Somers supports bioidentical hormone replacement therapy . Her book , '' Ageless '' , includes interviews with 16 practitioners of bioidentical hormone therapy , but gives extra discussion to one specific approach , the ' Wiley Protocol ' . Somers and T. S. Wiley , the originator of the Wiley Protocol , have been criticized for their advocacy of the Wiley Protocol . A group of seven doctors , all of whom utilize bioidentical hormone therapies to address health issues in women , issued a public letter to Somers and her publisher , Crown , in which they state that the protocol is " scientifically unproven and dangerous " and cite Wiley 's lack of medical and clinical qualifications . The use of bioidentical hormone therapies is a very controversial area of medicine ; its efficacy has never been tested and numerous groups have expressed concern over its safety and the misleading claims made by practitioners , which was the subject of an Associated Press article : In 2001 , Somers was diagnosed with breast cancer . She had a lumpectomy , and radiation , but declined to undergo chemotherapy . In November 2008 , Somers announced she was diagnosed with inoperable cancer by six doctors , but she learned a week later that she was misdiagnosed . During this time , she interviewed doctors about cancer treatments and these interviews became the basis of her book , '' Knockout '' , about alternative treatments to chemotherapy . In her book '' Knockout '' , Somers promotes alternative cancer treatments , for which she was criticized by the American Cancer Society : She is also opposed to water fluoridation . In January 2013 , she suggested that Adam Lanza went on his shooting spree at Sandy Hook Elementary School due to the level of toxins in his diet and the household cleaners he was exposed to . She stated that all these chemicals may " overelectrify the brain "
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