Other Factors Influencing Your Weight

Is imperative to understand that there can be a number of other factors influencing your weight beyond just dietary. They include thyroid problems, insulin resistance, adrenal gland insufficiency, estrogen imbalance and psychological issues. Eating and supplementing according to your metabolic type will help balance those body systems. However, if you think you may have a problem with any of these body systems, we strongly urge to take the online Comprehensive Health Assessment. The assessment will help you identify health issues beyond diet which may be affecting your weight. You can take the results of the assessment to your alternative physician for his guidance in correcting any problems the assessment uncovers.

Of the Carbohydrate-based group, Type Six's require the most nutritional support, the greatest number and strength of vitamins, minerals, enzymes and other nutrutional factors that help the vegetarian type. Type One's require the second greatest nutritional support. Type One's need the support that speeds up the sympathetic nervous system and slows down the parasympathetic nervous system. Type four metabolizers are approaching toward a healthier less extreme metabolism. Type Eleven's need the least nutritional support of the vegetarian class. They are the closest of the four to becoming balanced type metabolizers as you can see from the Metabolic Spiral.

Group A, Type One

Group A, Types 1,4,6, and 11 do not digest food well. They only assimilate about 40% of food they do digest. They do not like heavy meats as they cannot digest them well. They do best on fruit and carbohydrates. For nutritional support, Group A metabolizers most often need: Vitamin D; Vitamin K; Ascorbic Acid; Biotin; Folic Acid; Vitamins B1, B2, and B6; PABA; Niacin; Potassium Magnesium; Manganese; Zinc: Chromium; Hydrochloric Acid; Pancreatic Enzymes and Amino Acids. Each of the four types in Group A needs these supplements.

Type One Specifics: One of the chief characteristics is they can burn carbohydrates slowly. They are able to maintain their blood sugar levels with very little fluctuation. They can eat mostly fruits and vegetables, maintaining their health and feeling well. They are what we commonly call vegetarians. When they eat meat they feel groggy and have a loss of energy. They do not do well on lamb, venison, beef, sardines or salmon. They can do quite well with up to 100% of their diet raw. They should stress the following foods:

• whole grains including spaghetti, macaroni, breads, cereals;
• raw (unpasteurized) goats’ milk, eggs;
• white fish.
• spices, 2-3 cups of coffee (non-instant),
• herbal tea,
• an occasional alcoholic beverage
• sweet dessert made with unrefined sugar or raw, unheated honey
• nuts and seeds
• rice
• apples
• bananas
• grapes
• oranges
• pears
• plums
• grapefruit
• asparagus
• lima beans
• beet tops
• cucumbers
• sprouts
• lettuce
• collards
• dandelion greens
• kale
• mustard
• turnip greens
• spinach
• any leafy green vegetable
  

Group A, Type Four

Group A, Types 1, 4, 6, and 11 do not digest food well. They only assimilate about 40% of food they do digest. They do not like heavy meats as they cannot digest them well. They do best on fruit and carbohydrates. For nutritional support, Group A metabolizers most often need: Vitamin D; Vitamin K; Ascorbic Acid; Biotin; Folic Acid; Vitamins B1, B2, and B6; PABA; Niacin; Potassium Magnesium; Manganese; Zinc: Chromium; Hydrochloric Acid; Pancreatic Enzymes and Amino Acids. Each of the four types in Group A needs these supplements.

Type Four Specifics. Type Four people are a little less strict vegetarians than Type Ones. They usually have a genetic background of their ancestors coming from around the Mediterranean Sea. They burn their carbohydrates a little faster than Ones and if they have diabetes can normally control it with diet alone. Most American “vegetarians” fall into this type. They can eat about 60% of their food raw. They normally do not need as much nutritional support in the form of supplements as Types One and Six. They do well on all the foods listed for Type One, just not as much, but also can eat:

• chicken, turkey, other fowl
• occasional beef (twice a week)
• almost all vegetables
• a little fruit
• sprouts
• some citrus
• eggs
• raw unpasteurized goat’s milk.
  

