(Jan. 30) - Former 'Three's Company' beauty Suzanne Somers visited 'Oprah' on Thursday to share her secret to appearing so young and fit at the tender age of 61, and the answer boils down to this: lotsa pills.
"I'm my own experiment," Suzanne Somers readily admits when discussing her admittedly "extreme" daily regiment to stay young and fit.
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First thing's first, she rubs a dabble of estrogen cream on the inside of her arm. "The reason you put it on the skin, is that with every pulse of blood throughout the day, these hormones are pulsing through your body."
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Also in the morning, she gives herself a shot of estrogen, vaginally.
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Then come the pills, all 60 of them. In the morning, she takes about 40 supplements.
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Some of them are blended into a smoothie, which uses to wash down other supplements.
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"You don't have to take all this, though the deeper you get into it, the more your apt to keep adding to it." She readily admits that her pill diet is on the extreme side of things, saying, "I know I look like some kind of freak and fanatic."
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During a segment of the show, which can be seen at The Huffington Post, the actress invites cameras into her home to demonstrate the bulk of her daily health care routine. What part did she thankfully leave out for viewers? When she injects estriol, a type of estrogen, vaginally.
The full regimen goes like so:
>> The actress rubs a dabble of estrogen cream on the inside of her arm. Two weeks of every month she also applies a Progesterone substance on the other arm. "The reason you put it on the skin, is that with every pulse of blood throughout the day, these hormones are pulsing through your body."
>> Every morning, Somers injects the estriol into her you-know-what. "I'm not showing you how I do that," she jokes.
>> Now the kitchen, where she swallows about 40 supplements in the morning, some in a smoothie that her husband makes for her. "It's good," she says as she gulps more pills while downing the vita-drink, "Here's why our marriage has lasted 41 years." Then, before she goes to bed she takes another 20 supplements.
"You don't have to take all this, though the deeper you get into it, the more your apt to keep adding to it."
She readily admits that her pill diet is on the extreme side of things, saying, "I know I look like some kind of freak and fanatic."
But for Somers, it's all about sticking around as long as possible, and looking good doing it. "I want to be there," pointing to her head, "until I'm 110, and I'm gonna do what I have to do to get there."
Don't necessarily try this at home, she tells Oprah later. "I'm on the far end," she says. "I'm my own experiment."
Somers' best-selling book, 'Breakthrough: Eight Steps to Wellness,' recommends hormone treatment as an alternative to estrogen supplements that are commonly used for hot flashes and other effects of menopause. The book asserts that these treatments can reverse aging, and help keep the patient mentally sharp and sexually active.
