AWeber - FOHAC Individualized Nutrition #331

Published: Sun, 12/06/15

Fair Oaks Health News

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December 6, 2015

Individuality and Nutrition

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The cornerstone of nutritional science is the belief that scientific studies can determine what is best for you to eat. In science observing what happens to a single individual is considered basically worthless. It is called anecdotal evidence. Real science is concerned with studies on large populations of people or lab animals, because science wants to see what is the average response to whatever they are studying. The larger the sample of subjects that are studied, the more valid the study is considered to be. This would be true if we were all the same, or at least we were certain that we were absolutely average. Then we could feel confident that we would get the same response that the studies had found.

Mark Twain once said “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damnable lies, and statistics.” Nutritional science is built out of statistics. It worships the illusion of the “average man.” With this illusion Federal agencies and policy makers can decide what is best for us with complete belief that they are doing the right thing. Once they have the science that says something is proven to be true because the statistical analysis of the data says so, they can joyfully impose rules and controls on us and easily ignore the reality that the programs they are promoting don’t work in the real world.

The human race is messy. Mother Nature purposely designs variety into her many life forms. We are meant to all be different. Change is the eternal constant in life and Mother Nature figured out a long time ago that variety in the species was the best way to ensure the survival of the species. As various environmental challenges would burden the human species, within the variety of humans present, some of them would thrive well even though others might die off. Variety is a primary way that life uses to help each species adapt to change. Variety is the opposite of the belief that we will all do best on whatever the average man needs and wants to be healthy.

A recent study really brought this variety of human response issue into focus. The study was looking at how various people’s blood sugar levels responded to different foods. The study involved continuously tracking the blood sugar levels of 800 people for 1 week. With this continuous tracking, the researchers could assess how each person’s blood sugar levels changed with each food and meal they ate. Data for 46,000 meals was collected. The conclusion of this exhaustive study was that everyone

responded differently to different foods. For some people bananas would spike their blood sugar, while other people had no response to them. Cookies would spike other people’s blood sugar, yet many people had no blood sugar rise to eating cookies at all. The list goes on and on. Here is a link to a nice little video showing the results of this groundbreaking study.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryc5M3Ciytg&feature=youtu.be

Bottom line – everyone responds to foods differently. All the rules that have been so carefully developed and promoted for the last 50 to 100 years about how foods affect us have to be thrown out. There are no rules – we are all unique.

This explains to me how so many studies can come up with such conflicting results. For years I thought that the conflicts were just a reflection of the bias and testing parameters of the researchers and the people paying for the research. While this is certainly a big factor, many studies have been done showing how the results of any study seem magically to find out whatever best serves the desires of those paying for the study. We also now see that the results are bogus simply because there is no average response to foods.

This means that we as individuals have to do our own personal assessment to see how different foods affect each of us. Forget all about how things are supposed to be and look to the results in your own bodies. If you are healthy, your weight is good, and your lab results are within functional ranges, then your diet is working for you. If you are inflamed, tired, moody, over or underweight, and your lab values are showing trouble brewing behind the scenes, then your diet needs to be adjusted to what works better for you.

A really basic method of assessing how well your body is responding to a given food is to measure whether your body shows signs of stress when you eat the food. How can you do this? Obvious signs might be getting sleepy or irritable after eating the food. Headaches, achy joints, nausea, itching, fingers or feet swelling, bloating or gas are good signs that something is not working when you eat that food.

Another easy method for assessing stress is by checking your pulse rate and blood pressure. With modern inexpensive wrist blood pressure cuffs this becomes super easy. Stress raises your pulse rate and/or raises one or both parts of your blood pressure. Occasionally a few people will have the exact opposite reaction, but any way you look at it stress should affect these simple functional heart signs in some way.

Just the act of eating will require blood flow to the stomach be increased, so this will usually raise the pulse rate 2 to 6 beats per minute. If your pulse jumps more than 7 beats per minute, then you are seeing the signs of increased stress on the body. Alternatively your blood pressure may show different changes. The top number, the systolic blood pressure, is a measure of how hard the heart is beating. This number is especially responsive to stress like fear as your heart reacts to the fear hormone adrenaline. Your body may also produce adrenaline in response to a food it does not like. The bottom number, the diastolic pressure, is a measure of the amount of resistance to blood flow caused by the constriction of the blood vessels through out the body. The tighter they are the higher the pressures in the system. Again, your blood vessels may react to a bad food by constricting the blood flow and raising the pressure.

