God bless Doctor Dane. At last someone smart and caring enough to combine the best of Eastern and Western medicine gives us Your Body, Your Diet.
This book actually celebrates the physical differences among us humans and teaches us how to find a dietary and exercise regimen suitable to our individual metabolism.
Your Body, Your Diet will become the health bible for all who read it!
The “Pendulum Effect”
When A Meta-type "Flips" Out Of Type
You may have had a less than easy time determining your . The common reason people may find it difficult is that they're usually under so much stress, their metabolism has become either hyper or hypo-active causing them to "flip" or catapult out of their "normal" type and become a different altogether.
Just as each of the six types has its typical personality, characteristics and physical behaviors, so does each type have its typical ways of getting out of balance. When an individual slips significantly out of balance and type, I say that he or she "flips" out of their healthy and natural . We're all familiar with this, when we say about our mate, boss or friend that, "They have really not been acting like themselves lately."
I call this the "Pendulum Effect." A continual response to stress can cause a person's own metabolic profile to become hyperactive. If greatly exacerbated or prolonged, it can even cause them to soar right into a higher profile putting added pressure on their endocrine glands. For instance, a Mixed Accelerator--being hyperactive and under continual stress--can skyrocket right into the Balanced Accelerator profile, putting undue pressure on the thymus gland. Unable to sustain energy at that high level of stress, the Mixed Accelerator will begin swinging back--like a pendulum--passing right out of their natural type and falling down into the Mixed Synthesizer profile. Now, they've become hypoactive. They'll continue on in this fashion until the stress abates.
If you've answered the questionnaire on this website or in my book, Your Body, Your Diet and have found that you are almost evenly divided between two types, you are in the Pendulum Effect and you'll be exhibiting habits of either the hyper or hypo profile as well as your own. This would be the just above or below your own natural profile. When you've answered the questionnaire, use the profile with the highest number of answers--even if it is only by 1 point. Then, follow that program. In 3 to 6 months, take the test again. You'll find your answers will be different and you'll be closer to your own natural .
If you've flipped out of type, there is no need to stay out of balance. That's because my program, Your Body, Your Life or my book, Your Body, Your Diet includes certain clearly defined steps that are guaranteed to restore your balance by returning you back to your natural so you can be your normal, happy, healthy self.
The information presented below will be valuable to those of you who are in or have been in "The Pendulum Effect." It will help you recognize your hyper or hypo-active state as well as your natural .
How the Stress Response Works and Why It Flips Us Out of Type
The stress response is governed by the pituitary, hypothalamus, and adrenal endocrine glands. Hormones secreted from these glands shut down the more regenerative parasympathetic nervous system and speed up the action-oriented sympathetic nervous system and the metabolic rate of the body by liberating great amounts of blood sugar into the bloodstream. During this state, the body simply can't break down and utilize any nutrients or energy released from foods. So, the energy used up in the stress response comes directly from your body's reserves, the energy stored in your muscles, rather than coming from the foods you eat. This is known as the "fight or flight" response and it's valuable in overcoming difficult or even dangerous situations.
There's a flip side to this coin, however. The body has to "pay its dues" for getting such quick results because by the end of the stress response, the body has been significantly changed. This response and its stress stages are supposed to last for only a short while, hopefully, for no more than the brief duration of the stressful situation itself. Prolonged stress, however, can be disastrous. Automatically, a person will flip out of their natural metabolic type into another one, either "hyper" or "hypo", and begin functioning as if they were a different which can result in illness and disease. This is why it is crucial to restore balance.
Restoring Balance After the Stress Response
The stress response has three stages and, in each stage, different endocrine hormones are involved, which requires specific nutrients from the body. The three stages are:
- The Alarm Stage - your body is mobilized into intense action.
- The Resistance Stage - you try to cope with the stress, come to terms with the results, accept or finalize the problem and let it go.
- The Recovery Stage - the body rests and repairs itself. The sympathetic nervous system returns to normal and the parasympathetic nervous system goes back into action.
Recovery Tips for the Accelerator Meta-types
In this particular category, the stress response causes their already fast metabolic rate to speed up. When the stress response continues for extended periods of time, their bodies retain the nutrients that stimulate and excite their system while losing the nutrients that calm and relax.
The results can be disastrous as the body loses its ability to calm itself. Their anxiety levels zoom to new heights accelerating addictive habit patterns, allergic reactions, and blood pressure. Their system can't sustain this pace and starts breaking down. Eventually, their dominant glands, the adrenals, powered by the sympathetic nervous system, become thoroughly exhausted.
