Is
your food balanced?
If you don't know how to balance your food to your metabolism, every meal is like a blind date. If you pay attention to what you eat, you will notice you will feel different. We all know that you feel sleepy after a huge Thanksgiving turkey dinner, but other foods affect you as well. And I'm not talking just about overeating greasy fast food. High quality, good foods can also make you feel bad.
Why good foods are not good enough?
Your metabolism is as unique as your fingerprint. It's not good enough to just eat organic, or whole foods, or even foods out of your own vegetable garden. Even good foods can unbalance your energy. Instead of cruising along full of energy and a positive mental attitude, within a few hours of eating the wrong foods, you feel tired and grumpy.
But tired and grumpy is just the beginning
If you continue to unbalance your energy with the wrong foods, you will gain weight as your body craves the nutrition it so desperately wants even though you are eating plenty of calories. But wait, it gets worse. Weight gain is just the mid-term problem. Long-term issues from eating the wrong foods for your metabolism vary from arthritic and sore joints to osteoporosis, heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer. You name it. If you are genetically susceptible to a disease you are more likely to get it. And to make matters worse, your immune system is weakened so that you will catch more contagious diseases. So how do we end up going on all these nutritional blind dates anyway?
Your needs are unique. Really!
We tend to approach nutrition as if we are all the same. For example, aspirin works for all headaches, calcium builds all bones, vegetarian diets prevent all heart attacks, etc. But when you look at the studies in terms of what works, whether it’s a new cancer drug or a new miracle supplement, you will see that a great drug works in 50 percent of the people. And that’s a great drug! A mediocre drug works in about 20 percent of the people, but not the other 80 percent. What about the other 80 percent?
What’s going on with the other 80%?
Don’t people have the same body chemistry going on inside? The answer is "no," they don’t. Our livers are different, our stomachs are different shapes and sizes, the enzymes that our livers produce are different. Some people can digest milk, some people can’t. Some people have certain bacteria in their intestines and can digest beans well. Other people need Beano. Right! (Beano is an enzyme to break down the certain sugars present in beans so when the sugar gets to the bacteria in your colon, they don’t go all happy and produce lots of gas.) For some coffee protects against heart attacks, for others, coffee causes heart attacks.
One person's food is another's poison
Perhaps the most powerful insight that the ancient Chinese acupuncturists have passed on to us is the idea that we are unique. The food that nourishes you, might do me harm. You see, no two of us have the same mixture of energy and metabolic forces within us. If you start thinking about how different people are, this point becomes obvious.
Clearly, Lance Armstrong has a different respiratory system then just about any body else on the planet. He is at one extreme. A child with asthma is on the other end. Their respiratory energy is clearly not the same.
On the digestive side, studies have shown that some individuals require five times as much calcium as others. In other nutritional studies, one rat from the same litter can require as much as 20 time as much vitamin A as its brother to be healthy.
You are vastly different form others, yet you think of yourself as the same. Without knowing what your unique metabolism requires, each meal is like a blind date. If it's not a good match, you have to suffer through it. But what if you knew before if the meal was going to be good for you? If you knew, you could say goodbye to blind date eating.
Saying goodbye to blind date eating.
Today's nutrition pioneers are proving acupuncture's 2000 years of wisdom. These pioneers include William Wolcott, Harold Kristal, James Haig, WIlliam Donald Kelley, and Roger Williams. What these nutritional mavericks are showing is that people have unique metabolic functions. The foods that balance one person’s energy, will actually worsen another’s. This is the essence of the Yin/Yang Factor. Now you understand why it is so critical to understand your unique nutritional needs. You may be eating a very “healthy” low-fat diet with lots and fruits and vegetables that is actually creating internal metabolic stress which can lead to illness and disease. Leaving your food matchmaking to chance, is a practice you want to eliminate.
