Would you like to find out which foods help you burn fat and metabolise food more efficiently?
And which ones are indigestible and are either toxic to your system or stored on your body as fat?
‘The Genotype Diet’ by Dr Peter D’Adamo is his latest research and book, that’s not so much a diet as a bespoke eating plan.
Much of its appeal lies in simplicity as well as discovering what your body thrives on and what it finds difficult to digest according to your genotype.
Dr D’Adamo’s very famous ‘Eat Right 4 Your Type’ was recently voted one of the ten most influential health books of all time by a respected industry publication, and now after some ten more years of research, he has broadened and deepened ‘Eat Right…’ alongside science’s cutting-edge discoveries in genetic research: epigenetics.
Epigenetics is the science of how genes respond to environment, creating differences that we can then pass onto our children. The prefix ‘epi’ means ‘after’, so yes we have a genetic blueprint that predisposes us to various health factors, but these can be stabilised and even improved (or made worse) by eating foods and living life in ways that support or compromise our constitution.
In the book, Dr. D’Adamo uses the analogy of our genes being like the piano keys – but epigenetics being the composer:
“The melodies and harmonies you can write for those 88 keys are seemingly infinite, even if they never stray outside the basic range of the piano. That brings us back to the GenoTypes – they are the six basic melodies that we humans have come up with as our 30,000 genes interact with the environment. So now we can look at the following formulation:
30,000 genes + prenatal experience + last 100,000 years on earth = 6 GenoTypes.”
With this new science and building on the framework of ‘Eat Right…’, Peter developed the concept of the Genotype and identified six GenoTypes ( known as, Hunter, Gatherer, Teacher, Warrior, Explorer and Nomad) by doing statistical analyses of how genes, disorders, and physical traits are known to cluster together.
The book’s format allows you to carry out various measurements (jaw-line, proportion of leg to torso and fingerprint shapes amongst others ) to determine your type (some of them are tricky to do on your own so you might ask a friend to help!)
Dr D’Adamo is also interested in how his work is experienced and his website is fully supportive, with a member’s forum, an easy-to-follow list of food for each type along with recipe suggestions and lots of real-life testimonials and experiences to encourage and inspire people who are starting out with it.
Visit www.genotypediet.com for more information.
