The Specific Dynamic Activity (SDA) represents the caloric energy required for the processes of digestion and reflexive brown fat thermogenesis after eating. Thermogenesis is a term referring to heat production by the body.
Our body is actually a "heat factory" with about 75% of the caloric energy that we consume as food going into heat production. About a quarter of what's left goes into energy production for muscular movement, thinking, and all other bodily processes—except for the 6 to 10% that consumed by the SDA. A certain amount of energy usually—expressed as a percentage of overall body energy—is consumed by digestion and brown fat metabolism automatically.
After eating, that "warm feeling" you experience is a reflexive response to the increased calorie consumption of brown adipose tissue which gives off extra heat for better digestion. This brown adipose tissue is a primary thermoregulator (i.e., a heat regulator) of the body, and is specifically designed to create heat to stabilize body temperatures. (By the way, white (or yellow) adipose is designed strictly for fat storage and body part insulation.) There are many thermogenic supplements designed to stimulate brown fat metabolism to increase calorie usage by the body. MaHuang is one of those herbal supplements used for this purpose—but is it right for you? Only typing will tell!
So far, we've been able to compute your SDA as a fixed 6% of your BMR and DPAN combined.
Next, we add all three figures together:
BMR 1,500 calories (Laying in bed all day.)
DPAN. + 600 calories (Exercise, job, lifestyle.) SDA + 126 calories (6% of 2,100) (Digestion)
TCND 2,226 calories
This adds up to 2,226 calories, which equals your Total Calorie Need Per Day (TCND). Your body requires this amount to maintain itself at its constant weight, based on all your lifestyle factors.
Monday
The Energy Usage of Physical Activity
Once we have computed a mathematically derived BMR for you (or tested you on a BMR tester), we then add in the caloric energy needs of your body as a result of "getting out of bed," moving around, and exercising. We call this the "Energy Level of Physical Activity"—also known as Daily Physical Activity Need (DPAN)—it requires an individualized computation of calories. Whether you sit in an office all day, are a blue collar laborer a professional athlete, exercise intermittently or consistently—all modes of life have a direct effect on how many calories your body requires daily, over and above your BMR levels.
As my patient, we will look at what physical activities you are performing, covering literally every hour of your day (and night). When you exercise, I will assess both the "type" of your exercises and the intensity at which you perform them. Whether you are a heavy, medium, or light labore' this too has a bearing on the process of determining the exact amount of calories your body requires. I will assess the rate at which you burn calories throughout the day during different activities using mathematical norms based upon calorimetry studies conducted on exercising and sedentary humans. When you sit down you'll burn so many calories, when you lift heavy objects, you'll burn so many calories and so on.
if you'd like to have this more directly assessed, there is new lab technology that allows us to more precisely monitor your caloric consumption during your daily routine. As part of your treatment, I can arrange for this procedure i
Once we've determined the specific calorie needs for your individual pattern of activity, then we can add this amount to your BMR. in our hypothetical case, as my patient we determined your BMR to be 1,500 calories per day. Your Daily Physical Activity Need was found to be another 600 calories per day, so the combined figure is 2,100 calories per day. in other words, your body requires 2,100 calories per day to sustain itself without any net weight gain or loss in and out of bed. But we 're not finished with the quantification process yet.
As my patient, we will look at what physical activities you are performing, covering literally every hour of your day (and night). When you exercise, I will assess both the "type" of your exercises and the intensity at which you perform them. Whether you are a heavy, medium, or light labore' this too has a bearing on the process of determining the exact amount of calories your body requires. I will assess the rate at which you burn calories throughout the day during different activities using mathematical norms based upon calorimetry studies conducted on exercising and sedentary humans. When you sit down you'll burn so many calories, when you lift heavy objects, you'll burn so many calories and so on.
if you'd like to have this more directly assessed, there is new lab technology that allows us to more precisely monitor your caloric consumption during your daily routine. As part of your treatment, I can arrange for this procedure i
Once we've determined the specific calorie needs for your individual pattern of activity, then we can add this amount to your BMR. in our hypothetical case, as my patient we determined your BMR to be 1,500 calories per day. Your Daily Physical Activity Need was found to be another 600 calories per day, so the combined figure is 2,100 calories per day. in other words, your body requires 2,100 calories per day to sustain itself without any net weight gain or loss in and out of bed. But we 're not finished with the quantification process yet.
The Quantifying Process
Our first task is to assess your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR). The BMR, expressed as calories, is the daily rate at which your body consumes calories in a resting state, in order to sustain life. This rate represents an amount of calories that your body needs if you were to lay in bed all day (24 hours). if you were to match this exact rate (BMR) to the exact amount of calories from foods you take in (properly proportioned), your body would not gain or lose any weight whatsoever You would not gain so much as an ounce of fat, muscle, bone, organ, tissue or water. The total BMR represents a culmination of the differing rates at which each cell, tissue, and organ uses energy it is an ideal calorie amount and it is unique to you only.
Your BMR is a sustained calorie level that changes throughout your life as you grow and mature. It is a level of calorie consumption which can be altered by disease onset, stress, dietary, and exercise modifications in your life. Direct and indirect calorimetric studies have measured these levels in humans and there are some mathematically derived norms I can employ to decipher your particular BMR.
Your BMR is then computed based on age, gender, height, weight, and other factors (all of which are mathematically corrected for). In effect, I am estimating your BMR levels without having to utilize expensive, sophisticated, complex in-lab calorimetric assessment, although a lab can be contacted to do this if you wish (as my patient).
Your BMR is a sustained calorie level that changes throughout your life as you grow and mature. It is a level of calorie consumption which can be altered by disease onset, stress, dietary, and exercise modifications in your life. Direct and indirect calorimetric studies have measured these levels in humans and there are some mathematically derived norms I can employ to decipher your particular BMR.
Your BMR is then computed based on age, gender, height, weight, and other factors (all of which are mathematically corrected for). In effect, I am estimating your BMR levels without having to utilize expensive, sophisticated, complex in-lab calorimetric assessment, although a lab can be contacted to do this if you wish (as my patient).
Quantification and Qualification (Computing Calories and Food Patterns)
We begin the first step by discussing your health and fitness objectives. You tell me that you're hoping to eliminate the various and variable symptoms that you've included on your health and history forms, but first and foremost you simply want to feel younger. Some of the nagging symptoms you've noted include:
• Fatigue
• Indigestion
• Joint pain
• Poor sleep patterns
• Constant scarring
• Intermittent skin rashes
• Headaches
• Depression
• Rebounding constipation and diarrhea
• Overt sugar cravings (you're a confirmed "chocoholic")
• Hair loss
• Gum sensitivity
• Heart palpitations on occasion
• wrinkly skin
• inability to concentrate
• intermittent blurred vision
• Flabby untoned musculature
• Excessive fat that just won't come off
• Extreme mood swings
• Chronic sinus congestion and post nasal drip
• Chronically dry and bad tasting mouth
• Very dry or oily skin (depending on the body area)
• Craving for stimulants (like coffee)
• Cold feeling extremities
• Occasional dizziness
• Poor memory
. . . and others still.
Slow-healing wounds Halitosis (bad bre ath) Muscle cramps (especially in
your legs) Multiple "age spots" Premature graying hair Pale complexion Redness in the eyes Ceiluiite Heavy PMS Constant gas Anxiety attacks Foul-smelling stools and urine Stomach pain Excessive sweating Bad body odor Constant burping Blood in the stool Stiffness
Excessive temper inconsistent appetite
You may find, to your surprise, that many of these symptoms are of extreme importance to me as your typing doctor. Prior to our meeting you were told by other health professionals that "it's all in your head," that "it's not that important" or "learn to live with it because there's nothing that can be done anyway." Then, when you think about the quality of your life, you realize that these "dis-eases" are making you absolutely miserable even though the previous doctor said you weren 't really sick.
Our first objective through typing is to naturally eliminate any and all of these symptoms (if possible) so you can feel better. And, of course, you want to live a longer life under improved conditions with. the youthful vitality of earlier days.
Your second objective, according to your statements, is to drop body fat and tone up: get fit again. Maybe you're a person who doesn't exercise at all; or maybe your exercise program is just not cutting it; or maybe you have an even more pressing need to get into shape again. Maybe you're a world-class athlete looking to peak for the next Olympics; or are preparing for a future bodybuilding competition; or you 're a movie star who needs to show some muscle for your next movie which is being filmed in eight weeks. Perhaps you are truiy obese and need to drop the fat and get into shape as a matter of an immediate life or death scenario. Maybe you need to rehabilitate a nagging injury that just won't go away or perhaps you are an average person simply searching for the answers to simply feel and look better.
Now that we know your desired objectives of fat loss and health gain, we can begin a general physical examination, including testing blood pressure, heart rate, listening to your heart and lungs, palpation for abdominal masses; examining your body structure and range of movement, measuring limb and trunk size, doing a body fat analysis; looking at your eyes, ears, nose skin, hair and throat under magnification, and perhaps taking a standard blood and urine sample for conventional analysis (if not performed very recently); maybe we will even take an x-ray of an injury site or have an x-ray performed. if warranted for some other reason. Once we accomplish the standard examination phase of Step 1, we can move on to the next phase which is quantifying (or assessing) your actual macronutrient caloric need given your lifestyle and objectives. How many calories does it take to run your body most efficiently? We'll find out directly.
By the way, the majority of nutrition patients I've worked with have been to other so-called nutritionists (mostly novices) who have never quantified their diet for them. Instead of assessing caloric need scientifically for each client, these novice nutritionists simply guess about this procedure or in some cases are not even aware that it exists in the first place, due to their lack of training and expertise in its application. Many of my patients have walked into the office with what I term "standard form diets" taken from a generic source with no real direct connection to them as the patient.
in one instance, a patient of mine handed me a Pritikin Diet plan. Apparentiy, this patient had walked into a nutritionist's office, plopped down $150, talked to the novice nutritionist for about fifteen minutes (with no formal exam or medical history taken), and was then handed this generic Pritikin Diet. it had been taken from a notebook. The patient had been told to follow through on it, though no quantification or qualification process to determine exact calorie needs was performed, no typing, no metabolic analysis, and no diet analysis of any kind was given. To add insult to injury, my new patient plopped down an additional $150 for a group of one-size-fits-all supplements, which of course had no connection to the actual measurable needs of this patient. And, there was that same pile of partly used supplements placed on my desk, pills that my patient had barely taken because they made her feel even worse after she ingested them.
What a joke! My disgust with this treatment of my new patient intensified further when I found out that the particular novice nutritionist in question is a (somewhat) famous nutritionist "to the stars." in reaiity, this person has no discernible or accredited academic qualifications at all. Truly a case of the "blind leading the blind." What's worse is that this is not an isolated case—this kind of fraud occurs every day to thousands of unsuspecting consumers. Don't be one of them!
• Fatigue
• Indigestion
• Joint pain
• Poor sleep patterns
• Constant scarring
• Intermittent skin rashes
• Headaches
• Depression
• Rebounding constipation and diarrhea
• Overt sugar cravings (you're a confirmed "chocoholic")
• Hair loss
• Gum sensitivity
• Heart palpitations on occasion
• wrinkly skin
• inability to concentrate
• intermittent blurred vision
• Flabby untoned musculature
• Excessive fat that just won't come off
• Extreme mood swings
• Chronic sinus congestion and post nasal drip
• Chronically dry and bad tasting mouth
• Very dry or oily skin (depending on the body area)
• Craving for stimulants (like coffee)
• Cold feeling extremities
• Occasional dizziness
• Poor memory
. . . and others still.
Slow-healing wounds Halitosis (bad bre ath) Muscle cramps (especially in
your legs) Multiple "age spots" Premature graying hair Pale complexion Redness in the eyes Ceiluiite Heavy PMS Constant gas Anxiety attacks Foul-smelling stools and urine Stomach pain Excessive sweating Bad body odor Constant burping Blood in the stool Stiffness
Excessive temper inconsistent appetite
You may find, to your surprise, that many of these symptoms are of extreme importance to me as your typing doctor. Prior to our meeting you were told by other health professionals that "it's all in your head," that "it's not that important" or "learn to live with it because there's nothing that can be done anyway." Then, when you think about the quality of your life, you realize that these "dis-eases" are making you absolutely miserable even though the previous doctor said you weren 't really sick.
Our first objective through typing is to naturally eliminate any and all of these symptoms (if possible) so you can feel better. And, of course, you want to live a longer life under improved conditions with. the youthful vitality of earlier days.
Your second objective, according to your statements, is to drop body fat and tone up: get fit again. Maybe you're a person who doesn't exercise at all; or maybe your exercise program is just not cutting it; or maybe you have an even more pressing need to get into shape again. Maybe you're a world-class athlete looking to peak for the next Olympics; or are preparing for a future bodybuilding competition; or you 're a movie star who needs to show some muscle for your next movie which is being filmed in eight weeks. Perhaps you are truiy obese and need to drop the fat and get into shape as a matter of an immediate life or death scenario. Maybe you need to rehabilitate a nagging injury that just won't go away or perhaps you are an average person simply searching for the answers to simply feel and look better.
Now that we know your desired objectives of fat loss and health gain, we can begin a general physical examination, including testing blood pressure, heart rate, listening to your heart and lungs, palpation for abdominal masses; examining your body structure and range of movement, measuring limb and trunk size, doing a body fat analysis; looking at your eyes, ears, nose skin, hair and throat under magnification, and perhaps taking a standard blood and urine sample for conventional analysis (if not performed very recently); maybe we will even take an x-ray of an injury site or have an x-ray performed. if warranted for some other reason. Once we accomplish the standard examination phase of Step 1, we can move on to the next phase which is quantifying (or assessing) your actual macronutrient caloric need given your lifestyle and objectives. How many calories does it take to run your body most efficiently? We'll find out directly.
By the way, the majority of nutrition patients I've worked with have been to other so-called nutritionists (mostly novices) who have never quantified their diet for them. Instead of assessing caloric need scientifically for each client, these novice nutritionists simply guess about this procedure or in some cases are not even aware that it exists in the first place, due to their lack of training and expertise in its application. Many of my patients have walked into the office with what I term "standard form diets" taken from a generic source with no real direct connection to them as the patient.
in one instance, a patient of mine handed me a Pritikin Diet plan. Apparentiy, this patient had walked into a nutritionist's office, plopped down $150, talked to the novice nutritionist for about fifteen minutes (with no formal exam or medical history taken), and was then handed this generic Pritikin Diet. it had been taken from a notebook. The patient had been told to follow through on it, though no quantification or qualification process to determine exact calorie needs was performed, no typing, no metabolic analysis, and no diet analysis of any kind was given. To add insult to injury, my new patient plopped down an additional $150 for a group of one-size-fits-all supplements, which of course had no connection to the actual measurable needs of this patient. And, there was that same pile of partly used supplements placed on my desk, pills that my patient had barely taken because they made her feel even worse after she ingested them.