But tired and grumpy is just the beginning
pH is the measurement of acidity and alkalinity of any substance. The letters “pH” stand for potential hydrogen. This is the number of hydrogen atoms that can be given or received by a substance. The more hydrogen atoms that are available for donation or adoption, the stronger the substance reacts with others. That’s why acid eats through stuff. A pH measurement of 7.0 is neutral. Any measurement above 7.0 is alkaline and any below is acidic. More than you wanted to know, right? But read on to find out why this is important to your health.
But tired and grumpy is just the beginning
Research has shown that the most important pH measurement in the body is blood pH. It’s so important there are three regulatory mechanism to keep the pH at a healthy 7.45 (slightly alkaline). Problems with blood pH arise when these regulatory systems become less efficient or are overwhelmed by your diet. This is why refined sugar is so bad for you. It overwhelms the regulatory systems of your blood pH.
When our pH wanders even a little from the normal value of 7.45, a whole onslaught of degenerative processes begins: loss of energy, mood swings, joint irritation, bowel inflammation, blood vessel damage, bone loss, got the picture? This is essentially what happens to a diabetic. Over time, too much sugar in their blood turns it acidic. Imagine having battery acid instead of blood. You would disintegrate from the inside out.
The obvious (but wrong) answer to too much acidity
So to listen to most dietary experts, if you simply eat alkaline foods or supplements, like calcium, you will correct the acidity and create healthy pH environment in our blood. But this is only half of the story.
The other half of the pH story
First of all acidity is only part of the story. Remember the chemistry lesson earlier? I put it there for a reason. By now, if you’re guessing that the blood can also be too ALKALINE, you’d be right. If your health problems are related to too much alkalinity in the blood, eating calcium would be like throwing gasoline on a fire. (I did that once. Lost my eyebrows. Not a smart thing to do.)
Unfortunately, you cannot tell whether you are too alkaline or too acidic by your symptoms. The same symptoms can be caused by either too much acidity OR too much alkalinity. Are you with me? If you’re a bit confused, go back and reread because I’m about to add another important piece of the puzzle, you.
ProblemTechnical explanation of the problem - sypathetic, flight or fight, lack of oxygen, etc.General solution - engage parasympathetic, breathe etc.Specific solution - your MP3 productObjections -Call to action
If you don't know how to balance your food to your metabolism, every meal is like a blind date. If you pay attention to what you eat, you will notice you will feel different. We all know that you feel sleepy after a huge Thanksgiving turkey dinner, but other foods affect you as well. And I'm not talking just about overeating greasy fast food. High quality, good foods can also make you feel bad.
Why good foods are not good enough?
Your metabolism is as unique as your fingerprint. It's not good enough to just eat organic, or whole foods, or even foods out of your own vegetable garden. Even good foods can unbalance your energy. Instead of cruising along full of energy and a positive mental attitude, within a few hours of eating the wrong foods, you feel tired and grumpy.
But tired and grumpy is just the beginning
If you continue to unbalance your energy with the wrong foods, you will gain weight as your body craves the nutrition it so desperately wants even though you are eating plenty of calories. But wait, it gets worse. Weight gain is just the mid-term problem. Long-term issues from eating the wrong foods for your metabolism vary from arthritic and sore joints to osteoporosis, heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer. You name it. If you are genetically susceptible to a disease you are more likely to get it. And to make matters worse, your immune system is weakened so that you will catch more contagious diseases. So how do we end up going on all these nutritional blind dates anyway?
Your needs are unique. Really!
We tend to approach nutrition as if we are all the same. For example, aspirin works for all headaches, calcium builds all bones, vegetarian diets prevent all heart attacks, etc. But when you look at the studies in terms of what works, whether it’s a new cancer drug or a new miracle supplement, you will see that a great drug works in 50 percent of the people. And that’s a great drug! A mediocre drug works in about 20 percent of the people, but not the other 80 percent. What about the other 80 percent?
What’s going on with the other 80%?
Don’t people have the same body chemistry going on inside? The answer is "no," they don’t. Our livers are different, our stomachs are different shapes and sizes, the enzymes that our livers produce are different. Some people can digest milk, some people can’t. Some people have certain bacteria in their intestines and can digest beans well. Other people need Beano. Right! (Beano is an enzyme to break down the certain sugars present in beans so when the sugar gets to the bacteria in your colon, they don’t go all happy and produce lots of gas.) For some coffee protects against heart attacks, for others, coffee causes heart attacks.
