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09-06-2014 12:14 PM
I think her line is very stale... and her prices have gotten too high for what she is selling . I use to enjoy listening to her, but, lately she seems to just repeat herself each visit and might as well just record herself and play the recording over and over. Especially her selling the face master.... how many times has THAT been on....
09-06-2014 03:39 PM
I am interested in her hair serum and her body lotions as they both have great reviews!!!!!Her prices for her makeup seem really high and the colors do not impress me!
09-06-2014 04:24 PM
09-06-2014 04:39 PM
09-06-2014 04:42 PM
It's ALL I/we use. Love the shampoo (rarely need conditioner). Love the make up. Love the body lotions.
My whole family uses these products (from babies to teens to our children).
I got LOTS of give cards for my birthday so I am shopping away!
$2.99 shipping for products and on her site it's free over $100. It's not hard to spend a hundred on her website.
09-06-2014 04:49 PM
SS vs. Joan Rivers - NO COMPARISON!
09-06-2014 05:01 PM
Her shampoo and conditioner are the absolute best. Once I tried them - well no more conditioning cleanser for me!! I have used the facemaster since she first sold it and was without for about 1 year and a half when she needed to get FDA approval. I got another when she was able to sell them again and WOW what a difference it made! I had forgotten how great it toned my face. I also use her face cleanser, lotion and body butters. Just because some have seen her shows over and over doesn't mean all others have. She needs to pitch/explain every product the way it should be regardless if OP and others who might complain have heard it before!!
I also like that she has done a lot of research with so many doctors who use innovative treatments that most doctors who refuse to deviate from the things doctors are taught in med school and choose to remain stagnant in their treatment options and who only want to prescribe/push possibly harmful drugs when there are better natural treatments. Some just want a drug prescribed and that fine for them but I don't want to end up taking more drugs for the side effects of the first , etc!! She just doesn't make stuff up - she does extensive research and if you read any of her books you will see.
09-06-2014 05:29 PM
I am glad there are options out there for people who choose to use organic or more natural products. I used the shampoo and conditioner this AM and I will say my hair looks good but more importantly, my scalp is not as irritated as it can be using other shampoos. Also like her bath products quite a bit.
09-06-2014 07:01 PM
On 9/6/2014 BellaCarro said: I happened to tune in for an odd segment that had her DH apologizing for not having her coffee out for her. It was somewhat lighthearted but nonetheless odd. Went on forever, too. At least it was still going on when I turned the channel. I have some trouble with her stance on medical issues, too. Honestly, I've never seriously looked into her line.
I have no problem with the whole "natural" movement as long as it's based on fact and science and not just the flapping of gums. Every time I would even see a snippet of SS presenting, she was always spouting some ridiculous statements that had no basis in reality whatsoever. It was as if she was making it up as she went along.
LipstickDiva started a thread the last time SS was on because she heard one of those pronouncements. I think it was something about shampoo or hair color and the brain. Some may recall that thread. Funloving, a cancer survivor, and I posted on it in tandem.
I have no opinion about her current line of skincare or cosmetics. I know that some here love them and enjoy them. I do have a major problem with her taking any stance on medical issues. But I guess she is a savior to those who think that the medical industry and government exist only to conspire against us. She plays that fiddle like a pro.
She has been repudiated time and again, even by doctors she had included in her 2007 book. Here is an excellent look at SS:
Things are going great for Suzanne Somers. She has a new book out, sure to be a best-seller, as it has been promoted on countless morning talk shows.
At 67, she looks great and feels great, she has said during TV appearances. She's having s with her husband twice daily, she confessed this month on the TV show "The Talk." And in recent years, with the promotional help of Oprah and the like, she has positioned herself as a women's health advocate and anti-aging expert.
Rarely highlighted, however, is the fact that nearly every sentence Somers says about health is incorrect -- woefully and dangerously incorrect. Women need to understand the potential harm of the hormone therapy Somers promotes.
Somers' lack of scientific knowledge should give women reason to forgo her advice. Consider her interview on the Fox News segment "A Healthy You," on Oct. 5 with host Carol Alt, who, in typical you-go-girl fashion, opened with the question, "How did you go from being a comedic genius to health guru?"
During their discussion, Somers offers this insight about evolution: "When the brain perceives you are no longer reproductive because your hormones are out of balance, it tries to get rid of you, and it usually activates the cancers in perimenopause."
But in reality, while evolution has little influence over how we age past reproductive years, there's no evidence that evolution attempts to kill the infertile. In fact, grandparents are useful, from an evolutionary perspective, to take care of grandchildren or to otherwise gather and prepare food for the community. [10 Celebrities With Chronic Illnesses]
Next, when asked to comment on why women in developing countries don't experience severe symptoms of perimenopause, Somers chalked it up to "stress and toxicity," adding, "They say we experience more stress in a single day… than people of Elizabethan times did in their whole lifetime, and they were chased by tigers. …Walking down the streets here is stressful. And think of all the mold in the building here, and think of all the toxins we are exposed to on a daily basis."
