T. S. Wiley

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T.S. Wiley is the author of Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar and Survival, and Sex, Lies and Menopause. She writes about hormonal issues and hormone replacement therapy, although she has no formal credentials as a health professional^[1].

Her main thesis in Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar and Survival is that light is a physiological timer that controls endocrines such as dopamine and cortisol. She posits that with the extension of the natural day through artificial lighting, rest at the hormonal levels is rarely adequate for optimum biological needs of the body. In her view, this results in both fatigue and unnatural appetite, which leads to weight gain, exhaustion and disease.

She argues that the body's responses are cyclical, reflecting the seasons of the year, and that the body's needs vary seasonally. According to Wiley, during the winter months the body needs at least nine and a half hours of sleep, and carbohydrates should be restricted as they would have been naturally during hunter-gatherer times. During summer months, "you can live on margaritas and stay up late and have sex all day and all night".

Wiley is also the author of Sex, Lies and Menopause^[2], in which she developed the foundation for her bioidentical hormone replacement therapy protocol, "The Wiley Protocol". Suzanne Somers subsequently advocated Wiley's protocol in her book Ageless: The Naked Truth About Bioidentical Hormones^[3]. Shortly after its publication, a number of medical doctors expressed their objection to its promotion of Wiley's protocol, claiming that by "mixing quotes from qualified physicians who are experts in their fields and bioidentical hormone treatments, with those of a person with no medical or scientific background, this book will further confuse women and we believe, may potentially put their health at risk."^[4]

Subsequent to the publication of Somers' book, it was revealed that though Wiley had been claiming a college degree in anthropology^[5], she had in fact never been granted this degree^[6]^[7]. In spite of this revelation, Wiley's web site continued to insinuate that she had in fact earned a college degree^[8]. At around the same time, the text on her bio page was changed from "B.A. in Anthropology, Webster University, St. Louis, 1975" to "Pending B.A. in Anthropology, Webster University, 1975"^[9] and then to "Attended the B.A. Program in Anthropology, Webster University, 1970-1975"^[10].