What a joke! My disgust with this treatment of my new patient intensified further when I found out that the particular novice nutritionist in question is a (somewhat) famous nutritionist "to the stars." in reaiity, this person has no discernible or accredited academic qualifications at all. Truly a case of the "blind leading the blind." What's worse is that this is not an isolated case—this kind of fraud occurs every day to thousands of unsuspecting consumers. Don't be one of them!
The greater the 'gray area the greater the success potential.
Next, we have an initial consultation. We discuss your health history and what has and has not been done for you in the way of fully analyzing and fulfilling your wellness needs. I accomplish all of this by taking a very close look at your diet, supplements, exercise (or non-exercise) patterns, and your lifestyle at large—I look for imbalances. I do this in the hope of identifying "gray areas" in your health history. These "gray areas" represent the need for investigative procedures that have not been performed on you to date such as typing or profiling analysis. The more of these "gray areas" that become apparent, the greater the chance that we can fully restore you to optimal health.
Most people have huge "gray areas" with regard to clinical nutrition intervention. The larger these clinical nutrition "gray areas," the greater the success potential. My goal is to nutritionally rebuild you from the ground up and create a foundation of wellness that will never deteriorate again. Because nutrition is the absolute cornerstone of wellness and in your case you've historically had little, if any proper intervention (which is typical of patients), we have a lot to work with and can expect many dramatic improvements. I've already noted your ethnicity, family disease patterns, personal disease pattern, you and your family's ages, your weight (on my scale, of course), gender, and other background information'
After I give you a brief overview of what one-size-fits-all thinking is, stressing its ineffectiveness in promoting optimal health on an individual basis, we next get down to business.
Most people have huge "gray areas" with regard to clinical nutrition intervention. The larger these clinical nutrition "gray areas," the greater the success potential. My goal is to nutritionally rebuild you from the ground up and create a foundation of wellness that will never deteriorate again. Because nutrition is the absolute cornerstone of wellness and in your case you've historically had little, if any proper intervention (which is typical of patients), we have a lot to work with and can expect many dramatic improvements. I've already noted your ethnicity, family disease patterns, personal disease pattern, you and your family's ages, your weight (on my scale, of course), gender, and other background information'
After I give you a brief overview of what one-size-fits-all thinking is, stressing its ineffectiveness in promoting optimal health on an individual basis, we next get down to business.
Wednesday
If You Were My Patient...
Let's pretend that you've sought my help and you are now in my office, ready to be typed and profiled. You have already been to a fair number of doctors, nutritionists, trainers, and the like, all of whom have not fully addressed your symptoms, objectives, and lifestyle needs. (This is the typical case for many of my patients.)
Nobody has fully "connected the dots" of wellness for you and you're still suffering! Perhaps the last medical doctor you visited couldn't find any overt problems or disease present, and therefore told you "it's all in your head." Maybe you believed him or her, or maybe you really didn't and that's why you sought my help! After all, you still have a lot of nagging symptoms plaguing you like fatigue, intermittent digestive stress, nagging headaches, weakness, weight problems, recurring rashes, joint pain, high blood pressure, and many more symptoms. You may have already been to an Herbologist, Acupuncturist, iridologist, Kinesiologist, and other assorted healthcare practitioners. You may even have brought your diet plan and a host of other supplements and drugs with you for me to examine along with all of your medical records. Maybe you've gotten to the point of pure desperation and that's why you're giving the "guy down the street" (me) a chance. After all, what have you got to lose that you already haven't lost!
Maybe you found me likable when you saw me on a TV program. Or maybe you liked it when Dr. Bob Torman on "CBS This Morning" called me "quintessential," because it appealed to your rebellious instincts to "break out of the mold" and look for alternatives. Maybe you simply felt that I knew something that no one else seemed to know and could actually help you (for a change)!
None of this really matters now, because here you are in my office ready to be typed and profiled. You are committed to seeing this process through We start off by having you fill out an extensive medical, nutrition, and exercise history. This allows me to better understand your personal wellness experiences.
Nobody has fully "connected the dots" of wellness for you and you're still suffering! Perhaps the last medical doctor you visited couldn't find any overt problems or disease present, and therefore told you "it's all in your head." Maybe you believed him or her, or maybe you really didn't and that's why you sought my help! After all, you still have a lot of nagging symptoms plaguing you like fatigue, intermittent digestive stress, nagging headaches, weakness, weight problems, recurring rashes, joint pain, high blood pressure, and many more symptoms. You may have already been to an Herbologist, Acupuncturist, iridologist, Kinesiologist, and other assorted healthcare practitioners. You may even have brought your diet plan and a host of other supplements and drugs with you for me to examine along with all of your medical records. Maybe you've gotten to the point of pure desperation and that's why you're giving the "guy down the street" (me) a chance. After all, what have you got to lose that you already haven't lost!
Maybe you found me likable when you saw me on a TV program. Or maybe you liked it when Dr. Bob Torman on "CBS This Morning" called me "quintessential," because it appealed to your rebellious instincts to "break out of the mold" and look for alternatives. Maybe you simply felt that I knew something that no one else seemed to know and could actually help you (for a change)!
None of this really matters now, because here you are in my office ready to be typed and profiled. You are committed to seeing this process through We start off by having you fill out an extensive medical, nutrition, and exercise history. This allows me to better understand your personal wellness experiences.
The Fatal Flaw of the "Body Type" Diet
i have observed a number of body type diets, including the aptly named "Body Type Diet." I applaud the efforts of the inventors of these plans for attempting to further differentiate us as individuals using certain person-specific criteria. it represents a step in the right direction. These plans are certainly a lot closer to providing a healthier nutrient balance than some of the other extremist plans I've seen in use.
The inherent weaknesses in these types of diets is their requirement for respective personalization strategies. This undermines their effectiveness and validity. These weaknesses all fall under one category: speculation.
The criteria required for entry into any one of these body type programs are usually based on questionnaires or charts. Aside from the scientific controversies about the inconsistencies, discrepancies, and limitations of some of these programs (like Sheldon's or Kelley's Systems) they all make the fundamental mistake of speculating about—rather than actually measuring—your nutritional needs directiy.
To better understand this "speculation factor," let me ask the following question: Would you expect your family doctor to diagnose and treat your health condition from a mere phone call, without the benefit of a physical exam, blood and urine tests, x-rays, or other evaluative modalities, and without a follow-up? Of course not! It works the same in these chart-driven or questionnaire-mediated "Body Type Diet Programs." Without directly measuring and classifying your body's metabolic functions and nutrient status, you can't possibly tell what's right for you. Questionnaire and chart programs simply make too many unprovable assumptions without true body specific criteria. Human error further compounds this issue rendering even more inconsistencies into the assumptive criteria. Most people fill out questionnaires inaccurately in the first place.
With true typing, there are very little speculative and assumptive criteria because there are so many body-specific measurements taken directly from the person in question. In typing speculation is at an all time minimum. A typer would know if his urine was too acidic and that he had a full-blown folic acid deficiency, based on actual lab tests. He would know what to do about it and then be able to double-check his/her progress with a retest to validate improvement. The process of typing goes well beyond what questi onnaire and chart mediated body typing can do.
The inherent weaknesses in these types of diets is their requirement for respective personalization strategies. This undermines their effectiveness and validity. These weaknesses all fall under one category: speculation.
The criteria required for entry into any one of these body type programs are usually based on questionnaires or charts. Aside from the scientific controversies about the inconsistencies, discrepancies, and limitations of some of these programs (like Sheldon's or Kelley's Systems) they all make the fundamental mistake of speculating about—rather than actually measuring—your nutritional needs directiy.
To better understand this "speculation factor," let me ask the following question: Would you expect your family doctor to diagnose and treat your health condition from a mere phone call, without the benefit of a physical exam, blood and urine tests, x-rays, or other evaluative modalities, and without a follow-up? Of course not! It works the same in these chart-driven or questionnaire-mediated "Body Type Diet Programs." Without directly measuring and classifying your body's metabolic functions and nutrient status, you can't possibly tell what's right for you. Questionnaire and chart programs simply make too many unprovable assumptions without true body specific criteria. Human error further compounds this issue rendering even more inconsistencies into the assumptive criteria. Most people fill out questionnaires inaccurately in the first place.
With true typing, there are very little speculative and assumptive criteria because there are so many body-specific measurements taken directly from the person in question. In typing speculation is at an all time minimum. A typer would know if his urine was too acidic and that he had a full-blown folic acid deficiency, based on actual lab tests. He would know what to do about it and then be able to double-check his/her progress with a retest to validate improvement. The process of typing goes well beyond what questi onnaire and chart mediated body typing can do.
"Or maybe you are that average person —roughly 1-2% of the population— and this formula (by luck) actually helps you."
The problem is, these generic supplements are merely take-offs based on RDA levels, and therefore have no direct connection to your specific needs. At best, your average gender-specific, age-related multivitamin is a slightly improved generic guess at what is predicted for your body needs. But without typing or testing your metabolism, it is still a "shot in the dark" in terms of fulfilling your actual nutrient needs.
You may still buy the female, over-40 multivitamin, but you really don't know if it's going to work or not. Perhaps it's so mismatched to your biochemically unique profile that it will actually create deficiencies or megadosing overload syndromes, or else liver, heart, or kidney stress. Or maybe so many other components of your diet are out of balance that this formula couldn't possibly make up for other dietary mistakes. Or perhaps the supplement is "dead" (i.e., lost its bioactivity) because it's been sitting on the shelf for so long. Or maybe you are that average person—roughiy 1-2% of the population—and this formula (by luck) actually helps you.
Without typing you really haven't a clue, unless of course you literally "gag" on this pill because you are so allergic to it and have to dump it immediateiy. Or maybe you continue forcing yourself to take it because it doesn't have to taste (or feel) good to be good for you, right? Or maybe your body just isn't ready yet for this pill . . . or the pill is not synergized— but how can you really know without typing?
You may still buy the female, over-40 multivitamin, but you really don't know if it's going to work or not. Perhaps it's so mismatched to your biochemically unique profile that it will actually create deficiencies or megadosing overload syndromes, or else liver, heart, or kidney stress. Or maybe so many other components of your diet are out of balance that this formula couldn't possibly make up for other dietary mistakes. Or perhaps the supplement is "dead" (i.e., lost its bioactivity) because it's been sitting on the shelf for so long. Or maybe you are that average person—roughiy 1-2% of the population—and this formula (by luck) actually helps you.
Without typing you really haven't a clue, unless of course you literally "gag" on this pill because you are so allergic to it and have to dump it immediateiy. Or maybe you continue forcing yourself to take it because it doesn't have to taste (or feel) good to be good for you, right? Or maybe your body just isn't ready yet for this pill . . . or the pill is not synergized— but how can you really know without typing?
The Limitations of Pseudo-Individualized Supplements
You go to your favorite health food store, pharmacy, or supermarket to buy a multivitamin and mineral supplement ... are immediately bombarded by shelf after shelf of multivitamins! You ask yourself, "which brand should I choose?" Then you notice the female formula (you happen to be female). "Ah ha!" you say to yourself, "this makes sense because I don't want to take manly vitamins, now do I? Of course not! Maybe they' re dangerous for me . . . they might even turn me into a man!"
Fears aside, you then step up to the shelf and notice the "over-40" formula next to the female formula. You say to yourself "you'd think they'd have the over-40 and female formulas all rolled into one." Maybe they do, maybe they don't. The point is that you are naturally drawn to a more body-specific formula. You instinctively want this personalization factor built in—it makes sense.
Fears aside, you then step up to the shelf and notice the "over-40" formula next to the female formula. You say to yourself "you'd think they'd have the over-40 and female formulas all rolled into one." Maybe they do, maybe they don't. The point is that you are naturally drawn to a more body-specific formula. You instinctively want this personalization factor built in—it makes sense.
Personalized Nutrition. The Next Megatrend
The therapeutic expression of Typing and Profiling—including all of its healthful implications—lies within the creation of a fully individualized and customized diet and supplement program. Just knowing that you're a Thyroid Dominant Type with an underactive digestive system and B12 deficiency, for example, isn't going to help you, without a precise nutritional plan to go along with it.
In this chapter, I will treat you as if you were my nutritional client and take you conceptually through the five steps of typing, in order to help you better understand how this process actually works. The end result is the creation of a fully customized nutritional program scientifically matched to your own biochemical uniqueness.
Before I get started typing you, I would like to present a brief overview of some half-hearted attempts in common practice to personalize or individualize nutrition for you. These attempts at personalization are only slightly better than one-size-fits-all nutrition and are extremely limited in scope. They do, however, represent the beginning of the mainstream societal acknowledgment of, demand for, and the acceptance of nutritional personalization. Furthermore, these programs and their anciilary products have historical value, because they have sequentially opened up the door to the next (and final) megatrend in nutrition—the final frontier: personalized nutrition—our only alternative!
In this chapter, I will treat you as if you were my nutritional client and take you conceptually through the five steps of typing, in order to help you better understand how this process actually works. The end result is the creation of a fully customized nutritional program scientifically matched to your own biochemical uniqueness.
Before I get started typing you, I would like to present a brief overview of some half-hearted attempts in common practice to personalize or individualize nutrition for you. These attempts at personalization are only slightly better than one-size-fits-all nutrition and are extremely limited in scope. They do, however, represent the beginning of the mainstream societal acknowledgment of, demand for, and the acceptance of nutritional personalization. Furthermore, these programs and their anciilary products have historical value, because they have sequentially opened up the door to the next (and final) megatrend in nutrition—the final frontier: personalized nutrition—our only alternative!
Forced Feeding Incompatibility Syndrome (FFIS)
"FFIS" is a phenomenon where one-size-fits-all symptom relief marketers encourage unsuspecting consumers to risk their health by eating foods that are either generally unhealthy or specifically incompatible with any individual's metabolism, while they promise to relieve the symptomatic consequences that one will suffer from eating these foods with their special wonder drug. This type of drug is specifically designed to allow you to survive the discomfort of eating the wrong foods, which would normally (without the drug) cause a great deal of discomfort to eat and digest.
A good example of FFIS can be seen in a current TV commercial for antacids that encourages the viewer to eat the foods that we already know will typically cause acid indigestion, heartburn, digestive distress (and worse); as the advertisement promises, taking this antacid drug in advance will protect us from experiencing painful symptoms. "Go right ahead and eat that 'bad' (i.e., incompatible) food," the commercial seems to be blatantly telling us. "After all, if you take this drug you won't feel the food hurting you—so, based on this commercial, why worry?"
This incredibly irresponsible suggestion encourages us to indulge in an unhealthy practice, where one can use artificial pain-relief drugs to block the body's messages that certain foods we are eating are damaging us! Don't buy into this unbelievable insanity if you value yourself in the least! in this particular commercial, the kids are about to put away a serving of greasy fast foods, while one parent questions the other for ordering the same fast foods as their kids. Both parents openly acknowledge that these foods are exceedingly unhealthy (and will cause stomach upset and other problems once eaten). They obviously don't value their own kids' health by endorsing the intake of indigestible fast foods! What's worse, the parent explains to her friend that it's okay for her to eat this junk food, since she's got a drug that will block the pain it causes!
in another prime example of FFIS, an advertisement encourages the consumption of certain milk products, which many people cannot digest due to lactase deficiencies. Promoters push a so-called "drug"— actually an enzyme complex—to "help" one eliminate digestive stress from these products.
