I am Eating Healthy Organic Foods, So Why am I Still Feeling Miserable? Finally, A Solid Answer!

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" I am Eating Healthy Organic Foods, So Why am I Still Feeling Miserable? "

Finally, A Solid Answer!

 

By William Wolcott, Founder, The Healthexcel System of Metabolic Typing

Author, The Metabolic Typing Diet (Doubleday)

 

For many years, so-called nutritional experts advocated a low protein, low fat,

high carbohydrate diet as the perfect diet for all of us. They promised that

we’d lose weight and lower our cholesterol while simultaneously improving our

health and fitness.

 

Well, they turned out to be wrong, dead wrong for some and seriously wrong for

millions of others. Instead of fulfilling its promise, this latest “right diet

for all people” to come down the pike produced a rise in obesity like this

country has never seen, along with the “bonus” side-effect of an ever-growing

epidemic in diabetes.

 

Today we find ourselves on the cusp of the pendulum poised to swing the other

way.

 

Recent scientific studies have “discovered” that just maybe the high carb, low

protein/fat diet is not so good after all, and that what really is the best

“right diet for all people” is a high protein, low carb diet. Unfortunately, the

truth of the matter is that reality once again will prove to be different than

expected. In a few years, there will be a fallout of just as many people

suffering in the wake of this “new” pendulum swing as from the last one.

 

The problems will be different, but the “casualty rate” will be about the same.

Metabolic Typing, the science of individualized nutrition, reveals why this will

be the case.

 

Through Metabolic Typing, it has been learned that the answer to the question of

the right diet lies with your genes -- not whim, fancy or philosophical belief,

or even in scientific research, at least not in the way it is being performed

today.

 

Previous studies have shown benefit to the low protein/fat, high carb diet as

well as the opposite diet of high protein/fat, low carb diet.

 

But basic premises of Metabolic Typing such as the idea of biochemical

individuality, or that the same nutrient can have different effects in different

Metabolic Types, or that the same disease can arise in different Metabolic Types

for totally opposite biochemical reasons, have far-reaching effects and shatter

many current en vogue myths of nutrition.

 

Here are some examples that not only offer some valuable, practical information,

but also reveal greater insight into the exciting new world of Metabolic Typing:

 

 

 

MYTH: A vegetarian diet or a diet high in fruits and vegetables and low in

protein and fat is good for you.

 

REALITY: If it's wrong for your Metabolic Type, meaning, if it is not in line

with your ancestral diet, your genetically-based nutritional requirements, this

diet can make you sicker or create new health problems for you. There are no

" good " foods and there are no " bad " foods, except in terms of the requirements

of your unique Metabolic Type.

 

MYTH: The Healthy Diet

 

REALITY: There's no such thing as a diet that is universally healthy for

everyone. This applies to any diet that is purportedly right for all people –

whether it’s the Atkins Diet, MacDougall Diet, Ornish Diet, (or pick any diet

you can think of!). The only diet that is healthy for you is the diet that is

right for your Metabolic Type. Only that diet meets your inherited needs for

nutrients.

 

MYTH: To lose weight you need to reduce calories and limit fat (or limit protein

or limit carbs).

 

REALITY: Fat doesn't make you fat. Protein doesn't make you fat. Carbohydrates

don't make you fat. And even calories per se don't make you fat. But what does

make you fat is the inability to properly metabolize, or convert to energy,

carbs, proteins, fats and calories.

 

If you're overweight, you're actually starving -- starving for the right balance

of nutrients that will increase your metabolic rate and convert to energy the

food you're eating instead of storing it as fat.

 

Eat the right foods for your Metabolic Type and eat the right ratios of

macronutrients (proteins, fats, carbs) and you’ll be giving your body the right

kind of fuel for your engines of metabolism. Science is beginning to awaken to

the idea that much of what our bodies do with food is in our genes.

 

MYTH: To lose weight all you need to do is reduce calories and exercise more.

 

REALITY: Millions of people have done just that, but in most cases have not only

failed to lose weight, but gained weight instead. Worse, for most people,

reducing calories has led to food cravings, binge or yo-yo dieting, mood swings

and energy fluctuations.

 

Only by giving your body food that it can efficiently convert to energy will you

lose weight permanently. Only then can watching calories and exercising

regularly make a real and lasting difference.

 

Best of all, when you eat right for your Metabolic Type, when your body fully

converts to energy the food you eat, gone forever will be the gnawing hunger,

food cravings, binges, mood swings and energy fluctuations that normally are

associated with “dieting.”

 

MYTH: If you take lots of supplements and " cover all your bases, " your body will

take what it needs and discard the rest.

 

REALITY: This is like saying that if you hold a flame under your outstretched

hand, your body will take whatever heat it needs and throw off the rest. Such

ideas ignore the reality of cause and effect. If you apply a flame to skin, the

skin will burn. Fire has specific physical properties that apply wherever fire

is present.

 

Similarly, nutrients have very precise effects on the body -- either stimulating

or sedating, acidifying or alkalinizing. Every supplement you consume will

either stimulate or sedate specific organs, systems and fundamental control

mechanisms.

 

Take the wrong nutrients or the wrong formulations for your Metabolic Type and

you will worsen your existing imbalances or create new imbalances and all of the

problems that go with them. Nutrients indeed have the power to heal, but they

also have the power to make you ill if they are wrong for your Metabolic Type.

 

MYTH: Everyone should take calcium (or vitamin C, or anti-oxidants, etc.).

