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hy is the knowledge of one's Metabolic Type [1] important? . . . Because,
according to Healthexcel's concepts, without knowing what it is, no rational
basis exists for the selection of proper diet and nutritional supplementation,
since how foods and nutrients behave in a given individual's metabolism cannot
otherwise be known. This conjecture is based upon a number of logically
sequential premises that comprise the core of Healthexcel's unique paradigm of
balancing body chemistry and building health through The Healthexcel System of
Metabolic Typing [2]:
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The human body is designed and genetically programmed to be healthy
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Every one of the body's approximately 100 trillion+ (100,000,000,000,000) [3]
cells "knows" exactly what to do and how to do it properly, as per its genetic
"program"
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The Healthexcel System of Metabolic Typing views the body
as comprised of many different levels which are organized in a
hierarchical fashion based upon
complexity
and
function
, whereby each higher level is protective of each lower level:
[organism
(highest, most complex level) ---> system ---> organ/gland ---> tissue
---> cell ---> nuclear ---> sub-nuclear ---> etc.]
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Health requires:
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Homeostasis through Adaptation,
i.e., the maintenance of Balance
and Efficiency -- biochemically, physiologically and metabolically --
through all the various levels of the body in a state of dynamic equilibrium
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The proper and timely
quantitative presence
of nutrients at the
appropriate levels in the body
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The proper and timely
qualitative utilization
of nutrients at the
appropriate levels in the body
[All metabolic processes require the presence of the right amount of nutrients,
in the right balance, at the right place, at the right time, and in the right
form (one that is utilizable by those processes)]
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Systemic efficiency
(e.g., immune system) is based upon
Organ/Glandular
efficiency
(e.g., thymus gland), which is based upon
Cellular
efficiency (e.g., thymus cells), which is based upon the optimum
availability of
Energy
to the cells (e.g., through cellular oxidation),
which depends on the
ingestion, digestion, absorption, transportation,
assimilation
and the timely (quantitative and qualitative)
utilization
of the genetically-based proper balance of biochemical constituents
(nutrition) provided at the right place, the right time, and in a form that is
utilizable
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There are many thousands of biochemical reactions that take place on a daily
basis as part of the innumerable life-supporting processes of metabolism. But,
they occur neither independently nor without the direction of
fundametal homeostatic controls . . .
-
. . .
Therefore, the potential for sufficient adaptation, continual homeostatic
balance, and thereby good health is a measure of the body's ability to manage
stressors (spiritual, mental, emotional, structural, biochemical,
environmental) through it's capacity for the creation, maintenance and control
of energy via the dualistic, diphasic,
Fundamental Homeostatic Control Processes / Systems / Mechanisms
[4], of which Healthexcel recognizes nine. They are:
-
Autonomic Nervous System
(master regulator of metabolism, neuro-endocrine/hormonal balance)
Sympathetic vs. Parasympathetic
[5]
-
Carbo-Oxidative System
(conversion of nutrients to energy via intermediary carbohydrate metabolism,
involving Glycolysis, Citric Acid (Krebs) Cycle, Beta Oxidation)
Fast Oxidation vs. Slow Oxidation
[6]
-
Lipo-Oxidative Processes
(involving fatty acids/sterols balance, cell membrane permeability,
aerobic/anaerobic metabolism)
Catabolic vs. Anabolic
[7]
-
Electrolyte/Fluid Balance
Electrolyte Excess vs. Electrolyte Deficiency
[8]
-
Acid/Alkaline Balance
(6 potential acid/alkaline imbalances
[Metabolic Acidosis, Metabolic Alkalosis, Respiratory Acidosis, Respiratory
Alkalosis, Potassium Excess Acidosis, Potassium Depletion Alkalosis],
resulting from 7 causal factors
[autonomic, carbo-oxidative, lipo-oxidative, electrolyte/fluid balance,
respiratory function, endocrine efficiencies (kidney, adrenal, ovary, teste,