The apparent analogy present in this mentality is that, again, it's okay to indulge in foods that are completely incompatible with your Phenotype (body type) and biochemical individuality, and which are ultimately harmful to your health. Chemical incompatibility causes uncomfortable symptoms and physical damage, all of which does not seem important anymore, when you can cover up the problem by popping pills.
In effect, the promoters' drug products in the above examples (and many others commonplace in our society) artificially "cover up" your body's natural defensive responses (that is, pain that you experience consciously) to incompatible foods. This natural defensive pain response to incompatible foods is termed "symptoms" or "dis-ease." If you willingly go along with the logic behind such advertisements as those described above, then with drugs in hand you can literally "force feed" your body with food that it would normally reject...and you will (seemingly) get away with it—at least from a symptomatic standpoint.
But you really don't get away with anything when you consider the metabolic damage these foods cause to your system; such damage will still occur, whether or not you experience painful symptoms. When your body hurts, it's trying to let you know that something is wrong' In the case of all pain relief medications, conscious symptoms are artificially reduced while the root physical cause of the pain goes uncorrected and is allowed to progress. At least with food-induced pain the cure is most obvious: simply avoid incompatible (or symptom-provoking) foods and/or food combinations! Prevention is the key.
Metabolic Typing and Profiling science systematically sorts out food incompatibilities for each individual, revealing whether food-reiated symptoms are due to genetic factors or actually due to other measurable metabolic and nutritional inconsistencies which can be overcome naturaily. Typing and Profiling will answer the question "is this food right for my body or is my body not right for this food?" It also answers the question, "can my body be made right for this food?" In all cases, understanding your biochemical individuality can ensure optimal health. Avoiding foods or food combinations, which require pain-relief medication, is a quantum leap in the right direction for eternal wellness.
A good example of FFIS can be seen in a current TV commercial for antacids that encourages the viewer to eat the foods that we already know will typically cause acid indigestion, heartburn, digestive distress (and worse); as the advertisement promises, taking this antacid drug in advance will protect us from experiencing painful symptoms. "Go right ahead and eat that 'bad' (i.e., incompatible) food," the commercial seems to be blatantly telling us. "After all, if you take this drug you won't feel the food hurting you—so, based on this commercial, why worry?"
This incredibly irresponsible suggestion encourages us to indulge in an unhealthy practice, where one can use artificial pain-relief drugs to block the body's messages that certain foods we are eating are damaging us! Don't buy into this unbelievable insanity if you value yourself in the least! in this particular commercial, the kids are about to put away a serving of greasy fast foods, while one parent questions the other for ordering the same fast foods as their kids. Both parents openly acknowledge that these foods are exceedingly unhealthy (and will cause stomach upset and other problems once eaten). They obviously don't value their own kids' health by endorsing the intake of indigestible fast foods! What's worse, the parent explains to her friend that it's okay for her to eat this junk food, since she's got a drug that will block the pain it causes!
in another prime example of FFIS, an advertisement encourages the consumption of certain milk products, which many people cannot digest due to lactase deficiencies. Promoters push a so-called "drug"— actually an enzyme complex—to "help" one eliminate digestive stress from these products.
The apparent analogy present in this mentality is that, again, it's okay to indulge in foods that are completely incompatible with your Phenotype (body type) and biochemical individuality, and which are ultimately harmful to your health. Chemical incompatibility causes uncomfortable symptoms and physical damage, all of which does not seem important anymore, when you can cover up the problem by popping pills.
In effect, the promoters' drug products in the above examples (and many others commonplace in our society) artificially "cover up" your body's natural defensive responses (that is, pain that you experience consciously) to incompatible foods. This natural defensive pain response to incompatible foods is termed "symptoms" or "dis-ease." If you willingly go along with the logic behind such advertisements as those described above, then with drugs in hand you can literally "force feed" your body with food that it would normally reject...and you will (seemingly) get away with it—at least from a symptomatic standpoint.
But you really don't get away with anything when you consider the metabolic damage these foods cause to your system; such damage will still occur, whether or not you experience painful symptoms. When your body hurts, it's trying to let you know that something is wrong' In the case of all pain relief medications, conscious symptoms are artificially reduced while the root physical cause of the pain goes uncorrected and is allowed to progress. At least with food-induced pain the cure is most obvious: simply avoid incompatible (or symptom-provoking) foods and/or food combinations! Prevention is the key.
Metabolic Typing and Profiling science systematically sorts out food incompatibilities for each individual, revealing whether food-reiated symptoms are due to genetic factors or actually due to other measurable metabolic and nutritional inconsistencies which can be overcome naturaily. Typing and Profiling will answer the question "is this food right for my body or is my body not right for this food?" It also answers the question, "can my body be made right for this food?" In all cases, understanding your biochemical individuality can ensure optimal health. Avoiding foods or food combinations, which require pain-relief medication, is a quantum leap in the right direction for eternal wellness.
"Good" Foods, "Bad" Foods, And "Compatible" Foods-How to Know What is What For You
After considering the existence of our biochemical individuality, is it fair to think of any food as good or bad? The answer is simple: any food in and of itself cannot be considered either good or bad. A given food is good or bad relative only to its effect on a specific metabolic "type." is whale blubber compatible to an East Indian's metabolism? I doubt it, just as much as a whole-grain rice dish is not compatible to an Eskimo's metabolism. I choose the word "compatible" over good or bad in my reference to foods, in order to avoid falsely judging one's food. is a food compatible with you? Only "typing" can tell for sure.
There is a category of generically bad food in existence, and no matter what body type you possess, this bad food simply is not compatible with human beings. I'm referring to highly processed, heat-treated, chemical-laden, nutrient- and enzyme-dead, overcooked foods. By nature, these foods undermine the health of all "types," because of their toxin-laden and nutrient-scarce nature. Organically grown, fresh and simple foods are more "nutrient-alive," and are generally preferred over synthetically altered, highly processed, mass-produced foods in every case.
There is a whole new breed of food that should be taken into account as well. Known as "super-nutritious food," it contains an even greater nutrient density and less toxic accumulation than our best standard organically grown foods. (More about this in Chapter 5).
Within the hierarchy of healthy foods, fresh is always best; frozen is the next best; canned, freeze-dried, and boxed are last in line. In the hierarchy of healthy food preparation, fresh and raw is best (except for meats and some dense starches like potatoes); low temperature, long-term cooking or high temperature "flash" cooking (like broiling and stir fry) is next best; baking, stewing, and microwaving follows the others as a healthy technique for cooking; boiling, long-term sauteing, and pressure cooking is considered worst on the list, since they have the potential to undermine the nutrient values of food. No matter what type of food preparation, over-cooking should be avoided at all costs. Fried foods are generally undesirable for all "types" due to trans-fat accumulation (more on trans fat in Chapter 4), excessive calories, free radical buildup, and nutrient deprivation.
There is a category of generically bad food in existence, and no matter what body type you possess, this bad food simply is not compatible with human beings. I'm referring to highly processed, heat-treated, chemical-laden, nutrient- and enzyme-dead, overcooked foods. By nature, these foods undermine the health of all "types," because of their toxin-laden and nutrient-scarce nature. Organically grown, fresh and simple foods are more "nutrient-alive," and are generally preferred over synthetically altered, highly processed, mass-produced foods in every case.
There is a whole new breed of food that should be taken into account as well. Known as "super-nutritious food," it contains an even greater nutrient density and less toxic accumulation than our best standard organically grown foods. (More about this in Chapter 5).
Within the hierarchy of healthy foods, fresh is always best; frozen is the next best; canned, freeze-dried, and boxed are last in line. In the hierarchy of healthy food preparation, fresh and raw is best (except for meats and some dense starches like potatoes); low temperature, long-term cooking or high temperature "flash" cooking (like broiling and stir fry) is next best; baking, stewing, and microwaving follows the others as a healthy technique for cooking; boiling, long-term sauteing, and pressure cooking is considered worst on the list, since they have the potential to undermine the nutrient values of food. No matter what type of food preparation, over-cooking should be avoided at all costs. Fried foods are generally undesirable for all "types" due to trans-fat accumulation (more on trans fat in Chapter 4), excessive calories, free radical buildup, and nutrient deprivation.
The Death of Soil Quality
The last 50 years or so have seen extreme change in the farming industry. Prior to this time, most farms in the U.S. were small and managed by the families who lived on them. These agrarian families tended their own gardens and lived off the land. They grew potatoes, corn and other assorted vegetables and grains. Typically, they had a flock of chickens, some dairy cows, some hogs, a horse or two, and perhaps some apple, pear, or plum trees, and some blueberry or raspberry bushes. What they did not consume themselves they sent to local markets for sale. These farmers ate fish occasionally and other wild foods that they fished, picked or hunted, like trout, berries, wild turkeys or deer. They took shavings, peelings, leftovers, and other natural organic garbage and used it as compost plowing it back into the soil as fertilize' They collected their cow, horse, chicken, and pig manure and plowed it back into the soil as well. Through this ecological process, the soil was constantly being recycled so that all of the nutrients originally found in the soil remained there. Crops were also rotated for this expressed purpose owing to the fact that some crops deplete certain elements of soil more so than others while still others help to synergistically recharge certain elements found in soil.
in this way, the soil was kept in a state of nutrient balance and yielded healthy crops from within its own natural ecosystem with few outside influences. During winter, the soil rested and all of the microorganisms, worms, and bugs in soil would continue to break nutrients down into forms usable by plants. This winter "rest and recycling" period made more nutrients available for next years crop. The lowland fields near streams and rivers were naturally flooded during winter's thaw and rainy seasons and experienced large scale flooding every one to three years, which served to bring in new layers of silt. These layers of silt leached from the surrounding mountains and highlands brought in even more minerals and nutrients to the farming soils.
This was a period in farming history when chickens were free to roam around, eating whatever bugs and seeds appealed to them; the typically "small udder" dairy cows were likewise free to roam the fields and sample whatever elements of nature they chose. Collectively, this natural feeding process resulted in food that looked, felt, smelled, and tasted much different than our mass-produced foods of today. Eggshells and egg yolks defied breaking and milk was thick and tangy—versus today's brittle eggshells, pale yolks, and watery milk (from hybridized "big udder" cows). This was a time when vegetables had deep, tangy flavors and whole-grain breads were dark and heavy. to satisfy our appetites versus the waxy tasteless vegetables and crumbiy, air-filled breads we currently find in the supermarket.
it is obvious to anyone who is old enough to remember the farms of yesteryeai, or who was fortunate enough to be able to tend his or her own private gardens through the years, that typical food was totally different fifty years ago.
The changes to our modern farming system began with the emergence of gigantic, high-profit farms which progressively replaced the status quo of small farms in America. These large farms were measured in square miles instead of acres, as their small farm predecessors had been. This shift into large farming operations was widespread throughout the U.S. and Canada. The new gigantic farms were extremely productive turning out huge surpluses of grains, dairy products, vegetables, and livestock on a magnitude never seen before' This potent agricultural force became the backbone of U.S. supremacy in the world as a superpower. In a land of such great abundance, we go so far as to pay our farmers not to produce product (subsidies), and either give away or practically give away food for the political manipulation of other countries in the world—charity?
In this mass-production world of super-productive farming, the soils are pushed well beyond their limits of natural balance. Many of these same soils—where previously one crop per year was grown—are now subjected to two, three, or even more crops per year, with no rest in between. This holds true especially for the warmer climates in the U.S., where there is an eternal, year-round harvest.
The typical large-scale modern farm uses powerful insecticides to kill bugs and deadly herbicides to destroy unwanted plants. These poisons are dropped from the air by planes, from the undersides of tractors, and in some cases by hand, in order to contain agricultural pests. Unfortunateiy, these poisons also tend to destroy beneficial bugs, worms, and micro-organisms needed in the soil to keep it nutrient-rich.
Rivers that used to follow their natural courses are now dyked and dammed to prevent flooding. The minerals they used to carry in from the surrounding highlands and distant mountains to deposit as silt over agricultural topsoils are now whisked directly out to sea and lost forever.
The growing soils of today are pushed to the limit, "toxed up" with deadly poisons, and typically miss out on the majority of nutrient-recycling phenomena common just fifty years ago. Our modern soils are no longer replenished within the fundamental ecology of nature. Instead, man has brought in billions of tons of artificial chemical fertilizers to help enrich the soil for productivity purposes, not ecological purposes. By this, I mean that these specific fertilizers are put into the soil only to keep crop yields up and not to restore the natural ecological balance of the soil and what grows on it and feeds on it. Crops produced nowadays can look good (even without artificial colors, which are often used to optimize food's appearance). Corn still looks like corn, and may even grow to be twelve feet tall; strawberries and melons look good; lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, and potatoes all look colorful, and full and well shaped. But looks aren 't everything, and when you get down to the finer science of what's in that food—something major is missing.
Plants build themselves out of about seventy to eighty different elements provided that they are available in the soil as the plants grow. Commercial growing fields are continuously overused and the chemical fertilizers added to maintain productivity inadequately replace nutrients that the plants have been extracting from the soil. Typicaily, the most common synthetic fertilizers are composed of only three to five different elements such as nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, and calcium. These few elements are used because they are the only ones that are needed to make the plants grow big and appear healthy.
unfortunateiy, these elements are not all a plant should have. Plants by nature want about seventy or so different elements as sustenance for life if available. But these natural elements just aren't in the soil anymore. All that is left in the soil in dense amounts are potassium, phosphorus, nitrogen, and calcium. The other necessary plant nutrients are found few and far between if at all in "modern soils." This nutrient-deficient soil crisis has affected our food in many ways, but in particular has undermined the nutrient qualities of food drasticaily.
According to the Firman E. Bear Report, published by Rutgers university, variations in the mineral content in foods vary by hundreds to even thousands of percent in some cases. Please see the Appendix: I ("Variations of Mineral Content in Vegetables") for more details.
On his audio tape, "Who Stole America's Health?" Dr. Erwin L. Gemmer comments that, at the turn of the century, "wheat was 40% protein . . . now it's 9%. If two slices of bread were to give you a certain amount of food value in 1900, now you may have to eat ten slices to get the same nutrition." Also according to Dr. Gemmer, "In 1948, spinach had 150 mg of iron per 100 grams . . . . In 1965, spinach had 27 mg of iron per 100 grams . . . . In 1973, spinach had 2.2 mg of iron per 100 grams . . . ."
Another expert weighs in on this issue: Dr. Joel Wallach, D.V.M ' , N.D., 1991 Nobel Prize Nominee in Medicine, echoes these serious concerns about the state of soil depletion in his tape, "Dead Doctors Don 't Lie." The lack of nutrients in the soil is undermining the mineral content of our growing soils, which in turn is compromising the mineral density of our foods. Dr. Wallach grew up on a farm and worked with plants and livestock for many years. Further commenting on this crisis, Senate Documents 264 and 268 demonstrate over 90% average mineral depletion from farming soils.
