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Breakthrough: Eight Steps to Wellness | 
| Author: Suzanne Somers
Publisher: Crown
Category: Book
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Rating:  63 reviews
Sales Rank: 144
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 464
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.7
ISBN: 1400053277
Dewey Decimal Number: 613
EAN: 9781400053278
ASIN: 1400053277
Publication Date: September 9, 2008
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Product Description
Life-Altering Secrets from Today’s Cutting-Edge Doctors and the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Ageless
Today’s most trusted advocate of antiaging medicine, Suzanne Somers, deepens her commitment to helping people lead healthier, happier lives by opening their eyes to cutting-edge, proven remedies and preventative care that most doctors just aren’t talking about with patients: longevity medicine and the more progressive study of bioidentical hormones.
As we age, certain hormones diminish, creating an imbalance that can set off everything from perimenopause to cancer, beginning as early as our thirties. This hormonal imbalance is causing many to feel depressed, anxious, fatigued, sexless, sleepless, and ultimately ill, sometimes even terminally. What’s more, Somers and twenty doctors in the field of antiaging medicine argue that the processed chemicals in foods and pharmaceuticals we ply ourselves with are actually slowly eroding our bodies and minds. So we’re getting slammed twice. From estrogen dominance to deceptive thyroid problems, people are suffering, and most don’t have access to the treatment they truly need to get better and thrive . . . until now.
Breakthrough explores cutting-edge science and delivers smart, proactive advice on the newest treatments for breakthrough health and longevity.
In addition to being a pioneer in a rapidly growing health field, Somers is a passionate, caring individual whose own life was derailed by disease and brought back to unimaginable, feel good heights that she wants you, too, to experience.
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A must Read, but a little wordy January 2, 2009
Suzanne Somers does a great job of explaining bioidentical hormones with her group of doctors. She is very repetitive and the treatments recommended will financially break the average person. The recommendations, however, are insightful and well worth a try, if you can afford to. I did get some supplementation ideas from this book and will give that a go. We will see if BREAKTHROUGH medicine makes it into mainstream and our health insurances pick up some of the tab, because what she says does ultimately make sense.
If I could afford to, I would do all the tests recommended and get on these natural alternatives, now before I age and before I get sick.
This book is recommended and the rating of a 4 is because she is longwinded and repeats herself. Otherwise, read and enjoy, I did in a couple of days. It has a lot of useful information.
 Finally! December 29, 2008
Finally!!! Someone who is credible(Suzanne Somers)is getting this info out to the public in a format that is reaching and convincing us. These ideas are not new; my chiropractor/naturopath has been espousing them for years. The problem we face is getting the traditional medical community to loosen their grip on the ineffective, traditional medical model, come on board, and work on illness prevention and the promotion of good health, as opposed to reactive pill popping. I live in Pittsburgh and have had no success in finding a doctor who will prescribe more than minimal doses of BHRT. Hopefully, it is coming... For your health and wellness, you must read this book.
 SERIOUSLY FLAWED RESEARCH AND ADVICE, BUT SOME NUGGETS OF WISDOM AS WELL December 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a research scientist, I would have to say that this is the type of book that gets consumers in trouble. There's some excellent advice, but it is mixed with information that is downright wrong, presented by "experts" whose credentials are outright fraudulent. Take, for example, she devotes her last chapter to David Schmidt's pseudo-research, a man with dubious credentials (on some of his youtube videos, he has people with false credentials endorsing his claims about energy patches, etc., and Schmidt and his products are amply featured on scam-watch websites). Her negativity about statins is also biased and flawed. A search of the national medical database (free abstracts at pubmed.gov) will show that statins improve health; but if you really want to encourage people not to take them, Somers could have looked closely at the findings that these drugs lower cardiovascular risk by 25%. That may sound meaningful, but when you dig a little deeper, you'll find that your risk of having a medical crisis is lowered from 5% to just under 4%. Statistically, you've made a 25% improvement, but you've only lowered your chances by 1%. So is it really worth the expense, and potential side effects for that 1%? That choice is the reader's, but we should be given more accurate information. Somers' book miserably fails, leaving the average reader oblivious to which data are factual or fictional. Why do people believe celebrities more than good researchers? I and Dr. Newberg at the University of Pennsylvania answer these types of questions in our book, Born to Believe: God, Science, and the Origin of Ordinary and Extraordinary Beliefs. Her info on hormones is mixed and confusing, but her information on low doses of lithium I found intriguing. Ultimately, you, the reader, are going to have to do a lot of research on pubmed.gov to separate the truth from the bunk, which is why I recommend other books and authors. Overall, her advice to eat fruits and vegies and to stay away from processed food is probably the best overall advice in this book.
HOPEFUL TO EVERYONE December 28, 2008
I was told to purchase this book & it would help me in so many ways.
When I received it I started reading it & couldn't put it down. It is truly insightful.
I am suffering from parasites for the last 4 years. Doctors have been unable to help me. This book helped me in so many ways. I have also been diagnosed with cancer. Again there is info here to help me too.
Believe me, buy this book, get it at the library, whatever you have to do to sit down & thoroughly read it. This is a MUST TO READ BOOK.....
I'm buying "Breakthrough "Today December 21, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Sommers is 62,looks 32,has been cancer free for 7 years,without chemo,I'm taking her word and buying "Breakthrough".
I just saw Suzanne on Larry King,and her anti-aging healthy living makes sense.Sommers has over 300 Doctors with advice in her new book,and I agree that were using too many chemicals,not eating our food right,and not eating the right food.
She has even had stem cells taken from her to replace organs and bones when needed.This process takes 4 hours,but its a one time deal,and cost under $8.000.
Her dream is to have her own wellness retreat one day.
I haven't bought "Breakthrough" yet,but I have to get this book after seeing this show.
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