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Apr 29, 2009 11:01:40 GMT -5
Post by robwhite on Apr 29, 2009 11:01:40 GMT -5
Yeah i think that the lady in the story has a much more stressful life than Barry Groves, with bringing up her kids, trying to run a household, hold down a job etc. I'm pretty sure a stress adrenal profile would show up much worse for her than Barry's, which of course would affect the ol' 'belly tire'.
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Post by robwhite on Apr 29, 2009 5:19:24 GMT -5
Cheers Eric. I had to download the file from the link, but i got there in the end Qutie interesting, esp. concerning the inclusion of the FDN stuff into the HealthExcel system.
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Post by robwhite on Apr 26, 2009 8:08:11 GMT -5
I've been looking into Guy Schenkers approach to metabolic typing last few weeks, and i noticed something that struck me as being odd is that he recommends 'glucogenic-dominant' ( almost the same concept as fast-oxidisers in Wolcotts and Kristal's system - i will explain this in a bit*) individuals should not eat onions or tomatos. After looking into unique compounds in these foods, i think i know why - they are foods that are relatively high in pyruvic acid, which speeds up glycolysis. Anything that speeds up glycolysis would make carbohydrate oxidation even faster, and thus fast-oxidisers / glucogenic - dominant people even worse. * To explain what i meant earlier, this is taken from a very interesting little article here www.bodye.com/reports/Wolcott%20And%20Metabolic%20Typing.htm"What Wolcott and Kristal call “fast and slow oxidizers Nutri-Spec knows as GLUCOGENIC and KETOGENIC. (We have explained several times over the years in NUTRI-SPEC LETTERS, etc. why “fast and slow oxidizers” is a misnomer, totally misses the essence of the imbalance, and is misleading to Doctors and their patients who try to work with these confusing terms. Þ GLUCOGENIC and KETOGENIC imbalances have nothing to do with the rate of oxidation. (These terms were originally used by the hair analysis people who totally misinterpreted Watson’s work which they “borrowed.”) What is fast and slow about GLUCOGENIC and KETOGENIC patients is the rate at which they clear glucose from the serum.)
Regarding Wolcott’s Oxidative Type model: The picture will be more clear if you think of GLUCOGENIC patients not as excess oxidizers of carbohydrate (since many of them do not oxidize excess carbohydrate – they convert it to body fat), but as deficient oxidizers of fat. Similarly, think of KETOGENIC patients as deficient oxidizers of carbohydrate, not excessive oxidizers of fat."
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Post by robwhite on Apr 24, 2009 12:45:55 GMT -5
I think on the whole what he preaches is good - that we should eat more in line with our paleolithic ancestral eating habits, although i think that some folks can tolerate more 'neolithic' foods like beans, grains, and dairy when eating infrequently, and i disagree with his emphasis on polyunsaturates and the use of canola oil. Regardless of metabolic type, i still think eating foods that can be eaten straight from Mother Nature, like fruit, leafy veg, meat, fish, shellfish, and most nuts and seeds, should be a priority
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Apr 24, 2009 10:24:58 GMT -5
Post by robwhite on Apr 24, 2009 10:24:58 GMT -5
Although the sun is a god-awful paper, and the articles are generally written in a style geared towards the retarded, this was actualyl quite a good artice (apart from the headline, which misses the point entirely).
I think the reason why alot of westerners do well on high fat + protein, and low carb, is because of genetic influences of western european and north african genetic ancestry on the average westerner's metabolism. Regardless, it still hits the point that the government-recommended diet approaches are genrally pants and dont work.
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Post by robwhite on Apr 24, 2009 10:15:04 GMT -5
I agree with Cheks asseration that the consistency of faeces is more important than number of daily bowel movements. I remember when i used to follow traditional eating guidelines and force-feed myself lots of grains, and i was crapping about 6 times a day, but it was horrid smelly, sloppy, lumpy, and had bits of undigested food in it. When i switched to a more 'paleo' diet (which, unbeknown to me at the time, matched my matabolic type), my bowel movements went dont to one a day, but it was much better consistency - not sloppy, smelly, or showing bits of undigested food. This is a much healthier sign.
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Post by robwhite on Apr 23, 2009 7:04:49 GMT -5
Hi Eric,
whats the HealthExcel position on the clinical testing methods based on urinalysis (specific gravity, pH, chemical panel, urochrome), saliva pH, blood glucose, respiration rate, breath hold capacity, and supine / standing pulse changes, used by Guy Schenker and Harold Kristal to determine Acid/Alkali, Electrolyte, Catabolic/Anabolic imbalances?
Are these kind of tests used in the Comprehensive HealthExcel MT program?
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Post by robwhite on Apr 23, 2009 6:58:37 GMT -5
Eric the link you gave above doesnt work.