From my personal experience—having had access to my grandparent's vegetable garden covering about half an acre—I was always delightfully spoiled by the rich flavors, crisp freshness, and complete appetite satisfaction I experienced with our home-grown foods, as compared to the supermarket produce that didn't look, taste, smell, or satisfy my appetite as well.
So far, in my professional research, I haven't been able to isolate the source of Dr. Gemmer's wheat and spinach statistics, but I have seen many similar statistics in relation to other foods, as assayed by consumer groups, government agencies, and from other professional publications, including research work done by Dr. Michael Colgan, Ph.D. These statistics demonstrate a wide array of varying nutrient densities in foods, usually far below the values you'd expect. Imagine oranges with only a trace of vitamin C left, and other produce completely devoid of selenium and other vital minerals we count on for our good health.
That isn't all, unfortunately: we have a new host of toxic residues in food from pesticides, herbicides, and other mass production, storage, and refinement aftereffects. Meats are full of fat, antibiotics, and steroids; milk is pasteurized and homogenized to compensate for dirty cows; and our meats are deficient in nutrients not apparent in livestock feeds or supplements. (Yes, even farm animals need many of the supplements humans do, because their foods are not up to par, either.) Scientists have developed new genetic food hybrids (plants and animals) aimed at increasing the quantity of yields but not necessarily the quality of nutrient density. it all tastes different and affects us differently than food grown in the "good old days."
This disturbing "hit or miss" phenomenon, where we come into contact with varying nutrient and toxin density in our foods, is only one more reason why we all need to be properly "typed." We should not leave our foundation of good health to chance.
in this way, the soil was kept in a state of nutrient balance and yielded healthy crops from within its own natural ecosystem with few outside influences. During winter, the soil rested and all of the microorganisms, worms, and bugs in soil would continue to break nutrients down into forms usable by plants. This winter "rest and recycling" period made more nutrients available for next years crop. The lowland fields near streams and rivers were naturally flooded during winter's thaw and rainy seasons and experienced large scale flooding every one to three years, which served to bring in new layers of silt. These layers of silt leached from the surrounding mountains and highlands brought in even more minerals and nutrients to the farming soils.
This was a period in farming history when chickens were free to roam around, eating whatever bugs and seeds appealed to them; the typically "small udder" dairy cows were likewise free to roam the fields and sample whatever elements of nature they chose. Collectively, this natural feeding process resulted in food that looked, felt, smelled, and tasted much different than our mass-produced foods of today. Eggshells and egg yolks defied breaking and milk was thick and tangy—versus today's brittle eggshells, pale yolks, and watery milk (from hybridized "big udder" cows). This was a time when vegetables had deep, tangy flavors and whole-grain breads were dark and heavy. to satisfy our appetites versus the waxy tasteless vegetables and crumbiy, air-filled breads we currently find in the supermarket.
it is obvious to anyone who is old enough to remember the farms of yesteryeai, or who was fortunate enough to be able to tend his or her own private gardens through the years, that typical food was totally different fifty years ago.
The changes to our modern farming system began with the emergence of gigantic, high-profit farms which progressively replaced the status quo of small farms in America. These large farms were measured in square miles instead of acres, as their small farm predecessors had been. This shift into large farming operations was widespread throughout the U.S. and Canada. The new gigantic farms were extremely productive turning out huge surpluses of grains, dairy products, vegetables, and livestock on a magnitude never seen before' This potent agricultural force became the backbone of U.S. supremacy in the world as a superpower. In a land of such great abundance, we go so far as to pay our farmers not to produce product (subsidies), and either give away or practically give away food for the political manipulation of other countries in the world—charity?
In this mass-production world of super-productive farming, the soils are pushed well beyond their limits of natural balance. Many of these same soils—where previously one crop per year was grown—are now subjected to two, three, or even more crops per year, with no rest in between. This holds true especially for the warmer climates in the U.S., where there is an eternal, year-round harvest.
The typical large-scale modern farm uses powerful insecticides to kill bugs and deadly herbicides to destroy unwanted plants. These poisons are dropped from the air by planes, from the undersides of tractors, and in some cases by hand, in order to contain agricultural pests. Unfortunateiy, these poisons also tend to destroy beneficial bugs, worms, and micro-organisms needed in the soil to keep it nutrient-rich.
Rivers that used to follow their natural courses are now dyked and dammed to prevent flooding. The minerals they used to carry in from the surrounding highlands and distant mountains to deposit as silt over agricultural topsoils are now whisked directly out to sea and lost forever.
The growing soils of today are pushed to the limit, "toxed up" with deadly poisons, and typically miss out on the majority of nutrient-recycling phenomena common just fifty years ago. Our modern soils are no longer replenished within the fundamental ecology of nature. Instead, man has brought in billions of tons of artificial chemical fertilizers to help enrich the soil for productivity purposes, not ecological purposes. By this, I mean that these specific fertilizers are put into the soil only to keep crop yields up and not to restore the natural ecological balance of the soil and what grows on it and feeds on it. Crops produced nowadays can look good (even without artificial colors, which are often used to optimize food's appearance). Corn still looks like corn, and may even grow to be twelve feet tall; strawberries and melons look good; lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, and potatoes all look colorful, and full and well shaped. But looks aren 't everything, and when you get down to the finer science of what's in that food—something major is missing.
Plants build themselves out of about seventy to eighty different elements provided that they are available in the soil as the plants grow. Commercial growing fields are continuously overused and the chemical fertilizers added to maintain productivity inadequately replace nutrients that the plants have been extracting from the soil. Typicaily, the most common synthetic fertilizers are composed of only three to five different elements such as nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, and calcium. These few elements are used because they are the only ones that are needed to make the plants grow big and appear healthy.
unfortunateiy, these elements are not all a plant should have. Plants by nature want about seventy or so different elements as sustenance for life if available. But these natural elements just aren't in the soil anymore. All that is left in the soil in dense amounts are potassium, phosphorus, nitrogen, and calcium. The other necessary plant nutrients are found few and far between if at all in "modern soils." This nutrient-deficient soil crisis has affected our food in many ways, but in particular has undermined the nutrient qualities of food drasticaily.
According to the Firman E. Bear Report, published by Rutgers university, variations in the mineral content in foods vary by hundreds to even thousands of percent in some cases. Please see the Appendix: I ("Variations of Mineral Content in Vegetables") for more details.
On his audio tape, "Who Stole America's Health?" Dr. Erwin L. Gemmer comments that, at the turn of the century, "wheat was 40% protein . . . now it's 9%. If two slices of bread were to give you a certain amount of food value in 1900, now you may have to eat ten slices to get the same nutrition." Also according to Dr. Gemmer, "In 1948, spinach had 150 mg of iron per 100 grams . . . . In 1965, spinach had 27 mg of iron per 100 grams . . . . In 1973, spinach had 2.2 mg of iron per 100 grams . . . ."
Another expert weighs in on this issue: Dr. Joel Wallach, D.V.M ' , N.D., 1991 Nobel Prize Nominee in Medicine, echoes these serious concerns about the state of soil depletion in his tape, "Dead Doctors Don 't Lie." The lack of nutrients in the soil is undermining the mineral content of our growing soils, which in turn is compromising the mineral density of our foods. Dr. Wallach grew up on a farm and worked with plants and livestock for many years. Further commenting on this crisis, Senate Documents 264 and 268 demonstrate over 90% average mineral depletion from farming soils.
From my personal experience—having had access to my grandparent's vegetable garden covering about half an acre—I was always delightfully spoiled by the rich flavors, crisp freshness, and complete appetite satisfaction I experienced with our home-grown foods, as compared to the supermarket produce that didn't look, taste, smell, or satisfy my appetite as well.
So far, in my professional research, I haven't been able to isolate the source of Dr. Gemmer's wheat and spinach statistics, but I have seen many similar statistics in relation to other foods, as assayed by consumer groups, government agencies, and from other professional publications, including research work done by Dr. Michael Colgan, Ph.D. These statistics demonstrate a wide array of varying nutrient densities in foods, usually far below the values you'd expect. Imagine oranges with only a trace of vitamin C left, and other produce completely devoid of selenium and other vital minerals we count on for our good health.
That isn't all, unfortunately: we have a new host of toxic residues in food from pesticides, herbicides, and other mass production, storage, and refinement aftereffects. Meats are full of fat, antibiotics, and steroids; milk is pasteurized and homogenized to compensate for dirty cows; and our meats are deficient in nutrients not apparent in livestock feeds or supplements. (Yes, even farm animals need many of the supplements humans do, because their foods are not up to par, either.) Scientists have developed new genetic food hybrids (plants and animals) aimed at increasing the quantity of yields but not necessarily the quality of nutrient density. it all tastes different and affects us differently than food grown in the "good old days."
This disturbing "hit or miss" phenomenon, where we come into contact with varying nutrient and toxin density in our foods, is only one more reason why we all need to be properly "typed." We should not leave our foundation of good health to chance.
The Eskimo Versus the Indian
A dramatic metabolic contrast is evident when you consider the differences between an Eskimo's and an East Indian's dietary patterns.
Traditional Eskimos eat as much as ten pounds of very fatty meat per day, thrive physically, and are able to successfully survive the harshest climate on earth. Historically, their overall incidence of diet-related disease has been minuscule, with no traces of cardio-vascular disease or cancer until only recentiy, with their adoption of "advanced" civilization. (Progressive dental decay and diabetes is something that modern man has lately given the Eskimos, with the introduction of refined sugars into their diets.)
During countless generations, the Eskimo's physiological constitution became perfectly suited to their environment through natural adaptation and mutation (Phenotyping). Their bodies became progressively more efficient at metabolizing the "types" of food naturally occurring within their harsh living environments. in essence, the Eskimos have developed a genetic need for high protein and high fat in their diets in order to healthfully survive. Without fatty meats, their health and survival would rapidly deteriorate.
The East Indian vegetarian diet offers the most vivid contrast on earth to the Eskimo's carni-vegan diet adaptation (bear in mind that Eskimos are almost pure carnivores, as are the Masai Tribes in Africa and the South American Gauchos). East Indians have an opposite food need, based mostly on vegetables, grains, and fruits with no animal meats or fat.
If either Indians or Eskimos completely switched to the other's typical diet, they would suffer an overwhelming dietary-disease plague that could potentially end the existence of both races very rapidly. Interestingiy, many paleontologists blame changes in the food chain many millions of years ago for both dinosaur mutations and their eventual extinction. It isn't inconceivable, when you think about it, that man may suffer the same fate as the dinosaurs from changing his dietary patterns too quickly for the necessary Phenotypic adaptation to keep pace. Man could potentially bring on his own extinction by altering his nutrition too drastically in too short a period of time.
The nutritional principles of VATTA, PITTA, KAPHA and others spawned in India aren't going to healthfully sustain a carnivore ( like Eskimos) or red meat - carni-vegan (like most Americans). In fact, these misapplied principles may actually doom him or her instead to poor health. Our only protection from accidental food-related extinction is to pay closer attention to our body-specific nutritional requirements and not take any drastic leaps into incompatible nutrition plans.
Traditional Eskimos eat as much as ten pounds of very fatty meat per day, thrive physically, and are able to successfully survive the harshest climate on earth. Historically, their overall incidence of diet-related disease has been minuscule, with no traces of cardio-vascular disease or cancer until only recentiy, with their adoption of "advanced" civilization. (Progressive dental decay and diabetes is something that modern man has lately given the Eskimos, with the introduction of refined sugars into their diets.)
During countless generations, the Eskimo's physiological constitution became perfectly suited to their environment through natural adaptation and mutation (Phenotyping). Their bodies became progressively more efficient at metabolizing the "types" of food naturally occurring within their harsh living environments. in essence, the Eskimos have developed a genetic need for high protein and high fat in their diets in order to healthfully survive. Without fatty meats, their health and survival would rapidly deteriorate.
The East Indian vegetarian diet offers the most vivid contrast on earth to the Eskimo's carni-vegan diet adaptation (bear in mind that Eskimos are almost pure carnivores, as are the Masai Tribes in Africa and the South American Gauchos). East Indians have an opposite food need, based mostly on vegetables, grains, and fruits with no animal meats or fat.
If either Indians or Eskimos completely switched to the other's typical diet, they would suffer an overwhelming dietary-disease plague that could potentially end the existence of both races very rapidly. Interestingiy, many paleontologists blame changes in the food chain many millions of years ago for both dinosaur mutations and their eventual extinction. It isn't inconceivable, when you think about it, that man may suffer the same fate as the dinosaurs from changing his dietary patterns too quickly for the necessary Phenotypic adaptation to keep pace. Man could potentially bring on his own extinction by altering his nutrition too drastically in too short a period of time.
The nutritional principles of VATTA, PITTA, KAPHA and others spawned in India aren't going to healthfully sustain a carnivore ( like Eskimos) or red meat - carni-vegan (like most Americans). In fact, these misapplied principles may actually doom him or her instead to poor health. Our only protection from accidental food-related extinction is to pay closer attention to our body-specific nutritional requirements and not take any drastic leaps into incompatible nutrition plans.
Tuesday
A Word About Tribes
In modern times, it's very difficult to find "pure" societies that have changed little or not at all in the last 40,000 years, and still possess much of their given environment intact. In Chapter II, I mentioned a book called The Paleolithic Prescription, in which scientists were able to find a group of "untainted" hunter-gatherer societies and study them extensively. Add to that the wealth of information scientists have compiled about the Hunzas, Georgians, Tibetan tribes, Titikakas, Armenians, Abcasians, Azerbaijanis, Gauchos, Vilcabombe Indians, and others—from these tribal exemplars we gain a genuine look at how it used to be for all of us, when we were settled in our most appropriate environments.
These "pure" hunter-gathere' fisherman, and agrarian societies are exactly matched to their environments, whose characteristics spawned their inhabitants' genetic makeup. These tribes still practice the same eating, exercise, and lifestyle habits that their ancestors practiced thousands of years ago. Each of our ancestors was in a similar setting at one time, practicing the same habits and rites of life, generation after generation. Nowadays, in our "anything goes" society, we are living completely outside of our primal nourishing elements and the natural patterns of life and wellness.
What do you think the scientific research on these unchanged ancient tribes demonstrates? An absolute lack of diet-related disease and results of longevity well over 100 years old for most individuals. Based on his studies of these tribes and his own clinical experience, Joel Wallach, D.V.M, N.D., believes our proper lifespan to be 130 to 140 years; such longevity can be achieved, if the diets ingested are appropriate. I agree with Wallach 's findings. Even the researchers living in the Arizona Biosphere, under ideal conditions, were proj ected to have over 160 years of life expectancy, if they maintained their place in the controlled environment (based on uCLA computer predictions) i
When examining long-lived primal tribes up close, researchers have found that their people simply don't suffer from osteoporosis, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, allergy syndromes, arthritis, cancer, and many more across-the-board diet-related diseases. in fact, the vast majority of these tribal people are energetic, active, productive, and disease-free . . . up until the day they die, which is nearly always from natural causes (such as old age). (By the way, the diets and behaviors of the tribal people studied did not fit squarely into the "40-30-30 zone" classification.) Most of these tribal people pass away due to ever so slight nutrient deficiencies that finally "catch-up" with them, after they are well into their 100's. An example of this phenomenon is typified by the bone tuberculosis that has taken the lives of some Hunzas (who are most often centenarians when they die); this disease is linked to an ever so slight protein deficiency, manifesting itself over hundreds of years.
