Suzanne Somers Quotes

My first day as a woman and I am already having hot flushes

I think when you start messing with your own hormones, it's crazy-making.

The literature of menopause is the saddest, the most awful, and the most medical of all genres. You're sleepless, you're anxious, you're fat, you're depressed - and the advice is always the same: take more walks, eat some kale, and drink lots of water. It didn't help.

I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die.

If your body produces testosterone naturally, fine. Mine doesn't.

I had some real health complications with my HRT - hormone replacement therapy.

Right now I don't call it the menopause, I call it men-on-pause.

In my case, when it arrived at 49, perimenopause was terrifying and like nothing I had ever before physically experienced.

As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.

I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.

What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, 'I need more hormones.' So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it's even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle.

I feel special. Most women will have only one menopause, and they will hate it. I will have two, and when the second one comes, I will know what is coming. I am having my extra menopause as a cure. I have endometriosis.

The reason I wrote 'I'm Too Young for This!' is to spare young women the suffering of hormonal loss - and it is true suffering. You can't sleep, you gain weight for no reason, you bloat for no reason, your moods are altered, and your sex drive is diminished.

If you skew the endocrine system, you lose the pathways to self. When endocrine patterns change, it alters the way you think and feel. One shift in the pattern tends to trip another.

Our entire personality, our energy level, and how we cope is hormonal.

Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.

Many marriages break up over hormonal imbalance, which is truly sad because it comes from a lack of understanding. When hormones are put back in balance with natural bioidentical hormones, a woman or man resumes their normal life of feeling good and having days filled with quality.

I will not tolerate your menopausic outbursts.

When it comes to my skin, let's just say my dermatologist is on my speed dial. I have this major hormonal imbalance so it all just sort of flares up every few months.

More of us may be affected by variant hormone levels than we realize.

If you bring in testosterone outside your body, it probably stops producing it because it thinks you're going to get it from the outside.

I might actually be allergic to testosterone. Whenever I've felt a testosterone rush I get, like, sick afterwards, and I feel exhausted and terrible.

The testosterone levels of a normal male can be anywhere from 300-1,000 nanograms. For the average female, it's 10-70. Mine is around 7.

If I don't take estrogen hormone replacement therapy, I can get osteoporosis.

I just feel like estrogen is bad hormones, and seen as shameful.