Richard Maurer - The Blood Code: Unlock the Secrets of Your Metabolism

The Blood Code

Unlock the Secrets
of Your Metabolism

Dr. Richard Maurer

Copyright 2014 by Dr. Richard Maurer

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At the heart of The Blood Code is a simple blood test panel. Test results are not to be feared; instead, they create a GPS coordinate that maps how your body is currently interacting with your diet and fitness habits. Once you know where you are, you can better choose the course that takes you toward disease recovery and real wellness. Here are some quotes from people, like you, after they acted upon their Blood Code.

After learning about my blood test results, I started doing the things that my body needed to stay healthy. As a result, I have maintained a better weight and noticed remarkable energy from the changes I made in my diet and exercise routine.

Tony Cohutt

I recently chose to follow my Blood Code rather than take medication, and I am glad I did. My HgbA1C went from 7.4 to now-nondiabetic levels. I am lighter and healthier, and I feel great.

Jim Gourhan

For years, I tried every thyroid prescription, thinking that if I just got the right one, Id feel better. Finally, with no change in my prior thyroid dosage, I used the Blood Code to guide my diet and exercise. Within a few months, I was coming out of the hole I had been in for half a decade. I wish I had found Dr. Maurers work sooner.

Alisa Marquette

I know now that eating rightand this involves eating far more fats than I was used tosupports me in my quest for the energy I need to enjoy the challenges of the day. Today, I am back to enjoying life while making fun plans for the future, and the future is now.

Sarah Goodwin

This approach was completely different and more on point. With the right guidance, I could easily change my food habits. Change is never easy; however, when you know it is necessary, there is no other choice. Choosing to live a longer and healthier life is a no-brainer. Thank you.

Connie Koengeter

I saw my mother go down the road of dementia after a decade of diabetes and medications. So when my doctor said we should watch my blood sugars as they started to go up, I wanted to act. I saw Dr. Maurer and followed the Blood Code diet; now, my high blood sugars are gone. I feel better, and know I will live a better life in my future.

Jeanne Tarbox

After being diagnosed with sleep apnea, and unable to lose an extra ten pounds, my blood work showed I was prediabetic. With this information I was able to target my diet and exercise and lose seventeen pounds, resolve my sleep apnea problem, and have more energy.

Patty Hagge

I was heading toward type 2 diabetes a few years ago, until I took charge. Dr. Maurers Blood Code is brilliant; I was able to turn it all around, and my blood sugar levels are normal again.

Christina Hall

Contents

Appendix

How to Use This Book

I have written a book that walks the line between an educational, science-based text and an accessible self-help guide. Some of you will read the book cover to cover, but most of you will jump to the sections that are important to you at the moment.

Let me explain.

After the introduction, you will get right into self-discovery work. Steps helps you interpret what these results mean for you, like learning what the gauges mean on the dashboard of your car.

Steps .

is written for those who want to know more about what is going on under the hood. I think this information is important, but not critical. (You can drive your car without knowing the details of internal combustion.)

Ultimately, this is a guidebook, but the landscape is not a fixed locationit is you. As your environment, habits, and age change, different parts of the book will be more important than others, so feel free to jump around. Further helpful resources and updates can be found at TheBloodCode.com.

Enjoy your journey toward improved and empowered health and well-being.

Dr. Richard Maurer

Introduction: The Six Steps

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Khalil Gibran

If you are like the patients I see in my office, you might be interested in reading The Blood Code because you have a history of heart disease in your family, and its beginning to worry you; or, your weight is inching up, or maybe youve learned that you have high blood sugar or type 2 diabetes. Perhaps you are proactively searching for ways to optimize your energy, health, and disease prevention. Regardless, by choosing to read this book, you have taken a major step in reclaiming power over your own health, metabolism, and weight. Congratulations!

Research over the past generation has conclusively linked the prevention of chronic diseaseslike cancer, cardiovascular disease, and dementiato good dietary and exercise habits. Weight gain and blood sugar problems like type 2 diabetes are even more causally linked to your diet and fitness. Five of the top seven causes of death in the United States are from conditions inarguably related to your diet and fitness activities, so clearly, lifestyle counts. Good diet and exercise is important. But what is good, and just what does that mean for you?

Authorities claim to have the answer for everyone: Eat a low-fat diet, exercise three days a week, eat olive oil and more (but not too much) fish. The more-commercialized celebrity health-care magicians offer to cure your weight problem with a magic pill, a superfood, or a 3-minute workout. Medical advice as it pertains to your diet and fitness regimen has been excessively dumbed down to provide one blanket recommendation to the masses. Eminence-based medical advice, when the validity of a treatment relies upon the fame of the authority, has wrongly advised us on the daily decisions we make about our individual and families food, fitness, and nutrition.

After twenty years of treating patients who have been confused, misled, and harmed by conflicting and often dead-wrong advice about how to treat a symptom, I hit a wall. I have helped patients to dramatically reduce their heart disease risk, resolve their type 2 diabetes, and recover their optimal weight and energy, all by recommending rational lifestyle changes based upon available medical tests. But patients remain perplexed as to why so many medical authorities, sometimes even their own health-care providers, push advice that clearly makes them less healthy. They ask me, Why do I hear medical advice that contradicts what is working for me? I have responded, in part, by writing this book, to teach and discuss a rational, self-driven program that relies on proven health metrics. My personal interest in health and metabolism helps drive my academic and professional vocation.