METABOLIC TYPING & THE PULSE TEST
Cells control their gene activity without necessarily
changing the DNA sequence. This phenomenon is called Epigenetics. The environment
is a major stimulus for epigenetic change. As such the environment
significantly contributes in shaping our life and influences human behaviour. Different
individuals respond differently to same environment and treatment including foods
based on their biochemical individuality. This justifies no size fits all and
one man’s meat could be another man’s poison. Therefore, identifying individual
metabolic type and tailoring treatment customized for same individual thus
optimizes the genotype and maximizes the phenotype for peak performance, better
adaptation and survival. It is advisable
to treat the person that has the dis-ease rather than treating the disease and
this is the missing link and treatment gap in both allopathic medicine and
alternative practice when health care providers focus on treating the disease,
the symptom, the deficiency, and the dysfunction rather than the individual.
Freedom from symptoms is desirable; but, restoration of
physiological, biochemical and metabolic balance and efficiency a return to
optimal health and function where therapeutics are no longer required makes the
difference.
To be successful, we must seek for ways to build health
instead of treat disease. A revolutionary discovery happened in 1983: “Any
nutrient and any food can have virtually opposite chemical influence in
different individuals- metabolic types, and any adverse symptom or degenerative
condition can arise due to virtually opposite biochemical imbalances.”
This means that two people with the same degenerative
disease can have virtually opposite biochemical imbalances, and that when two
opposite biochemical protocols are administered, both get well, then this
clearly means that it’s not the diseases that should be treated but the
underlying metabolic imbalances that have caused the diseases that need be
addressed. From this viewpoint, the diseases are the symptoms, the manifestation,
the expressions of the underlying imbalances.
Research has uncovered the fact that every nutrient and
every food has a specific inhibitory or stimulatory effect on one or more of
the fundamental homeostatic systems (tens of thousands of metabolic processes
governing the body fall under the control and regulation of just a few
fundamental homeostatic systems) and on one side or other of these homeostatic
control mechanisms.
Whether any food or supplement is ‘’good’’ or ‘’bad’’
depends on the particular biochemical balance of the individual in question,
meaning which fundamental homeostatic mechanism is out of balance and what the
effect of the nutrient in question will be on that imbalanced system will it
improve the imbalance or worsen the imbalance?
Metabolic imbalance is the root and genesis of virtually all
diseases- disturbances in the internal environment, which also includes
allergies. But, successful, predictable, reliable therapy can only be chosen
once you know the Metabolic Type of the patient because only then will you know
how nutrients behave in their metabolism.
Virtually all individuals react negatively to some substance
during their lifetime. This sensitivity is commonly called allergy, which is an
expression of the body’s defences against substances it does not tolerate well.
We are perhaps most individual in the kinds of things we react to and the ways
in which we react. Thus only individuals can take responsibility for their own
health to identify and minimize their sensitivity. In other words, the way you
live can either improve your health or harm you. Infact, your food can be
killing you especially your favourite foods. Moreover, the daily repetition of
common foods such as wheat and wheat products, milk products, peanut butter, beef,
sugar, alcohol and corn products may be responsible for the allergic symptoms
of majority of patients.
The way out will be to keep a food and ecological diary, fasting,
elimination and rotational diet with observations of pulse rate and various
allergic symptoms.
Dr. Arthur F. Coca, M.D. developed the pulse dietary test to
determine those foods to which you may be personally allergic.