“Eat Right 4 Your Type” came out in 1996 and quickly rose to bestseller status. The book proposed a novel idea: you could determine your best diet from your blood type. Type O, the most common blood type, was the protein type, being told to eat plenty of meat. People started varying their diets based on this book. The idea that blood type would suggest your best dietary approach was simple and easy to follow. But was it true?
To answer that, researchers played catch-up, looking into whether blood type had anything to do with the best diet. Type O, considered to be the oldest blood type, dated back to tribes of primarily meat eaters according to prevailing thought. But after much research took place, major doubt was cast upon the book’s dietary theories. Regardless, the book remained popular and some health practitioners still follow it, even though the evidence is lacking. Published in a review study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition seventeen years later, researchers considered 16 articles across 1415 references to seek the truth. Their conclusion was: “No evidence currently exists to validate the purported health benefits of blood type diets.“ (1)
Although the book’s premise had insufficient evidence, it gained popularity because the author’s arguments seemed credible, and the pathway to determining your diet was simple and easy. While some people are not willing to change their diet to become healthier, some others are willing to jump at the latest fad. Following the researched evidence is better than either option. What is someone to do who would like to eat better and be healthier, is willing to put forth the effort, but doesn’t know where to turn?
Well, be thankful that you live in these times. The genetic code, once a mystery, can now be analyzed for anyone. There is even a new term for medical care based upon results of personal genetic testing: it is called “precision medicine.” The idea is simple: we are all obviously different, and our genetics determine those differences. Eat Right 4 Your Type was an attempt at precision medicine at a time when genetic testing was not available or even thought possible. Research showed it was a failed attempt, but we have to give the author credit for a nice try. Genetic testing is a game changer.
We can say that certain health practices are good for everyone, regardless of genetics. But for those looking to achieve maximum health, precision medicine is vital to reach it. One size doesn’t fit all. While we all share about 99.9% identical genes, the 0.1% difference makes us unique — not just in appearance, but also in the way we respond to the environment.
Eat Right 4 Your Microbiome
You have a lot more genes in your body than are from your body. There is a massive colony of other genetics inside of you that you don’t thrive without — your gut flora. This colony has a major effect on your health. Precision medicine can be used to analyze your microbiome — the community of microorganisms made up of bacteria, fungi and viruses living in your gut — and suggest dietary changes uniquely beneficial to you. In a technical article published in the Chemical Engineering Journal, researchers at the University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, U.K. conducted metabolic modeling — a mathematical representation of the complex metabolic function of an entire gut microbiome — to determine the effect of a patient’s current microbiome on health, suggest dietary changes, and create customized probiotics. (2) They built Genome-Scale Metabolic Models (GSMMs) to test probiotics for therapeutic potential. They used Flux Balance Analysis (FBA) to simulate environmental changes that would be needed to customize probiotic treatments for the individual. All this analysis requires tremendous computing power — much more than was available even a few years ago.
Moore than you imagine
In computing, there is an informal “law”, called Moore’s Law, which says that computing power doubles approximately every two years. So in one decade we saw approximately 32 times the computing power (2 to the 5th power) develop. Since 1996, our computing power is 23,170 times more powerful per Moore’s Law. Modern microchips, the heart of computer processing, are now made by a complex process called photolithography, where light is used to etch a microscopically thin layer of patterns onto a silicon wafer, which create layers of transistors and connections. The worldwide battle for AI supremacy is fought for which companies in which nations can make those layers even thinner and more efficient. The ultimate limit would appear to be when that layer can be one molecule thick — we still have a way to go yet. But if you’ve noticed the Artificial Intelligence explosion over just a year’s time, you get an idea of how fast the computing power is expanding. Genetic analysis is one major beneficiary of this technology.
A tailored solution without drawbacks
How about your body proper — your own body’s genes? This is where precision medicine is a game changer — when it precisely matches you. To quote the National Human Genome Research Institute, “Personalized medicine is an emerging practice of medicine that uses an individual’s genetic profile to guide decisions made in regard to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease. Knowledge of a patient’s genetic profile can help doctors select the proper medication or therapy and administer it using the proper dose or regimen.” This definition applies to both conventional and natural medicine. Of course the pharmaceutical industry will be using genomic modeling to produce pharmaceutical drugs, which still haven’t managed (as you can see from the warning labels on every drug bottle) to avoid significant, numerous, and dangerous side effects. But natural health practitioners can utilize this technology to personalize natural medicine, getting precision results without side effects. In this time of AI, both forms of medicine have bright prospects ahead, but so long as conventional medicine avoids a whole mind, brain, and body approach, looking to influence one metabolic pathway at the expense of others, and assuming it can ignore the myriad of secondary metabolic reactions that obviously occur in the human body, conventional medicine remains a win-lose proposition. Natural medicine, especially when fine tuned with genomic analysis, is a win-win, boosting health across the entire body.
Published in Genes (basel) researchers from the University of Salerno, Italy consider the potential of personalized, precision medicine in managing some degenerative diseases. They explain that modern technology can now examine how genes, epigenetic changes, aging, nutrition, microbiome, and other environmental factors affect health and chronic diseases. (3) The human genome contains about 3 billion bases when considering the coding and non-coding regions of DNA. Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) identifies about 3-4 million variants per individual. This gives you an idea of the complexity of the task of WGS. The researchers highlight Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, both of which “are clinically heterogeneous disorders with a strong genetic component that can present variable clinical courses, which prevent the application of the same treatment to all patients, even when they have the same pathology.” WGS has the potential to model how the genome responded to conditions over time, leading to the disease, and what environmental factors could potentially alter or reverse the process.
