This "Breakthrough" Needs Fixing
By Michael E. Platt M.D.
Ms. Somers has taken an important subject and made it
unnecessarily complicated and perhaps inappropriate/impossible for the average
reader. If one were to follow her "breakthrough" recommendations, they would be
spending much of their life detoxing, eating organic fruits and vegetables and
little else), exercising, getting lymphatic massages, having their root canals
and fillings extracted, getting their electrical currents measured, setting
aside blood for future stem cell needs at $7500 a pop), having chelation
therapy, taking HGH shots, and eliminating all foods that provide a modicum of
pleasure in today's world.
Much of what is stated is important and helpful, but a true wellness book should
have been more definitive about people getting off medications, not just statin
drugs. A true wellness physician should be able to eliminate all medications
that his/her patients are on. This is achieved by eliminating the causation of
illness, a subject that is not covered in this book.
There are many people who have difficulty sleeping, have
restless leg syndrome, anger issues, road rage, fibromyalgia( which is not an
auto-immune disorder or an inflammatory condition as stated in the book ),
depression or IBS from internalization of anger, hypertension, a problem with
excessive drinking, or smoking, or drugs in order to "chill out",
anxiousness-type feelings, bipolar disorders, excess cortisol production leading
to weight gain, chronic interstitial cystitis, etc. Every one of these
conditions are caused by an over-production of a hormone that is scarcely
mentioned in the book - adrenaline, the fight-or-flight hormone. The control of
this hormone is imperative to achieving wellness; ironically, it is easy to do.
Every one of the conditions mentioned can often be eliminated by lowering the
levels of this hormone.
I am a wellness physician and very much supportive of what Ms. Somers is trying
to accomplish. It does not have to be complicated, it involves sitting down and
talking to the patient, getting hormones in balance appropriately without
unnecessarily high doses of estrogen or any at all since most women never stop
making it), removing medications, an education in nutrition, and the correct use
of supplements.
For the record I would like to clarify some statements in the book: Estrogen
lowers IGF-1 levels. It is dangerous to use these levels as a guide to HGH
dosage when taking estrogen as does Ms. Somers). Progesterone lowers insulin
levels, it does not raise them.
HGH is not an anti-aging hormone; it increases IGF-1 which speeds up aging.
Testosterone does not lower cholesterol levels, but is certainly
cardio-protective for both men and women.
In men, testosterone can easily convert into estradiol, the cause of prostate
cancer. Perhaps some mention should have been made about how to prevent this
conversion.
Migraine headaches are not "a classic response to low estrogen". They are caused
by estrogen and are eliminated by progesterone cream. "A backed-up gall bladder"
is not the most common cause of headaches.
Suzanne Somers began her book with the same quotation that I ended mine with. My
book begins with a quotation from Voltaire who stated that, "Doctors give drugs
of which they know little/Into bodies of which they know less/For diseases of
which they know nothing at all".
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Michael E. Platt, M.D. practices in Rancho Mirage, CA and is the author of
The Miracle of Bio-identical Hormones,2nd edition.
Source: January, 2009 Put Old on Hold Newsletter
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