Group A, Type Six

Group A people do not digest food well. They only assimilate about 40% of food they do digest. They do not like heavy meats as they cannot digest them well. They do best on fruit and carbohydrates. For nutritional support, Group A metabolizers most often need: Vitamin D; Vitamin K; Ascorbic Acid; Biotin; Folic Acid; Vitamins B1, B2, and B6; PABA; Niacin; Potassium Magnesium; Manganese; Zinc: Chromium; Hydrochloric Acid; Pancreatic Enzymes and Amino Acids. Each of the four types in Group A needs these supplements.

Type Six Specifics. Type Six people are very poor metabolizers. That is, they they take in their food and nothing much happens. Their bodies do not utilize food well and they get little energy from it. They are often sickly. They almost always feel bad or not up to par. They need about 60% of their food cooked. They need a great deal of supplemental nutritional support. They require more hydrochloric acid, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, etc. than either Types Four, One or Eleven and need to be diligent in taking their supplements.

Type Six metabolizers should give care to the intake of whole and complete natural foods. All refined, processed, synthetic foods and additives must be avoided at all times. Type Six people do best when they stress the following foods in their diets:

• adequate amounts of fruits and vegetables
• lettuce
• green vegetables
• onions
• radishes
• potatoes
• whole grains including spaghetti, macaroni, breads
• gelatin and other desserts made with raw sugar or unheated honey
• natural jams, jellies
• ice creams
• mushrooms
• nuts
• seeds
• fish and fowl preferred over other meats

Group A, Type Eleven

Group A people do not digest food well. They only assimilate about 40% of food they do digest. They do not like heavy meats as they cannot digest them well. They do best on fruit and carbohydrates. For nutritional support, Group A metabolizers most often need: Vitamin D; Vitamin K; Ascorbic Acid; Biotin; Folic Acid; Vitamins B1, B2, and B6; PABA; Niacin; Potassium Magnesium; Manganese; Zinc: Chromium; Hydrochloric Acid; Pancreatic Enzymes and Amino Acids. Each of the four types in Group A needs these supplements.

Type Eleven Specifics. Type Eleven metabolizers are usually thin in body build, left brain mathematically inclined people with super efficient metabolisms. They need a wide variety of fruits, grains and cheese. They do not need a lot of food and seem to have an unending supply of energy. They can go all day without the need for food. They do not like to be interrupted with such trivial things as meals. They do not require a large quantity of any food but prefer sweets on which they function very well. However, they still need quality nutrition and supplements.

General Characteristics of Group A Sympathetic Dominant, Carbohydrate-based Types 1, 4, 6, and 11

These metabolic types have very strong function of the brain, pineal, anterior pituitary, parathyroid, thyroid and adrenal medulla glands; heart, bone, muscle and connective tissue, kidneys, gonads (ovaries or testes) and uterus or prostate. Their muscles are usually quite well developed and show good muscle tone. Their hearts normally beat a little fast. Constipation is a problem. Frequently insomnia is a problem. They are prone to tension, hyperactivity and drive.

Sympathetic dominant types do not digest their food well. They do not like heavy meats because they do not digest them well. They do best on fruit and carbohydrates. They like their sweets. At a cafeteria you will observe them take a few vegetables and load up on desserts. Sweets are easily assimilated and give them outstanding energy.

Typical Characteristics of Group A Sympathetic Dominant, Carbohydrate-based Types 1, 4, 6, 11

Please note: Do not reach any conclusions about your metabolic type from this list. It may or it may not apply to you. The list simply itemizes characteristics that more commonly seen in Group A sympathetic than in Group B parasympathetic or Group C balanced metabolizers. The only way to know your type for sure is to complete the Metabolic Type Test.

