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Optimize Your Health and Vibrancy!

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Know Your Food Type is just not another website that talks about counting calories, burning calories, or paleolithic  versus vegan. Give this some thought....in the last 5 years how many books have written on diet and/or weight loss? How many in the last 12 months? The answer is...... a Bunch! There is to much information overload as to what one should eat on a regular basis. 

 

First and foremost eating ( and exercise activities) must be centered around obtaining and maintaining good health. Secondly, does the food that one is consuming contribute to maximizing my DNA expression relative reducing the aging process, reduce the susceptibility to disease, healthy sex life, physically strong, and mentally strong.

 

The core challenge with all the latest and greatest diet programs is that they do not take into account the individuality of the person. Here is an example, if your gut is not functioning relative to assimilation, digestion, and elimination all the latest and greatest fad diets and supplements will not help improve your long term health.

Know whats happening on the inside( the body) before you are overly concerned about the outside( aesthetics)!

Know Your Food Type (KYFT)takes a diagnostic research functional approach  in exploring not just the good, bad, and ugly of select foods, it microscopically investigates the interrelationships of select foods and how they effect the chemical balance of body, mind, and spirit. 

 

 

Diagnostics

 

 

It all starts with lifestyle and Diet-Rest-Exercise-Stress-Supplementation (D.R.E.S.S). The focus of this site is diet/nutrition. If you want to learn more about exercise, sports performance, rest, and variety of sports/fitness topics go to the following sites:

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Many health/practitioners of today state that optimal health is about 80% what we eat and fill in the rest with exercise, sleep, supplementation, and stress management. I would agree for the most part, however, being in the coaching, training, and nutritional field for over 40 years and having done hours and hours of research in those respective areas, everyone individual has a unique bio-chemical individuality similar to ones individual fingerprint. Granted all healthy humans have a heart, lungs, intestines, stomach, liver, pancreas, and brain, but the bio-individuality part steps in as to how to the qualitative information is being communicated between those organs. 

This may shock some of you...the primary purpose of food is to nourish tissues of the human body( not to fill a comfort gap). 

Is the food being ingested by said person building tissues or stressing tissues? Building tissues is strengthening and maintaining good internal environment( blood sugar level, neural transmission, mitochondrial integrity, strong bones/muscles....)

What about stressing? Stress is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as

"a physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension and may be a factor in disease causation"

 

Consuming foods that do not agree with your genetic blueprint can cause chemical stresses that can and will eventually lead to a diseased state within the body. Keep in mind there is difference between a "food sensitivity" vs a "food allergy". Food sensitivities  may appear somewhat subtle to us in that symptoms may appear as a runny nose, brain fog, upset tummy, low energy, joint stiffness, low energy,  sleep issues....

Reaction to food sensitivities are more slow developing and may take up 3 days to notice.

 

What causes food sensitivities?

 

  • poor digestion

  • unbalanced gut flora

  • genetics

  • over worked immune system

  • chronic stress

  • chemical exposure 

  • High dosage of chronically consuming the same foods

 

Food Allergies are more severe and sometimes can life threatening with anaphylactic shock. There are less severe allergies that are not life threatening but can cause much pain and discomfort. Most common food allergens:

 

  • peanuts

  • eggs

  • soy

  • wheat

  • shellfish

  • milk

 

Reactions to allergies normally occur within seconds up to 1 hour

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