I am a protein type, fast oxidizer, mostly parasympathetic dominant. I
am a living example the damage 30 years of trying to be vegetarian, and
10-12 years of trying very hard to be vegan can do to a person of my
metabolic type. Heavy soy consumption contributed greatly to that damage.
My personal belief is it is only my giving in to my meat cravings that
kept me from suffering even worse health problems. Had I succeeded in
going 100% vegan I'd be even worse off now than I am. Now, I'm trying to
quit grains and sugar. But I have a lot of damage to overcome, and at
61, may never get back to a really good level of health.
I want to cry or rage when I read what Ode writes about walking. I
still can't walk much, can't excercise much. For an example, I read the
forward of Brooks Bradley's email about "bouncing" in a doorway, that
said he started with 25 and in 5 days had worked up to 200. I started
doing the doorway toe rise "bouncing" days ago. When I started I could
do a maximum of 20, with pain and burning and stiff calves being the
consequence. After many more than 5 days of working on this a few times
per day, I can still barely do 20 at a time, still with the same pain,
burning, and stiff calves. I have not improved in capacity whatsoever.
My body simply does not respond normally to excercise. I've now backed
down to doing 10 at a time a few times per day. I have learned the hard
way that to push beyond my limits results in real disability, such as
not being able to walk without canes. Which can last for weeks to months
before recovered enough to start again (I'm extremely stubborn and had
to experience this several times before I 'got it').
The abnormal excercise response is just one consequence of wrong diet
for my body for so many decades--why it took me so long to realize my
deteriorating health was a direct consequence of that diet, I just don't
know, more stubbornness. I let my desire not to eat animals directly or
indirectly completely blind me to what was happening to my health, and
it was easy to be blind, we are really quite bombarded with the idea
that vegetarianism is healthiest for everyone, and that total veganism
is even better, that grains are good, that meat and animal fats are bad.
Just recently weeded my diet/health books. Neal Barnard et al, are in
the landfill. Adelle Davis may follow, though she got some things right,
she was totally wrong about grains, soy and fats. No wonder she died of
bone cancer.
Blood type is one of the fine tuning measures recommended in the
"Metabolic Typing Diet" book to try if one does not easily find results
from the basic metabolic typing alone. The book isn't what I imagined it
would be, aside from figuring out one's basic type outlines, it is all
about trial and error, customizing one's diet for better health. It
requires some work.
sol
Charles Marcus wrote:
Well, the bad news is, it sounds like you have the metabolic type that
requires animal proteins, so you will most likely *never* be able to
go vegetarian and remain healthy.
The good news is, you now know this, and can therefore eat right for
your metabolic type... :)
Google on 'metabolic type'+diet and see what comes up.
It is similar to the 'Eat Right for your Blood Type' books, but it
answers the question of why some/many people didn't do well...
Metabolic Typing is similar, and even related, to blood type, but it
isn't cut and dried - there is crossover (Blood Type O's that do
better on high carb/lo animal protein), which is why so many people
failed on the Blood Type diet.
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