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.