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A Complete Plan to Reduce Inflammation, Calm Your Nervous System and Supercharge Every Cell.
Hi, I'm Lee Holmes, Clinical Nutritionist, bestselling author, and the person who, after years of working with depleted, exhausted clients (and navigating my own health journey, including mast cell activation and Long Covid), finally pulled together everything I've learned into one book. Eat to Heal is the most comprehensive thing I've ever written, and honestly, the one I wish had existed when I needed it most.
This book exists because of a pattern I kept seeing, over and over, in clinic: people who'd been told their tests "looked normal" while their bodies were screaming otherwise. If that's you, if you've been doing everything right and still don't feel well, this book is for you.
The argument at the heart of it is simple but it changes everything once you see it: chronic, low-grade inflammation isn't a side effect of conditions like heart disease, autoimmune issues, depression, brain fog, and unexplained fatigue, it's often the hidden driver behind them.
As I say in the very first chapter, your kitchen is your medicine cabinet, and food is the most powerful lever we have on inflammation. Most of us just don't realise we've been pulling it the wrong way.
What's inside:
- The science of inflammation — what it is, what triggers it, and the overlooked symptoms your body uses to try and get your attention
- The gut-brain connection — why I call the gut command central, plus a four-step reset to start repairing it
- Trauma, stress and the nervous system — the missing piece for so many people doing everything "right" nutritionally and still not healing. I explain the vagus nerve and nervous system regulation in plain, practical terms
- The MAP Protocol — my Mediterranean Anti-inflammatory Plan, built on decades of Mediterranean-diet research and refined specifically to target inflammation, including the simple 4-3-2-1 plate method
- Cellular health, made simple — autophagy, mitophagy, senescent ("zombie") cells, and how to support your body at a cellular level, without the jargon
- 60 anti-inflammatory recipes, developed with my daughter Tamsin, real food that's genuinely delicious, not just virtuous. Think a Mediterranean mezze platter with roasted feta, herb pesto, and sardine crackers, the kind of food that heals and still feels like a celebration
This isn't another wellness book telling you to try harder. It's a complete toolkit; body, mind, and soul, built from over a decade of clinical experience and the latest inflammation research, written for the person who's ready to understand the deeper story their body has been trying to tell them.
Publisher: Rockpool Publishing | Format: Original Paperback | Available: 28 July 2026
