By James Brent Beach, CMTA
The Metabolic Typing Diet – a metabolically correct holistic diet, is one of the keys to performing at our best physically and mentally. To have clarity and endurance in the fourth quarter, we need to optimize our fuel. Our health, the health of those we love, and the health of the community are all affected by the quality of the foods we choose to consume. Its time to take a fresh look at it, and we will below.
Metabolic Typing Diet!
Part 1 Metabolic Typing Diet – Nutritional Excellence…
Part 2 The History of Metabolic Typing
Part 3 Metabolic Typing Expanded
Part 4 Neurogistics – The Brain Wellness Program
Part 1 Metabolic Typing Diet – Nutritional Excellence…
The Metabolic Typing Diet optimizes the foods and the percentages of the macro-nutrient (protein, fat, and carbohydrate) consumed in the meal to the individual. The Metabolic Typing Diet is not unlike an owner’s manual for the human body. The right ratios provide optimum fuel not fat. Nutritious metabolically correct foods in the proper macro ratios satiates, leaving you free of cravings, hunger pains, ending mood-swings, improving your sense of well being while enhancing energy, endurance and health.
Weight Loss – metabolic typing will assist you in achieving your ideal weight. Your ideal weight can be affected by a number of issues, body chemistry imbalances, underlying health issues, problems with the metabolism of protein, carbohydrates and/or fats, food allergies, highly processed foods and more. The correct Metabolic Typing Diet balances your body chemistry. Consuming the proper macro nutrient ratios (protein / fat / carbohydrate) creates optimum energy not fat. And, you should find yourself not only losing excess weight but also building a stronger healthier body at the same time. If you’re tired of the diet merry-go-round and want real lifetime solutions without starving or counting calories this diet is for you.
Nutrition and Healthy Skin and Healthy Hair – We see a lot of commercials on skin and hair products and we could spend a small fortune on them during our lifetime. Unless there is an environmental, allergy or other medical condition we should enjoy healthy skin. That said unhealthy skin and/or hair could be a symptom of poor nutrition. More specifically poor intestinal flora the beneficial bacteria that help us break down our food. An abundance of bad or low-grade bacteria leads to poor nutritional absorption, lower health and unhealthy skin and hair. Thus, healthy skin and hair begins with quality nutrition! Quality nutrition feeds the good bacteria that then multiply and repopulate the intestines. Junk food and a high sugar diet feed the bad and low-grade bacteria. Two excellent Probiotic supplement product brands are Natren’s and Ultra Life.
An hour after a meal do you feel…
Physically full but still hungry?
Like something was missing?
A craving for sugar?
Hyper but exhausted underneath?
Drowsiness, sleepiness or exhaustion?
Mentally slow or spacey?
Have an inability to think quickly or with clarity?
Like you can’t focus or concentrate?
Apathy, depression, withdrawal or sadness?
Anxious, obsessive, fearful, angry or irritable?
Do you run out of energy and endurance easily?
Have a hard time maintaining your ideal weight?
Catch everything that comes along?
When you catch a cold or the flu does it seem to drag on and on for weeks?
Baring medical conditions, perhaps your diet is just not the correct diet for you. A metabolically correct diet, one that is correct for your type, of healthy foods properly prepared, should address these issues.
One form of metabolic diet is the Metabolic Typing Diet.
Healthexcel’s System of Metabolic Typing is composed of Ten Fundamental Homeostatic Controls:
Oxidative system.
Autonomic nervous system.
Neurotransmitter balance.
Postaglandin balance.
Catabolic / Anabolic balance.
Acid / Alkaline balance.
Endocrine type.
Constitutional type.
Electrolyte balance.
Blood type.
All ten Fundamental Homeostatic Controls (FHC’s) work together to bring about homeostasis. But, each works somewhat independently. The same symptom can be due to an imbalance in different FHC’s. One must address the specific FHC to alleviate the symptom. This is why one diet or remedy works for one person and not another. Why one person benefits from a particular food, the next person finds it neutral and yet another person best avoid it.
The Metabolic Typing Diet addresses each person’s bio-chemical and physiological individuality. This is accomplished through a metabolic typing test and fine-tuning. Thus each persons diet is his or hers alone.
One more thought, once you have experienced a diet designed to your metabolic type, fine-tuned and of quality foodstuffs, when you eat a meal opposite your metabolic type you will feel and sense the difference. After a period of time you will begin to notice the subtle differences with shifts in your diet. Such as switching to commercial after eating organic for awhile or going from metabolically correct supplements to off the shelf one-size-fits-all supplements. This is why it’s OK to let your hair down or backslide on the diet from time to time. It is on these occasions that you get to fully experience the subtle and not so subtle differences on your thinking, emotions and well-being.
| We eat right according to our metabloic type, for our family, elderly and invalid parents, friends, careers and ourselves. We eat right because the cost of not thinking clearly or not being there for those who depend upon us is too great! |
Part 2 The History of Metabolic Typing
Metabolic Typing has Existed in One form or Another Throughout History!
Ayurvedic medicine over 5,000 years old has three constitutional types or Doshas Vattic, Pittic and Kephaic.
Chinese medicine – 23 centuries old, has 5 Types, Wood, Fire, Earth, Water and Metal.
The Egyptians, Greeks and the Romans had some form of metabolic typing in their medical systems.
Dr. Francis Pottenger, M.D., authored Symptoms of Visceral Disease, 1919. Autonomic Nervous System.
Dr. Royal Lee, DDS, Autonomic Nervous System, 1930-1940.
Dr. Francis M Pottenger, Jr. M.D., Autonomic Nervous System, 1930-1940.
Dr. Weston A. Price, DDS, travels the world in the 1930’s and proves there is no correct universal diet. Authors Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, 1939.
