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Suzanne Somers is a role model for us all. At 74, she looks and feels terrific. A well-known and respected authority on health and wellness, Suzanne and her 85-year-old husband, Alan Hamel, are showing us a new way to age. They have sex twice a day. Several days each week the couple hold live Facebook and Instagram sessions from their 92-acre Palm Springs compound, sharing stories on Hollywood, health, family and more.<\/p>\n
Suzanne has been ahead of her time consistently throughout her 50-year career. In the late 1970s, she created the now-iconic role of ditzy Chrissy Snow in the sitcom Three\u2019s Company<\/em>, and then was fired when she dared to ask ABC for pay commensurate with that of the male cast members. She never looked back, forging ahead to build a highly successful career in multiple fields.<\/p>\n A prolific author, Suzanne has written 27 books, 14 of them New York Times<\/em> bestsellers, focusing on health and helping readers to find products, education and services to improve their lives. Covering topics such as mental health, weight loss, nutrition, beauty, integrative cancer protocols and more, her books have been translated into many languages throughout the world.<\/p>\n A savvy serial entrepreneur, Suzanne was one of the very first celebrity entrepreneurs to understand and apply the power of infomercials and shopping on television. She introduced her weight loss program, beauty items, apparel, jewelry and personal fitness products to consumers on Home Shopping Network in 1992, quickly becoming one of the network\u2019s top-selling brand names. Over the years, she expanded her product offerings to include vitamins and supplements.<\/p>\n Suzanne Somers<\/strong><\/p>\n Suzanne\u2019s famous 1990s sensation, the ThighMaster\u00ae, is still as popular as ever, with over 10 million sold worldwide. She has since developed thousands of products in multiple categories that can be found on her website.<\/p>\n Finding opportunity in adversity, Suzanne completely changed her lifestyle after a cancer diagnosis in 2000, and now follows a strictly organic diet. \u201cI eat as though my life depends upon it, because I believe it does,\u201d she says. Her further research revealed that in addition to the food supply, toxins are also present in commercial skin care and hair care products, as well as in cosmetics. So, she developed her own line of organic, toxin-free beauty products for hair, skin and nails.<\/p>\n Suzanne introduced mainstream America to bioidentical hormones (BHRT) and continues to educate women and men on the life-saving benefits of this natural alternative to help turn the clock back \u2013 from the inside out.\u00a0 She follows a detailed regime of alternative and integrative medicine, including supplements, enzymes, peptides and more.<\/p>\n After Suzanne was fired from Three\u2019s Company<\/em> in 1980, her husband Alan declared that they would never work for anyone else again, and ever since the duo has run a lean, efficient company, one of America\u2019s greatest success stories of a female owned-and-operated business. Caroline Somers, their daughter-in-law, has been president of SOMERS Companies for 30 years, overseeing product development, web sales and marketing.<\/p>\n In short, Suzanne Somers was and continues to be a trailblazer, establishing herself as a brand decades before modern-day influencers like the Kardashians latched onto the concept.<\/p>\n Suzanne Somers<\/strong><\/p>\n Aging is an inevitability, and we\u2019ve come to expect that we\u2019re going to get sick as we get old. Suzanne Somers challenges us to entertain the idea that we can age without illness, that we can live out our lives with vitality, keeping our minds and bones in top condition.<\/p>\n \u201cI have to say that since I embraced health, I have never enjoyed life more,\u201d she says. \u201cI like the way I look. I like the way I feel. I like my energy. I have wisdom. I have perspective, and I can tell you that aging can be so incredible if you know how to approach it. It takes a little bit of work. It\u2019s about health; about shifting your thinking and understanding what it is that\u2019s making us sick and how we can combat it.\u201d<\/p>\n Suzanne strives to view everything in life as an opportunity. When life threw her a curve with a breast cancer diagnosis over 20 years ago, she asked herself how her diet and lifestyle habits led her to play host to this disease.