 

REALITY: Nothing could be further from the truth. Through Metabolic Typing, we

know that any nutrient can have opposite effects in different Metabolic Types.

This is why a nutrient can help correct a condition in one person, have little

or no effect on another person, or worsen the same condition in a different

Metabolic Type.

 

Thus the old adage, " one’s food is another’s poison. " This is why you should

only take those supplements that are right for your Metabolic Type. Every

nutrient raises or lowers up to 9 other nutrients in your body. So taking

therapeutic doses of vitamin C can actually, for example, cause cancer (vitamin

C lowers copper, so if you are already deficient in copper and take high

therapeutic doses of vitamin C, you can seriously compromise your immune

system).

 

Taking too much calcium can actually cause osteoporosis (in order for calcium to

be utilized, it needs certain synergistic nutrients and if you are already low

in those synergistic nutrients, taking more calcium will only further deplete

the existing deficient levels, worsening any problems relating to calcium

metabolism).

 

Eating a low-fat diet can actually raise cholesterol (if it further disturbs the

body's cholesterol metabolism, e.g., certain metabolic types paradoxically need

to eat a high-fat diet to promote efficient cholesterol metabolism). Of course,

everyone needs all the nutrients in order to be healthy . . . but not in

therapeutic doses. So before you start supplementing your diet, it’s best to

know your Metabolic Type.

 

MYTH: Nutrients are nutrients. It doesn't matter what form they are in.

 

REALITY: The carriers of nutrients are just as powerful -- in some cases even

more powerful -- in their effects on metabolism as the nutrients themselves.

Depending on your Metabolic Type, any nutrient can be acidifying or

alkalinizing.

 

For example, in a Parasympathetic (alkaline) Metabolic Type, calcium is

acidifying, but in a Fast Oxidizer, calcium is alkalinizing. So, it is important

that an acid form of calcium (e.g., calcium chloride) be used if you’re an

alkaline Parasympathetic type metabolizer, but that an alkaline form of calcium

(calcium citrate) be used if you’re an acidic Fast Oxidizer.

 

Otherwise, the nutritional supplement will at best have a neutral effect, and at

worst, actually worsen your existing imbalances. You can take the best

supplements money can buy, but if they are not right for your Metabolic Type --

the right nutrients and the right forms of the nutrients – they won’t produce

the result you’re looking for and can end up making you worse than before.

 

MYTH: Drink lots of orange juice to help get rid of a cold

 

REALITY: Colds and flus are viruses and viruses thrive in an alkaline

biochemical environment. Citrus juice, because it is such a highly alkalinizing

food, is one of the worst things you can ingest to prevent and fight off a cold

or flu virus. Interestingly, cold weather produces an alkaline shift in the

body.

 

In addition, the most powerful alkalinizing substances in your diet are sugar,

alcohol, caffeine, salt (and nicotine), the very substances that tend to

increase in our diets during cold weather and the holidays. Beginning with

Halloween, and going on through Thanksgiving, Christmas and the New Year's

celebrations, the amounts of these highly alkalinizing substances dramatically

increase in our diets.

 

When you consider the elevation of those alkaline foods in our diets in

combination with the alkaline effect of the cold weather, is it any wonder that

time of year has come to be known as “the cold & flu season?” At the first sign

of a cold or flu, try to acidify your system by increasing protein and

decreasing carbohydrates, particularly fruits (especially citrus) and the

alkaline substances listed above.

 

When you buy a new car, one of the first things you learn is the kind of fuel it

uses. You wouldn’t want to use the wrong kind of fuel for fear of damaging the

engine, not to mention the fact that its performance would suffer dramatically.

 

You would do well to adopt the same attitude towards your own body. Remember

that your body is designed to be healthy, but in order to run efficiently, it

must be given the right fuel, the kind of fuel it is genetically programmed to

utilize.

 

You can eat the best organic foods, take the finest supplements money can buy,

drink plenty of pure water, get sufficient rest and exercise regularly, but if

you do not meet the needs of your Metabolic Type, you’ll only be wasting your

time and money.

 

Give your body what it needs and you’ll enjoy a lifetime of good health, energy

and well-being.

 

 

 

 

DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT:

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William Wolcott is the author of a book I recommend to absolutely everyone, The

Metabolic Typing Diet. If you want to begin understanding your Metabolic Type in

order to adopt the diet that is right for you, reading Wolcott's book and

choosing the right foods from my nutrition plan is an excellent way to begin.

 

Most ideal, of course, would be if everyone could take the same comprehensive

metabolic typing test with a corresponding consultation with a trained advisor

that I require of my patients here at The Optimal Wellness Center. William

Wolcott's book does an outstanding job of providing you with a general sense of

your type, but this comprehensive clinical test and consultation pinpoints your

type, and provides you with a specific diet plan. Obviously, though, unless you

live in the Midwest or are willing to travel here to become a new Optimal

Wellness Center patient, this in-depth approach to learning your metabolic type

and corresponding recommended diet is impractical.

 

But soon it won't be.

 

Right now, we are in the planning stages of enabling the comprehensive metabolic

type testing online, and this will include consultations with trained advisors.

This means that no matter where you live, you will be able to very specifically

pinpoint your metabolic type and customize a diet precisely right for your type

from my nutrition plan.

 

Watch for this major innovation in the coming months, but again, whether you are

new to the concept of metabolic typing or already somewhat familiar with it, I

highly recommend you start by reading Wolcott's book, The Metabolic Typing Diet

and then reviewing my nutrition plan to begin adopting the best diet for you.

 

 

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