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Disclaimer
There has been no clinical tests done on metabolic typing. The evidence to its effectiveness are not 100% conclusive, but they do suggest a correlation between a metabolic typed diet and good health.
Background
After college, I realized that I had gained like 20-30 pounds since I had entered. I was getting a beer gut. I had less energy. I was very tired after eating and I had developed asthma. Before college I had little health problems. I have maybe missed 15 days of pre-college school in 12 years due to sickness including 1 week for the chicken pox. I played soccer for 8 years and generally had a lot of energy.
So after 5 years of not playing soccer, I joined a league with my brother, and I played like garbage. Initially I thought I was just out of shape. So I worked out a lot. Then I thought it was just the asthma, so I went to a doctor and got a bunch of drugs. Finally I decided to look at the differences between healthy high school Pakman and college Pakman. I found that a major difference was diet. That led me to Sean Croxton and his series of health tips called underground wellness. http://www.youtube.com/user/UndergroundWellness, in one specific video he described the importance of biochemical individuality and metabolic typing. From that I was pretty intrigued and I bought this book link
Metabolic Typing
I read the literature about a new dieting strategy called Metabolic Typing. The basic principle is that every person has a biochemical individuality, which means that our insides are as unique as the outside. The purpose of metabolic typing is to specialize a diet that gives your body the right mix of foods to allow for optimal output. There is also evidence to suggest that eating these specialized diets can alleviate chronic illness.
One person might need mostly fats and proteins to optimize their body's output. Another might need carbohydrates. Another might need a mix.
The book claims that chronic illness and bad health are generally caused by an imbalance in some part of our autonomic nervous system. Modern traditional medicine treats symptoms. You get drugs to calm your blood pressure when you have hypertension. Metabolic typing tries to cure the cause (the imbalance in the nervous system). The pioneer of Metabolic Typing, (I forget the guys name) was a dentist and went around the world and noticed that people in third world countries, who were still kind of hunter gatherer based, had great teeth and also that they rarely got cancer. When they were introduced to processed westernized foods they became unhealthy. Their teeth became worse and the cancer rate rose.
Conclusion
About a month ago, after reading this stuff, I took a test and figured my metabolic diet was high in protein and fat and lower in carbs. Since then I have been eating a lot of chicken, beef, eggs, certain vegies, certain fruits and oily foods. (There are other steps I am taking to be healthy like avoiding trans fat and MSG, and eating grass fed beef and free range poultry, and drinking unpasteurized milk, and taking vitamin B supplements). Since then I have felt much better. My asthma hasn't bothered me in months, and I haven't been feeling as tired after eating. When soccer starts in the fall I am going to play much better. My weight hasn't changed much, but my beer gut is receding.
TL;DR
I used to have energy and be very healthy before college and after I felt like crap. I realized that diet was a major factor in my decline and read about metabolic typing. It is a diet based on every person's unique internal systems. Since starting this, about a month ago, I have felt much better and have made significant improvements in my health.
Disclaimer
There has been no clinical tests done on metabolic typing. The evidence to its effectiveness are not 100% conclusive, but they do suggest a correlation between a metabolic typed diet and good health.
Background
After college, I realized that I had gained like 20-30 pounds since I had entered. I was getting a beer gut. I had less energy. I was very tired after eating and I had developed asthma. Before college I had little health problems. I have maybe missed 15 days of pre-college school in 12 years due to sickness including 1 week for the chicken pox. I played soccer for 8 years and generally had a lot of energy.
So after 5 years of not playing soccer, I joined a league with my brother, and I played like garbage. Initially I thought I was just out of shape. So I worked out a lot. Then I thought it was just the asthma, so I went to a doctor and got a bunch of drugs. Finally I decided to look at the differences between healthy high school Pakman and college Pakman. I found that a major difference was diet. That led me to Sean Croxton and his series of health tips called underground wellness. http://www.youtube.com/user/UndergroundWellness, in one specific video he described the importance of biochemical individuality and metabolic typing. From that I was pretty intrigued and I bought this book link
Metabolic Typing
I read the literature about a new dieting strategy called Metabolic Typing. The basic principle is that every person has a biochemical individuality, which means that our insides are as unique as the outside. The purpose of metabolic typing is to specialize a diet that gives your body the right mix of foods to allow for optimal output. There is also evidence to suggest that eating these specialized diets can alleviate chronic illness.
One person might need mostly fats and proteins to optimize their body's output. Another might need carbohydrates. Another might need a mix.
The book claims that chronic illness and bad health are generally caused by an imbalance in some part of our autonomic nervous system. Modern traditional medicine treats symptoms. You get drugs to calm your blood pressure when you have hypertension. Metabolic typing tries to cure the cause (the imbalance in the nervous system). The pioneer of Metabolic Typing, (I forget the guys name) was a dentist and went around the world and noticed that people in third world countries, who were still kind of hunter gatherer based, had great teeth and also that they rarely got cancer. When they were introduced to processed westernized foods they became unhealthy. Their teeth became worse and the cancer rate rose.
Conclusion
About a month ago, after reading this stuff, I took a test and figured my metabolic diet was high in protein and fat and lower in carbs. Since then I have been eating a lot of chicken, beef, eggs, certain vegies, certain fruits and oily foods. (There are other steps I am taking to be healthy like avoiding trans fat and MSG, and eating grass fed beef and free range poultry, and drinking unpasteurized milk, and taking vitamin B supplements). Since then I have felt much better. My asthma hasn't bothered me in months, and I haven't been feeling as tired after eating. When soccer starts in the fall I am going to play much better. My weight hasn't changed much, but my beer gut is receding.
TL;DR
I used to have energy and be very healthy before college and after I felt like crap. I realized that diet was a major factor in my decline and read about metabolic typing. It is a diet based on every person's unique internal systems. Since starting this, about a month ago, I have felt much better and have made significant improvements in my health.
Since then, I've been trying to lose the weight (as well as the gut), and although I've lost some of it, I still haven't discovered what's optimal, and I think there's something in my diet that's causing me to keep some of the weight that I should be losing.
