This is Later with Lee Matthews the Lee Matthews podcast War What You Hear weekday afternoons on the Drive. We learned earlier this week that actress Suzanne Summer sadly passed away at the age of seventy six. Her longtime publicist R. Courie Hay confirmed The Three's Company, an American graffiti star, died on Sunday the fifteenth, following a fifty year battle with cancers. Suzanne Summers passed away peacefully at home in the early morning hours. Survived she survived an aggressive form of
breast cancer for over twenty three years. She was surrounded by her loving husband Alan, her son Bruce, and her immediate family. Her death comes just one day before her seventy seventh birthday on October the sixteenth. Her family had planned to gather and celebrate. The unfortunate news of her passing comes less than three months after Summer's breast cancer was announced that it had returned. She was first diagnosed in her fifties, following a battle with skin cancer in her thirties
and surviving two hyperplasia in her twenties. A few years back, I've got a chance to talk to Suzanne Summers about the release of her book about eating and health called TS Sick tox sic K, in which I said I had turned over a new leaf, or I was trying to eat less processed foods and feeling better about it. Yes, how did you get so smart? It must be because I'm avoiding all the toxins that you worry about and that
you warn us about in this book. And for the longest time, I've been wondering why my trainer and other people that I talked to are trying to encourage us to avoid processed food, and you seem to put it all down in your new book. Right, Well, we are being done in by the conveniences of our modern lives that we all innocently walked into. You know, we figured if they sprayed poison on our food, they must know what they're doing. We figured it if they put poisons into our skincare, that
it must be safe for the human body. Well, Adi, it turns out that all these modern day conveniences have finally, you know, come home to roost. Nobody. It's not that everybody's sick, is that nobody's well. Unless you've taken this seriously, It's about the food lee. You know that you're hearing that from your trainers. You have to feed your body the highest quality of food. If you had a maserati, you'd never put inferior
fuel into it. It'd be stupid, wouldn't it. But we take this magnificent machine called our body, which is way beyond of masarati, and we put crap in it all the time. We feed it with chemicals and the body's going, hey, you know, I don't know what to do with all these chemicals. I could give me some real food with some nutrients and minerals in it, so I can actually do something good for you. So
people are walking around not realizing why they have uncomfortable stomachs. It starts usually in the stomach, and the stomach is before you get the brain issues. So the toxins come in through the skincare we put on our skin. The toxins come in through the food that's processed and raided with poisons gets into the GI track, and toxins come in through the air we Breathe can't do much about once you're outside of your house that you can change the air in your
house, which is all in this book. The name of The book is Talk Sick t X sic K Suzanne Summers. She writes about how to go from toxic to not sick, the toxins in your body, the diseases they cause, and the doctors who can help. And this isn't new to you, Suzanne. You've been going back to a three company and American graffiti. You've been a health advocate ever since then. And I mean, you're a picture of health right now. I am. You know, I am enjoying
aging. Next year I will be. I see. It's gonna take me a minute to get this out. Seventy years old, but I don't feel old. I don't feel like I look old. I have energy. I've been doing a residency in Las Vegas, doing an eighty minute show every night, all by myself. I don't wear out because I eat right. I don't use any chemicals in any place in my life that I can control. I have HEPO filters going in my hotel room, and it makes a difference. And people laugh at me, Oh, you're such a health and that
you take all your supplements and everything I go. You know, Oprah said this to me. I said, either I'm right and everybody else is wrong. Or you're all right and I'm wrong, and in the end we'll see. But I tend to go with the way I'm going. When I go out on stage in Vegas, I love it so much. I said to my husband, I want to be on this stage when I'm eighty, and I want to just show everybody that it's a number. It's not about the
chronology. It's about how's your energy. You can't have energy if you've got a sluggish, chemical filled body, you cant of energy. If you're sick, you can of energy. If your stomach's not working right and your bones are you know, creaking and leaking, and you've got rheumatoid arthritis, you know that rheumatatoid can even say it. Arthritis also starts in the stomach, and it's talked from toxins. See when the toxins leak out, they'll attack
any organs. The skin is the biggest organ. That's why people who have rotatia and acne that's from the stomach. Rheumatoid arthritis and the joints that's from the stomach. Isn't that interesting? So yeah, there's two parts to me. There are many parts to all of us. Part of me is the fun loving you know, hello, everybody, welcome to my show, and
upbeat and the band of music. The other part of me is I had cancer in two thousand and one, and I remember after I got over the shock, which is not long, and it was a large tumor, and I thought, what have I done in my diet and lifestyle for up till now that I've played host to this. And when they said, you know, you gotta have chemotherapy, I looked at the doctor. I said, I can't. He says you'll die if you don't have it. I said, with all due respect, I think I'll die if I do what you
say. And I don't know where I got that courage, because nobody was turning chemotherapy down back then. But I decided I was going to eat as all my life depended upon it, and that's when I went chemical free, and man has my health sword. The reason I tell my age is so it can be aspirational that you don't have to dread it. I think I'm still sexy and got my juice, and you know I want. My husband's on the same regiment that I am, and I find him sexy and he's
got his juice. I see women flirting with him, and I go it doesn't threaten me. I think I get it. It looks cool. Suzanne Summers dead at the age of seventy six. Thanks for listening to Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee Matthews Podcast, and remember to listen to The Drive Live weekday afternoons from five to seven and iHeartMedia Presentation