There are two systems of Metabolic Typing that both have a lot to offer the individual in terms of finding out the best form of diet and supplements to use for your individual physiology. Both systems are helpful with balancing weight and metabolism. The difference between this and food sensitivity (allergy) testing is that Metabolic typing tells you what is good for you to eat both more of and less of, wheras the food sensitivity testing tells you what to avoid.

Blood sugar and pH testing for Metabolic Type: This is a nutritional diagnostic procedure that detects the metabolic system that most governs your whole physiology and also the pH of your blood. The balancing of blood pH is akin to balancing the Yin and Yang (of traditional Chinese medicine) on a very deep level. Slight imbalances of pH can have a big impact upon physiology. This system highlights the need for either a high protein, low carbohydrate diet or the opposite a more vegetarian diet high in complex carbohydrates. The research done with this system of metabolic typing has found that certain foods, minerals and vitamins have a different effect on different types e.g. for one metabolic type eating meat and taking calcium supplements will be acidifying whilst in another they are alkalising.

Metabolic Type based upon glandular dominance: This system establishes which endocrine gland (or combination) dominates individual physiology. Research has found that there are five types that relate to evolutionary influences over many thousands of years. The first evolutionary type for example and is known as the Hunter-gatherer and is more suited to a high protein diet, a later evolutionary type is known as the Farmer-gardener that is more suited to a vegetarian or vegan diet. There is however much more to the system than this but it needs individual diagnosis to assess which of the five types you are.

These modern scientific systems of assessing dietary needs have proven what the old saying tells us: "One man's meat is another man's poison".