• A lot of "get up and go" or drive
• Actions are usually explosive
• Anger easily
• Bowel movements normally light in color
• Can’t recall dreams
• Crave sweets, fruits
• Difficulty in falling asleep
• Diminished or lacking appetite
• Dislike fatty or oily foods
• Dry mouth
• Ears are very pale and light
• Eating at bedtime interferes with sleep
• Enhanced ability to concentrate
• Enjoy exercise
• Enjoy vegetables
• Extremely active
• Eyelids are opened wide
• Eyes tend to protrude from sockets
• Faces are usually pale
• Fingernails have severe cross ridges
• Firm muscle tone
• Food feels like a rock in the stomach
• Gag easily
• Gums are very pale or light
• Hair is dry
• Inpatient, irritable
• Irregular breathing
• lack of endurance
• Like to make decisions
• Low energy reserve
• Pupils of eyes are usually large
• Rapid breathing
• Seldom depressed
• Seldom dream
• Sensitive to light
• Severe indigestion
• Skin easily forms "gooseflesh"
• Skin is dry
• Skin unusually soft and velvety
• Soles of feet are soft and not callused
• Strong emotions
• Strong feeling of sexual passion
• Thick and ropey saliva
• Thick eyebrows
• Thin flat chests
• Usually suffer from cold
• Usually underweight
• Very jumpy and nervous
• Violent reaction to unexpected noise
• Weak dreams if dream at all
  

Conditions To Which Group A Sympathetic Dominant, Carbohydrate-based Types Are More Prone:

Please note: Do not reach any conclusions about your metabolic type from this list. It may or it may not apply to you. Neither does it suggest that if you are in Group A that you are going to get these conditions. The list simply itemizes health conditions that are more commonly seen in Group A than in Group B or Group C metabolizers. The only way to know your type for sure is to complete the Metabolic Type Test.

• Achlorhydria
• Acidosis
• Acne
• Alcoholism (to slow down)
• Anemia
• Angina pectoris
• Anxiety
• Appetite, diminished
• Arteriosclerosis
• Arthritis, rheumatoid
• Bleeding (slow to stop)
• Blood pressure, high
• Bowel movement every 2-3 days
• Boils
• Bones, pain in
• Breathing, rapid, irregular
• Buerger’s disease
• Bursitis
• Cancer
• Canker sores
• Carbohydrate metabolism, slow
• Caries (cavities)
• Cataracts
• Chorea
• Circulation, poor from muscle tension
• Colitis, ulcerative
• Conjunctivitis
• Constipation
• Cystitis
• Dehydration
• Diabetes
• Digestion, slow
• Dizziness
• Earache
• Emotional instability, easily upset
• Endurance, lack of
• Energy reserve, low
• Epilepsy
• Extremities, cold from tension
• Eyes, dry
• Fat metabolism, slow
• Febrile disease
• Food, feels like rock in stomach
• Function well in hot climate
• Gag easily
• Gas, sweet odor
• Glossitis
• Goiter
• Gout
• Halitosis
• heart Attacks, several
• Heartburn
• Heart rhythm, regular and fast
• headaches; migraine, tension
• Healing; bones, fast
• Hemorrhoids
• High temperatures
• Hyperirritability
• Hypertension
• Hypochlorhydria
• Indigestion
• Infections, bacterial
• Insomnia
• Ketosis
• Kidney infections
• Kidney stones
• Legs, restless at night
• Mastitis
• Moods, frequent severe changes
• Mouth, dry
• Myocarditis
• Nephritis
• Nervous strain
• Numbness
• Oxygen metabolism, poor
• Pain, unusual sensitivity
• Pellagra
• Peyronie’s Disease
• Photophobia
• Pneumonia
• Protein metabolism, poor
• Pulse, fast
• Purpura
• Rheumatic fever
• Sensitivity to light
• Sensitivity to shots, vaccinations
• Skin dry and thick
• Sour stomach
• Stools; dry, light in color, ribbon-like
• Sweating, little
• Teeth, pearly white
• Tinnitus
• Tonsillitis
• Tremors, muscle
• Ulcers, gastric
• Uremia
• Urinate, frequently
• Veins, varicose
• Vincent’s infection
• Vision, hard to focus