Today one in five adults infected with COVID-19 is still suffering its effects, months after their diagnosis. In fact, it’s now understood that COVID-19 is much more complex than we first thought. Long Covid has more than 200 potential symptoms, spread across 10 different organ systems, all of which you can experience in different stages of the disease. For clinical nutritionist, Lee Holmes, usually the picture of perfect health, a bout of Covid left her struggling to get out of bed, barely able to muster enough energy to seek help for herself. In this episode of the Women Living Well After 50 Podcast, my guest, Lee Holmes, describes her experience with long COVID. We discussed: * What the definition of long COVID is? * Lee’s new book Nature's Way to Healing - A Long Covid Guide what prompted her to write the book and what can readers expect? * Lee’s approach to managing long COVD * Some of the symptoms in Long COVID are also experienced during peri menopause such as foggy brain, lethargy. Could those going through peri menopause also adapt some of your holistic lifestyle practices? * Some of Lee’s favourite recipes in the book and how they help * What being a Women Living Well Means to Lee Nature’s Way to Healing can be purchased on Amazon, Booktopia and at www.superchargedfood.com What this book does: - Shorten the duration of Long Covid and recover faster- Ease brain fog, fatigue, and other debilitating symptoms- Lower inflammation and regulate immune function- Nurture your mind-body connection for optimal healing Meet Lee Holmes Meet Lee Holmes, the force behind all things supercharged. She’s a qualified clinical nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef and author of the bestselling Supercharged Food series. Her ten books include Eat Yourself Beautiful, Heal Your Gut, the page-turner Supercharge Your Life and now Nature’s Way to Healing. As a little girl, Lee remembers foraging the British hedgerows with her mum and two sisters, looking for tasty treats to add to the family’s diet. She would also spend weekends and holidays fruit-picking on the local Kent farms to help supplement the family’s income and so, she says, she had a humble and rural upbringing until the age of six when her single mother decided to move the family to Australia. Wanting to travel as a young woman, Lee left school, went to hospitality and cooking school to become a chef and then became a flight attendant. She spent some time back in the UK teaching English as a foreign language, before working full time in teaching. Then one morning, she woke up and decided she’d like a change of career and fancied working in the music business. For most people this would probably remain a pipedream, but this is Lee Holmes, businesswoman, successful author and now a qualified clinical nutritionist. And as someone who believes ‘if she can think it, she can do it’, Lee found herself running the children’s music department at the ABC. She became an even busier, driven career woman and single mum to daughter, Tamsin, now 28. When Lee became unwell at 44, with what was eventually diagnosed as an autoimmune disease, she gave up her job in the music industry and decided to pursue her other dream of becoming an advocate for natural health and a wholefoods lifestyle. These days, when she’s not whipping up gut-friendly concoctions in her kitchen, you’ll find Lee running her successful online health programs, ‘Heal Your Gut’ and ‘Fast Your Way to Wellness’. She’s a regular columnist for Wellbeing and Eat Well magazines, and a regular on ABC Radio in Australia. Lee’s articles have been published across the globe in prestigious publications, including The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Daily Express and The Australian. She was a keynote speaker at the Nordic Organic Food Fair and Eco Scandinavia, engaging a global audience of over 1,200,000 people. Lee’s website, superchargeyourgut.com, is a gut heal