Accelerators
Hyper-active--their adrenals become over-stimulated, anxiety levels rise, insomnia ensues along with water retention and a lowered sex drive. As their less effective sex glands slow even further, endurance disappears, clarity and thinking dull, weight increases and their sex hormones diminish.
Hypo-active--will flip into the unbalanced Synthesizer Meta-type. In this state, they can sink into the Synthesizer's severe depressions and paralyzing stagnancy as weight continually increases.
To recover:
- They need yoga and meditation to get "out of their heads", calm down and integrate their powerful minds and held-in emotions.
- Must find ways to get back in touch with their feelings and to communicate with journaling, creative writing or just expressing what they feel.
- Slow down and get back immediately on the diet for their .
Balanced Accelerators
Hyper-active--will flip into the Accelerator Meta-type. In this hyperactive state, they can exhaust the adrenal glands, causing an imbalance of the sex hormones, water retention, chronic inflammation and allergies.
Hypo-active--will flip into the Mixed Accelerator Meta-type. In this state, they will soon weaken their thyroid gland, causing their metabolism to slow way down. Weight gain and poor circulation ensues.
To recover:
- They must take instant steps to get back in touch with their biggest power source, their intuition, by using techniques like meditation, visualization, journaling and dream interpretation.
- Engage in appropriate calming and balancing exercises like tai chi or other gentle martial arts, putting them back in touch with their emotions and intuition.
- Calm down and take enough time to nurture themselves and immediately get back on the diet for their .
Mixed Accelerators
Hyper-active--will flip into the Balanced Accelerator Meta-type. In this state, they repress the energy of their thymus gland and begin developing colds, flues and chronic immune problems.
Hypo-active--will flip into the Mixed Synthesizer Meta-type. In this state, with too much pressure on their sex glands, their libido will be heightened, then suddenly fall and they may develop sexual complications.
To recover:
- Take steps to balance their head and their emotions, such as writing, singing, understanding their dreams and communicating their emotions.
- Do exercises that will move energy through the body such as Qi Gong or power yoga.
- Engage in creative work that enables them to express their pent-up emotions positively.
- Balance themselves and get back on the diet for their .
Recovery Tips for the Synthesizer Meta-types
When the stress response becomes heightened in the Synthesizers, it shuts down their already slower physical metabolic rate because their less-effective thyroid and adrenals are busy at work stimulating and maintaining the stress response.
The weakened sympathetic system can't sustain the pressure and it begins to "crash." Blood sugar levels "yo-yo," finally plummeting to disastrous levels from insulin over-production, causing terrible fatigue and awful weight gain. With weakened adrenals, they finally collapse, plunging the Synthesizers into severe depression. Irritability ensues and illness begins to raise its ugly head.
Synthesizers
Hyper-active--will fall into the Accelerator Meta-type. They become extremely compulsive about work, highly anxious, and irritable. Insomnia may ensue and hormone problems begin to surface.
Hypo-active--will sink into the Balanced Synthesizer Meta-type. Their cravings for sugar sky-rocket and their blood sugar levels go crazy. Moods drastically fluctuate without cause, severe fatigue and lethargy set in.
To recover:
- They must do exercise to get moving, straight aerobics or jogging.
- Channel their emotions into practical, grounded thinking.
- Do creative work.
- Move out of lethargy and get right back on the diet for their .
Balanced Synthesizers
Hyper-active--will flip into the Mixed Synthesizer Meta-type. They will very often play out emotionality through sex and sensuality in a compulsive manner, exhausting their sex glands, causing a severe decline in their libido, and bringing on severe fatigue.
Hypo-active--will slip into a pure Synthesizer Meta-type. They get entangled in their feelings to the point of becoming paralyzed by depression and throwing their whole system out of balance.
To recover:
- Use highly stimulating, robust exercise, such as dancercise or aerobics.
- Do stimulating and creative work.
- Communicate feelings either by talking, journaling or letting emotions flow into rational grounded thinking. Then follow unclouded intuition.
- Bring action into their life and immediately get right back on the diet for their .
Mixed Synthesizers
Hyper-active--will flip into the Mixed Accelerator Meta-type. They have great battles between their heart and head, have trouble sleeping and soon exhaust the thyroid gland, slowing metabolism and piling on weight.
Hypo-active--will flip into the Balanced Synthesizer Meta-type. Drop into forms of depressive emotionality, the pancreas weakens, blood sugar becomes unstable, insulin levels rise and hypoglycemia soon develops.
To recover:
- They must do exercise. This category gets easily bored with exercise, so the movement should be in the form of creative movements such as jazz and/or dance classes.
- Verbalize emotions by journaling or creative writing and integrate emotions with their sharp intellect. Then follow their wisdom.
- Re-group and center themselves; get back on the diet for their .