Bioidentical hormones are products that are chemically identical to what’s made in a woman’s body. Some are approved as medications; others are supplements.
Many of Somers’s best-selling books, including her latest, Breakthrough: Eight Steps to Wellness,strongly encourage women to use bioidentical estrogen and progesterone supplements after they hit menopause.
Since these are identical to the hormones made by the human body, Somers reasons, they are safe and even beneficial to take well into old age—whereas, she believes, traditional hormone therapies, with slightly different molecular structures, are harmful. She has a cadre of experts to back up her claims and recently touted the antiaging benefits of bioidenticals on the Oprah Winfrey Show to cheers from Oprah, who herself takes the supplements.


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