Metabolic Typing Diet

Metabolic Typing is a diet that is precisely tailored and customized according to your metabolism. It is a very advanced dietary technology that allows you to customize a diet to suit your specific and personal need basing on your metabolic type. Since you can not asses what type of metabolism you have by yourself, you need the help of a trained health practitioner that can give you an accurate diagnosis. They can provide you with a thorough assessment through urine and blood tests.

But William Wolcott wrote a book titled The Metabolic Typing Diet which allows you to know what type you are without the help of a health practitioner. His book discusses the three general metabolic types namely:

1. Protein types - they are fast oxidizers of parasympathetic dominant. They tend to be frequently hungry, crave fatty, salty foods, fail with low-calorie diets, and tend towards fatigue, anxiety, and nervousness.

Metabolic typing diet

2. Carbo types - they types are slow oxidizers or sympathetic dominant. They generally have relatively weak appetites, a high tolerance for sweets, problems with weight management and are often dependent on caffeine.

3. Mixed types – they are neither fast or slow oxidizers, and are neither parasympathetic or sympathetic dominant. They generally have average appetites, cravings for sweets and starchy foods, relatively little trouble with weight control, and tend towards fatigue, anxiety, and nervousness (http://altmedicine.about.com).

This type of diet may help you better understand how your body works and what diet is suitable for you. Since every individual’s metabolisms differ it is but practical that the food they should eat or avoid should vary as well.