Holding aside Somers' possible allusion to poet William Blake, her comparison of stress levels between the U.S. and developing countries seems to discount the intense stress of civil wars in sub-Sahara Africa, of forced migrations, food insecurity, rape and an AIDS epidemic. Somers should think, too, about the far greater amounts of mold and toxins, such as particulates from indoor cooking, that most of humankind has endured for millennia untold.
Finally, when asked to comment on cancer and diet, Somers begins by saying, "When I didn't take chemotherapy, and decided to go another way…."
In reality, Somers' breast cancer was successfully treated by a conventional lumpectomy, followed by radiation therapy, she has said. She merely declined follow-up, post-cancer chemotherapy that doctors may prescribe for extra assurance. Somers continuously implies that she had some kind of "all-natural" food and vitamin cancer cure.
And so on in every interview that Suzanne Somers gives.
While parts of Somers' most recent book, "I'm Too Young for This!: The Natural Hormone Solution to Enjoy Perimenopause" (Random House, 2013), are benign — there's lots of basic diet information, such as to eat more fruits and vegetables — the premise is still alarming. And that's this so-called natural hormone solution.
Somers' hit a wall of medical controversy that is shamefully never mentioned on the talk show rounds with her 2007 book, "Ageless: The Naked Truth About Bioidentical Hormones." In short, even doctors who prescribe bioidentical hormones, a relatively new and unproven therapy, issued a public letter to Somers and her publisher, stating how certain protocols in her book are "scientifically unproven and dangerous." The doctors who signed the letter included the doctors mentioned in her book.
Somers relies predominately on a particular hormone therapy called the Wiley Protocol, from Teresa S. Wiley, an author with no medical or even scientific training, who only recently received a B.A. in anthropology when it was revealed her stated degree from 1975 was indeed nonexistent.
Hormone therapy is complicated. Many menopausal women stopped taking it after it was revealed in well-conducted studies that the therapy of estrogen plus progestin, aimed at countering naturally decreasing levels of these hormones, led to an increased risk of breast cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke and heart attacks.
But women's menopausal symptoms have not gone away, and many women have been turning to natural products for relief. Enter bioidentical hormones.
Bioidentical hormones are identical at a biological and chemical level to hormones made in the body, and are mostly made from plants. The hormones often used in conventional hormone therapy might closely resemble, but do not match, endogenous hormones.
There is no evidence that bioidentical or FDA-approved non-bioidentical hormones behave differently in the body. Both are natural in that they can be derived from plants and sometimes mare urine. Both are unnatural in that they are made in a factory… and, well, derived from plants and mare urine.
The FDA has approved several bioidentical hormones. Somers' books, however, describes custom-compounded bioidentical hormones, meaning they are produced by a pharmacy mixing ingredients of various naturally derived hormones. This production process places most of these bioidenticals beyond the realm of FDA regulation, so that their purity and potency is questioned. The medicine is then boxed and labeled, with no mention to the inherent dangers of hormone therapy.
What dangers? Aside from the aforementioned cancer and heart disease, in 2003 the FDA examined 29 otherwise unregulated compounded pharmaceuticals and found that a third failed a standard quality test, with nine having fewer active ingredients than posted on the label. In 2012, nearly 1,000 people contracted fungal meningitis from compounded corticosteroids, and 64 died, according to the CDC.
"The logical mistake that many smart women make is that they assume a lack of evidence of harm is the same thing as proof of safety -- not so," said Dr. Nanette Santoro, a professor of o b/gyn and medicine at the University of Colorado in Denver and among the nation's leading experts on infertility and peri- and postmenopause.
"The biggest issue is the lack of evidence for safety or efficacy," Santoro added. "The available evidence suggests that overdosage and underdosage can be common. There are many perfectly acceptable, FDA-approved forms of hormone therapy that provide natural estradiol that is chemically identical to the steroid that circulates in the bloodstream, and there is natural progesterone that is identical to what is made in the ovary that is FDA-approved, so there is really no reason for compounded hormones for the vast majority of people."
Women should be advised that in subscribing to a hormone therapy advocated by the evolutionary and socio-biological expert Suzanne Somers and the author-c um-clinical-protocol-creator T.S. Wiley, you are entering into something that is controversial and are going against the advice of nearly every medical authority in the United States, despite what Oprah and the ladies on "The View" say.
Note also that part of the reason why Somers looks at least marginally younger than some others at age 67 is likely the combination of hair dye (presumably natural dyes), botox (among the most toxic, natural substances known), collagen fillers (yes, natural), and, quite possibly, according to plastic surgeon and blogger Tony Youn, a stem-cell face-lift, explaining her puffy lower face.
This is the state of science and health information on television talk shows.
From an article on livescience.com.
09-06-2014 08:34 PM
hhmmm...she has bangs down to her eyebrows covering her forehead and wears turtlenecks to cover her
neck and throat and I'm supposed to take her seriously a beauty maven?????
I don't think so..................
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