Wow! To think the average American only lives to be 75.4 years old. The majority of that 75 years of life is plagued by a host of varying diseases, obesity, low energy, and all kinds of routine symptoms, from headaches to constipation to fatigue to indigestion to joint pains, and so on. While your average Hunzan is out in the fields, able to work ten to twelve hours a day consistently, well into his/her hundreds, and is naturally thin, optimistic and energetic, the average "old" American can barely get out of their chair to go to the restroom. While Georgians are reaching their sexual peak well into their 40's, 50's, and beyond, the average "middle-aged" American regards complete sexual fulfillment as a pleasant memory at best, or obtains virility and libido through drugs '
At this point, you may be thinking to yourself, "In order to be healthy I'll have to move to Lake Titikaka and do as the Titikakas do." The disease-free status and longevity success of these tribes confirms completely the need to do as our ancestral roots dictate.
But if you do move to Lake Titikaka, it might not help your wellness status, thanks to one problem you may not have thought of: your Metabolic Type does not match that of the Titikakas. Your tribal ancestry follows a line of people who lived in an entirely different environment, under entirely different circumstances, which have genetically formed your constitution accordingly. Your primal tribe may have been carni-vegans who subsisted on completely different foods than the Titikakas do. However, if you were a genuine Titikakan who left the tribe to become a lawyer in New York City over the past fifteen years, and then moved back home due to your brand new set of society-imposed diet-related illnesses, you would be happily rewarded with optimum health again in a very short period of time. You'd be back in your primal element doing what your genes were designed to do.
Because we can't all return to our tribes or countries of origin, we must utilize Metabolic Typing to reveal the essence of how our bodies function and what they specifically require to operate at peak efficiency, no matter where we are in the world. When we know our "type" we can efficiently organize our diets (and lives) very closely to the way it used to be for our ancestors, who rarely strayed from their tribes or countries and who typically practiced life in harmony with their environment '
Outside of the U.S., many countries fare much better when it comes to overall health status. Japan, for instance, is one of the top seven healthiest countries in the world, and for good reason: even with all of the health-inhibiting factors of modern civilization (such as stress, pollution, drug dependence, etc.), the Japanese adhere closely to the ritualistic life patterns of their ancestors. This is true for many Asian countries where tradition reinforces the diet and lifestyle practices of their country's past. in essence, these peoples are doing more of what their specific body type was designed to do and enjoy the absence of most diet-related diseases.
These "pure" hunter-gathere' fisherman, and agrarian societies are exactly matched to their environments, whose characteristics spawned their inhabitants' genetic makeup. These tribes still practice the same eating, exercise, and lifestyle habits that their ancestors practiced thousands of years ago. Each of our ancestors was in a similar setting at one time, practicing the same habits and rites of life, generation after generation. Nowadays, in our "anything goes" society, we are living completely outside of our primal nourishing elements and the natural patterns of life and wellness.
What do you think the scientific research on these unchanged ancient tribes demonstrates? An absolute lack of diet-related disease and results of longevity well over 100 years old for most individuals. Based on his studies of these tribes and his own clinical experience, Joel Wallach, D.V.M, N.D., believes our proper lifespan to be 130 to 140 years; such longevity can be achieved, if the diets ingested are appropriate. I agree with Wallach 's findings. Even the researchers living in the Arizona Biosphere, under ideal conditions, were proj ected to have over 160 years of life expectancy, if they maintained their place in the controlled environment (based on uCLA computer predictions) i
When examining long-lived primal tribes up close, researchers have found that their people simply don't suffer from osteoporosis, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, allergy syndromes, arthritis, cancer, and many more across-the-board diet-related diseases. in fact, the vast majority of these tribal people are energetic, active, productive, and disease-free . . . up until the day they die, which is nearly always from natural causes (such as old age). (By the way, the diets and behaviors of the tribal people studied did not fit squarely into the "40-30-30 zone" classification.) Most of these tribal people pass away due to ever so slight nutrient deficiencies that finally "catch-up" with them, after they are well into their 100's. An example of this phenomenon is typified by the bone tuberculosis that has taken the lives of some Hunzas (who are most often centenarians when they die); this disease is linked to an ever so slight protein deficiency, manifesting itself over hundreds of years.
Wow! To think the average American only lives to be 75.4 years old. The majority of that 75 years of life is plagued by a host of varying diseases, obesity, low energy, and all kinds of routine symptoms, from headaches to constipation to fatigue to indigestion to joint pains, and so on. While your average Hunzan is out in the fields, able to work ten to twelve hours a day consistently, well into his/her hundreds, and is naturally thin, optimistic and energetic, the average "old" American can barely get out of their chair to go to the restroom. While Georgians are reaching their sexual peak well into their 40's, 50's, and beyond, the average "middle-aged" American regards complete sexual fulfillment as a pleasant memory at best, or obtains virility and libido through drugs '
At this point, you may be thinking to yourself, "In order to be healthy I'll have to move to Lake Titikaka and do as the Titikakas do." The disease-free status and longevity success of these tribes confirms completely the need to do as our ancestral roots dictate.
But if you do move to Lake Titikaka, it might not help your wellness status, thanks to one problem you may not have thought of: your Metabolic Type does not match that of the Titikakas. Your tribal ancestry follows a line of people who lived in an entirely different environment, under entirely different circumstances, which have genetically formed your constitution accordingly. Your primal tribe may have been carni-vegans who subsisted on completely different foods than the Titikakas do. However, if you were a genuine Titikakan who left the tribe to become a lawyer in New York City over the past fifteen years, and then moved back home due to your brand new set of society-imposed diet-related illnesses, you would be happily rewarded with optimum health again in a very short period of time. You'd be back in your primal element doing what your genes were designed to do.
Because we can't all return to our tribes or countries of origin, we must utilize Metabolic Typing to reveal the essence of how our bodies function and what they specifically require to operate at peak efficiency, no matter where we are in the world. When we know our "type" we can efficiently organize our diets (and lives) very closely to the way it used to be for our ancestors, who rarely strayed from their tribes or countries and who typically practiced life in harmony with their environment '
Outside of the U.S., many countries fare much better when it comes to overall health status. Japan, for instance, is one of the top seven healthiest countries in the world, and for good reason: even with all of the health-inhibiting factors of modern civilization (such as stress, pollution, drug dependence, etc.), the Japanese adhere closely to the ritualistic life patterns of their ancestors. This is true for many Asian countries where tradition reinforces the diet and lifestyle practices of their country's past. in essence, these peoples are doing more of what their specific body type was designed to do and enjoy the absence of most diet-related diseases.
Metabolic Typing-The Process
The process of Metabolic Typing is a systematic, constitutional analysis of an individual's physiology to determine a long-term nutritional pattern. It is assisted by designated laboratory research on body specimens to further clarify and refine both long and short-term nutritional needs. The Metabolic Typing process, in combination with appropriate laboratory protocol (Profiling), is essential in order to:
• Determine the most efficient and long term protein pattern for an individuai
• Anticipate and measure unusual individual nutrient needs regarding all foods, special forms of foods or supplements, and very high or low amounts of certain nutrient factors
• Determine the best long or short term diet and supplement pattern for an individual
• Detect hidden or suppressed inherent genetic strengths and develop them nutritionally
• Better elucidate any metabolic ramifications reflected from long and short-term nutritional patterns as measured by nutritional or metabolic deficiency/dysfunction analysis
• Design the appropriate macro/micronutrient food, water and supplement ratios within the diet pattern and monitor results with retests
As you can see, the science and art of Metabolic Typing is designed to go to great lengths to "dig out" the facts of the matter when it comes to our own biochemical uniqueness, and what is precisely called for when it comes to diet and supplementation strategies for the attainment of optimum wellness resuits.
The Metabolic Typing process entails categorizing an individual on the basis of factors such as:
• Blood type
• Height
• Weight range
• Pulse rate
• Blood pressure
• Hair characteristics
• Skin traits
• Muscle size
• Shape and tone
• Bone factors
• Overall shape
• Head and face shape
• Personality
• Ethnicity
• Intelligence factors
• Dream states
It is further refined by using laboratory tests that reveal even more specific information about every metabolic and nutrient function we can scientifically measure and understand. This process entails extensive information gathering on the subject: detecting all allergies ' toxins, nutrient deficiencies and excesses, breakdowns in digestion, absorption, utilization and excretion, pre- and post-disease states. A properly "typed" individual will know exactly what his or her metabolic and wellness status is up-to-the-moment, what foods and supplements he or she will thrive on, what foods and supplements to completely avoid, and ultimately will have a fully customized diet and supplement program for his or her body type only.
In essence, a properly "typed" individual need never haphazardiy guess about what foods and supplements he or she needs to be in accordance with how he or she was genetically designed to live. Since our bodies were designed from the start to be healthy (the process is termed "homeostasis"), the precise nutritional program that "typing" yields will insure wellness in direct accordance with nature .
No magical pill, no one-size-fits-all supplement or food, no one-meditation technique, and no one special exercise can foster the metabolic balance of true health. Only the Metabolic Typing process can identify, assemble, and organize all of the many constituents of what it takes to be your healthy best.
In Retrospect:
There are 76 minerals, 17 vitamins, 38 fatty acids, 12 essential amino acids, 28 non-essential amino acids, hundreds—perhaps thousands— of phytonutrients and vitamin-like compounds found in nature—all of which the individual chemistry of our body (and mind) is designed to utilize. These vital nutrients were in existence long before man made an appearance on earth. Much of our genetic setup is based on the amounts and types of these nutrients found in the specific regions that saw the beginning of our ancestors' development as humans (see above, "Where Do Metabolic Types Come From . . . ?" etc.).
These various nutrient groupings have shaped our bodies, mind, and lives for centuries and this process continues. it is only in the last century or so that we have stepped out of the pre-determined nutritional boundaries in our "melting pot society" and, as a result' created fundamental problems of incomplete wellness. These are the problems that are cumulatively plaguing us as a current and ever-intensifying epidemic of diet-related disease. The epidemic is further compounded by our synthetic and mass production agricultural methodologies, nutrient-depleted and disappearing topsoils, extensive food processing, improper food storage, poisonous food additives, pesticides, herbicides and other environmental pollutants, preparation of "enzyme dead foods," and so on. Combined, these poor practices only serve to further undermine the foods that we consume and add extra toxins to our bodies, toxins we have not evolved to handle efficiently over the last 40,000 years of our development as a species.
is it any wonder, then, that Metabolic Typing should be considered the most important process to retrieve our "lost" health once and for all? Metabolic Typing uncovers our individual biochemical identities, and is the only way to precisely measure what it is that we are doing wrong nutritionally. With typing, we will finally be able to get back on the healthy track, and without Metabolic Typing you are only at best "guessing in the dark" about nutrition and therefore risking your health. It should be clear by now that our quest for the medical magic bullet has overlooked body typing and kept us in the dark about the true healing powers of nature. One-size-fits-all thinking, lodged as it is in our culture 's attitudes toward health and nutrition, is hampering our wellness progress. To combat its bad influence, typing is our only hope to right the wrongs of ineffective modern-day nutritional practices. If you agree with these statements, then you are seriously committed to entering the final frontier of nutrition.
• Determine the most efficient and long term protein pattern for an individuai
• Anticipate and measure unusual individual nutrient needs regarding all foods, special forms of foods or supplements, and very high or low amounts of certain nutrient factors
• Determine the best long or short term diet and supplement pattern for an individual
• Detect hidden or suppressed inherent genetic strengths and develop them nutritionally
• Better elucidate any metabolic ramifications reflected from long and short-term nutritional patterns as measured by nutritional or metabolic deficiency/dysfunction analysis
• Design the appropriate macro/micronutrient food, water and supplement ratios within the diet pattern and monitor results with retests
As you can see, the science and art of Metabolic Typing is designed to go to great lengths to "dig out" the facts of the matter when it comes to our own biochemical uniqueness, and what is precisely called for when it comes to diet and supplementation strategies for the attainment of optimum wellness resuits.
The Metabolic Typing process entails categorizing an individual on the basis of factors such as:
• Blood type
• Height
• Weight range
• Pulse rate
• Blood pressure
• Hair characteristics
• Skin traits
• Muscle size
• Shape and tone
• Bone factors
• Overall shape
• Head and face shape
• Personality
• Ethnicity
• Intelligence factors
• Dream states
It is further refined by using laboratory tests that reveal even more specific information about every metabolic and nutrient function we can scientifically measure and understand. This process entails extensive information gathering on the subject: detecting all allergies ' toxins, nutrient deficiencies and excesses, breakdowns in digestion, absorption, utilization and excretion, pre- and post-disease states. A properly "typed" individual will know exactly what his or her metabolic and wellness status is up-to-the-moment, what foods and supplements he or she will thrive on, what foods and supplements to completely avoid, and ultimately will have a fully customized diet and supplement program for his or her body type only.
In essence, a properly "typed" individual need never haphazardiy guess about what foods and supplements he or she needs to be in accordance with how he or she was genetically designed to live. Since our bodies were designed from the start to be healthy (the process is termed "homeostasis"), the precise nutritional program that "typing" yields will insure wellness in direct accordance with nature .
No magical pill, no one-size-fits-all supplement or food, no one-meditation technique, and no one special exercise can foster the metabolic balance of true health. Only the Metabolic Typing process can identify, assemble, and organize all of the many constituents of what it takes to be your healthy best.
In Retrospect:
There are 76 minerals, 17 vitamins, 38 fatty acids, 12 essential amino acids, 28 non-essential amino acids, hundreds—perhaps thousands— of phytonutrients and vitamin-like compounds found in nature—all of which the individual chemistry of our body (and mind) is designed to utilize. These vital nutrients were in existence long before man made an appearance on earth. Much of our genetic setup is based on the amounts and types of these nutrients found in the specific regions that saw the beginning of our ancestors' development as humans (see above, "Where Do Metabolic Types Come From . . . ?" etc.).
