Primitive peoples do not and did not metabolic type

[Guest guest]

Alternative nutrition emulates primitive diets. Primitive peoples did not and

still do not suffer from the diseases that those on modern diets do. But

primitive people have never done metabolic typing. I assume each member of the

group ate basically the same diet. So if metabolic typing is so essential for

health as some believe how have primitive peoples maintained optimal health

without metabolic typing?

[Guest guest]

I suspect a couple of things are going on here. First if variety was available

people would eat differently based on how foods made them feel. Second,

traditional people tend to be more genetically homogeneous than

modernized/urbanized people. Thus they adapt over time to the available diet.

Third, any people with maladaptive mutations either had lower fertility, got

sick or died.

The metabolic typing industry appears to be yet another example of questionable

pseudo medical principles and practices--although I'm by no means an expert of

the metabolic typing industry.

As Taubes points out in GBBC, the fundamental problem with nutrition and

medicine these days is that much of it is not well supported by the available

body of science. Further, much of what pretends to be science in these fields is

actually really derivative work reinforcing accepted dogma and propaganda. Good

science isn't about trying to prove your theory is true. It's about trying to

prove it's not true. For if you fail to refute a theory, it's probably true.

That being said, it's pretty clear in the literature that people have vastly

different metabolic systems. Some have extra ordinary abilities to store fat or

burn fat. It's interesting to note that even conventional medicine has now

started to recognize that metabolic syndrome is a risk factor for almost all

chronic disease. Further, there is little controversy that metabolic syndrome is

caused by refined carbohydrate.

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> Alternative nutrition emulates primitive diets. Primitive peoples did not and

still do not suffer from the diseases that those on modern diets do. But

primitive people have never done metabolic typing. I assume each member of the

group ate basically the same diet. So if metabolic typing is so essential for

health as some believe how have primitive peoples maintained optimal health

without metabolic typing?

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[Guest guest]

Metabolic typing is a lot like blood typing. I once read a strong argument that

blood " types " are abnormalities; lack of certain proteins in the blood arises

from copper deficiency. In other words, most people are low in copper, the rare

AB-positive type is the only one that's normal.

The problem with the argument is the author continued 'therefore' evolutionary

theory is false. It was a rather big leap from one to another.

Does anyone remember the complete theory and it's author? And did I correctly

state that it was copper.

---LAURA---

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> I suspect a couple of things are going on here. First if variety was available

people would eat differently based on how foods made them feel. Second,

traditional people tend to be more genetically homogeneous than

modernized/urbanized people. Thus they adapt over time to the available diet.

Third, any people with maladaptive mutations either had lower fertility, got

sick or died.

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> The metabolic typing industry appears to be yet another example of

questionable pseudo medical principles and practices--although I'm by no means

an expert of the metabolic typing industry.

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