23 Feb 2008 11:05:29 | Pauline Robinson
The benefits of finding out your Metabolic Bio Type include:
- More robust health and energy
- Weight control
- Freedom from hunger and cravings between meals
- Long term benefits which may include the prevention and/or
reversing of disease
- Moving your weight towards your ideal weight - (lose weight
if you are overweight and put on weight if you are underweight)
- Experiencing an increase in strength and stamina
- Knowing what Vitamins, Minerals and Herbs work best for your
Metabolic Bio Type
Metabolic Bio Typing is based on the fact that we are all
unique, and that each of our body's require a unique and
individualised 'fuel mixture'. You can find out your Metabolic
Bio Type by taking an assessment consisting of simple and easy
to answer questions. Read on to find out how to take a Metabolic
Bio Typing Assessment and find out your Metabolic Bio Type.
Note: You can take your Metabolic Bio Typing Assessment over the
internet (www.air-water-nutrition-healthsmart.com)- and your
consultation (to explain the results) can be carried out by
e-mail - so your geographical location is not an issue.
With the advent of the book on blood types, Eat Right 4 Your
Type by Peter D'Adamo, N.D., the question is often asked if
blood typing is the same as Metabolic Bio Typing. In short, no.
Actually, one's blood type is just 1 of many different
components used in the process of metabolic bio typing to
determine individual nutritional requirements.
Here are the components that have been discovered to be
necessary to consider in evaluating your metabolic bio type:
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) – the “master regulator” of
metabolismOxidative System – rate at which nutrients are
converted to energy within the cells Catabolic/Anabolic –
aerobic / anaerobic metabolism, tissue pH, selective membrane
permeability Acid / Alkaline Balance – 6 different kinds of pH
imbalancesEndocrine Type – determines body type, shape, weight
gain, etc. Constitutional Type – from AyurVeda and Chinese
medicine, concerned constitutional qualities of foods relative
to constitutional qualities of individual. Blood Type – food
lectins specific to ABO blood typesThe blood type has more to do
with what few foods should be left out of your diet due to their
lectin content specific to your blood type.
But blood type has little to do with what foods and nutrients
should be eaten. For that, we need to consider the body's
primary mechanisms that specifically regulate how energy is
created, maintained and controlled, such as the ANS, Oxidative
System and Catabolic/Anabolic processes. And whereas the blood
type is static, non-changing, the different balances, strengths
and weaknesses in the other fundamental control mechanisms can
and do change.
What is most important to know is that every food and every
nutrient has very specific stimulatory or inhibitory effects on
these fundamental homeostatic control systems that regulate
every process in your body at every level of activity.
This is why getting the right nutrition is so critical.
Moreover, through metabolic bio typing we have learned that any
food or nutrient can have different effects on different
metabolic types. As it turns out, the old adage that “one man's
food is another's poison” is literally true.
Fact is, you can eat the best organic foods, take the best
supplements money can buy, get plenty of rest, exercise
regularly and still not feel well.
Why? Because you did not eat those foods for which your body has
a specific, genetically-based requirement. Only through
Metabolic Bio Typing can you be assured that your food will be
the medicine God intended it to be.
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