These various nutrient groupings have shaped our bodies, mind, and lives for centuries and this process continues. it is only in the last century or so that we have stepped out of the pre-determined nutritional boundaries in our "melting pot society" and, as a result' created fundamental problems of incomplete wellness. These are the problems that are cumulatively plaguing us as a current and ever-intensifying epidemic of diet-related disease. The epidemic is further compounded by our synthetic and mass production agricultural methodologies, nutrient-depleted and disappearing topsoils, extensive food processing, improper food storage, poisonous food additives, pesticides, herbicides and other environmental pollutants, preparation of "enzyme dead foods," and so on. Combined, these poor practices only serve to further undermine the foods that we consume and add extra toxins to our bodies, toxins we have not evolved to handle efficiently over the last 40,000 years of our development as a species.
is it any wonder, then, that Metabolic Typing should be considered the most important process to retrieve our "lost" health once and for all? Metabolic Typing uncovers our individual biochemical identities, and is the only way to precisely measure what it is that we are doing wrong nutritionally. With typing, we will finally be able to get back on the healthy track, and without Metabolic Typing you are only at best "guessing in the dark" about nutrition and therefore risking your health. It should be clear by now that our quest for the medical magic bullet has overlooked body typing and kept us in the dark about the true healing powers of nature. One-size-fits-all thinking, lodged as it is in our culture 's attitudes toward health and nutrition, is hampering our wellness progress. To combat its bad influence, typing is our only hope to right the wrongs of ineffective modern-day nutritional practices. If you agree with these statements, then you are seriously committed to entering the final frontier of nutrition.
The Tefft System
Further expanding on the Power and other systems, this system relies heavily on endocrine and blood typing. it brings into play the role of herbs in metabolic rebalancing, most directly in connection to observed endocrine patterns. The Tefft system also utilizes expanded laboratory assessments (i.e., Profiling) on a highly specific level and in conjunction with body type criteria. Blood, urine, feces, hair, saliva, and cell scrapings are incorporated into the Metabolic Typing process to further identify biochemical uniqueness, genetic design, up-to-the-moment metabolic and nutrient status, and resultant nutritional specificities. This system's therapeutic intervention is fully customized to each person's needs, on the most sophisticated levels.
The Power System
Designed by Richard Power, Ph.D., and Laura Power, B.A., this system provides a logical combination of the other systems, with further knowledge expansion and correlation, and a functional resolution of observable discrepancies between them. it relies heavily on endocrine typing and blood typing, genetically inherited features that help to accurately define body shape, personality, metabolism, digestion, diet, supplements, and allergies. The Power System utilizes over eight body types.
The Kelley System
William D. Kelley, D.D.S., developed the first nerve typing system, based primarily on Watson's work and the work of Dr. Frances Potengei, who closely researched the autonomic nervous system. This program involves three basic nerve types with three to four variable levels of oxidation efficiency, each adding up to ten subtypes altogether The autonomic nervous system is directly responsive to stress, giving rise to our "fight or flight" mechanisms. When stress is perceived, the sympathetic nerves automatically respond by constricting muscles and elevating pulse. When stress is reduced, the parasympathetic nerves compensate by relaxing muscles and lowering the pulse rate. These autonomic responses make certain demands on our body's oxidation process, therefore sapping nutrients such as electrolytes, oxidants, and antioxidants from the body. These same nerves affect hunger and digestion as well.
This typing system is conditional and not based on genetics. it is much like Watson's system and defines one's response to stress, as opposed to examining one's inherited individualities, in order to decipher long-term nutritional needs, precise diet patterns, and body shape factors.
This typing system is conditional and not based on genetics. it is much like Watson's system and defines one's response to stress, as opposed to examining one's inherited individualities, in order to decipher long-term nutritional needs, precise diet patterns, and body shape factors.
The Watson System
George Watson, Ph.D., created the first oxidation typing system based on five psychological types. These psychological types are categorized by the oxidation rates of blood sugar, blood pH levels, psychochemical odor tests, and personality self-ratings. Blood chemistry and personality disorders are correlated by this system. Interestingiy, this system is not based on genetic inheritance but on one that is conditional. Its therapeutic objective is to change its characteristic four abnormal types into one normal type through diet and supplements.
The D'Adamo System
James D' Adamo, N.D., is credited with developing the first blood typing system for diet. He utilized the works of Dr. Carl Landsteiner, who discovered the ABO blood types, and German Army research that linked them to diet in the 1940s.
Blood typing is partially effective for basic distinguishing of diet and potential food allergies. Blood types are directly related to the immune system, based on the presence of antigens (allergic substances, in this case) on the surface of red blood cells that react with specific antibodies on white cells. For example, many foods (and especially seeds) contain antigens called lectins, which are responsible for food allergies in some people such as allergenicity to milk. (More on this in Chapter IV.)
Blood typing is partially effective for basic distinguishing of diet and potential food allergies. Blood types are directly related to the immune system, based on the presence of antigens (allergic substances, in this case) on the surface of red blood cells that react with specific antibodies on white cells. For example, many foods (and especially seeds) contain antigens called lectins, which are responsible for food allergies in some people such as allergenicity to milk. (More on this in Chapter IV.)
The Bieler System
This was the first endocrine typing system, developed by Henry G. Bielei, M.D., and based on European research. His body types (the Thyroid Type, Pituitary Type, Adrenal Type) were based on an individuai 's dominant gland. Bieler further developed the first modern process to directly match body type to diet pattern. Bieler's diet therapies were partly based on the works of Hippocrates and Sir William Osler. The Bodytype Diet and Lifetime Nutrition Plan by Dr. Abravanci is what most would term a "trendy" weight-loss version of Bieier's work.
Endocrine glands have been shown to control many aspects of body shape and personality. Examples of this include the pituitary and thymus that control growth hormone which in turn effects many factors of immunity, size, shape, fat deposition, etc. The adrenals control muscle development and energy and oxidation levels. The thyroid gland exerts an influence on mental function and controls the metabolic rate overall helping to inhibit fat accumulation. Various nutrient needs are connected to the production of hormones exemplified by the thyroid 's need for iodine, tyrosine, and B6, and in the pancreas' special need for zinc and protein. Glandular function is also connected to digestion through digestive enzyme production and intestinal motility.
Shortcomings in Bieler's work were apparent only due to the fact that, at the time of his research, the functions of all the endocrine glands were not known.
Endocrine glands have been shown to control many aspects of body shape and personality. Examples of this include the pituitary and thymus that control growth hormone which in turn effects many factors of immunity, size, shape, fat deposition, etc. The adrenals control muscle development and energy and oxidation levels. The thyroid gland exerts an influence on mental function and controls the metabolic rate overall helping to inhibit fat accumulation. Various nutrient needs are connected to the production of hormones exemplified by the thyroid 's need for iodine, tyrosine, and B6, and in the pancreas' special need for zinc and protein. Glandular function is also connected to digestion through digestive enzyme production and intestinal motility.
Shortcomings in Bieler's work were apparent only due to the fact that, at the time of his research, the functions of all the endocrine glands were not known.
Monday
Some Ancient Metabolic Typing Systems Chinese Typing
The ancient Chinese philosophy of medicine focuses on the balance of life in relation to each person, and requires the use of diet, hands on therapies, exercise, proper rest, and herbs to restore balance. The Chinese concept of basing therapeutic treatments on the nature of each person rathei, than on the nature of the diseases they suffer from, is an embodiment of the overall purpose of Metabolic Typing. Many people in the West who have experienced therapeutic success through the Chinese medicine system can attest to its efficacy, despite some of its inherent limitations.
The ancient Chinese referred to their body typing system as "Constitutional Types." Practitioners divide each person to be treated into their specific Constitutional Type before any therapeutic intervention commences. The fundamental principles of constitutional therapy originated in approximately 3000 BC, and its use has spread throughout Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the West to this day.
In order to properly "type" an individual, the Chinese healer closely examines the patterns of responsiveness and creativity that develop during childhood and which persist throughout life. The constitutional characteristics of each individual are not perfectly fixed and can therefore be slightly modified by environmental factors and internal development. However in the majority of cases, constitutional types rarely change significantly and never become another type entirely. This is due to a history of behavioral and physical tendencies, which began early in life and centered around physical, spiritual, and mental development. In effect, a person's constitution is determined on the basis of present conditions and long-term patterns. Is it any wonder an ancient Chinese proverb states that "nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians"?
In the West, by comparison, our personality types can be categorized as Type A's and Type B's, or as those individuals "at risk" or "not at risk." Type A's are categorically ambitious, very motivated, always productivei highly goal-oriented, constantly pushing the upper limits of their abilities, and very considerate of working associates; they eat too quickly, drink in excess, and don't get enough rest. In contrast, Type B's are generally relaxed, taking things in stride, allowing for pleasure and leisure; they let others worry about deadlines and satisfying work demands, and they tend to eat slowly and sleep a lot.
Of course, not everyone fits cleanly into either one of these categories, but this type of categorization does help to better clarify and classify differences we Westerners see in each other. Western health practitioners classify persons into two further categories, based on tendencies that they exhibit during illness:
At Risk—people who may be severely debilitated after contracting common influenza. After contracting the flu, these individuals may suffer a secondary infection or a worsening of symptoms due to a chronic degenerative disease state that they already have. This compromised health status may undermine their resistance to the flu to the point of death or prolonged hospitalization. Examples of "At Risk" individuals include elderly and very young children, people with transplanted organs, i ongoing or recent cancer therapies, those with chronic respiratory diseases, and morbidly obese people.
Not At Risk—people who, after coming down with the flu, suffer only minor symptoms of discomfort. Maybe they miss a day or two of work or school, and ultimately recover in about a week or less. These people are considered constitutionally healthy and uncompromised, with a characteristically normal, healthy response to viral infiltration.
Conventional Western health practitioners look at these four "rough" body types (Type A, Type B, At Risk, Not At Risk) in relation to their treatment recommendations. The doctor tells the Type A person to slow down a little and let the body heal. He or she then makes special therapeutic allowances for At Risk individuals by very closely monitoring their progress.
resolve underlying constitutional imbalances that, when present, increase a person^ initial susceptibility to disease; if the patient has already contracted the disease, the practitioner can determine a response to it for the long term.
The so-called constitutional imbalances that Chinese practitioners focus upon are really metabolic imbalances, which when properly aligned maximize immune functions. The Chinese Elemental Types are wood, fire, metal, earth, water, heat/dryness, and energy. (Heat/dryness and energy are more modern-day additions to the five traditional, primal elements.)
Each fundamental "type" is further divided by the Chinese into two subgroups, very similar to "At Risk" and "Not At Risk" Western types. Each "type" is more differentiated beyond the Western Type A's and B's in terms of behavior patterns. Each of the "At Risk" and "Not At Risk" subgroups in Chinese medicine are referred to as weak and stressed constitution. Those with weak constitutions tend to become sick more easily, have more nutrient deficiencies or basic energy deficiencies, take longer to recover from ailments, are easily upset or damaged by environmental influences, and require interventional therapies to strengthen and nourish their bodies. Stressed constitutional (or metabolic) "types" are less susceptible to illness and when they do become ill, they recover faster with less disruption. Stressed types tend to be more resi stant to environmental irritations as well.
In essence, the Chinese system of metabolic types consists of 7 behavioral types and 14 constitutional types: 2 subgroups (weak and stressed) for each of the 7 elemental types (wood, fire, metal, earth, water, heat/dryness, and energy).
The ancient Chinese referred to their body typing system as "Constitutional Types." Practitioners divide each person to be treated into their specific Constitutional Type before any therapeutic intervention commences. The fundamental principles of constitutional therapy originated in approximately 3000 BC, and its use has spread throughout Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the West to this day.
In order to properly "type" an individual, the Chinese healer closely examines the patterns of responsiveness and creativity that develop during childhood and which persist throughout life. The constitutional characteristics of each individual are not perfectly fixed and can therefore be slightly modified by environmental factors and internal development. However in the majority of cases, constitutional types rarely change significantly and never become another type entirely. This is due to a history of behavioral and physical tendencies, which began early in life and centered around physical, spiritual, and mental development. In effect, a person's constitution is determined on the basis of present conditions and long-term patterns. Is it any wonder an ancient Chinese proverb states that "nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians"?
In the West, by comparison, our personality types can be categorized as Type A's and Type B's, or as those individuals "at risk" or "not at risk." Type A's are categorically ambitious, very motivated, always productivei highly goal-oriented, constantly pushing the upper limits of their abilities, and very considerate of working associates; they eat too quickly, drink in excess, and don't get enough rest. In contrast, Type B's are generally relaxed, taking things in stride, allowing for pleasure and leisure; they let others worry about deadlines and satisfying work demands, and they tend to eat slowly and sleep a lot.
Of course, not everyone fits cleanly into either one of these categories, but this type of categorization does help to better clarify and classify differences we Westerners see in each other. Western health practitioners classify persons into two further categories, based on tendencies that they exhibit during illness:
At Risk—people who may be severely debilitated after contracting common influenza. After contracting the flu, these individuals may suffer a secondary infection or a worsening of symptoms due to a chronic degenerative disease state that they already have. This compromised health status may undermine their resistance to the flu to the point of death or prolonged hospitalization. Examples of "At Risk" individuals include elderly and very young children, people with transplanted organs, i ongoing or recent cancer therapies, those with chronic respiratory diseases, and morbidly obese people.
Not At Risk—people who, after coming down with the flu, suffer only minor symptoms of discomfort. Maybe they miss a day or two of work or school, and ultimately recover in about a week or less. These people are considered constitutionally healthy and uncompromised, with a characteristically normal, healthy response to viral infiltration.
Conventional Western health practitioners look at these four "rough" body types (Type A, Type B, At Risk, Not At Risk) in relation to their treatment recommendations. The doctor tells the Type A person to slow down a little and let the body heal. He or she then makes special therapeutic allowances for At Risk individuals by very closely monitoring their progress.
resolve underlying constitutional imbalances that, when present, increase a person^ initial susceptibility to disease; if the patient has already contracted the disease, the practitioner can determine a response to it for the long term.
The so-called constitutional imbalances that Chinese practitioners focus upon are really metabolic imbalances, which when properly aligned maximize immune functions. The Chinese Elemental Types are wood, fire, metal, earth, water, heat/dryness, and energy. (Heat/dryness and energy are more modern-day additions to the five traditional, primal elements.)
Each fundamental "type" is further divided by the Chinese into two subgroups, very similar to "At Risk" and "Not At Risk" Western types. Each "type" is more differentiated beyond the Western Type A's and B's in terms of behavior patterns. Each of the "At Risk" and "Not At Risk" subgroups in Chinese medicine are referred to as weak and stressed constitution. Those with weak constitutions tend to become sick more easily, have more nutrient deficiencies or basic energy deficiencies, take longer to recover from ailments, are easily upset or damaged by environmental influences, and require interventional therapies to strengthen and nourish their bodies. Stressed constitutional (or metabolic) "types" are less susceptible to illness and when they do become ill, they recover faster with less disruption. Stressed types tend to be more resi stant to environmental irritations as well.
In essence, the Chinese system of metabolic types consists of 7 behavioral types and 14 constitutional types: 2 subgroups (weak and stressed) for each of the 7 elemental types (wood, fire, metal, earth, water, heat/dryness, and energy).
The Historic Origins of Metabolic Typing
Metabolic Typing, as a science, really began with Hippocrates, "the father of medicine," and his followers in ancient Greece. Hippocrates held that different sorts of people have different maladies. He diagnosed his patients on the basis of what he termed "the four humors" (or fluids), developing a typing system consisting of four temperaments and two body types. His nutrition and lifestyle treatments were specific to each of these patient categories, and he adopted a favorite motto as the essence of his philosophy: "thy food shall be thy remedy." Were he alive, I think Hippocrates would be well received in modern times, thanks to what he believed and practiced.
