using fat from other parts of her body.
“I appreciate health care that gets to the root cause of our symptoms and promotes wellness, rather than the one-size-fits-all drug-based approach to treating disease,” she said of her preference for nontraditional medicine. “I love maintaining an optimal quality of life — naturally.”
Did she list all her cosmetic surgeries in the book? I’m sure she look very good with makeup, some tucking, lifting, and filling in from all those procedures she had done. There’s nothing wrong with her having those things done but there is something wrong if she’s passing her appearance as being that of natural aging to sell her books.
Spot on.