Why RDA's Are Not Adequate for Most Individuals

Roger Williams, Ph.D., published Biochemical Individuality in 1956. in this research publication, he presented evidence provided through hundreds of research studies that each person is biochemically unique in terms of their anatomy and chemical composition. it was shown that people differ in the size of their brains, bones, muscles, glands, organsi and in the amounts of their enzymes, hormones, vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. They also differ in their clinical measurements, such as pain thresholds, blood pressure, pulse, and taste reactions. All of Dr. Williamsi research extrapolations showed wide variations among healthy "normal" humans. He related these differences to genetic inheritance and labeled it the "Genotrophic Concept."

Di Williams further revealed numerous diet patterns and focused upon specific nutrient needs, digestion, and food allergies. He showed that we inherit unique needs for particular nutrients because we inherit unique digestive, absorptive and enzymatic patterns along with our abilities to transport nutrients and excrete by-products of metabolism. in effect, he demonstrated that RDA's were not adequate for most people because they actually need more of one nutrient or another specific to their biochemical individuality.

interestingly enough, over 40 years after Dr. Williams' primary publications, the Food and Nutrition Board qualifies its RDA data with the statement: "RDA's should not be confused with requirements for a specific individual. They are not guidelines for formulating diets nor assessing the nutritional status of individuals." This is in direct contradiction with the purpose for which RDA's, MDR's, and even Daily Values were originally designed! We really have come full circle in the last 40 years! Even the RDA's, historically a nutritional bible to many, have been negated as being applicable to the needs of the individual. Perhaps the Food and Nutrition Board members should have read Biochemical Individuality and Dr. Williams' other books before placing so much emphasis on RDA's in the first place. It's truly unfortunate that so much nutritional research before and after Dr. Williams' projects has been neglected by mainstream medicine until only very recently.

Dt Williams and others have found that each person has a distinctive and unique pattern of amino acids (proteins smallest constituents) in both their urine and blood. A chemist, Dr. William Walsh, discovered that individuals separate into one of six fundamental hair analysis categories. He relates these groupings to six body chemistry types. In 1941, Charles Stockard, published research on animals demonstrating that endocrine gland hormones shape specific body and personality patterns. He also found that these patterns were inherited. Further research on humans has shown this phenomenon among people as well.