thyroid, posterior pituitary, parathyroid), chronic dietary imbalance with
respect to acid/alkaline pH of foods]
Acid vs. Alkaline
[9]
-
Prostaglandin Balance
Series 1 + Series 3 Prostaglandins vs. Series 2 Prostaglandins
[10]
-
Endocrine System
(Endocrine Type as per dominant energy gland)
Pituitary vs. Thyroid vs. Adrenal vs. Gonad
[11]
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ABO Blood Type
Type O vs. Type A vs. Type B vs. Type AB
[12]
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Constitutional Elements
(constitutional qualities of foods interacting with the constitutional
qualities of the body) [13]
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Neurotransmitter Balance
(brain chemistry balance and function)
Excitatory vs. Inhibitory Neurotransmitters
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The critical importance of nutrition in the question of health vs. disease is
grasped through the understanding that every nutrient and every food has
specific stimulatory or inhibitory effects on one or more of the Fundamental
Homeostatic Control Mechanisms listed above
-
Genetic inheritance (in setting metabolic "design limits"), along with the
impact of environmental and lifestyle factors, define one's Metabolic Type (all
aspects of biochemical individuality -- spiritual, mental, emotional,
structural, physiological, biochemical -- as expressed through the fundamental
homeostatic controls above), thus forming the basis for the determination of
individual nutritional requirements
-
Different metabolic types require different balances of nutrients, foods and
protein/fat/carbohydrate ratios in their dietary intakes in order to meet the
dictates of their biochemical individuality for gaining and maintaining optimal
health
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Failure to meet genetically-based, metabolic type nutritional requirements lays
the foundation for degenerative disease
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How degenerative diseases manifest is largely determined by one's
genetic "weak link"
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Two individuals may have identical nutritional imbalances, but one
may develop diabetes, whereas the other may develop arthritis
-
The
Genetic Type
(the metabolic type one is born with) can
functionally change due to stress, environmental factors, improper
diet, stimulants, chemical abuse, illness, etc., to a different
metabolic type, therefore one's
Functional Type
(the metabolic type
one is currently functioning as) can be different from one's Genetic Type
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The Functional Type defines the current manner in which the
body reacts to biochemical stimulation (foods, nutrients) and
different metabolic types react differently to the same nutrient(s)
[see #17 below]
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The evaluation and determination of biochemical, metabolic individuality
(Metabolic Type)
and thereby the determination of individual ecological lifestyle
requirements is the purpose of The Healthexcel System Of Metabolic Typing
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Diseases (and all adverse symptoms) should
not
be viewed as entities for which treatment/therapy is required, for in
actuality,
dis-eases are instead the expressions of underlying biochemical imbalances in
one or more of the
Fundamental Homeostatic Controls in the metabolic type through which they are
manifesting
-
This biochemical reality
demands
that the person who has the disease should be treated, not the disease that
has the person
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No diseases or adverse symptomatology can exist without the involvement of an
imbalance in one or more of the Fundamental Homeostatic Controls as expressed
through the Functional Metabolic Type
-
Any given disease may arise from virtually opposite biochemical imbalances in
different metabolic types.
(Two people with the same disease may have opposite biochemical imbalances)
Therefore . . .
-
. . . A successful, standardized, nutritional/biochemical treatment
(allopathic) for any given disease -- one effective nutritional solution/remedy
for a given condition that is correct for all people with that condition -- is
not possible
-
Any given nutrient can have virtually opposite biochemical
influences in different metabolic types
(one's food is another's poison), depending on which Fundamental Homeostatic
Control is being affected or is
dominant
. This is called
The Dominance Factor
[14]. Therefore, . . .
-
. . .