Yesterday was the time of one size fits all. You have this disease, so you follow this protocol, get this treatment, and maybe use drugs that will cause a new set of problems. Today is the opportunity to get personalized treatment that your specific genes will respond to best. For many reasons, many medical practitioners are years behind in their knowledge and treatment options. That’s partly because technology moves at incredible speed — it’s not easy to keep up. But you need treatment that is personal to you. Only settle for the best.
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Personalized precision
Let’s look at this in more detail. Personalized means it’s custom for each person. Everybody is unique — the only two that are exactly the same are identical twins. Even in those cases, their genes can be different, depending on the environment epigenetically turning on and off different genes — so even identical twins are not the same unless they’re in the exact same environment all the time: the exact same mental, emotional, and physical environment.
Precision
Precision can be defined as exactness. Precision is the degree to which exactness is applied.
If one is shooting an arrow at a target and misses the bullseye, but hits the exact same area each time — in scientific terms this is called high precision, low accuracy.
On the other hand, if one hits the bullseye every time and the arrow hits the exact same area every time — this is high precision with high accuracy. This is the purpose of personalized precision medicine.
Hitting the bullseye every time
So look at natural medicine from four different points of view. For example, in taking supplements there are four categories of how they are taken:
1. The shotgun effect. This is the way most people take supplements on their own. They take this for this and that for that because it’s good for this and it’s good for that the problem with the approach is its neither precise nor accurate. They’re doing it just because they heard this is good for this and that is good for that.
2. The natural or alternative practitioner effect. This is when people go to practitioners, and because they have more knowledge and more experience they do what the practitioner tells them — yet the practitioner still works off the same model, taking this for this, and that for that: their knowledge is greater and their experience greater, but is still neither precise nor accurate.
3. Natural or alternative practitioner precision. This is when a genetic workup is done on the person, analyzing over 4000 genes, and now the diet, the lifestyle, and even the supplementation can be precise to that individual. This means if a certain gene is not 100% functional, certain vitamins, minerals, and cofactors can be given to increase the function of that particular gene. This is highly precise, but that leaves out the most important factor, which is the mind-brain-body connection.
4. Natural or alternative personalized precision holistic medicine, meaning every part of their being is analyzed and a part of the recommended outcome. This not only includes the precise analysis of the genetics, but also takes into consideration the power of the mind-brain-body connection, which signals all of the hundred trillion cell community. The subconscious and the conscious mind control up to 95% of the signaling from the brain to every cell in the body. This is analyzed with advanced 3-D brain imaging technology. Without this included in the practitioner’s analysis, you would get only 10% accuracy because you’re not addressing all the factors, especially the most important factor, which is the mind-brain connection which controls the hundred trillion cell community of your body.
At Revolution Health & Fitness we’ve been addressing every patient for the last 40 years from this personalized precision and holistic point of view. This is truly the one and only game changer because we’re targeting the cause that produces all effects.
From advanced cancer to professional athlete
No matter what a person’s goals are — either to heal from stage four cancer or to optimize their performance on the playing field — the approach is the same at Revolution Health & Fitness: personalized precision holistic medicine.
Being all that you were created to be
If you desire complete healing of a disease so that it never comes back and you’re better than you ever were even before the disease; if you need to be even faster, quicker, and stronger in your sport, with the ability to heal twice as fast as you did before; perhaps you are the top executive of a fortune 500 company and you need to stay sharp, focused, creative, and on top of your field — it all comes down to personalized precision holistic medicine.
We treat all of these and more at Revolution Health & Fitness. Here is the response of one of our top level executive members:
“I am so sharp, so clear and focused now. I can do twice as much work in half as much time. I have never seen the color green like I see it now! My brain is processing at a whole new level.”
The greatest fear with advanced disease
When we treat patients that come in with advanced cancer, not only is the disease their greatest fear, but even if they do overcome the disease with conventional treatment they’re always thinking, “I hope it doesn’t come back.” This is a constant stress, a constant fear that continues to weaken their immune system and compromise their healing no matter how good they feel.
Those who have become free are truly free
At Revolution Health & Fitness, when we address each person with our personalized precision holistic medicine, and we balance their mind-brain-body connection; when we analyze their genetic pattern; when we optimize their genetic outcome with epigenetic factors in custom diet and supplementation — along with personalized lifestyle, instructions unique to their mind-brain-body environment — not only do these people heal; they stay healed. They are free from the fear of the disease because they are so excited about living their optimized new life. The old life quickly passes away like a forgotten memory.
You will know the Truth and the Truth will set you…
…free — in your mind which is negatively controlling your brain your emotions, and every cell of your hundred trillion cell body.
What is Truth?
It’s more than a fact, it’s more than physical. It’s more than the brain and it’s more than the mind. It’s of the spirit, it is of the Family of God that you were created from.
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(2) Alejandra Rojas López, Matteo Barberis. Metabolic modeling for probiotic and prebiotic production to treat inflammatory disorders. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024; 502: 157852 DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2024.157852
(3) Strianese O, Rizzo F, Ciccarelli M, Galasso G, D’Agostino Y, Salvati A, Del Giudice C, Tesorio P, Rusciano MR. Precision and Personalized Medicine: How Genomic Approach Improves the Management of Cardiovascular and Neurodegenerative Disease. Genes (Basel). 2020 Jul 6;11(7):747. doi: 10.3390/genes11070747. PMID: 32640513; PMCID: PMC7397223.
(not used) Cusack L, De Buck E, Compernolle V, Vandekerckhove P. Blood type diets lack supporting evidence: a systematic review. Am J Clin Nutr. 2013 Jul;98(1):99-104. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.113.058693. Epub 2013 May 22. PMID: 23697707.
Precision medicine and inflammatory diseases: Power of metabolic modelling to generate personalized probiotics
