Metabolic Typing: Answering The Unanswerable

As a physician, I always felt it was critical to set a health example for my patients and as a result my wife, Alyse, and I pride ourselves on our diet and lifestyle.  Frankly, there are very few programs that can stand up to our scrutiny, but one has, the Metabolic Typing Program, and it has changed our lives.

It almost sounds too good to be true, but Metabolic Typing is the culmination of thirty years of research and experience treating thousands of patients in one remarkable, concise protocol, that I believe will have the same effect on each and every patient that it has had on the previous thousands.  It’s time to shatter the Myths regarding diet and nutrition.

As someone interested in nutrition, it is likely that you’ve reached the point where you think or even know that nutrition is important if you ever want to get well and stay well.  It’s just common sense, right?  But you may also have come to feel that the field of nutrition is quite baffling.  And that even though there is more information available today than ever before, that it’s also become harder to find what’s really right for you or to decide just what you should do.

In a very real sense, the information explosion over the last 10 years has quite possibly brought more confusion than clarity to your quest for health.  As a result, you may have found yourself asking questions like:

  • Why is it that my best friend’s nutritional supplements work absolute miracles, but make me feel lousy?
  • How can one best selling book say one thing about nutrition and the other bestseller say just the opposite?
  • Why will a certain diet give my friend energy and help to lose weight but make me tired and gain weight?
  • How can someone eat the best organic foods, take the finest nutritional supplements that money can buy, get plenty of rest, exercise regularly…and still not feel well?

Or maybe your concern is with more serious issues like:

  • Why are two thirds of Americans overweight?

·   How can so many people be obese when people are more diet conscious, health conscious, and exercise conscious than ever before?

  • Why is degenerative disease skyrocketing?
    • Why are younger and younger people falling prey to diseases of the aged?
    • Why are cancer, heart disease, and diabetes increasing each year?

And if you’re a health professional working with nutrition, you may also be baffled by questions such as:

  • Why does a low fat, low protein, high complex carbohydrate diet raise cholesterol in some people instead of lower it like it does in other people?
  • Why does taking a nutritional product or protocol help one person with a problem but not another with the same problem?
  • If nutrition is so important, why doesn’t it work for so many people?

Everywhere you look, there are contradictions.  Your friend tells you one thing; you read about just the opposite in a health magazine; and a hot new bestseller at your local bookstore says something quite different altogether.  In fact, that’s another problem …wall-to-wall books on health and nutrition, most of which just contradict each other.

Maybe you’ve learned from your own experience that what works for one person, doesn’t help a second, and can actually make a third person worse!  Don’t worry…it’s not you.  Even scientific researchers are confused by their findings because most studies on diet and nutrition conclude that while helpful to a certain percentage of people with a certain condition, the studied diet and nutrients don’t help or even worsen the same condition in other test subjects.

So how can there be so much confusion and contradiction about something that is supposed to be so good for you?  The unfortunate reason is that the majority of the people talking about diet and nutrition know just enough to be dangerous.  They know that diet and nutrition can be the answer, but they don’t know how to use them properly.  Yes, it is a two-edged sword.  If you use them properly, it can help make you well; but make not mistake, if you use them improperly, it can help make you sick or keep you that way.  You know…Take this nutrient for that condition.  A magic bullet.  One standard nutritional remedy for each problem or a universal diet that is supposed to work for everyone.

Your own experience and all the contradictory books and articles that you’ve ever read (aside from making the field of nutrition confusing, frustrating and sometimes downright baffling), have already shown you that this approach doesn’t work, and your common sense agrees.  You know that you are unique.  You know one shoe size doesn’t fit all.  You know that everyone is as unique as their fingerprints.  So why would anyone ever think that one diet is right for everyone?

Why would anyone ever think that what works nutritionally for one person would work for another?  The fact is, you really can eat the best organic foods, exercise regularly, drink plenty of fluids, get sufficient rest, take the finest supplements that money can buy, and STILL not feel well, or even start feeling worse than before.

So what is the answer? The answer is to find out what is right for YOU!  This is at the core of what my program offers you…finding out what is the right diet and nutrients for you.  Not what some book says.  Not what a friend says.  Not what the latest fad says is right.  You need to find out exactly what is right for YOU!  My nutritional program is tailored specifically for your kind of metabolism, and will meet the special and unique nutritional needs of the one and only you.

Standardized nutritional approaches fail to recognize that for genetic reasons people are all very different from one another on a biochemical or metabolic level.  Due to widely varying hereditary influences, we all process or utilize foods and nutrients very differently.  Thus, the very same nutritional protocol that enables one person to lead a long healthy life full of robust health, can cause serious illness in someone else.  As the ancient Roman Philosopher Lucretius once said, “One man’s food is another’s poison.”  It turns out, his statement is quite literally true.  Bottom line?  Using Metabolic Typing, we will match your diet and nutrition to your metabolism!

What exactly is metabolic typing and why is it important?

Metabolic typing analyzes, evaluates, and interprets objective physiological and biochemical indicators along with symptomatology in order to define one’s metabolic type – the specific, individualized, genetically-based patterns of biochemical metabolic individuality that dictate one’s physiological and neurological “design limits” and requirements for nutrition substances.

Without Metabolic Typing, there is no way to discern one’s “medicine” from one’s “poison”.  Without Metabolic Typing, there is no way to know how nutrients behave in one person as opposed to another.  In essence, without Metabolic Typing, no rational basis exists from which to select proper diet and nutritional supplementation because one’s metabolic type dictates individual responses to nutrients.

In summary:

  • Biochemical individuality is responsible for the fact that nutrients behave differently in different metabolic types.
  • The variable influences of nutrients of different metabolisms along with the same condition arising from totally different biochemical imbalances make it impossible to treat conditions with a standardized treatment protocol .
  • Successful, predictable, reliable therapy can only be chosen once you know your metabolic type because only then will you know how nutrients behave in your metabolism.

I look forward to helping you develop an individualized Metabolic Type diet and nutritional program so you may achieve your goals.