What is Metabolic Typing?
by Dr. Joseph Mercola (www.mercola.com)
I want to start you off right by revealing one
of the most important health secrets I have ever learned --
how to eat right for your own unique biochemistry in order to
most efficiently and effectively improve your immune system.
Discovering your true metabolic type -- and eating according
to it -- is one of the most powerful and important steps you
will ever take to:
Dramatically improve your immune system to help
you prevent disease and live longer
Optimise your weight
Avoid premature aging and look and feel younger
Boost your energy level
During my three decades as a physician, I have used many valuable
tools to help sick patients get better, and generally healthy
people become even healthier. And, there is no doubt about it:
one of the most successful healing and wellness tools, hands down,
is the use of metabolic typing to identify your ideal dietary
needs.
THE GREAT MYTH OF THE ONE-SIZE-ALL-FITS DIET
Let's start by remembering this key principle: There is no
one perfect diet that is right for everyone. Virtually all of
the drug-makers, diet book authors, and dietary supplement manufacturers
want you to believe otherwise. They want you to believe there
is a one-size-fits-all diet (their diet). Don't buy into that
myth -- it could actually weaken your health.
Because you have a unique metabolism and biochemistry, you
are likely to respond to food differently than your parents,
siblings, friends or neighbours. Also, you all have different
genetic influences on your biochemical makeup. Even identical
twins can have different dietary needs.That's why the science
of Metabolic Typing is the only system that customizes nutrition
based on the way your body reacts to food. That's why the diet
that may work well for one person may fail miserably for another.
That's why, no matter how much you try to stick to foods you've
been told are "healthy", you probably still don't
feel as good as you'd like to ... You're not to blame for this.
Plain and simple, it's the result of a giant factor outside
your control -- your metabolism. Soon, you will discover how
to determine your own metabolic type. With the help of this
test and all the principles you will discover, you can fine-tune
your diet. You can start choosing foods that move you away from
weight problems, disease and accelerated aging...and toward
optimal health and your naturally correct weight.
ITS TRUE YOU SHOULD FEEL ALERT AND ENERGETIC AFTER EATING
So, if you feel any of the symptoms below during the first
hour after eating...
You still feel hungry even though you are physically full...
Your energy level goes down...
You feel 'hyper', nervous, angry or irritable...
You crave sweets...
You feel depressed...
then it is highly likely your body is sending you a loud wake-up
call...
Trying to tell you the best way it knows how that you've eaten
the wrong amount or type of protein, fat or carbohydrate for
your particular metabolic type.
You can even be eating foods that "experts" will
tell you are healthy. But, if those foods are inappropriate
for your metabolic type -- or you are eating them in the wrong
ratios for your type, then your diet will not be the powerful
tool that it could be ... A tool that moves you toward higher
levels of health.
In today's fast-paced world, most people have lost the art
of "listening" to their body. That can be dangerous.
When it comes to eating, for about an hour or so after every
meal, your body will always provide you with clear signals as
to whether the food you chose was beneficial for your metabolic
type. Just start listening ... start paying attention.
First, start eating according to your metabolic type. Then
re-learn the art of listening to your body after you eat. You
will quickly discover the value of metabolic typing. Why? You
will quickly feel more energetic and alert and if you currently
suffer from stomach problems, you will often see them disappear
quite quickly, too!
Mercola, 2006
So get to it! You can get the questionnaire
from one of two books:
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The Metabolic Typing Diet
There is no one diet, or way of eating, that works for
everyone. This book will explain which diet is best for
you and why. Fill out the comprehensive questionnaire
to determine your metabolic type, then learn which foods
are most beneficial for your type.
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How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy
Paul Chek is taking the health, fitness and nutrition
industries by storm. He is creating a world movement that
produces the most highly qualified health practitioners
in the world. In this book, Chek breaks down all the most
important principles of holistic health. |
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