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This is Later with Lee Matthews the
Lee Matthews podcast War What You Hear weekday

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afternoons on the Drive. We learned
earlier this week that actress Suzanne Summer sadly

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passed away at the age of seventy
six. Her longtime publicist R. Courie

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Hay confirmed The Three's Company, an
American graffiti star, died on Sunday the

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fifteenth, following a fifty year battle
with cancers. Suzanne Summers passed away peacefully

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at home in the early morning hours. Survived she survived an aggressive form of

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breast cancer for over twenty three years. She was surrounded by her loving husband

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Alan, her son Bruce, and
her immediate family. Her death comes just

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one day before her seventy seventh birthday
on October the sixteenth. Her family had

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planned to gather and celebrate. The
unfortunate news of her passing comes less than

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three months after Summer's breast cancer was
announced that it had returned. She was

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first diagnosed in her fifties, following
a battle with skin cancer in her thirties

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and surviving two hyperplasia in her twenties. A few years back, I've got

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a chance to talk to Suzanne Summers
about the release of her book about eating

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and health called TS Sick tox sic
K, in which I said I had

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turned over a new leaf, or
I was trying to eat less processed foods

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and feeling better about it. Yes, how did you get so smart?

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It must be because I'm avoiding all
the toxins that you worry about and that

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you warn us about in this book. And for the longest time, I've

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been wondering why my trainer and other
people that I talked to are trying to

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encourage us to avoid processed food,
and you seem to put it all down

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in your new book. Right,
Well, we are being done in by

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the conveniences of our modern lives that
we all innocently walked into. You know,

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we figured if they sprayed poison on
our food, they must know what

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they're doing. We figured it if
they put poisons into our skincare, that

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it must be safe for the human
body. Well, Adi, it turns

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out that all these modern day conveniences
have finally, you know, come home

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to roost. Nobody. It's not
that everybody's sick, is that nobody's well.

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Unless you've taken this seriously, It's
about the food lee. You know

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that you're hearing that from your trainers. You have to feed your body the

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highest quality of food. If you
had a maserati, you'd never put inferior

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fuel into it. It'd be stupid, wouldn't it. But we take this

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magnificent machine called our body, which
is way beyond of masarati, and we

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put crap in it all the time. We feed it with chemicals and the

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body's going, hey, you know, I don't know what to do with

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all these chemicals. I could give
me some real food with some nutrients and

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minerals in it, so I can
actually do something good for you. So

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people are walking around not realizing why
they have uncomfortable stomachs. It starts usually

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in the stomach, and the stomach
is before you get the brain issues.

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So the toxins come in through the
skincare we put on our skin. The

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toxins come in through the food that's
processed and raided with poisons gets into the

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GI track, and toxins come in
through the air we Breathe can't do much

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about once you're outside of your house
that you can change the air in your

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house, which is all in this
book. The name of The book is

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Talk Sick t X sic K Suzanne
Summers. She writes about how to go

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from toxic to not sick, the
toxins in your body, the diseases they

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cause, and the doctors who can
help. And this isn't new to you,

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Suzanne. You've been going back to
a three company and American graffiti.

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You've been a health advocate ever since
then. And I mean, you're a

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picture of health right now. I
am. You know, I am enjoying

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aging. Next year I will be. I see. It's gonna take me

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a minute to get this out.
Seventy years old, but I don't feel

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old. I don't feel like I
look old. I have energy. I've

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been doing a residency in Las Vegas, doing an eighty minute show every night,

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all by myself. I don't wear
out because I eat right. I

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don't use any chemicals in any place
in my life that I can control.

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I have HEPO filters going in my
hotel room, and it makes a difference.

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And people laugh at me, Oh, you're such a health and that

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you take all your supplements and everything
I go. You know, Oprah said

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this to me. I said,
either I'm right and everybody else is wrong.

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Or you're all right and I'm wrong, and in the end we'll see.

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But I tend to go with the
way I'm going. When I go

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out on stage in Vegas, I
love it so much. I said to

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my husband, I want to be
on this stage when I'm eighty, and

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I want to just show everybody that
it's a number. It's not about the

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chronology. It's about how's your energy. You can't have energy if you've got

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a sluggish, chemical filled body,
you cant of energy. If you're sick,

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you can of energy. If your
stomach's not working right and your bones

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are you know, creaking and leaking, and you've got rheumatoid arthritis, you

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know that rheumatatoid can even say it. Arthritis also starts in the stomach,

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and it's talked from toxins. See
when the toxins leak out, they'll attack

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any organs. The skin is the
biggest organ. That's why people who have

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rotatia and acne that's from the stomach. Rheumatoid arthritis and the joints that's from

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the stomach. Isn't that interesting?
So yeah, there's two parts to me.

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There are many parts to all of
us. Part of me is the

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fun loving you know, hello,
everybody, welcome to my show, and

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upbeat and the band of music.
The other part of me is I had

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cancer in two thousand and one,
and I remember after I got over the

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shock, which is not long,
and it was a large tumor, and

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I thought, what have I done
in my diet and lifestyle for up till

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now that I've played host to this. And when they said, you know,

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you gotta have chemotherapy, I looked
at the doctor. I said,

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I can't. He says you'll die
if you don't have it. I said,

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with all due respect, I think
I'll die if I do what you

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say. And I don't know where
I got that courage, because nobody was

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turning chemotherapy down back then. But
I decided I was going to eat as

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all my life depended upon it,
and that's when I went chemical free,

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and man has my health sword.
The reason I tell my age is so

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it can be aspirational that you don't
have to dread it. I think I'm

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still sexy and got my juice,
and you know I want. My husband's

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on the same regiment that I am, and I find him sexy and he's

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got his juice. I see women
flirting with him, and I go it

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doesn't threaten me. I think I
get it. It looks cool. Suzanne

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Summers dead at the age of seventy
six. Thanks for listening to Later with

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Lee Matthews, the Lee Matthews Podcast, and remember to listen to The Drive

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