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Post by robwhite on Apr 22, 2009 15:34:45 GMT -5
Eric, i have an LDPE [04] bottle. Is that ok to use?
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Apr 22, 2009 15:33:09 GMT -5
Post by robwhite on Apr 22, 2009 15:33:09 GMT -5
Slightly off at a tangent, but relevant to something you mentioned here Eric about dubious foods oin FoodPhramacy, is that I recently emailed FoodPharmacy support about a food which was recommended for me by the software, and that is a sea vegetable called hijiki. I said to them that i thought this food item should absolutely not appear on the recommended list for anyone, because numerous studies of the toxic metal content of sea vegetables shows hijiki to have many times over the acceptable intake levels of inorganic arsenic (the most toxic form). In fact, there are quite a few cases of people getting sick after regularly consuming hijiki.
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Post by robwhite on Apr 22, 2009 15:26:50 GMT -5
Actually, i think it was just the internet permissions at work preventing it from running properly. I can listen to the clips fine at home.
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Post by robwhite on Apr 22, 2009 15:25:57 GMT -5
Yeah that seems a more natural way of doing it than trying to prescribe yourself 3 or 4 different menus of completely different foods, like Chek seems to suggest in his book.
I did actually manage to actually come up with 2 totally different menus for training days and non-training days, meaning i would have 3 and 4 days respectively per week with each set of foods, but i think i might scrap that and go with your approach.
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Post by robwhite on Apr 15, 2009 9:48:42 GMT -5
Eric, every time i try and open the file it locks up after 5 secs or so, and just continuously buffers. Is there anyway of opening these files through another player?
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Post by robwhite on Apr 15, 2009 6:04:10 GMT -5
I have noticed that simply going from a Westside template to Sheiko has resulted in considerable fat loss. I used to be just over 75kg, and after 12 weeks on Sheiko i've dropped down to 73.2kg! I'm eating about the same calorific intake (although i have switched to a metabolic typing approach recently as well), and i've been told a number of times that i dont appear to have lost any muscle. In fact my legs have grown by a couple of inches diameter. And i havent even added in any proper GPP yet!
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Post by robwhite on Apr 15, 2009 5:55:39 GMT -5
Despite being totally skint, i couldnt resist and bought these DVD's, which i've been wanting to do since i first heard about them. With so many positive comments, cant wait to get them through the post!
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Post by robwhite on Apr 15, 2009 5:45:50 GMT -5
I've been reading Paul Chek's book 'How to Eat, Move, and Be Healthy', and he advocates completely rotating your food choices over a 4 day rotation period, within the choices allowed for your metabolic type - i.e the foods you eat on Day 1 should not be eaten again until Day 5. He suggests this to avoid developing intolerences to foods that you may otherwise eat all the time.
I'm wondering if this is worth implementing. I already maximise my food choices withing the framework of what is allowed for my metabolic type, but what i do instead is eat a little of everything every day.
Anyone got any input on this 'rotation' approach that Chek espouses?
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Post by robwhite on Apr 10, 2009 17:29:47 GMT -5
Can i ask what the difference between the MRT and the ELISA tests are, and, from a MT Advisor perspective, the case for using one over the other?
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Post by robwhite on Apr 10, 2009 17:28:04 GMT -5
Cheers Eric. I will read up on Mr Davis's work when i get a spare moment. Your BioHealth Test prices seem enticingly well priced when bought together, but the lab testing fees add up a bit ....
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Post by robwhite on Apr 10, 2009 17:15:30 GMT -5
Thanks for the great response Eric. From my DCRs, I'm actually finding my meals very satiating, but i dont feel like i have as much drive, libido, or physical and mental energy as i did when i first started my MT plan (which was shortly BEFORE alot of my recent troubles started).
I will be starting the Paraplex soon and will play around with the doses at each meal to see what effect it has.
The MRT and BioHealth tests are definately something i would like to try this year, but i have currently drained all of my financial resources on my new property. I have a friend who did an MRT test last year, and following the recommendations from that yielded impressive body recomposition results.
I know a good source of pure magnesium orotate in the UK. Do you think it would be worth giving that a shot in large doses for the time being?
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Post by robwhite on Apr 10, 2009 16:59:22 GMT -5
I can certainly relate to this Eric, as i have recently found despite working hard to get my MT dietary approach spot on, the new, sometimes overwhelming, stresses recently put on me, appear to have really messed up my ANS balance. I think diet, whilst a major contribution to health, is not 100% the answer. Having an effective mindset to dealing with lifes problems is also a critical factor for health because of its profound knock-on effect of physical health. There are in fact animal studies where subjects that were put under mental duress, despite having the same diet and exercise as the other test group, showed severe organ and vascular damage after a number of weeks of being subjected to the stress.
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