Metabolic Typing




What diet are you on?

If you’re like most of us, it feels like someone else’s diet. That’s because it is. The health and fitness industry makes a lot of money from one-size-fits-all, fad diets. In fact, Marketdata Enterprises, Inc. estimated that the total U.S. weight loss market was worth over $58 billion in 2009, and is likely to reach $68.7 billion in 2010. In a 2006 survey, 68% of dieters preferred a program they could access from home/online/by phone, and 56% of them wanted a plan based on regular food—not diet food.

With Metabolic Typing, you’re not just another random number amid the seventy-million other Americans who are currently trudging through an ill-fitted diet plan. Here, we design a complete program that not only addresses your weight, but the way you eat, the way you think of eating and all the aspects of your life that cause your body to be imbalanced by the wrong food. This isn’t just about moving weight, it’s about balance.

Here is where you learn to nourish your body, your mind and your soul.

Metabolic Typing Diet Program

Metabolic Typing is a customized diet and nutrition plan that identifies exactly which foods work to balance your body chemistry. No calorie counting. No food scales. Just real whole foods that you were designed to consume.
So What Are Some of the Benefits of This Program?

* Hormonal Equilibrium
* Sustain energy, endurance and vitality
* Maintain an ideal weight that’s right for you
* Improved Digestion and Detoxification
* Mood Stability
* Strengthened Immune System
* Enhanced Athletic Performance
* Improved Libido
* Eliminate sugar cravings
* Restore emotional balance and mental clarity
* Reduce abdominal bloating, pain and gas

What’s Involved in Metabolic Typing?

After your free consultation and review of your intake forms, we will put together an action plan for you. During your first session, we will present you with your personalized plan, which may include:

* Identifying Your Values and Setting You Type Goals
* Personalized food list
* Recipes and shopping list
* Identify and Remove Harmful Toxins from Your Immediate Environment
* Your own gentle detoxification program to gently cleanse your body of toxins
* Lifestyle recommendations for better sleep, energy, and well being.
* Customized Supplement Recommendations
* Neurotransmitter Imbalance assessment to improve your mood and eliminate sugar cravings

Metabolic Typing® solves this problem quickly and easily.

Make no mistake — food is the most powerful “drug” on this earth. You eat it several times a day, every day of your life. It contains hundreds upon hundreds of compounds that your body uses as its “fuel for life.” Your food can be your medicine or your poison. It has the power to heal. But it also has the power to make you ill if you eat foods that are wrong for you. With the exception of accidents and suicide, the 10 leading causes of death in the US can all be caused by eating the wrong diet, and all of them have been cured by eating the right diet!

It’s not only what you eat, it’s also in what proportions you consume your macro-nutrients ( proteins, fats, and carbohydrates ) that will allow you to maximize your energy, develop peak performance, normalize your appetite and be as trim as you can be. After eating, you should feel an elevation of your energy, a normalization of your moods, and a sense of feeling satisfied. If, within 1-2 hours after eating, you feel more tired, or your mood worsens, or you still feel hungry, crave sweets or feel like you need a “pick-me-up,” then you need to change the ratio of proteins, fats and carbohydrates at that meal until your symptoms improve.

Use the Metabolic Typing®  and finally find out exactly which diet and supplements are right for your Metabolic Type® today!

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HAIR TISSUE MINERAL ANALYSIS

Hair tissue mineral analysis (HTMA), is an analytical test which measures the mineral content of the hair. The sampled hair, obtained by cutting the first inch and one-half of growth closest to the scalp at the nape of the neck, is prepared in a licensed clinical laboratory through a series of chemical and high temperature digestive procedures. Testing is then performed using highly sophisticated detection equipment and methods to achieve the most accurate and precise results.

Why use the hair? Why not use the blood?
Hair is ideal tissue for sampling and testing. First, it can be cut easily and painlessly and can be sent to the lab without special handling requirements. Second, clinical results have shown that a properly obtained sample can give an indication of mineral status and toxic metal accumulation following long term or even acute exposure.