One person's food is another's poison
Perhaps the most powerful insight that the ancient Chinese acupuncturists have passed on to us is the idea that we are unique. The food that nourishes you, might do me harm. You see, no two of us have the same mixture of energy and metabolic forces within us. If you start thinking about how different people are, this point becomes obvious.
Clearly, Lance Armstrong has a different respiratory system then just about any body else on the planet. He is at one extreme. A child with asthma is on the other end. Their respiratory energy is clearly not the same.
On the digestive side, studies have shown that some individuals require five times as much calcium as others. In other nutritional studies, one rat from the same litter can require as much as 20 time as much vitamin A as its brother to be healthy.
You are vastly different form others, yet you think of yourself as the same. Without knowing what your unique metabolism requires, each meal is like a blind date. If it's not a good match, you have to suffer through it. But what if you knew before if the meal was going to be good for you? If you knew, you could say goodbye to blind date eating.
Saying goodbye to blind date eating.
Today's nutrition pioneers are proving acupuncture's 2000 years of wisdom. These pioneers include William Wolcott, Harold Kristal, James Haig, WIlliam Donald Kelley, and Roger Williams. What these nutritional mavericks are showing is that people have unique metabolic functions. The foods that balance one person’s energy, will actually worsen another’s. This is the essence of the Yin/Yang Factor. Now you understand why it is so critical to understand your unique nutritional needs. You may be eating a very “healthy” low-fat diet with lots and fruits and vegetables that is actually creating internal metabolic stress which can lead to illness and disease. Leaving your food matchmaking to chance, is a practice you want to eliminate.
But tired and grumpy is just the beginning
pH is the measurement of acidity and alkalinity of any substance. The letters “pH” stand for potential hydrogen. This is the number of hydrogen atoms that can be given or received by a substance. The more hydrogen atoms that are available for donation or adoption, the stronger the substance reacts with others. That’s why acid eats through stuff. A pH measurement of 7.0 is neutral. Any measurement above 7.0 is alkaline and any below is acidic. More than you wanted to know, right? But read on to find out why this is important to your health.
But tired and grumpy is just the beginning
Research has shown that the most important pH measurement in the body is blood pH. It’s so important there are three regulatory mechanism to keep the pH at a healthy 7.45 (slightly alkaline). Problems with blood pH arise when these regulatory systems become less efficient or are overwhelmed by your diet. This is why refined sugar is so bad for you. It overwhelms the regulatory systems of your blood pH.
When our pH wanders even a little from the normal value of 7.45, a whole onslaught of degenerative processes begins: loss of energy, mood swings, joint irritation, bowel inflammation, blood vessel damage, bone loss, got the picture? This is essentially what happens to a diabetic. Over time, too much sugar in their blood turns it acidic. Imagine having battery acid instead of blood. You would disintegrate from the inside out.
The obvious (but wrong) answer to too much acidity
So to listen to most dietary experts, if you simply eat alkaline foods or supplements, like calcium, you will correct the acidity and create healthy pH environment in our blood. But this is only half of the story.
The other half of the pH story
First of all acidity is only part of the story. Remember the chemistry lesson earlier? I put it there for a reason. By now, if you’re guessing that the blood can also be too ALKALINE, you’d be right. If your health problems are related to too much alkalinity in the blood, eating calcium would be like throwing gasoline on a fire. (I did that once. Lost my eyebrows. Not a smart thing to do.)
Unfortunately, you cannot tell whether you are too alkaline or too acidic by your symptoms. The same symptoms can be caused by either too much acidity OR too much alkalinity. Are you with me? If you’re a bit confused, go back and reread because I’m about to add another important piece of the puzzle, you.
ProblemTechnical explanation of the problem - sypathetic, flight or fight, lack of oxygen, etc.General solution - engage parasympathetic, breathe etc.Specific solution - your MP3 productObjections -Call to action