Review of Knockout by Suzanne Somers

Five-star review of Knockout by Suzanne Somers, a book detailing “interviews with doctors who are curing cancer.” Though Suzanne Somers is best known for playing a daffy blonde in a 1970s sitcom, don’t let that fool you; this 9-year breast cancer survivor does a superb job interviewing doctors about their groundbreaking treatments for cancer. Knockout, written by Suzanne Somers, is not hype; it is a straightforward, no-nonsense book crammed with information about cancer prevention and treatment.

Suzanne Somers is the messenger in Knockout, relaying the message of several medical doctors whose cancer cure rates, plus manageability rates, far exceed that of what conventional medicine offers for this horrid disease. Knockout gives the reader tons of information on each doctor, including why their revolutionary treatments for cancer have been rejected by the conventional medical establishment.

This element is exceedingly important, and Suzanne Somers does a great job by presenting this information in a recurring way throughout Knockout, because the reader will continuously be floored as to why, when these alternative treatments for cancer are working so beautifully, the FDA won’t approve them.

There are tremendous politics behind why, and it all boils down to money. Perhaps you have heard of this scenario before, namely in a book by Kevin Trudeau called Natural Cures They Don’t Want You to Know About.

Unfortunately, Trudeau’s approach is sensationalistic and commentary-style, or op-ed style, with very little information coming straight from the mouths of physicians. He goes off the deep end many times and even suggests that people practice scientology to get healthier. Thus, Trudeau’s book has certainly instilled skepticism in its readers when it comes to what the FDA does when it gets wind of a cancer doctor curing patients with alternative methods.

But read Knockout by Suzanne Somers, and you will be amazed that much of what Trudeau writes about is actually true — Suzanne Somers doesn’t editorialize this information; rather, it is quoted verbatim straight from physicians’ mouths from her interviews.

In other words, medical doctors actually explain 1) why the FDA continues to fight against alternative cancer treatments; 2) why radiological oncologists keep secret from patients the dangers of mammograms; 3) why chemotherapy is a sham; how cancer patients are deceived into believing it works; 4) why doctors who know it doesn’t work keep prescribing it; 5) the travesty of cancer doctors not adequately preparing their patients for surgery; 6) why cancer physicians in general do not include a nutritional approach to treatment, and so many other facets of the money-driven cancer treatment industry.

Knockout does a superb job of making the reader understand that the standard cancer treatment industry is a complete failure, and how research results are presented in a way to the public that creates the illusion that great strides have been made over the years regarding cancer survival rates.

Suzanne Somers interviews four medical doctors who’ve experienced phenomenal success with their stage 4 cancer patients. She then interviews four doctors who explain how to “prevent cancer before it starts.”

The vast majority of information in Knockout is in the form of Q & A interviews with these experts; thus, the reader is never left wondering anything like, “Where does this Suzanne Somers get this information anyways?” The reader can’t possibly think like this because so much information is in the form of verbatim explanations from physicians and other experts.

Even if you think you know a lot about a nutritional and supplemental approach to preventing cancer, Knockout provides information that you never thought of before; new information that makes a lot of sense. The physicians don’t just say, “Do this and don’t do that.” They explain why. It is fascinating material that will make sense to any layperson with wits.

Another great thing about Suzanne Somers’ Knockout is that the book is chock full of testimonials from long-term cancer survivors, including those who had brain tumors and metastatic liver cancer.

After reading Knockout by Suzanne Somers, you will come away feeling empowered with brand new knowledge about how to lower risk of this disease as much as possible; what to do if you are diagnosed; what not to do; how to prepare for surgery; how to prepare for chemotherapy if you choose that route; and so much more helpful information.

Knockout lives up to its promise that cancer patients have many more options than what conventional medicine has led them on to believe.

My only criticism of Knockout is that Suzanne Somers, in the Forward, spends way too much time describing in too much detail an acute illness she developed in 2008, that led to a team of doctors misdiagnosing her with full-body cancer. The illness was originally correctly diagnosed by a layman friend as valley fever. You can skip this section and go straight to “Meet the Doctors.”