A HTMA reveals a unique metabolic world: intracellular activity, which cannot be seen through most other tests. This provides a blueprint of the biochemistry occurring during the period of hair growth and development.
Examples:

• Thirty to 40 days following an acute exposure, elevated serum levels of lead may be undetectable. This is due to the body removing the lead from the serum as a protective measure and depositing the metal into such tissues as the liver, bones, teeth and hair.
• Nutrient loss from the body can become so advanced that severe health conditions can develop without any appreciable changes noted in those same nutrient levels in a blood test.
• Symptoms of elemental deficiency can be present long before low levels can be detected in the serum.
• Excess sodium is associated with hypertension, but adequate amounts are required for normal health.

Hair is used as one of the tissues of choice by the Environmental Protection Agency in determining toxic metal exposure. A 1980 report from the E.P.A. stated that human hair can be effectively used for biological monitoring of the highest priority toxic metals. This report confirmed the findings of other studies in the U.S. and abroad, which concluded that human hair may be a more appropriate tissue than blood or urine for studying community exposure to some trace elements

Why test for minerals?

Trace minerals are essential in countless metabolic functions in all phases of the life process.

• Zinc is involved in the production, storage and secretion of insulin and is necessary for growth hormones.
• Magnesium is required for normal muscular function, especially the heart. A deficiency has been associated with an increased incidence of abnormal heart condi tions, anxiety and nervousness.
• Potassium is critical for normal nutrient transport into the cell. A deficiency can result in muscular weakness, mild depression and lethargy.
• Excess sodium is associated with hypertension, but adequate amounts are required for normal health.

In the words of the late author and noted researcher, Dr. Henry Schroeder, trace elements (minerals) are “…more important factors in human nutrition than vitamins. The body can manufacture many vitamins, but it cannot produce necessary trace minerals or get rid of many possible excesses.”

What can cause a mineral imbalance?

There are many factors to take into consideration, such as:
Diet – Improper diet through high intake of refined and processed foods, alcohol and fad diets can all lead to a chemical imbalance. Even the nutrient content of a “healthy” diet can be inadequate, depending upon the soil in which the food was grown or the method in which it was prepared.
Stress – Physical or emotional stress can deplete the body of many nutrients while also reducing the capability to absorb and utilize many nutrients.
Medications – Both prescription and over-the-counter medications can deplete the body stores of nutrient minerals and/or increase the levels of toxic metals. These medications include diuretics, antacids, aspirin and oral contraceptives.
Pollution – From adolescence through adulthood the average person is continually exposed to a variety of toxic metal sources such as cigarette smoke (cadmium), hair dyes (lead), hydrogenated oils (nickel), anti-perspirants (aluminum), dental amalgams (mercury and cadmium), copper and aluminum cookware and lead-based cosmetics. These are just a few of the hundreds of sources which can contribute to nutrient imbalances and adverse metabolic effects.
Nutritional Supplements – Taking incorrect supplements or improper amounts of supplements can produce many vitamin and mineral excesses and/or deficiencies, contributing to an overall biochemical imbalance.
Inherited Patterns – A predisposition toward certain mineral imbalances, deficiencies and excesses can be inherited from parents.

Can vitamin requirements be determined from a mineral test?
Minerals interact not only with each other but also with vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates and fats. Minerals influence each of these factors, and they, in turn, influence mineral status. Minerals act as enzyme activators, and vitamins are synergistic to minerals as coenzymes. It is extremely rare that a mineral disturbance develops without a corresponding disturbance in the synergistic vitamin(s). It is also rare for a disturbance in the utilization or activity of a vitamin to occur without affecting a synergistic mineral(s). For example, vitamin C affects iron absorption and reduces copper retention. Boron and iron influence the status of vitamin B2. Vitamin B2 affects the relationship between calcium and magnesium. Vitamin B1 enhances sodium retention, B12 enhances iron and cobalt absorption, and vitamin A enhances the utilization of zinc, while antagonizing vitamins D and E. Protein intake will affect zinc status, etc. Therefore, evaluating mineral status provides good clues of vitamin status and requirements. Continuing research at Trace Elements involves the recognition of many synergistic and antagonistic interrelationships between minerals and vitamins.

Is Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis supported by research?
Hair tissue mineral analysis is supported by an impressive body of literature in a variety of respected national and international scientific publications. Over the past twenty-five years hair mineral testing has been extensive. Each year in the United States alone, federally licensed clinical laboratories perform over 150,000 hair mineral assays for health care professionals interested in an additional screening aid for a comprehensive patient evaluation. This does not take into consideration the thousands of subjects used in numerous continuing research studies conducted by private and government research agencies.