<\/p>\n Examining her lifestyle, she realized that she hadn\u2019t been getting enough sleep, kept up a stressful schedule with long hours, partied a lot and wasn\u2019t concerned about the chemicals in the food and beauty products she consumed. She knew nothing about hormones, which play an important role in keeping us healthy as we age. \u201cNow that I\u2019ve put all the pieces together, I realized I was such a likely target,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sleep, hormonal balance, eating right<\/strong><\/p>\n Each person\u2019s body is different, but some key factors for aging successfully are eating right, getting a proper amount of sleep, and maintaining hormonal balance. \u201cThese are all connected,\u201d Suzanne stresses.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have to learn the language of our bodies. Itching, bitching, lack of sleep, sweating, bloating, forgetfulness, being dried up; that\u2019s the body talking,\u201d she says. Those symptoms are your body telling you it needs some help.<\/p>\n \u201cListen to your body,\u201d she advises. \u201cYou can\u2019t sleep unless you balance your hormones,\u201d she explains. Once your hormones are balanced you can start going to sleep earlier, which reduces cortisol and insulin levels, allowing weight loss.<\/p>\n Hormones<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cHormones are not just for menopausal women,\u201d Suzanne declares. \u201cHormones are for all of us, they\u2019re the juice of youth, governing every aspect of our lives and emotions and health.\u201d If we\u2019re cavalier about our hormones and don\u2019t keep them balanced, it creates chaos, with sickness and emotional upheavals and stress, making it difficult to embrace life.<\/p>\n \u201cPerimenopause is actually a great stage of life if you have balanced hormones,\u201d Suzanne says. \u201cIf you get your hormones back, your brain thinks you\u2019re reproductive, everything is working nicely, but you don\u2019t have to worry about getting pregnant,\u201d she explains. \u201cYou can have all the fun you want.\u201d<\/p>\n At this phase of life, hair loses some luster, wrinkles begin to appear, and there are bloating and mood fluctuations. \u201cI threw things!\u201d she says. \u201cI can\u2019t believe I threw things; I\u2019m so even-tempered now. I\u2019m so wonderful to live with now.\u201d<\/p>\n However, perimenopause is the phase when many women develop breast cancer; it\u2019s when Suzanne was diagnosed.<\/p>\n Now she wishes she\u2019d started on hormones in her thirties. \u201cAs we decline, we can now fill the tank with bioidentical hormones; not too much, not too little \u2013 exactly; optimal health. It\u2019s the most exciting thing that\u2019s ever happened. It means that we can remain even all the way through, and as you get older you just need a little more.\u201d<\/p>\n And balanced hormones help to maintain a normal sex drive. \u201cWhen you don\u2019t have hormones, you don\u2019t care about sex. I mean, you can do it, but you\u2019d rather have a smoothie.\u201d She knows, she\u2019s been there. \u201cI didn\u2019t like being there. I used to really like it, and I had three miserable years.\u201d<\/p>\n Eating right<\/strong><\/p>\n What we eat is so important, and nature provided us with herbs and spices to make food more flavorful. Thyme, rosemary, tarragon, mint, turmeric, chives, cayenne, cumin, and cinnamon are nature\u2019s antioxidants. \u201cIt\u2019s as though nature knew we\u2019d be bombarded with free radicals and chemicals coming into our bodies all the time. Bringing these antioxidants into your food helps eliminate free radicals.\u201d<\/p>\n If she goes to a restaurant whose food is not organic, she later takes a course of antioxidants to counterbalance the effects of her meal.<\/p>\n A simple change in your diet, taking in omega-3 oils like olive, flax, or coconut oil, helps to keep cell membranes pliable, allowing air and water to flow through and flush chemicals that enter the body from food or the environment. Too many malfunctioning cells can lead to diseases like cancer, from lack of nutrition, hydration, and oxygen, explains Suzanne. \u201cWe need air and water in our bodies to be more energetic.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Suzanne-Somers-157x300.png\")
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