Food reactions may happen almost immediately or be delayed by half an hour or more. I take a reading with my wrist cuff immediately and again about 20 minutes later. To do this kind of testing accurately you need to be relaxed for at least five minutes before you start. Take a baseline reading first before you try eating one food, then test immediately after you eat the food and wait about 20 minutes and test again. Don’t eat anything else before you retest. If your baseline pulse is above 80, then your system

is already in stress and you may not get any useful differences in your readings. This is one way to do your own research into your body specifically. Find what works for you.

Not all negative effects of food will trigger a stress response. Some effects are slow and only show up over time as symptoms of ill health and decreased capacity. For these symptom questionnaires and lab testing are the methods of choice for assessing your health and the impact of your diet and lifestyle choices. We use a very comprehensive symptom questionnaire at the office, which is freely available to you for the asking. We also arrange for lab testing as needed.

You are unique. Your genes are unique. Your body is unique. What works for someone else is most likely not going to work for you. It might, but likely you will need to modify any program to fit your body and it’s needs. Research and studies are useful to show us potential outcomes, but only trial and error will tell us if this research works for you. This newsletter empowers you to take command of your health and pursue a self-directed path back to your optimum health. If I can help, please let me know. You are the commander on this journey.

Take care,

David

Beauty Light Update

Many of you have been interested in the LED non-coherent laser light skin rejuvenation therapy we have been offering at the office but were not able to come in 3 times a week for the treatments. I have just recently aquired two hand-held portable skin treatment devices. Because they are smaller it takes more time to apply - 10 minutes per area of coverage, but is so much easier to use at home. This unit has all three skin rejuvenating light frequencies - 850nm infared, 660nm red, and the 590nm amber. Normally these are priced at $389, but as a Christmas special these two are only $339 - a $50 savings! If you are interested, let us know at the office or email me at
david@fairoakshealth.com.

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Boogy Buster and Good Thyme are Back!

After being unavailable from the manufacturer for the last 6 months, our two natural products for clearing out the sinuses and killing holiday sinus bugs are available once again. You have been begging for it and the shipment should be arriving this week!

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What is this contraption at the office? It is the amber light treatment for rebuilding collagen in the skin.

Facial Rejuvenation - now available - only $150 for 10 treatments. That is only $15 per treatment!

On the Wire

Smart Plants

Observation of trees that are able to generate their own nitrogen fertilizer is leading ecologists to the conclusion that plants actually make strategic decisions to enhance their survival when competing with other trees. The ability to make their own fertilizer gives them a competitive advantage, but the process uses up their resources for growth. The fertilizer also becomes available to the other trees, so the trees stop producing the fertilizer once they get established and focus on growth instead of allowing competing trees to use their fertilizer.

Plants

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"The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence."

~ Eddie Rickenbacker

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Reverse Diabetes by losing 1 gram of fat from the pancreas

Researchers from the UK have shown that type 2 diabetes is caused by fat accumulating in the pancreas, and that losing as little a 1 gram of that fat will reverse the diabetes and return insulin levels to normal. Currently significant calorie restriction is the only way known to get the pancreas fat to drain out. These findings match the story that I reported on a couple months ago in which the Canadian kidney specialist was reversing diabetes in his patients with three weeks of fasting.

Reverse Diabetes

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"Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.."

~ Lucy Larcom
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Dietary fiber fermentation in the gut suppresses hunger

Soluble dietary fibers that are broken down by gut bacteria produce short chain fatty acids that nourish the gut and help it heal. In addition the fatty acid propionate stimulates the release of the gut hormones PYY and GLP-1, which in turn suppress appetite. Fibers you can use to help your gut include citrus and apple pectin, guar gum, gum arabic, and oat bran.

Fiber

"Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness."

- David Bohm

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About Dr. DeLapp

Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 30 years. He began experimenting with medical intuition in 1972 while studying physics at UC Davis. In addition to physics he designed and completed an individual major in the philosophy and psychology of education. Shortly after he choose to pursue a career in the only truly health oriented profession available at that time, Chiropractic. He graduated with honors in 1981 with his doctorate and opened a private practice.
Since that time he has continued his research into the effects of consciousness and learning on health.
He developed the Biomagnetic Retraining system for correcting movement abnormalities.
Since 1991 he has focused on developing a powerful system for uncovering and assisting the mind-body connection in health and personal growth. The in-depth coaching, guided by the subconscious direction from the body, is called Heartflow and the simpler mind-body retraining for health and unfoldment he has named Gracework. Both are available at Fair Oaks Health.

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