Ageless: The Naked Truth About Bioidentical Hormones by Suzanne Somers Read Free Book Online Page B

in my ear: Figure out what you have been doing all of your life to give this to yourself,and correct those habits and behaviors, much as you would approach therapy.
    Precancer in my uterus was another opportunity to research deeper. As women we have become informed about our bodies. We cannot turn over life decisions to our doctors. So often conditions in women are misunderstood by standard Western medicine. To make matters worse, often the treatment we are given is antiquated and ego-driven by a medical community that doesn’t like to be perceived as “wrong.” It’s as though they would rather keep feeding us pharmaceuticals than go back and study the latest breakthroughs. The exceptions are represented by the doctors in this book and others I haven’t yet discovered.
    It was a logical conclusion for me to realize that if I was unknowingly hormonally imbalanced in my youth, then my body was a perfect breeding ground for cancer. The same conclusions are coming from doctors around the country trying to be heard, who feel that bioidentical hormone replacement, exactly as it happens in nature, is the best defense against disease.
    As you read further in this book, you will have a clear understanding of static dosing and rhythmic cycling, which will enable you to choose the way you want to go. This is updated information from The Sexy Years . When I wrote that book, I did not know about rhythmic cycling as an option. As medicine progresses, new information keeps coming forth.
    Once you fully understand new concepts such as rhythmic cycling, then you can choose what’s best for you and decide for yourself what feels right. In order to make an informed choice, you must understand the ramifications of every option offered to women. Those options are the following:
Synthetic hormones, which are drugs and not really hormones.
Natural aging, which means not taking anything and allowing for the gradual shutdown of your body, accelerated aging, and the diseases that go with it.
Nutritional supplements, which are important to antiaging but do nothing to replace the hormones lost in aging.
Bioidentical hormone replacement on a static dose, explained in chapter 5 .
Bioidentical hormone replacement dosed in rhythmic cycling, also explained in chapter 5 .
    To be informed, you must understand each premise or you are doing yourself a disservice. You can choose whatever route you want to go, but at least you will have a complete understanding of the ramifications of each one. This book will help guide you.
    I believe there are two ways to approach aging: the right way and the wrong way; the wrong way is taking drugs or doing nothing at all, the right way is to replace the hormones you’ve lost with bioidenticals, supported by proper diet, supplementation, exercise, sleep, and stress management. They all work together.
    It is my opinion, after speaking with so many informed Western-trained doctors, that putting real hormones back is definitely the right way. Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy will allow you to have a happy, healthy, vital life. Without balanced hormones through this natural form of therapy, you can expect extreme discomfort within your own body, a diminished quality of life, and the potential for the diseases of aging.
    If this information resonates with you, you will be motivated to find a doctor to prescribe BHRT the right way. Your compounding pharmacist is a good place to be directed to a qualified doctor. You can guide your doctor yourself and take your hormonal health into your own hands safely. A lot of women are now doing exactly that. You will hear from them in this book. The testimonials from women and men who found BHRT are emotional as they explain how it has changed the quality of their lives for the better.
    The doctors interviewed for this book are endocrinologists, antiaging endocrinologists, molecular biologists, oncologists, doctors who specialize in male hormones, gynecologists, and internists