What can correct a condition in one metabolic type,
can worsen the same condition in a different metabolic type
, or
have little to no effect on a third metabolic type
-
Thus, the allopathic (symptom-treatment) approach using nutrition
to treat disease has no logical basis; chance, not scientific
rationale, will dictate success or failure of nutritional allopathy
(pharmaceutical nutrition) in the treatment of degenerative conditions
-
Furthermore, all scientific research as regards the effects
of nutrition on human metabolism that is
not
performed
on subjects of a homogenous metabolic type will always result
in variable and inconclusive results (This is why all results of nutritional
research conclude that the nutritional substance tested improved a condition in
some, had little effect on others, and worsened the condition in a third
subject population)
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Nutrients behave differently on different levels
Differences in nutrient behavior are seen in terms of their:
-
Stimulatory/catabolic/acid effects, or
-
Sedative/anabolic/alkaline effects
due to their influence(s) on:
-
Hierarchic Organizational Levels [For example, the Tissue vs. the Cell level,
where calcium is catabolic (alkaline) at the cell level and anabolic (acid) at
the tissue level], and
-
One side or the other, of one or more of the dualistic, diphasic, Fundamental
Homeostatic Control Systems (inhibiting or stimulating sympathetic or
parasympathetic, fast oxidation or slow oxidation, anabolic or catabolic, acid
or alkaline, etc.) [For example, potassium is sedating and alkalinizing when
stimulating the Parasympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system, yet
is acidifying when increasing the Carbo-Oxidative rate]
Note: The acid or alkaline property of a nutrient or food is only one of many
potential determinants of overall systemic pH. Determining influences include,
but are not limited to: autonomic (sympathetic/parasympathetic),
carbo-oxidative (fast/slow oxidation), lipo-oxidative (catabolic/anabolic),
respiration, electrolyte balance, organ/gland influences (adrenal, kidney,
pituitary, thyroid, gonad), and finally, chronic ingestion of acid or alkaline
foods.
It is not so much the acid/alkaline nature of a food as it is the ultimate
influence on the dominating Fundamental Homeostatic Control Mechanism that
determines systemic pH
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There is no nutrient that is good for everyone. There is no nutrient that is
bad for everyone. Whether or not a nutrient is good or bad, or whether or
not a nutrient (or food) should be employed for a certain condition does not
depend on some inherent quality of the nutrient, but rather on the ultimate
effect of the nutrient on the dominant fundamental homeostatic control system
in the given individual's metabolic type. [For example, anti-oxidants for
someone with an aerobic imbalance (oxidation out of control) would be "good" by
contributing to resolving the imbalance. But, anti-oxidants employed on someone
with an anaerobic imbalance (such as someone with anabolic/anaerobic cancer
lesions) could prove deadly!]
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When adversities or imbalances occur, they originate from a certain level
(spiritual, mental, emotional, environmental, biochemical (systemic, organal,
tissular, cellular, nuclear, subnuclear). Thus, because
-
Any given problem may arise from virtually opposite biochemical
imbalances in different metabolic types
(two different metabolic types could have the same disease), and . . .
-
Nutrients may behave differently on different levels
(calcium is catabolic at the cellular level and anabolic at the tissue level),
and . . .
-
Any given nutrient may have virtually opposite influences in
different metabolic types
(potassium is alkalinizing in an Autonomic Dominant and acidifying in a
Carbo-Oxidative dominant), . . .
-
. . . Without identifying the level of origin of a problem through understanding
one's metabolic type, predictable, reliably effective nutrient selection may
not be possible
The Healthexcel System of Metabolic Typing does
not treat disease
,
but rather seeks to
build health
and balance body ecology through properly
evaluating, identifying and addressing each person's biochemical individuality,
thus unleashing the body's natural, inherent and powerful capabilities
for restoration, rejuvenation and radiant good health, programmed into
every one of the body's 100 trillion cells -- a state far beyond that of merely
being free of symptoms.
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End Notes
[1]
Metabolic Type.
Specific, individualized, genetically-based patterns of
biochemical individuality that define one's metabolic "design limits" and
dictate
individual responses to and requirements for nutritional substances.
[2]
Metabolic Typing.
