How I Came Up with the 4 Body Types

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you know it’s interesting um I I had a practice I did what they told me to do in in college where I had people eat eat less food do the exercise eat better yet I only had a certain percentage of people getting results and I I asked myself why do some people get results and other people don’t because I would I would get good results on certain things and I noticed that certain body types didn’t respond to um the diet that I had them on so I tried different diets I did high protein I did U more vegetarian diets and that was somewhat successful but one thing that stood out is that when people had belly fat um they I would have them put on do sit-ups and and I would have them do all sorts of exercise and they would never lose weight except the ones that had the protruding belly so I said you know there has to be a reason for this so I started to kind of um try to get more information about um what’s inside that could create that and I knew something about cortisol but I didn’t really understand a lot at the time I mean I studied in school but I didn’t really connect the dots and I think a lot of doctors right now don’t connect the dots so I came across um a um George Washington’s medical School’s library and then they had a offshoot of a bookstore okay I went to the bookstore and I was I bought pretty much every book on Endocrinology which is a study of hormones and I thought maybe maybe the answer is in the hormones right so I found a book that was um on sale and the name of the book was called CBA Encyclopedia of Endocrinology volume four by Frank nett Okay so I opened this book and it had all these great graphic pictures of the body and how the body worked and I started thumbing through and when I hit cortisol I was like oh my goodness it had a picture of all these patients that I’ve been trying to get rid of their belly fat and the exact picture of them right there I’m like wow it’s high cortisol causes belly fat interesting so it actually causes the weight to be deposited around the vital organs as a survival mechanism and I noticed that there’s a whole bunch of other issues associated with the adrenal body type you have um blood sugar issues diabetes craving for salty foods you had excessive thinking um memory loss inflammation that would include all the pain that people have you had allergies you have um weakness in the legs you have insomnia you have high blood pressure all these symptoms and I’m going oh my goodness this is interesting so then I I started noticing that people that a belly fat they had a lot of these characteristics so I started to develop um kind of a category of different body types at that point at that point I only had three body types it was very funny because I wrote a book about it and it was like these cartoon pictures um which is it was just a joke cuz I actually cut and pasted them and I but I didn’t really know um a program to help these people until a little bit later but I started formulating the the body type concept and then I found another picture of the thyroid body type right in this book and it had all the characteristics it had weight gain all over it had fatigue it had loss of the outer eyebrows dry skin vertical ridges on the nails we had um little indentations on your teeth all these different symptoms then I scanned over and I found the ovary body type which is heaviness in the weight um in the lower part of the hips like the saddle bag area little Pooch underneath the um the stomach with all sorts of ovarian issues so here I found three body types that start to uh formulate my whole theory about the body type Concepts at that point though I didn’t know how to deal with it I just knew that there was different problems that I kept running into with people based on where they hold the weight so then of course I bought all of the volumes that Frank N had and one of them was the liver type CU I read them all cover to cover many times and I noticed that you had the guy you ever see the guy with the beach and the speeda with the pot belly I’ve noticed that um there was a body type like that but that wasn’t a fat situation it was a liver issue that was leaking fluid into a sack around the abdominal area so that would make sense because when you put these people on a lot of dark leafy greens all that potassium will push the fluid out and they’ll lose weight real fast that explained why they got results and the reason why the the adrenal case didn’t work with the belly flat is because that was a cortisol situation and the more exercise that they did the worse it would get so then I said okay the problem is not really in the hormones it’s in the glands the thyroid the adrenal the liver the ovary so I said well what would it take to fix the gland because no one’s talking about the gland how do you fix the gland well each gland needs different nutrients it responds differently to different foods and for example the the adrenal is the vitamin C reserve the iodine is needed for the thyroid and certain cruciferous vegetables are really good for the ovary So based on what’s happening to the gland I match the foods and the exercise that help heal the glands and that’s what developed the body type Concepts it started out pulling a string investigating going deeper and deeper and deeper into the real cause of why people develop the body type shapes and how to undo it and so I tested these theories I modified them I tweaked them for the last 20 years and came up with the body type program that I do now that I’ve had people all over the world come to my office and they fly in and we help them so that’s a little story of how I came up with the body types