Have you ever wondered why one person can lose weight on a particular diet, while another person might gain weight on exactly the same diet?

Metabolic Typing is the scientific methodology for customised nutrition and is based on the fact that there is no universally healthy diet that is right for all people.

This revolutionary system for optimizing whole body health, diet and nutritional supplements are used to address the individual at a fundamental metabolic level, allowing for increased energy, weight loss and greater resistance to disease.

A Metabolic Type can be understood as the characteristic way in which an individual produces and processes energy.

The Science bit, in Simple terms

A Metabolic Type can be understood as the characteristic way in which an individual produces and processes energy therefore, by addressing the individual at this fundamental level, we are able to match up their metabolism with an appropriate diet that will help to protect the body from the development of the common degenerative diseases.??? The objective of the test is to use dietary modification to optimize blood pH. The ideal blood pH is 7.46 a mildly alkaline level. Personalized Metabolic Nutrition helps regulate the pH level in humans allowing for optimal health and well-being.???
Metabolic Typing explains why…

• One person's food may literally be another person's poison   
• Many diets that  claim to promote energy and weight loss, only work effectively in the short term if they are not compatible with your Metabolic Type   
• Not all supplements are equally good for all people   
• Two people with the same disease require biochemically opposite approaches to get well.   
• Fat doesn't make you fat. Protein doesn't make you fat. Carbohydrates don't make you fat. But what does make you fat is the inability to properly metabolize, or convert to energy, carbohydrates, proteins, fats and calories.   
• Someone can eat organic foods, take the best supplements money can buy, exercise regularly, sleep well, and still not feel well.
• Who can use Metabolic Typing?

Anyone can use Metabolic Typing to find out exactly which foods are good for their health, and those that are not. Metabolic Typing also identifies nutritional supplements that will make you as healthy as you can be and will keep you from wasting your money on those that would make you tired and sick.

What can Metabolic Typing do for me?

The benefits associated with following a metabolic type way of eating are amazing, some of them include:

• Achieving and maintaining your ideal weight  
•  Overcoming mood swings, anxiety and depression   
• Eliminating hunger between meal and control cravings   
• Boosting the immune system and prevent illness   
• Increase in physical energy and alertness   
• Has been known to prevent and reverse Chronic illness   
• Eradicate intolerances and allergies

How does the process work?

The process is started by completing a very detailed questionnaire, on completion of this test we are able to determine each individual's Metabolic Type that is the fundamental way in which your body produces and processes energy. Once this is verified, we can select the foods and nutritional supplements that are tailored to their specific metabolism.

Stages – what will I receive?

    * A list of colour coded foods detailing what you should eat and avoid
    * Diet check record tracking sheet
    * How to combine different food groups and how to adjust the %’s
    * Information on Food Quality and shopping guidelines
    * Information on external blocking factors and program enhancers
    * Establish dominant Endocrine gland
    * Supplement requirements
    * Support for a specified time

Additional Stages

    * Identifying toxic elements
    * Identiying significant nutritional ratios
    * Adrenal stress index
    * Identifying sub clinical thyroid function
    * Detoxification process

How long does the process take?
It is important to remember at this point that the Metabolic Typing is a process of correction, the length of which may vary in different individuals based on the severity of existing imbalances.

The Science Bit….

Metabolic Typing is based on the understanding that although there are tens of thousands of biochemical reactions that take place in your body every day, they all fall under the control of only a few Fundamental Homeostatic Controls. The System of Metabolic Typing recognizes 9 such control mechanisms and uses them to evaluate and determine each person's Metabolic Type. It is the inherited various strengths and weaknesses in these control mechanisms that define our biochemical individuality and makes each of us unique. Importantly, every food and every nutrient has very specific effects on these Fundamental Controls. For this reason, not knowing one's Metabolic Type makes it impossible to know which foods or nutrients are best for each person.

Metabolic Type is classified into two major systems that is, the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) which controls the involuntary processes of our body such breathing, digestion, heart rate, and perspiration and is  divided into two parts, the flight or flight response (sympathetic branch) and the rest and recovery response (parasympathetic branch). And the Oxidation System which relates to understanding how our bodies processes the food we eat  in order to maximize energy production at cell level, this system classifies individuals as fast, mixed or slow oxidizer. With both systems, the magnitude of effect they have on each individual host manifests in various physical, psychological and diet-related traits.

Dominance is the word that you need to pay particular attention to as this dictates which of the two systems have a controlling influence on you as an individual and this in turn determines your particular nutritional path.