A fundamental principle of many ancient medicine systems was that each person’s constitution is unique. In practice, this means that dietary and lifestyle recommendations need to be tailored to the individual. Dr Roger Williams came out with a landmark work called “Biochemical Individuality” in the 1920s explaining this in detail. Since this work, extensive work has been carried out, predominantly in the United States, on determining an individual’s predominant homeostatic systems and balancing these through diet and lifestyle. In this sense, Metabolic Typing is a wonderful accompaniment to ayurvedic medicine as it provides an understanding of individuality on a biochemical level, rather than just on an energetic level. This is basically identical to Dr Mercola’s “nutritional typing” system, which was derived from the same research.
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