it may very well be that when God put man on this earth, he placed him in the valley of the Euphrates River. This region has continued to be semi-tropical in nature for more than four millennia. Fertile with trees and plants bearing nuts, seeds, fruits, and vegetables, the lands along the banks of the Euphrates provided all the foods necessary to nourish the "type" of metabolism man was initially endowed with. At this time in history, man could reach up and pick food from the land whenever he desired it. For the purpose of discussion, let's call this first metabolic type," "Type 1," since in theory this was man's first body type. (Geneticists contend that they have found human DNA 1.8 million years old.)
When man began to migrate outside of the Euphrates region, he adopted goats' milk and some other foods into his diet. These small modifications in diet only slightly altered his Phenotype, and he slowly became a "Type 1A" metabolizer. Over time, through the generations, the "Type 1A" metabolizer was better able to fully utilize these initial diet modifications through more efficient processes of digestion, absorption, assimilation, and elimination.
Another dietary addition came when those people who settled in Greece and Northern Italy had to learn to add grains to their diet, because of the lack of other food in those regions. They could no longer reach up and pick their food year round. At first, babies born to this group could not adapt well as they grew. They often became weak, sickly, and many died. The stronger children who survived this environmental stress in turn had babies who were a little stronger and better adapted to the new grain-rich diets. Gradually, this tribal line mutated into a "Type 2" metabolizer, with the ability to efficiently utilize foods that would undermine the health of "Type 1" metabolizers thanks to newly acquired genetic capabilities not found in "Type 1's."
As people continued to spread out and populate the colder climates to the north, with their higher altitudes, the new settlers had to increase their dependency on grains and stored foods for survival. And they were forced to consume small animals to fill the gaps in food scarcity.
Further Phenotypic mutation took place over time to form another metabolic type that we'll arbitrarily call "Type 3." During these difficult periods in history, anyone born with incompatible metabolic "types" for their respective environment would die prematurely in infancy, childhood, or early adulthood. This phenomenon is called (famously, thanks to Darwin), "natural selection."
As civilization moved even further north, the people had to hunt and consume animals like deer and bear to survive. As in the case of "Type 3," children born who could not adapt to this diet change died prematurely. Those who were left were quite hardy and thrived on heavy purine (red meat) diets, giving rise to our next metabolic category: "Type 4."
This same type of mutation pattern occurred as people populated China, India, and the islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Those born in these particular regions had to become "Type 1A" metabolizers, or remained as "Type 1." Numerous religious sects indigenous to these areas forbade meat and animal products, so that "Type 4's" rarely appeared in these groups. And again, those born into these societies with the wrong metabolic "type" would not survive.
At the least, there are between 8-10 basic types of metabolizers with differing nutrient needs. interestingly, when East Indian and Asian philosophers and teachers come to America, they believe that all Americans should practice vegetarian diets, because the peoples of their Eastern homelands are predominantly vegetarians. These philosophers completely overlook the fact that we cannot change any metabolic "type" in one or even two generations, let alone in a person's own lifetime. it takes a minimum of eight or more generations to successfully effect any permanent Phenotypic changes.
Don't be frustrated about the "type" of metabolism you have inherited. You cannot help being what you are, other than by learning to work with your metabolism for optimum health results. ignoring one's metabolic "type" can only cause harmful effects, especially when diet is modified for purposes of "fitting into" someone else's philosophy or religion. The dietary needs of one's own body as measured by Typing and Profiling are the only real protection from one-size-fits-all traps.
in ancient days, people died quickly when they were born into a rigid environment mismatched to their genetic set because they had no choice— there were no supermarkets around the corner to supply them with the right foods that their bodies could healthfully metabolize. Sadly, it's not much different nowadays, even with the supermarket around the corne' because without "typing," you really can't tell exactly what you need from that supermarket to achieve your best health. The direct result of this guesswork problem is our current epidemic of rampant diet-related disease. This nation is carelessly overfed yet seriously undernourished!
We're attempting to keep people alive, not with the proper nourishment we each require, but with nutritional stereotyping, generic drugs, pills, lotions, potions, and surgeries which have no direct connection to the root cause of our ailments. These "quick fixes" are just false substitutes for the real thing. No wonder we have an extensive degenerative disease plague crushing the quantity and quality out of life!
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