Body Type, Endomorph, Mesomorph and Ectomorph
 

Anyone believes in body types, and different diets according to your body type? I read about them recently and for Endomorph (which is my body type as my hips are larger than my shoulder, and lose with difficulty but am a fast gainer) they recommend low carb diets, as this body type is insulin resistant and has very little tolerance to carbs. This made sense to me as I couldn't lose on other diets where people of other body types say they can lose easily on, e.g very low far vegan etc...
Anyone has thought on this?

Sort of. People can be fat and muscular, naturally carry little fat but be muscular, carry little muscle but be lean, be fat with very little muscle. And then there's pear, apple, subcutaneous vs. visceral fat. So I think having three groups to sort people into is a little tight. But certainly people favour one or the other parent in the way their body turns out, and identical twins separated in childhood are more likely to have their twin's body type than that of members of their adoptive families, although that might be partly because we're all swimming in the same pool these days when it comes to access to junk food etc.

To me, the question is like asking if there are labradors, bulldogs, and grayhounds. There clearly are, but each can still be put in worse shape by the wrong diet.

More on point--insulin resistance likely has more to do with personal fat threshold, this is an idea where once subcutaneous fat is sort of "maxed out" fat starts to gather ectopically, being stored in the liver and visceral area, contributing to insulin resistance. So by the classifications you gave, an endomorph would have a higher total body fat before this started happening than an ectomorph would-the ectomorph might actually get in trouble sooner, on a high sugar diet. There are lots of mouse studies where compromising subcutaneous fat storage leads to fatty liver and insulin resistance, a roadblock to developing a safe diet pill.

Yes the theory is some people can be combination of one or two types.

Dr Berg also have body types seminar

this is the full one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m-R4RqRQqM&t=663s

but a summary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s54ioy8f7ek

Adrenal body type
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkoai6HCMcg

how to eat for your body type: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvOwfkg9p2o&t=177s


pancreas body type

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhf1JAqdeXI

The same diet should be adequate for all individuals of the same species. An adequate diet allows individuals to develop fully. On the other hand, development can be stunted through (generational) epigenetics, with chronic deficiency for example.

Take a look at the various photos: http://journeytoforever.org/farm_li...e/pricetoc.html

In every example of traditional populations where they eat their traditional diet, they all have excellent features, nothing out of place, no particular deformation. And in every example of the same traditional populations that eat a modern diet, we can instanly recognize certain traits we see regardless of body type or culture or whatever. Overbite for example does not exist in traditional populations, unless they eat a modern diet. We eat a modern diet, overbite is common. Dental arrangement is due to skeletal differences, and this is due to (generational) epigenetics - the effects of a modern diet on a developing human.

I put (generational) in parenthesis because epigenetics also occurs in the same lifetime, but with different effects. For example, an adult who adopts a modern diet will suffer, but won't get the skeletal deformations seen in children. These deformations are due to the effects of a modern diet on growth, and the most growth occurs during a child's growth over several years.

Now imagine certain traits and differences that don't stand out much, but when affected by epigenetics, get amplified. Compare overbite and crowded teeth. Normally, neither exist, but when amplified through epigenetics, subtle differences in teeth shapes produce significantly different overall dental arrangements. Now imagine the same thing happens with other tissues and organs, we get what we call body types. Normally, body types don't exist, we're all pretty much designed genetically to grow into the same overall shape - human. Think of any other species, all individuals of the same species look pretty much the same, it's hard to find any special difference in body shape. The exception is animals we use for various purposes, where we breed them for or against certain traits.

The point is, every example of bad health and deformations in that book is due to the same thing - a modern diet. How is it possible that the same cause produces so many different outcomes in so many different individuals? It's the small and subtle individual differences that get amplified through epigenetics, especialy chronic deficiency or poisoning, especially in children.

Conversely, every case of bad health due to a modern diet, the same positive effects are produced by the same diet - a low-carb diet. Why? Because a low-carb diet removes the thing that causes deformations and bad health for all humans - sugar and wheat primarily, carbs generally.

As a side note, generational epigenetics make us more sick with every new generation, ending with sterility in the last generation. Accordingly, if we compare two individuals of different generations (one of first generation, the other of third generation, for example), we will see differences with insulin sensitivity, or rather with the current poisoning level. The subtle differences will be amplified further with each new generation. Also, the degree or level of chronic deficiency or poisoning will affect each new generation accordingly, so that a lower level will correlate with better health and vice versa. Then, health correlates with fitness, better health better fitness.

With insulin and obesity, insulin makes us fat. The more insulin, the fatter we are. With each new generation, the more insulin, the fatter our children. With body types, we consider fuel partioning, where the level of insulin determines where energy goes - to lean tissue or to fat tissue. If more goes to fat tissue, less goes to lean tissue. Overall growth, especially bones, will also be affected this way, so that obesity also correlates with shorter stature. Other hormones, especially gender hormones testosterone and estrogen, also determine specific tissue distribution.

Everything that determines our shape, is affected by (generational) epigenetics.

That's just how I see it, not necessarily how it actually works.

To expand the discussion.....
When I studied nutrition and feeding livestock, many tables were provided specifying the range of nutrients fed on a daily bases for optimal growth, by expected adult size.

When visiting a farm that raised a work horse, the Belgium, the feeding regime was much different than what I encountered years later at a barn feeding future Thoroughbred race horses. Different body structures, different maturity age, different feeding regime.

A point of interest, the TB foals , one year of weanlings, all developed epiphicitis. Their joints were enlarged and painful. All growing too fast. The amount of feed specifically grain was pushing these babies faster than was a healthy rate.

Do we see this in humans??? Im honestly curious about the balance of proteins to calories in our children.

My 2 children are very different. One with a BMI of 17.8 and other is 21...... each built very different.

One like an Arab horse, sort of.
One a TB.
And me-- a Belgium.

How to meet the optimal needs nutritionally? Pediatritians follow a growth chart, a sharp up or sharp down is a heads up to look for a problem...... but little to no info on the feeding of children.

Feeding the adult body is easier.