Fourteen of Somers' 27 books have made it onto the New York Times bestseller list, and most of them center around natural health. Her latest book is titled "A New Way to Age." Her decades-long investigation into cutting edge anti-aging therapies and her no-nonsense way of talking about them have positioned her as a sought-after speaker on the topic. She lectures regularly, including recently, to doctors at a medical conference. She's also a highly successful businesswoman, a wife for over 50 years, a mother, and a grandmother. Her journey with alternative treatments started 25 years ago, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Around the height of her celebrity, Somers made the controversial, and very public, decision to eschew chemotherapy. The world held its breath and "counted the days until her death," she said, since chemo and radiation were seen by many as the only way to save her life. She went on Larry King's show to talk about her diagnosis and was profiled