Do We Really Need Metabolic Typing?
After what you've just read, this may seem like a silly question; but it warrants further explanation. In the first place, very, very few people really know what their proper diet should be. This holds true especially for Americans. With the constant interbreeding of genetically different populations, combined with the increasing rejection of traditional ethnic diets, new "modern" diets have emerged. These "modern" diets no longer correspond to our individual genetic digestive, absorptive, assimilation, and excretory capabilities.
The problem really starts with digestion. Not everyone^ body can digest every kind of food. Undigested or partially digested food can lead to a multitude of problems, including gas, cramps, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, ulcers, fat and weight gain or loss, "cellulite," rashes, liver, kidney and other organic stress . . . and allergies. The proportions of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates each person needs is highly specific to them. Equally important are their vitamin and mineral requirements.
Diet-related disease and its symptoms are now at an all-time high— literally epidemic in our society—because most of us do not know exactly what our choices are and how much, and in which combination, to eat our foods. If you follow the correct nutritional plan for your specific metabolism, diet-related disease will vanish from your life and at the same time your life span and functional energy span will lengthen considerably. Metabolic Typing is our only hope when it comes to putting our bodies back in balance—and this is no secret, nor was it to the ancients of humanity^ antiquity.
The problem really starts with digestion. Not everyone^ body can digest every kind of food. Undigested or partially digested food can lead to a multitude of problems, including gas, cramps, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, ulcers, fat and weight gain or loss, "cellulite," rashes, liver, kidney and other organic stress . . . and allergies. The proportions of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates each person needs is highly specific to them. Equally important are their vitamin and mineral requirements.
Diet-related disease and its symptoms are now at an all-time high— literally epidemic in our society—because most of us do not know exactly what our choices are and how much, and in which combination, to eat our foods. If you follow the correct nutritional plan for your specific metabolism, diet-related disease will vanish from your life and at the same time your life span and functional energy span will lengthen considerably. Metabolic Typing is our only hope when it comes to putting our bodies back in balance—and this is no secret, nor was it to the ancients of humanity^ antiquity.
Truth About Alergies
Where do you think most food allergies come from? You've probably surmised by now that straying from your path of genetically predetermined eating patterns will increase the likelihood of incidental food allergies and sensitivities. Your body is simply not used to certain foods (and some new manmade additives, mutations, and residues in those foods), because their metabolic compatibility has not been genetically programmed into you. Chapter IV addresses this subject in more depth, dealing with the implications of allergies and sensitivities and their relationship to metabolic types and biochemical individuality. For now, suffice it to say that a properly "Typed and Profiled" person will know what foods to avoid completely for optimum wellness. The good news about food allergies is that many food sensitivities can be overcome with the right nutritional approach.
LACTOSE INTOLERANCE IN "HEALTHY" ADULTS
Lactose intolerance is very common among other ethnic groups. For example, milk disagreed with about 50% of all adult Hispanics and with at least 75% of people of African, Asian, or Native American descent in one government study. (Refer to Table 4: Lactose Intolerance In "Healthy" Adults and also to Appendix B, #1: Omnivore Diet For Blood Type B and AB.)
Our genes have changed many times over the last 100,000 years and will continue to do so until the very end of time. This is why we have differing body types and our own unique biochemical individuality in the first place!
Our genes have changed many times over the last 100,000 years and will continue to do so until the very end of time. This is why we have differing body types and our own unique biochemical individuality in the first place!
A Contemporary Message About Evolusiton and Genes
Recently, I came across a best-selling book stating outright that our genes haven't changed in 100,000 years! This is truly an absurd statement, which points up how widespread are one-size-fits-all fallacies and beliefs in our society.
If you already haven't deduced that this statement is incorrect out of simple logic and/or from reading this book thus far, let me help to further clarify the facts of the matter.
Two genetic scientists—Michael Crawford, Ph.D., and Michael Marsh— wrote a book in 1989: The Driving Force—Food, Evolution, and The Future. According to their human genetic and evolutionary research, food is the driving force that has molded the shape of the species as well as the limiting force that has fixed lines of selection. Nowadays food is of such a commonplace nature that it is taken for granted and its qualitative relationship with long term biological considerations is overlooked. The historical changes in disease patterns, the contrast in disease incidence from country to country, and importantly, the socioeconomic contrasts within a country suggest that we are witnessing a signal of the potential power of food as a dominant factor in evolution.
Crawford and Marsh's research findings "pose serious questions as to the impact of present day food and agricultural policies on immediate and future generations," according to Beatrice Trum Hunter from the Townsend Letter in reference to this book. Crawford and Marsh believe that "among other follies, agricultural practices have emphasized yields stressing quantity rather than quality." Nutrition has not been a prime goal. For example, in animal feeding practices, both the protein and nutrient values of animal food products have been diluted by fat. In her analysis of their work, Hunter states that the authors find that food has always been a crucial factor in shaping life's evolutionary process on this planet— from the earliest time when life first emerged, up to the present, and that it will continue into the future i
If only Darwin had been a "nutritional" geneticist! The role of nutrition would have been fully empowered by his support, shaping our conception of phenotypes and perhaps giving metabolic "typing" science a boost to the forefront of our health concerns to this day—rather than the "back seat" it currently occupies.
A good example of how our genes have changed in the last 10,000 years was brought out in an article "Unkind Milk," appearing in the Harvard Health Letter (Vol. 18, No. 12, October 1993). Stephen E. Goldfinger, M.D., et alia, state that "about 10,000 years ago, according to scientists'best guess, a genetic mutation occurred among the populations of northern and central Europe that had learned to herd dairy animals and consume milk products." This historically new genetic development, which leads to the occurrence of blood type B, allowed 80% of these people and their descendants to produce ample lactose into adulthood, making them an exception to the human rule for drinking milk.
If you already haven't deduced that this statement is incorrect out of simple logic and/or from reading this book thus far, let me help to further clarify the facts of the matter.
Two genetic scientists—Michael Crawford, Ph.D., and Michael Marsh— wrote a book in 1989: The Driving Force—Food, Evolution, and The Future. According to their human genetic and evolutionary research, food is the driving force that has molded the shape of the species as well as the limiting force that has fixed lines of selection. Nowadays food is of such a commonplace nature that it is taken for granted and its qualitative relationship with long term biological considerations is overlooked. The historical changes in disease patterns, the contrast in disease incidence from country to country, and importantly, the socioeconomic contrasts within a country suggest that we are witnessing a signal of the potential power of food as a dominant factor in evolution.
Crawford and Marsh's research findings "pose serious questions as to the impact of present day food and agricultural policies on immediate and future generations," according to Beatrice Trum Hunter from the Townsend Letter in reference to this book. Crawford and Marsh believe that "among other follies, agricultural practices have emphasized yields stressing quantity rather than quality." Nutrition has not been a prime goal. For example, in animal feeding practices, both the protein and nutrient values of animal food products have been diluted by fat. In her analysis of their work, Hunter states that the authors find that food has always been a crucial factor in shaping life's evolutionary process on this planet— from the earliest time when life first emerged, up to the present, and that it will continue into the future i
If only Darwin had been a "nutritional" geneticist! The role of nutrition would have been fully empowered by his support, shaping our conception of phenotypes and perhaps giving metabolic "typing" science a boost to the forefront of our health concerns to this day—rather than the "back seat" it currently occupies.
A good example of how our genes have changed in the last 10,000 years was brought out in an article "Unkind Milk," appearing in the Harvard Health Letter (Vol. 18, No. 12, October 1993). Stephen E. Goldfinger, M.D., et alia, state that "about 10,000 years ago, according to scientists'best guess, a genetic mutation occurred among the populations of northern and central Europe that had learned to herd dairy animals and consume milk products." This historically new genetic development, which leads to the occurrence of blood type B, allowed 80% of these people and their descendants to produce ample lactose into adulthood, making them an exception to the human rule for drinking milk.
Religous and Evolutionary Perspectives on Metabolic Types
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!
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!
Sunday
Metabolic Typing, as a science, really began with Hippocrates, "the father of medicine," and his followers in ancient Greece. Hippocrates held that di
The ancient Chinese philosophy of medicine focuses on the balance of life in relation to each person, and requires the use of diet, hands on therapies, exercise, proper rest, and herbs to restore balance. The Chinese concept of basing therapeutic treatments on the nature of each person rathei, than on the nature of the diseases they suffer from, is an embodiment of the overall purpose of Metabolic Typing. Many people in the West who have experienced therapeutic success through the Chinese medicine system can attest to its efficacy, despite some of its inherent limitations.
The ancient Chinese referred to their body typing system as "Constitutional Types." Practitioners divide each person to be treated into their specific Constitutional Type before any therapeutic intervention commences. The fundamental principles of constitutional therapy originated in approximately 3000 BC, and its use has spread throughout Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the West to this day.
In order to properly "type" an individual, the Chinese healer closely examines the patterns of responsiveness and creativity that develop during childhood and which persist throughout life. The constitutional characteristics of each individual are not perfectly fixed and can therefore be slightly modified by environmental factors and internal development. However in the majority of cases, constitutional types rarely change significantly and never become another type entirely. This is due to a history of behavioral and physical tendencies, which began early in life and centered around physical, spiritual, and mental development. In effect, a person's constitution is determined on the basis of present conditions and long-term patterns. Is it any wonder an ancient Chinese proverb states that "nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians"?
In the West, by comparison, our personality types can be categorized as Type A's and Type B's, or as those individuals "at risk" or "not at risk." Type A's are categorically ambitious, very motivated, always productivei highly goal-oriented, constantly pushing the upper limits of their abilities, and very considerate of working associates; they eat too quickly, drink in excess, and don't get enough rest. In contrast, Type B's are generally relaxed, taking things in stride, allowing for pleasure and leisure; they let others worry about deadlines and satisfying work demands, and they tend to eat slowly and sleep a lot.
Of course, not everyone fits cleanly into either one of these categories, but this type of categorization does help to better clarify and classify differences we Westerners see in each other. Western health practitioners classify persons into two further categories, based on tendencies that they exhibit during illness:
At Risk—people who may be severely debilitated after contracting common influenza. After contracting the flu, these individuals may suffer a secondary infection or a worsening of symptoms due to a chronic degenerative disease state that they already have. This compromised health status may undermine their resistance to the flu to the point of death or prolonged hospitalization. Examples of "At Risk" individuals include elderly and very young children, people with transplanted organs, i ongoing or recent cancer therapies, those with chronic respiratory diseases, and morbidly obese people.
Not At Risk—people who, after coming down with the flu, suffer only minor symptoms of discomfort. Maybe they miss a day or two of work or school, and ultimately recover in about a week or less. These people are considered constitutionally healthy and uncompromised, with a characteristically normal, healthy response to viral infiltration.
Conventional Western health practitioners look at these four "rough" body types (Type A, Type B, At Risk, Not At Risk) in relation to their treatment recommendations. The doctor tells the Type A person to slow down a little and let the body heal. He or she then makes special therapeutic allowances for At Risk individuals by very closely monitoring their progress.
Contrast this method with the Chinese system, where medicine specialists utilize their Five Constitutional, "Elemental" Types and the law of Yin and Yang (based on opposing forces and their interrelation) when calculating the nature of disharmonies. Individuals are most likely to suffer from specific maladies based on their "type," and the symptomatic progress of any disease can be mapped for that "type." On top of a balanced diet, Chinese practitioners use special foods (i.e., herbs) to Contrast this method with the Chinese system, where medicine specialists utilize their Five Constitutional, "Elemental" Types and the law of Yin and Yang (based on opposing forces and their interrelation) when calculating the nature of disharmonies. Individuals are most likely to suffer from specific maladies based on their "type," and the symptomatic progress of any disease can be mapped for that "type." On top of a balanced diet, Chinese practitioners use special foods (i.e., herbs) to resolve underlying constitutional imbalances that, when present, increase a person^ initial susceptibility to disease; if the patient has already contracted the disease, the practitioner can determine a response to it for the long term.
The so-called constitutional imbalances that Chinese practitioners focus upon are really metabolic imbalances, which when properly aligned maximize immune functions. The Chinese Elemental Types are wood, fire, metal, earth, water, heat/dryness, and energy. (Heat/dryness and energy are more modern-day additions to the five traditional, primal elements.)
Each fundamental "type" is further divided by the Chinese into two subgroups, very similar to "At Risk" and "Not At Risk" Western types. Each "type" is more differentiated beyond the Western Type A's and B's in terms of behavior patterns. Each of the "At Risk" and "Not At Risk" subgroups in Chinese medicine are referred to as weak and stressed constitution. Those with weak constitutions tend to become sick more easily, have more nutrient deficiencies or basic energy deficiencies, take longer to recover from ailments, are easily upset or damaged by environmental influences, and require interventional therapies to strengthen and nourish their bodies. Stressed constitutional (or metabolic) "types" are less susceptible to illness and when they do become ill, they recover faster with less disruption. Stressed types tend to be more resi stant to environmental irritations as well.
In essence, the Chinese system of metabolic types consists of 7 behavioral types and 14 constitutional types: 2 subgroups (weak and stressed) for each of the 7 elemental types (wood, fire, metal, earth, water, heat/dryness, and energy).
The law of Yin and Yang divides up the universe's opposing forces within each of us and throughout the entirety of existence. Yin and Yang distinctions include:
• Cosmic bodies
• Temperament
• Time of day
• Season
• Magnetic pull
• Temperature
• Physical density
• Speed
• Relative moisture
• Heavenly body location
• Organs
• Height
• Distance
• Sides
• Light
• Sexual characteristics
• Constitution
These distinctions help to reveal the characteristics of movement and energy within us and around us due to the natural attraction between Yin and Yang.
The ancient Chinese system of medicine helps to clarify laws of nature for each of us. it is quite an achievement, given these ancients' lack of understanding about the human body, most particularly about the nervous system.
The ancient Chinese referred to their body typing system as "Constitutional Types." Practitioners divide each person to be treated into their specific Constitutional Type before any therapeutic intervention commences. The fundamental principles of constitutional therapy originated in approximately 3000 BC, and its use has spread throughout Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the West to this day.
In order to properly "type" an individual, the Chinese healer closely examines the patterns of responsiveness and creativity that develop during childhood and which persist throughout life. The constitutional characteristics of each individual are not perfectly fixed and can therefore be slightly modified by environmental factors and internal development. However in the majority of cases, constitutional types rarely change significantly and never become another type entirely. This is due to a history of behavioral and physical tendencies, which began early in life and centered around physical, spiritual, and mental development. In effect, a person's constitution is determined on the basis of present conditions and long-term patterns. Is it any wonder an ancient Chinese proverb states that "nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians"?
In the West, by comparison, our personality types can be categorized as Type A's and Type B's, or as those individuals "at risk" or "not at risk." Type A's are categorically ambitious, very motivated, always productivei highly goal-oriented, constantly pushing the upper limits of their abilities, and very considerate of working associates; they eat too quickly, drink in excess, and don't get enough rest. In contrast, Type B's are generally relaxed, taking things in stride, allowing for pleasure and leisure; they let others worry about deadlines and satisfying work demands, and they tend to eat slowly and sleep a lot.