Dr. W. H. Sheldon, authored The Varieties of Human Physique, C. V. Mosby, 1944. Dr. Sheldon had 3 types Endomorphic, Mesorphic and Ectomorphic.
Dr. Melvin Page, DDS, Endocrine type research, 1950’s.
Dr. Henry G. Bieler, M.D., Endocrine type research, 1950’s. Authored Food is Your Best Medicine, Random House, 1966.
Roger Williams authors Biochemical Individuality, Wiley and Sons, 1956.
Dr Emanuel Revici, M.D., Catabolic / Anabolic research, 1960’s.
Dr. William Donald Kelly, DDS, Autonomic Nervous System, 1960’s. Widely regarded as the father of Metabolic Typing.
Dr. George Watson, Ph.D., Pioneered the Oxidative System. Authors Nutrition and Your Mind, Harper and Row, 1972.
William Wolcott authors Core Premises: The Healthexcel System of Metabolic Typing, Healthexcel Publications, 1986.
Dr. Laura Power, Ph.D. authors Dietary Lectins: Food Allergies and Blood-Type Specificity, The Townsend Letter for Doctors, 6/1991.
Dr. Peter J. D’Adamo, N.D., Blood Type. Authors Eat Right For Your Type, J.P. Putman’s Sons, 1996.
William Wolcott and Trish Fahey author The Metabolic Typing Diet, Broadway Books, 2000.
Note: This is only a partial list of those responsible for the research and the current capacity of Metabolic Typing.
While nothing new, science has brought metabolic typing a long way in the last 100 years.
Like an owner’s manual to the human body. Metabolic typing teaches you to understand your bodies needs and how to address them. And, only you can do this as each and every one of us is different and has different nutritional needs.
Part 3 Metabolic Typing Expanded
Metabolic Typing determines our bodies needs as they exist right now! When we feed our body what it needs determined by a metabolic typing test, our body, always seeking homeostasis, a state of ecological balance, normalcy, has a much easier job of it.
Each and every one of us is different. We have different hereditary backgrounds; different internal strengths and weaknesses, different life stresses, environmental pollutant exposures, life styles and we have come to prefer different foods. We may need to lose weight or gain weight. What this means is that our bodies are at different levels of health, have different nutritional requirements, and we even react to foods, supplements and herbs differently. We need a nutrition and supplement program designed for us that addresses our needs as they exist today.
The Metabolic Typing Diet addresses these needs depending on the thoroughness of the testing process. Metabolic typing tests vary from basic to comprehensive. From less than ten questions to one hundred and forty five with some home self-tests. Healthexcel is a leader in Metabolic Typing Tests with a full range of tests from the Basic provided in the book The metabolic Typing Diet, Intermediate, Advanced and a Comprehensive with home self-tests, HTMA, and neurotransmitter balancing. Analyzing ten different Fundamental Homeostatic Control systems (FHC’s).
The autonomic and oxidative systems are of particular importance because they along with the “Dominance” of one over the other determines the foods we should be focusing on and those we need to avoid. Metabolic typing targets our protein/carbohydrate/fat ratios we require as our best fuel mix for optimum performance. And, metabolic typing helps us select the metabolically correct supplement formulations our bodies require. With your metabolic program you will learn how to fine-tune your diet, how to read your bodies signals and a lot more.
From time to time we hear the saying “I just don’t have a green thumb,” what were really saying is we do not know the nutritional and environmental requirements of the plants. Perhaps that is also true for our own bodies! Yes we are quite resilient but look at us, were obese, diabetic and suffer from countless medical issues. Is this proof of knowledge or the proof of the lack of it? Metabolic typing targets your personal needs right now. Lifestyle coaching updates our knowledge on our bodies environmental or physical needs for today’s world. It makes perfect sense. It’s not unlike an owner’s manual for the human body.
Part 4 Neurogistics – The Brain Wellness Program
It is estimated that 86% of the population would benefit from Neurotransmitter Balancing. Neurotransmitters, such as serotonin, and norepinephrine, when properly balanced, can have a positive effect on every aspect of your life and relationships. Neurotransmitters have an effect on our sleep cycles, self-esteem, job performance, how we respond to stress and more.
The Brain Wellness Program measures neurotransmitter levels of Serotonin, Dopamine, Norepinephrine, Epinehrine, Norepi/epi ratio, PEA and GABA.
The Brain Wellness Program works hand in hand with the Metabolic Typing Diet Program. You will be surprised with the wonderful difference metabolically correct nutrition and quality natural foods can make. In fact, Pam Machemehl-Helmly, Co-Founder of Neurogistics, has stated that Healthexcel advisors have much better test results than they have found in the general public. And, she attributes the better test results to Healthexcel’s nutrition program.
Neurotransmitter Balance is one of 10 important Fundamental Homeostatic Control mechanisms that Healthexcel’s “Comprehensive” metabolic typing program is concerned with. William Wolcott, Co-Founder of Healthexcel, highly recommends the Brain Wellness Program by Neurogistics.
The Metabolic Typing Diet is one of the keys to performing at our best physically and mentally. To have clarity and endurance. Our health, the health of those we love, and the health of the community are all affected by the quality of the foods we choose to consume. The Metabolic Typing Diet is nutrition the way nature intended it! And, you can take a Metabolic Typing Diet test online right now at Metabolic Typing Online by Healthexcel. You will be pleasantly surprised with the results you get with the Metabolic Typing Diet.
Note: The Comprehensive Metabolic Typing Diet Program is Recommended for those with chronic or degenerative diseases. See Referral.
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About the author: James Brent Beach is a certified Metabolic Typing Advisor. Editor of ItsNutrition.com and author of “Three Steps To Health, Happiness, Love And Joy!”
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