The Death Of Allopathic Nutrition

© Copyright 2003 by W.L. Wolcott, USA
(Explore Issue: Volume 12, Number 1)

Nutrition as most of us have known it and practiced it is dead. The coup’ de grâce’ for allopathic nutrition occurred in 1983, but the news of its demise had not begun to reach public awareness until recently. This article just touches on the subject. I hope it will give you a taste, a vision of the possibilities, but it is just the tip of the iceberg. The philosophy behind the body of work known as Metabolic Typing is extensive.

There is an experience common to virtually everyone involved in nutritional therapy, whether as a practitioner or as a lay person involved with self-help. What is this common experience? The fact that when it comes to nutrition, what works for one person with a certain condition, has little to no effect on a second person with the same condition, and can actually worsen a third person with the same condition!

Every practitioner of nutritional science encounters this confounding reality: You read about a nutrient, an herb, a homeopathic remedy, how it works wonders on a certain condition. You try it on yourself or on a patient, only to find it fails completely. You try the same on someone else and it works wonderfully.

1. It is the experience of the obese person who tries a friend’s successful weight-loss diet and finds that it causes weight gain instead
2. It is the experience of a man taking zinc who finds his prostate problem worsening
3. It is the experience of the woman with PMS who finds intensification instead of alleviation of symptoms through the use of B6 and Evening Primrose Oil
4. It is the experience of someone with high cholesterol who finds that the widely acclaimed high complex carbohydrate/low fat/low protein diet worsens the cardiovascular condition
5. It is the experience of the athlete who encounters decreased lean body mass and decreased performance on the Zone Diet