Metabolic Typing Diet

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Gain Health and Energy - Customize Your Diet to Your Own Unique Body Chemistry

Over the years numerous diet crazes have come and gone. The Atkins Diet, The Hay Diet, The South Beach Diet, The GI diet, The Hip and Thigh Diet, The Juice Diet, The Detox Diet, The No Diet Diet........ the list is endless.

The one thing that many of these diets have in common is that they are written from the perspective that we all have the same metabolism and the same nutritional requirements. The Metabolic Typing Diet is completely different.

Based on decades of research and influenced by Ayurvedic medicine, The Metabolic Typing Diet teaches us that we are vastly different in our needs for macro and micro nutrients. If we eat in the way that is suitable for our metabolic type we can not only reach and mantain our ideal weight easily, we can also be in optimum health, have greater energy levels, and great mental clarity.

Metabolic Typing - The Pioneers 

Metabolic typing began with Dentist Weston Price, who was interested in the link between western dietary habbits and degenerative disease. Dr Price travelled the world looking at the diets of indiginous cultures. What he unveiled was that there is no one diet to suit everyone, and there were vast differences between what dietary needs of various cultures depending on their climate, envionment, local produce, genetics and culture.

His research was continued by many pioneers including Roger Williams, William Kelly and George Watson, and was later popularised by William Wolcott, Trish Fahey, Horald Christal and James Haig.

Sympathetic Nervous System Dominance/Cellular Oxidation 

The metabolic Typing diet is based on the principle that people's metabolisms function differently, and the differences come down to two factors.

The first factor is autonomic nervous system dominance. The autonomic nervous system is divided into sympathetic and parasympathetic branches. The sympathetic branch helps burn energy and the parasympathetic helps conserve energy and digest food. The researchers of the Metabolic Typing Diet claim that in each of us, one of these branches is more dominant in the digestive process.

The second factor is based on the rate of cellular oxidation. This refers to the rate at which cells convert energy into food. Some people are fast oxidizers which means that they rapidly convert food into energy. Other people are slow oxidizers meaning that they convert their food more slowly. On the Metabolic Typing diet, fast oxidizers are recommended to eat more protein and fats to balance their system and slow down the conversion of their food into energy. Slow oxidizers are recommended to eat more carbohydrates, which sustain them sufficiently, and reduced protein.

The 3 Metabolic Types 

The Metabolic Typing Diet divides us into 3 basic metabolic types:

Protein Types - these people are fast oxidizers/ parasympathetic dominant. Protein types tend to need to eat fairly frequently and have a tendancy towards fatigue and nervousness. They often crave salty or fatty foods. They may have tried low fat or low protein diets and found themselves weak, tired or hungry on these diets.

Carbohydrate types - these people are slow oxidizers/ sympathetic dominant. They often have weak appetites, are able to tolerate sweets quite well, and have problems with weight management.

Mixed types - these people are neither fast or slow oxidizers, and are not parasympathetic or sympathetic dominant. They are a miture of both types, with average appetites and are usually able to control their weight quite easily.

Dietary Recommendations 

It is recommended that protein types eat a diet that is rich in protein, fats and oils, particularly high-purine proteins such as organ meats and red meats. The carbohydrate intake of a protein type should be low. The Metabolic Typing diet states that this metabolic type fares very poorly on vegetarian diets.

Carbohydrate types should eat diets that are high in carbs and low in protein, fats, and oils. They should eat light, low-purine proteins such as white meat and fish.

Mixed types should eat a mixture of foods from those of a protein type and those of a carbohydrate type.

My Personal Experience With The Metabolic Typing Diet 

When I first discovered the Metabolic Typing Diet I had been a strict vegetarian for 20 years, vegan for 7 of those years, and had lived off a high raw foods diet for 5 of those years. I was also severly disabled with Chronic Fatigue Sydrome/ME. For a long time I had clung to the belief that I would be much iller if it wasn't for my "super healthy diet".

I was advised to take a Metabolic Typing Test by my Naturopath Shirley Kay. I turned out to be a definate protein type and after much wrestling with my conscience I began to eat meat again.

My energy levels improved almost immediately. On a vegetarian diet I had always had to eat every two hours and was constantly hungry and obsessed with food. This diminshed when I started to eat more meat protein. I had been a massive advocate of the vegetarian diet for almost two decades, and had been forced to eat humble pie! Of course, changing my diet was not the only thing that I needed to do to overcome ME/CFS, but it certainly helped tremendously.

For my full healing story click here.

To find out more about the work that I do to help others overcome long term illness, visit my website:
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Metabolic Typing on Amazon 

The Metabolic Typing Diet: Customize Your Diet to Your Own Unique Body Chemistry

The Metabolic Typing Diet: Customize Your Diet to Your Own Unique Body Chemistry

by: William Linz Wolcott, Trish Fahey

A good guide and introduction to Metabolic Typing, also detailing how to test yourself, and suitable diet plans for individual metabolic types

Amazon Price: $10.87 (as of 01/04/2010) Buy Now

The Nutrition Solution: A Guide to Your Metabolic Type

The Nutrition Solution: A Guide to Your Metabolic Type

by: Harold J. Kristal, James M. Haig

a more in depth explanation (which includes a chapter on Chronic Fatigue)

Amazon Price: $12.89 (as of 01/04/2010) Buy Now

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