Re: Vitamin B Questions - Karima/metabolic typing

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Thanks Karima, That's interesting.

I would like to know more about what you are doing since I assume it

is working at least pretty well for you. Did you learn what your

'type' is form just a questionaire or where there any blood test or

similar tests? Also are there a set number of possible 'types'? I

took an interest in a 'body type' diet once - I think that there were

supposed to be like 4 basic types. I am not really sure that that

model worked well for me.

I have to admit that one thing that I am interested in is keeping my

supplement regime as simple as possible - I am flawed in such as way

that if it is too complicated, it will likely often get skipped or

fall by the way. I sort of figure that simple and doable is often

better in my case than optimal but hard and complicated. I know some

people have health issue that are not so forgiving and they need to do

everything they can in the most optimal manner.

It is nice to learn new thing and to find out what is working well for

other people -- I tend to agree with your assertion that different

people have fairly significant differences in their nutritional needs

as well as their needs for micro-nutrients (supplements). It just

seems so hard to sort the whole thing out!

Thanks for the info and for responding to my question!

Wishes for good health,

August

<< There are different schools on B vitamin balance. Personally I now

use the metabolic typing lens. Where some B¹s are emphasized over

others dependingon what kind of metabolism you have. To get more

information you can buy CD¹s from www.dr-gonzalez.com - Dr.

is a NY practitioner who mainly specializes in cancer treatment,

there are downloads of his lectures on the site. I find them

intriguing, provocative, and powerfully convincing.

There is a commercial website www.metabolictyping.com that uses a

similar underlying idea. . . . . (Snip)

I have been adapting my supplementation to this model but using the

metabolic typing profile method . . . I used to take the normal

balanced B vitamins, but had very bad reactions no matter what

purity, or origin (nausea and even vomiting). This is a lifelong

reaction. When I investigated this new model of nutrition, I

understood why.

It is because large doses of B¹s are not beneficial for my metabolic

type, > even though they are for many others. Only some of them are

useful and particularly some forms over others. For example, my type

does better with Niacinamide over Niacin. This is not saying we don¹t

need some of all of the B¹s, just that each persons balance will be

different.

This is highly uncommon thinking in the supplement area, it is hard

to adapt > to the idea that there isn¹t a standardized formula that is

the best, or > good for everyone. I always believed that until I

started digging into this > model and found that there is lots of

science to back it up. Practitioners > get it too, because almost all

Dr¹s will say that their patients vary a > great deal. But it is now

treated as this great mystery, with no science or > model to predict

why or how this might be.

> Karima>>