Actress Profiles Local Doctor for Book

HOUSTON - Suzanne Somers is probably best known for her role as "Chrissy" in the t.v. sitcom Three's Company. With her platinum blond hair and adorable snort, she quickly became an American icon. Now, she's becoming well known for her books.

Somers has been in Houston gathering information on her third book about doctors, who cure cancer. She toured the Burzynski Research Center in Stafford and also the Burzynski Clinic in Houston.

Her interest is in Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, who offers alternative cancer treatments. He discovered anti-neoplastons, which target cancer cells, without destroying normal cells.

Somers met with Dr. Burzynski, as well as many of his patients, who've been cured of terminal cancer.

Somers also talked to us in depth about her book, "Breakthrough". It concentrates on natural hormone replacement therapy. At 62 years of age, Somers says she's taken bio-identical hormones for 13-years and has never felt better.

She began the regime after feeling "really bad" for 3-years. She calls the symptoms of menopause "the 7-dwarves - itchy, b****y, sleepy, sweaty, bloated, forgetful, and all dried up."

She says those are the symptoms of hormonal decline that women experience and explains, it's very unpleasant. She says it often affects relationships.

However, she says her research and experience have led her to believe, when you restore hormones, and you find a doctor who really understands hormone replacement, "life can be incredible".

She finds the cost of natural hormones to be reasonable. She says she spends about $65 a month. She gets them through a compounding company. She claims there's a lot of things she'd do without - before she'd do without her hormones.

Somers has worked with Dr. Stephen Hotze in Houston with her book, and says he's a local specialist who knows a lot about the subject. She highly recommends men and women get on hormone replacement and encourages middle age people to seek a specialist.

She says going to a doctor who doesn't specialize in this is like "going to a plumber for a heart valve - it's so out of their element, they just don't get it."

Somers new book about doctors, who cure cancer, comes out in October of this year.