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Metabolic Typing
Metabolic
Typing is “customised
nutrition” based on the idea that there is no universal healthy
diet to suit everyone.
Anyone can use Metabolic Typing find out exactly which foods are good for their
health, and those that are not. You will find out about the supplements you need
that will make you as healthy as you can be and not waste your money on those
that could make you tired and sick.
Metabolic Typing is a process of evaluating the inter-relationship
of the body’s
3 main systems for the creation and maintenance of energy:
- Autonomic Nervous System
- Oxidative System
- Endocrine System.
It is the name given to the
analysis of individual nutritional needs and biochemical individuality.
Metabolic Typing interprets and understands “body language”, which
is the body’s means of communicating its physical, mental, emotional and
behavioural characteristics, as well as its efficiency and homeostatic balance,
through which, individual nutritional requirements may be understood and applied.
Metabolic typing is based on the understanding that although there are tens of
thousands of biochemical reactions that take place in your body every day, they
all fall under the control of only a few Fundamental Homeostatic Controls. Metabolic
Typing recognises 9 such control mechanisms and uses them to evaluate and determine
each person's metabolic type. It is the inherited various strengths and weaknesses
in these control mechanisms that define our biochemical individuality and makes
each of us unique. Importantly, every food and every nutrient has very specific
effects on these Fundamental Controls. For this reason, not knowing one's metabolic
type makes it impossible to know which foods or nutrients are best for each person.
No adverse condition can exist without a metabolic imbalance in one or more of
these systems. These metabolic imbalances are very common, and most people who
are chronically unwell have at least one of them. Correcting them usually results
in major improvements in health. Many chronic health problems can be expected
to clear up when these imbalances are corrected. In fact, you must correct these
imbalances to see many, if not most chronic conditions heal.
When a person is “balanced” metabolically, many disease symptoms
subside because the body uses nutrients optimally. It is important to understand
that metabolic typing does not address any specific conditions, using a “One
Size Fits All” approach like allopathic nutrition.
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