Episode 14: Lee Holmes Launches Her 12th Book “Eat to Heal”, the Truth About Chronic Inflammation and Zombie Cells, and Justin Gets 'Splained on Low Testosterone.

Show Notes: Episode 14

The Lee and Irene Show

Lee Holmes Launches Her 12th Book “Eat to Heal”, the Truth About Chronic Inflammation and Zombie Cells, and Justin Gets 'Splained on Low Testosterone.

Lee has written twelve books, and this one might be the most personal yet. Eat to Heal is about chronic inflammation, the slow-burning, mostly invisible process that Lee argues sits underneath almost every major health complaint we hear about on this show, from brain fog and fatigue to autoimmune conditions and weight gain that will not budge. Irene turns interviewer for the episode and gets Lee talking about the book's origin, the science she found genuinely surprising even after fifteen years in the field, and the very practical plate-based system she built to make all of it usable on a Tuesday night.

There are zombie cells. There is a Pac-Man analogy. There is a rocky road recipe that somehow counts as part of the plan. And underneath all of it, there is a much bigger conversation about trauma, nervous system safety, and why some people cannot absorb good nutrition until their body believes it is no longer in danger.

And in Womansplain, Justin brings a question he was clearly nervous to ask, about whether low testosterone is just something that happens with age, or something worth actually investigating first.

✨ In this episode we chat about:

•       Why Lee wrote Eat to Heal, and the sentence in the introduction she is most proud of.

•       What chronic inflammation actually is, and why it behaves so differently to the acute kind.

•       Zombie cells, otherwise known as senescent cells, and the everyday foods that help clear them.

•       The gut-brain link, neuroinflammation, and why low mood is not always a purely psychological problem.

•       SPMs, specialised pro-resolving mediators, and why omega 3s do more than just block inflammation.