Oprah health tips:Best life or Risky advice from Newsweek

[Ocracoker16]

In January, Oprah Winfrey invited Suzanne Somers on her show to share her unusual secrets to staying young. Each morning, the 62-year-old actress and self-help author rubs a potent estrogen cream into the skin on her arm. She smears progesterone on her other arm two weeks a month. And once a day, she uses a syringe to inject estrogen directly into her vagina. The idea is to use these unregulated "bio-identical" hormones to restore her levels back to what they were when she was in her 30s, thus fooling her body into thinking she's a younger woman. According to Somers, the hormones, which are synthesized from plants instead of the usual mare's urine (disgusting but true), are all natural and, unlike conventional hormones, virtually risk-free.
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Oprah said that although she has never had a hot flash, after reading Somers she decided to go on bioidenticals herself. "After one day on bioidentical estrogen, I felt the veil lift," she wrote in O, The Oprah Magazine. "After three days, the sky was bluer, my brain was no longer fuzzy, my memory was sharper. I was literally singing and had a skip in my step."
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[joeybee12]

1. But they're celebrities! They have to know what's best for us!

I am so sick of this celebrity-obsessed culture.

[supernova]

2. What's the difference between

injecting estrogen into your vagina (Ooowwww! x( )

and taking HRT?

I don't get it.

I have two first degree relatives with breast cancer, so I won't be taking anything when I reach that age.

[RC]

3. The injection doesn't involve a needle.

"injecting estrogen into your vagina (Ooowwww!"

Just insert the syringe and squirt.

[uppityperson]

4. "injecting estorgen into your vagina" means you use an applicator to put it in there

so it ends up being topical, only on the skin, with a small amount absorbed into the skin and body. HRT means you take estrogen (usually in a pill) into your body, and it goes into your bloodstream and all over your body.

Topical is more local. HRT is more systemic.