"I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die"
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Her next move is a clean cultural split: "Most doctors" versus the woman who has figured it out. "Synthetic hormones" becomes a stand-in for institutional shortcutting, a system that treats women as symptom containers rather than whole patients. The phrasing "just eliminate the symptoms" frames mainstream care as cosmetic, not corrective, and smuggles in a deeper suspicion: medicine isn't trying to restore you, it's trying to manage you.
The subtext leans hard into a restorative fantasy. "Replace the hormones you have lost" suggests a return to an earlier, truer self - not adaptation to aging, but reversal of it. That's the emotional engine behind her rhetoric, and it's why it lands: menopause is cast as deprivation, and treatment as reclamation.
"Without our hormones we die" is the dramatic spike, nearly theological in its certainty. Biologically, it's an exaggeration; rhetorically, it's a dare. It turns a complicated risk-benefit conversation into an existential imperative, giving women permission to demand more care while also nudging them toward a marketplace of "balancing" solutions where Somers famously built her brand.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Somers, Suzanne. (2026, January 17). I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-my-hormones-balanced-most-doctors-are-72034/
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Somers, Suzanne. "I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-my-hormones-balanced-most-doctors-are-72034/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-my-hormones-balanced-most-doctors-are-72034/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.