A specific, systematic methodology developed by Healthexcel
for the analysis,
evaluation, interpretation and understanding of objective Metabolic Type
indicators
(fundamental homeostatic control mechanisms) as well as "body language"
(symptomatology) -- the body's means of communicating through the myriad of
physical,
mental, emotional and behavioral characteristics, its energy status [the state
of
efficiency and homeostasis (balance) of the body's cells, organs, glands and
systems] --
through which an individual's specific responses to and requirements for
nutritional
substances may be known.
[3]
100 Trillion
is an extraordinarily large number when considered as the number
of cells that comprise the human body. What an amazing logistical challenge to
provide
nutrients and oxygen to every one of those cells! To get just a sense of the
situation,
imagine if you will, 100 trillion seconds of time in place of 100 trillion
cells in the body.
If you started right now marking off seconds until you came to 100 trillion, do
you know
how much time would have passed, by the time you ticked off 100 trillion
seconds?. . .
100 trillion seconds=3.17 million years!
[4]
Dualistic, diphasic Fundamental Homeostatic Mechanisms
We live in a "relative"
universe, where every action must have an equal and opposite reaction. The play
and display
of all universal activity is through the interplay of opposites: up/down,
wet/dry,
fast/slow, north/south, forward/backward, left/right, night/day, hot/cold,
creation/destruction, protons/electrons, dark/light, cohesion/adhesion,
centrifugal/centripetal, positive/negative, anion/cation, anabolic/catabolic,
acid/alkaline, etc. This relative dualism manifests in human metabolism at every
level of hierarchical organization, as well as in the fundamental homeostatic
controls.
It is through the proper and balanced operation of dualistic, fundamental,
homeostatic
control mechanisms that physiological, biochemical and metabolic balance and
efficiency
are maintained.
[5]
Pottenger, M.D., Francis.
Symptoms Of Visceral Disease
. 1919.
Kelley, D.D.S., William Donald.
The Metabolic Types.
1976.
Lee, D.D.S., Royal.
Therapeutic Food Manual.
1946.
[6]
Watson, Ph.D., George.
Nutrition And Your Mind.
1972.
Wiley, Ph.D., Rudolph.
BioBalance.
1989.
[7]
Revici, M.D., Emanuel.
Research In Physiopathology As Basis Of Guided Chemotherapy.
1961.
[8]
Schenker, D.C., Guy.
An Analytical System Of Clinical Nutrition.
1989.
[9]
Schenker, D.C., Guy.
An Analytical System Of Clinical Nutrition.
1989.
[10]
Erasmus, Udo.
Fats And Oils.
1984.
[11]
Abravanel, M.D., Elliott.
Body Type Diet.
1984.
[12]
D'Adamo, James.
One Man's Food.
Richard Marek Publishers, 1980. The D'Adamo Diet. McGraw-Hill, 1989.
D'Adamo, Peter.
Eat Right 4 Your Type.
C.P. Putnam's Sons, 1996.
[13]
Constitutional Elements.
The significance of the constitutional elements of foods relative to the
constitutional elements of individual metabolism is drawn from Ayurvedic and
Chinese medicine. This consideration of metabolic individuality does not
concern specific balances of vitamins and minerals. Rather, it pertains to the
proper application of herbs and foods. For example, nature always provides more
than one herb for any given condition. But, if an herb of a certain
constitutional quality is prescribed, say, for insomnia, for someone of the
same constitutional quality, that quality will be intensified (the
constitutional imbalance will be worsened) and the desired result will be
lacking, overshadowed by exacerbation of the constitutional, the more
fundamental imbalance. All of the ancient systems of medicine recognized the
wisdom of treating the person who has the disease over the disease that has the
person.
[14]
Wolcott, W.L.
"A Theoretical Model For Clinical Application of the Relationship Between the
Autonomic Nervous System and the Oxidation Rate in the Determination of
Metabolic Types and the Requirements of Nutritional Individuality."
1983.
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