Lost in the sea of health diets?

• Do you feel confused?
• Should you eat according to your blood type? 
• Follow the South Beach diet? 
• The Atkins diet? 
• Or is the low glycemic index method best? 

Metabolic typing takes the guess work out of it all.  It is customized to your body and your particular metabolic needs.
     Metabolic typing is based on the concept of metabolic uniqueness:  each person metabolizes food uniquely. This is a new idea for most people.  We assume that we all metabolize food the same way.  It is simply not true that we are all alike in how we metabolize our food.  For example, I eat all the time and am always hungry.  My best friend, Kathryn, is rarely hungry and could do well with one meal a day.  She has a low appetite.  I have a high appetite.  She metabolizes her food slowly and therefore is less hungry; I metabolize my food quickly and therefore feel hungry quickly.

Why does metabolic typing matter?
This matters because if we feed our bodies the nutrients suited to our metabolic style we have the most efficient cellular systems and our bodies are able to achieve optimal health at the cellular level.  We do not have energy left over to be stored as fat so ideal body weight is achieved and maintained. 
     Based on years of research William Wollcott and others studied the major systems that control how nutrients are processed by the body.  He found that one or two systems are dominant in how your body utilizes the nutrients that you take in.  The same nutrient can be harmful to one person and helpful and supportive to another.  I am talking about cellular efficiency.  So no matter what your medical problem the more efficient your cells can function the better chance you have to recover and repair.
     An example will explain the system and how it works.  I am a fast oxidizer.  What this means is that my body metabolizes carbohydrates very quickly.   As a result I use the energy of a carbohydrate food very fast and become hungry quickly and tired quickly if I eat carbohydrates.  This includes vegetables.  It is especially true with high sugar foods like sweets.  What slows my metabolism to a more reasonable rate is heavy protein and fat.  My body does not metabolize those so quickly and I am able to feel satisfied and not so tired after eating.  I have the reputation of being thin all my life and always eating. My mother would accuse me of having a hollow leg that I put food into because I could eat a lot of food.  As a result I also am at risk for diabetes and hypoglycemia.  Adult onset Type 2 diabetes is rampant in my family. Consequently, the diet plan that is right for me is heavy proteins and fats, like dark meat chicken which is higher in purines and fat.
    Compare this to my friend Kathryn.  Kathryn will sometimes skip a meal, especially dinner.  She will even forget that she has not eaten and will not feel hungry.     She does not metabolize carbohydrates quickly; she is a slow oxidizer.  What feels best to her is light meat and vegetables.  She does poorly with heavy foods, the heavy food being in her stomach almost undigested the next morning.  She can handle carbohydrates and sugar better than my type can.
     Through the use of a proprietary questionnaire, developed and evaluated by Healthexcel, the leading organization in metabolic typing, you can identify what metabolic type you have and receive a diet plan that will help you feel your best and  create the most efficient functioning for your body at the cellular level.
     The Center for Holistic Psychiatry and Pain Management offers the metabolic type test, through Healthexcel, and supports you in implementing the dietary plan most suited to you through work with Beck Marrs, our nutritional counselor.
    

Contact us today and take the most important step to improving your health!