So . . . With all these methods how do you know what is the best fuel for your body?

•  Do you do better with vegetarianism, or Atkins, or a fine balance of the two?

• Are you in a state of mineral stress or deficiency, and which nutrients are needed to bring balance?

• Should calcium be taken or another mineral like potassium or magnesium or sodium?

•  Will vitamin-C improve or worsen your health?

• Is the pH of cells, tissue, and blood tending towards the break down and inflammatory state of acidity or the build up of alkalinity?

• Is your body's chemistry affecting the endocrine glands and hormones to be over or under active?

 Biochemical Metabolic testing in combination with diagnostic iridology can be a fine method of helping to answer these questions and create a dietary plan that will restore the natural balance of health.

Having worked with metabolic chemistry for many years, Dr. Drobot has seen diet alone change the health and lives of those using it. Metabolic testing in some patients reveals a tissue breakdown pattern which suggests discontinuing the practice of vegetarianism for a meat based diet. The dietary suggestion consisting of increased eggs, butter, and dark meats improves energy, stabilizes blood pressure, and improves mental acuity.

Alternately, others who have adopted a hi-protein, hi-fat diet for weight loss and have suffered from worsening health resulting in increased fatigue, sore joints, weight gain, as well as elevated laboratory tests suggesting increasing cardiac strain. When giving these patients a vegan diet, especially bountiful in low carbohydrate green vegetables, the symptoms begin to clear. Weight drops, energy improves, skin becomes more youthful and lab results come into line.

Besides diet, altering the pH and electrolytes with minerals and other nutrients can help balance blood pressure, decrease inflammation of aches and pains, improve sleep and energy, and promote balance throughout the entire body.

It is no wonder that every diet ever developed has been successful . . . for some people. Without testing chemistry it is challenging to truly know what the best fuel is from morning to night, from cycle to cycle, from year to year.

Metabolic chemistry testing will guide the patient with the necessary nutritional factors to bring their body into balance. Balanced body means healthy body and that can be good news for the prevention of illness. At the Calgary Centre for Naturopathic Medicine we use a combination of ALL the fore mentioned types giving us an edge in determining the type that fits the patient most accurately.

Metabolic typing was further investigated and developed by George Watson and his observations of fast and slow oxidizers and their relation to common psychiatric illnesses. These oxidation states were later examined and studied further by Rudolf Wiley. They similarly concluded if they provided a diet that was primarily vegetarian to slow oxidizers they would become well while the same diet for fast oxidizers would create poor outcomes.

At your first visit and evaluation with Dr. Drobot, urine and saliva samples will be taken and a metabolic physical examination and evaluation will be performed.

Biochemical testing will consist of urine and saliva laboratory tests measuring pH, electrolytes, sugars, nitrogenous waste products, surface tension, and markers for determining infections, occult blood, etc. Metabolic physical exam will record several values of blood pressures, pulses, respirations, pulse oximetry, and multiple physical exam findings that will indicate a clearer picture of chemistry and specific metabolic type.

A total of 49 different variables are measured and cross-analyzed with mathematical equations and computer programs. Follow-up to discuss lab results is done within one week of the initial evaluation.

* Introduction    * Trad. Diets & Weston Price    * History of Metabolic Typing