Introduction to the concepts.
Part 1 of 3 (Part 2 Evolution of Metabolic Bio Typing) (Part 3 Core Premises of Metabolic Bio Typing)
By William Wolcott, Founder, The Healthexcel System of Metabolic Typing
Author, The Metabolic Typing Diet (Doubleday)
       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 fit and stay fit.
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 terrible?
· 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?
· Why can't I get rid of my candida overgrowth problem, even though I've followed an "anti-candida" diet?
· 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-, health- 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 book store 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.
     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 nutrition know just enough to be dangerous. They know that nutrition can be the answer, but they don't know how to use it properly. And, yes, it is a two-edged sword: If you use it properly, it can help make you well. But, make no mistake. If you use it improperly, it can help make you sick or keep you that way.
     Your own experience and all the contradictory books and articles that you've ever read, have already shown you are unique and that one size doesn't fit all. So, why would anyone ever think that one diet is right for everyone? Or, that what works nutritionally for one person would work for another as well? 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! Not what some book says. Not what a friend says. Not what the latest fad says is right. Bottom line? Unless you match your nutrition to your metabolism, you'll only be wasting your time and money!
Why is it so hard to find right answers? How do you know who to believe or who to trust?
     The answer is to this universal dilemma is that for decades, the wrong questions have been asked. Ask wrong questions and you're bound to get wrong answers to your needs.
    What has been missed is the undeniable fact that on a biochemical level each of us is as unique as we are in our fingerprints. 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.
What accounts for all this metabolic individuality?
     At any given point in time, there are a number of factors that determine peoples' unique nutritional requirements, but none is more significant than a person's ancestral heritage.
     In the early part of the 20th century, a brilliant scientist by the name of Weston Price, DDS, demonstrated this in no uncertain terms. He traveled all over the world and sought out all the indigenous populations to study their diet and their health. His discoveries were remarkable and extremely important. What he discovered was that:
· The diets of all the indigenous peoples were tremendously varied (being dependent on geography, climate and the food stuffs naturally available)
· Yet those indigenous people who followed their ancestral diets were robustly healthy.
· But those who moved away or for other reasons strayed from their ancestral diet developed degenerative processes.
What can we learn from this?
· First and foremost, there is no one diet that is right for everyone, i.e., there never has been and there never will be a universally healthy diet.
· Second, the only healthy diet is the one that meets one's genetically-based requirements -- not what some book or diet expert says is right. Eat a diet that is right for your Metabolic Bio Type and not only can you stay healthy but you can reverse degenerative conditions as well.
· Third, there are no good foods and there are no bad foods, except in terms of foods that are right or wrong for your genetic makeup. Think meat is bad for you? Then how do you explain the Inuit (Eskimo) who eats up to 10 pounds of meat a day, yet there isn't even a word in their language for cancer or heart disease. Think a high carb diet is bad for you? Then how do you explain the Quetchus of South America or the East Indians who have lived for countless generations on a near vegetarian diet? Think dairy is bad for you? Then how do you explain the Swiss whose ancestral diet was largely based on dairy and rye?
    Your body is designed to be healthy. Good health is your birthright. The ability to experience radiant health is part of the genetic code built into every cell in your body. What you need to do in order to reclaim your birthright is to understand what your body needs as opposed to someone else's, in order to function the way it was intended it to. In short, you need to eat right for your Metabolic Bio Type.
    Fortunately, however, through the research that has been done over the past 25 years, there is available a systematic, testable, repeatable and verifiable advanced nutritional technology that enables people to discover their own unique dietary needs with a very high degree of precision. This technology is known as Metabolic Bio Typing. Through Metabolic Bio Typing those often mysterious, seemingly unanswerable questions become perfectly clear and answerable indeed.
    Once you know your Metabolic Bio Type and you know what foods are right for you and what foods are wrong for you, then you need a simple to follow, step-by-step plan to help you transition into a healthy lifestyle that you can follow for the rest of your life.

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