Of course, not everyone fits cleanly into either one of these categories, but this type of categorization does help to better clarify and classify differences we Westerners see in each other. Western health practitioners classify persons into two further categories, based on tendencies that they exhibit during illness:
At Risk—people who may be severely debilitated after contracting common influenza. After contracting the flu, these individuals may suffer a secondary infection or a worsening of symptoms due to a chronic degenerative disease state that they already have. This compromised health status may undermine their resistance to the flu to the point of death or prolonged hospitalization. Examples of "At Risk" individuals include elderly and very young children, people with transplanted organs, i ongoing or recent cancer therapies, those with chronic respiratory diseases, and morbidly obese people.
Not At Risk—people who, after coming down with the flu, suffer only minor symptoms of discomfort. Maybe they miss a day or two of work or school, and ultimately recover in about a week or less. These people are considered constitutionally healthy and uncompromised, with a characteristically normal, healthy response to viral infiltration.
Conventional Western health practitioners look at these four "rough" body types (Type A, Type B, At Risk, Not At Risk) in relation to their treatment recommendations. The doctor tells the Type A person to slow down a little and let the body heal. He or she then makes special therapeutic allowances for At Risk individuals by very closely monitoring their progress.
Contrast this method with the Chinese system, where medicine specialists utilize their Five Constitutional, "Elemental" Types and the law of Yin and Yang (based on opposing forces and their interrelation) when calculating the nature of disharmonies. Individuals are most likely to suffer from specific maladies based on their "type," and the symptomatic progress of any disease can be mapped for that "type." On top of a balanced diet, Chinese practitioners use special foods (i.e., herbs) to Contrast this method with the Chinese system, where medicine specialists utilize their Five Constitutional, "Elemental" Types and the law of Yin and Yang (based on opposing forces and their interrelation) when calculating the nature of disharmonies. Individuals are most likely to suffer from specific maladies based on their "type," and the symptomatic progress of any disease can be mapped for that "type." On top of a balanced diet, Chinese practitioners use special foods (i.e., herbs) to resolve underlying constitutional imbalances that, when present, increase a person^ initial susceptibility to disease; if the patient has already contracted the disease, the practitioner can determine a response to it for the long term.
The so-called constitutional imbalances that Chinese practitioners focus upon are really metabolic imbalances, which when properly aligned maximize immune functions. The Chinese Elemental Types are wood, fire, metal, earth, water, heat/dryness, and energy. (Heat/dryness and energy are more modern-day additions to the five traditional, primal elements.)
Each fundamental "type" is further divided by the Chinese into two subgroups, very similar to "At Risk" and "Not At Risk" Western types. Each "type" is more differentiated beyond the Western Type A's and B's in terms of behavior patterns. Each of the "At Risk" and "Not At Risk" subgroups in Chinese medicine are referred to as weak and stressed constitution. Those with weak constitutions tend to become sick more easily, have more nutrient deficiencies or basic energy deficiencies, take longer to recover from ailments, are easily upset or damaged by environmental influences, and require interventional therapies to strengthen and nourish their bodies. Stressed constitutional (or metabolic) "types" are less susceptible to illness and when they do become ill, they recover faster with less disruption. Stressed types tend to be more resi stant to environmental irritations as well.
In essence, the Chinese system of metabolic types consists of 7 behavioral types and 14 constitutional types: 2 subgroups (weak and stressed) for each of the 7 elemental types (wood, fire, metal, earth, water, heat/dryness, and energy).
The law of Yin and Yang divides up the universe's opposing forces within each of us and throughout the entirety of existence. Yin and Yang distinctions include:
• Cosmic bodies
• Temperament
• Time of day
• Season
• Magnetic pull
• Temperature
• Physical density
• Speed
• Relative moisture
• Heavenly body location
• Organs
• Height
• Distance
• Sides
• Light
• Sexual characteristics
• Constitution
These distinctions help to reveal the characteristics of movement and energy within us and around us due to the natural attraction between Yin and Yang.
The ancient Chinese system of medicine helps to clarify laws of nature for each of us. it is quite an achievement, given these ancients' lack of understanding about the human body, most particularly about the nervous system.
The Historic Origins of Metabolic Typing
Metabolic Typing, as a science, really began with Hippocrates, "the father of medicine," and his followers in ancient Greece. Hippocrates held that different sorts of people have different maladies. He diagnosed his patients on the basis of what he termed "the four humors" (or fluids), developing a typing system consisting of four temperaments and two body types. His nutrition and lifestyle treatments were specific to each of these patient categories, and he adopted a favorite motto as the essence of his philosophy: "thy food shall be thy remedy." Were he alive, I think Hippocrates would be well received in modern times, thanks to what he believed and practiced.
Do We Really Need Metabolic Typing?
After what you've just read, this may seem like a silly question; but it warrants further explanation. In the first place, very, very few people really know what their proper diet should be. This holds true especially for Americans. With the constant interbreeding of genetically different populations, combined with the increasing rejection of traditional ethnic diets, new "modern" diets have emerged. These "modern" diets no longer correspond to our individual genetic digestive, absorptive, assimilation, and excretory capabilities.
The problem really starts with digestion. Not everyone^ body can digest every kind of food. Undigested or partially digested food can lead to a multitude of problems, including gas, cramps, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, ulcers, fat and weight gain or loss, "cellulite," rashes, liver, kidney and other organic stress . . . and allergies. The proportions of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates each person needs is highly specific to them. Equally important are their vitamin and mineral requirements.
Diet-related disease and its symptoms are now at an all-time high— literally epidemic in our society—because most of us do not know exactly what our choices are and how much, and in which combination, to eat our foods. If you follow the correct nutritional plan for your specific metabolism, diet-related disease will vanish from your life and at the same time your life span and functional energy span will lengthen considerably. Metabolic Typing is our only hope when it comes to putting our bodies back in balance—and this is no secret, nor was it to the ancients of humanity^ antiquity.
The problem really starts with digestion. Not everyone^ body can digest every kind of food. Undigested or partially digested food can lead to a multitude of problems, including gas, cramps, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, ulcers, fat and weight gain or loss, "cellulite," rashes, liver, kidney and other organic stress . . . and allergies. The proportions of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates each person needs is highly specific to them. Equally important are their vitamin and mineral requirements.
Diet-related disease and its symptoms are now at an all-time high— literally epidemic in our society—because most of us do not know exactly what our choices are and how much, and in which combination, to eat our foods. If you follow the correct nutritional plan for your specific metabolism, diet-related disease will vanish from your life and at the same time your life span and functional energy span will lengthen considerably. Metabolic Typing is our only hope when it comes to putting our bodies back in balance—and this is no secret, nor was it to the ancients of humanity^ antiquity.
A Contemporary Message About Evolusiton and Genes
Recently, I came across a best-selling book stating outright that our genes haven't changed in 100,000 years! This is truly an absurd statement, which points up how widespread are one-size-fits-all fallacies and beliefs in our society.
If you already haven't deduced that this statement is incorrect out of simple logic and/or from reading this book thus far, let me help to further clarify the facts of the matter.
Two genetic scientists—Michael Crawford, Ph.D., and Michael Marsh— wrote a book in 1989: The Driving Force—Food, Evolution, and The Future. According to their human genetic and evolutionary research, food is the driving force that has molded the shape of the species as well as the limiting force that has fixed lines of selection. Nowadays food is of such a commonplace nature that it is taken for granted and its qualitative relationship with long term biological considerations is overlooked. The historical changes in disease patterns, the contrast in disease incidence from country to country, and importantly, the socioeconomic contrasts within a country suggest that we are witnessing a signal of the potential power of food as a dominant factor in evolution.
Crawford and Marsh's research findings "pose serious questions as to the impact of present day food and agricultural policies on immediate and future generations," according to Beatrice Trum Hunter from the Townsend Letter in reference to this book. Crawford and Marsh believe that "among other follies, agricultural practices have emphasized yields stressing quantity rather than quality." Nutrition has not been a prime goal. For example, in animal feeding practices, both the protein and nutrient values of animal food products have been diluted by fat. In her analysis of their work, Hunter states that the authors find that food has always been a crucial factor in shaping life's evolutionary process on this planet— from the earliest time when life first emerged, up to the present, and that it will continue into the future i
If only Darwin had been a "nutritional" geneticist! The role of nutrition would have been fully empowered by his support, shaping our conception of phenotypes and perhaps giving metabolic "typing" science a boost to the forefront of our health concerns to this day—rather than the "back seat" it currently occupies.
A good example of how our genes have changed in the last 10,000 years was brought out in an article "Unkind Milk," appearing in the Harvard Health Letter (Vol. 18, No. 12, October 1993). Stephen E. Goldfinger, M.D., et alia, state that "about 10,000 years ago, according to scientists'best guess, a genetic mutation occurred among the populations of northern and central Europe that had learned to herd dairy animals and consume milk products." This historically new genetic development, which leads to the occurrence of blood type B, allowed 80% of these people and their descendants to produce ample lactose into adulthood, making them an exception to the human rule for drinking milk.
If you already haven't deduced that this statement is incorrect out of simple logic and/or from reading this book thus far, let me help to further clarify the facts of the matter.
Two genetic scientists—Michael Crawford, Ph.D., and Michael Marsh— wrote a book in 1989: The Driving Force—Food, Evolution, and The Future. According to their human genetic and evolutionary research, food is the driving force that has molded the shape of the species as well as the limiting force that has fixed lines of selection. Nowadays food is of such a commonplace nature that it is taken for granted and its qualitative relationship with long term biological considerations is overlooked. The historical changes in disease patterns, the contrast in disease incidence from country to country, and importantly, the socioeconomic contrasts within a country suggest that we are witnessing a signal of the potential power of food as a dominant factor in evolution.
Crawford and Marsh's research findings "pose serious questions as to the impact of present day food and agricultural policies on immediate and future generations," according to Beatrice Trum Hunter from the Townsend Letter in reference to this book. Crawford and Marsh believe that "among other follies, agricultural practices have emphasized yields stressing quantity rather than quality." Nutrition has not been a prime goal. For example, in animal feeding practices, both the protein and nutrient values of animal food products have been diluted by fat. In her analysis of their work, Hunter states that the authors find that food has always been a crucial factor in shaping life's evolutionary process on this planet— from the earliest time when life first emerged, up to the present, and that it will continue into the future i
If only Darwin had been a "nutritional" geneticist! The role of nutrition would have been fully empowered by his support, shaping our conception of phenotypes and perhaps giving metabolic "typing" science a boost to the forefront of our health concerns to this day—rather than the "back seat" it currently occupies.
A good example of how our genes have changed in the last 10,000 years was brought out in an article "Unkind Milk," appearing in the Harvard Health Letter (Vol. 18, No. 12, October 1993). Stephen E. Goldfinger, M.D., et alia, state that "about 10,000 years ago, according to scientists'best guess, a genetic mutation occurred among the populations of northern and central Europe that had learned to herd dairy animals and consume milk products." This historically new genetic development, which leads to the occurrence of blood type B, allowed 80% of these people and their descendants to produce ample lactose into adulthood, making them an exception to the human rule for drinking milk.
Religous and Evolutionary Perspectives on Metabolic Types
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!
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!
Saturday
There is an eternal wellness benefit built into traditional lifestyles that we are rapidly losing in modern times.
From an environmental standpoint, diet is the single most important factor in "feeding your genes" properiy. Stay within the path of your genetic origins and their antecedent environmental patterns, and you'll thrive physically and mentally. Stray from this path as "one sizing" would have you do and you'll suffer the consequences of diet-related disease.
There is an eternal wellness benefit built into traditional lifestyles that we are rapidly losing in modern times as collectively we stray far and wide from the essence of our genetic design. is it any wonder, then, that here in the u.S.—where extensive multi-cultural variations and anti-tradition attitudes cause us to digress from our traditional eating patterns moment by moment—diet-related disease is at an all-time high?
After all, we Americans represent the world's largest "melting pot."
Where else in the world can you find someone genetically designed for vegetarianism wolfing down a burger and beer, just to fit in with friends... only to return home and wolf antacids to counteract the severe digestive stress such behavior produces?
Where else in the world can you find a genetically programmed meat-eater adopting a straight vego-vegetarian diet, for "religious reasons," and subsequently suffering from anemia, parasites, chronic fatigue, and premature aging?
Where else in the world can you find someone designed to be an omnivore trying out the latest "grapefruit diet," thereafter suffering from chronic pathological diarrhea, all the while thinking that it's okay because he 's been mistakenly told by others that this represents a "detoxification process"?
Where else in the world can you find someone with a pronounced magnesium deficiency consistently megadosing calcium, which only serves to worsen the magnesium deficiency?
Where else in the world can you find an Asian Thyroid Dominant Type (an Endocrine Type) subsisting on a "40-30-30 zoned" macronutrient proportion (carbohydrate/protein/fat), when they really require a 70-2010 proportion for best results?
if we were all "typed" correctly, none of this distress would be suffered' and our average combined health status, as a nation, would dramatically improve.
You certainly cannot forcibly change what's been genetically built into your body over the last 40,000 years overnight, but with "Typing and Profiling" you can certainly learn to work with it and improve upon it now and for all generations to come.
There is an eternal wellness benefit built into traditional lifestyles that we are rapidly losing in modern times as collectively we stray far and wide from the essence of our genetic design. is it any wonder, then, that here in the u.S.—where extensive multi-cultural variations and anti-tradition attitudes cause us to digress from our traditional eating patterns moment by moment—diet-related disease is at an all-time high?
After all, we Americans represent the world's largest "melting pot."
Where else in the world can you find someone genetically designed for vegetarianism wolfing down a burger and beer, just to fit in with friends... only to return home and wolf antacids to counteract the severe digestive stress such behavior produces?
Where else in the world can you find a genetically programmed meat-eater adopting a straight vego-vegetarian diet, for "religious reasons," and subsequently suffering from anemia, parasites, chronic fatigue, and premature aging?
Where else in the world can you find someone designed to be an omnivore trying out the latest "grapefruit diet," thereafter suffering from chronic pathological diarrhea, all the while thinking that it's okay because he 's been mistakenly told by others that this represents a "detoxification process"?
Where else in the world can you find someone with a pronounced magnesium deficiency consistently megadosing calcium, which only serves to worsen the magnesium deficiency?
Where else in the world can you find an Asian Thyroid Dominant Type (an Endocrine Type) subsisting on a "40-30-30 zoned" macronutrient proportion (carbohydrate/protein/fat), when they really require a 70-2010 proportion for best results?
if we were all "typed" correctly, none of this distress would be suffered' and our average combined health status, as a nation, would dramatically improve.
You certainly cannot forcibly change what's been genetically built into your body over the last 40,000 years overnight, but with "Typing and Profiling" you can certainly learn to work with it and improve upon it now and for all generations to come.
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