Biochemical Individuality

This book was a gift to our 24-year-old grand-daughter. Even though we were a little late ordering it for her birthday, it arrived in plenty of time to be enjoyed on her special day. She does her best to eat all of the right & healthy foods. She was very excited to have this book. She indicated that it is very helpful to her in guiding her towards reaching her diet goals.

While I knew we were unique right down to our fingerprints, until I read "Biochemical Individuality," by Roger J. Williams I didn't realize just how different we all are. Even identical twins are not identical biochemically. People have varying sizes and shapes of different organs, such as hearts and livers, different enzymatic, endocrine and excretion patterns, different reactions to drugs, different needs as to the amount of various vitamins and minerals they require and more. The author details the studies that have been done that confirm these differences.While varying in size, I always thought organs such as the stomach, heart, brain and liver all looked pretty much alike. I was wrong. The pictures of the varying shapes and sizes of numerous body organs was truly amazing. Modern medicine has a one size fits all approach to medicine and nutrition. For example,they do not factor in individual differences in nutritional needs for varying individuals. This is where the best book of the many I've read on diet comes in. "The Metabolic Typing Diet," by William Wolcott details individual diets for different metabolic types with with a wide range of nutritional needs. That is why the high carbohydrate Dean Ornish diet works so well for one person, while the Adkins diet works so well for someone else. Wolcott was a student of and lab assistant to Williams.

Fantastic read, anyone out there not happy with being treated the same as everyone else this book is a must read. Very good for any life coaches aor holistic coaches.

A very important book that should be read with the author's, 'You Are Extraordinary'. The philosophical implications are very important for anyone considering himself to have an intellect. Broad epistemological strokes. Top ten books.

It details all the different composition of human and animal body and how this vary from one individual to another, for example, in a study with rabbits, the contents of albumina in blood rate from this range to that range concluding that not everybody have the same biochemistry. So what the author does in a creative manner is register all this values of different components like hormones, vitamins, etc. in the body and how it differs from one person to another.

Love this book! It was recommend by my functional nutrition coach.

Easy to understand and lends to a greater understanding of the human body and the value of nutrients.

Thank you! A wonderful insight into the world of genetics and how they determine what we are capable of eating and doing.