I’m a little ticked off at Newsweek! Have you heard about their cover article admonishing Oprah for not giving sound health advice on her show, citing examples of having Suzanne Somers on her show discussing vitamins and bio-identical hormones. 

I’m sorry, Newsweek, but when you bash my two heroes as they try to help women improve their health, I’ve got to come to their defense. I wrote about the Suzanne Somers appearance on Oprah back in June, and touted it as a great day for television!

I am tired of people discrediting Suzanne Somers and acting as if she is a woman who knows nothing on this topic and shouldn’t be listened to. And since when is a talk show host not supposed to or not allowed to bring ideas to the public from all perspectives? Aren’t they expected to? I for one, think Newsweek is jealous that Oprah beat them to the bioidentical hormone subject and when they saw ratings soar, they wanted a piece of the action. What better way to sell magazines than incite fear and controversy over a topic of great interest, in an Oprah-adoring public, with a title like: Oprah, Wacky Cures & You.

Unfortunately, it does a disservice to people who need to be informed that the standard modus operandi in healthcare is dead, and just doesn’t cut it anymore. It does a disservice to the collective body of people seeking answers about diseases and health problems that are not improving with the typical, old model of western medicine. In fact, there is substantiated proof that some synthetic hormones cause some forms of cancer, so to say the old way is not working, is an understatement!

Sadly, Newsweek’s article proves why mainstream print media is also dying right along with the old school approach of allopathic, Western medicine and the terminally ill patients who were victims of its ignorance and shortsightedness.