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the processes of digestion and assimilation of food, elimination of waste
products, and repair and rebuilding of body cells. The sympathetic
nerves, on the other hand, protect the body from the environment out-
side the body by speeding up the fl ow of hormones from the thyroid,
adrenals, and pituitary. This accelerates the heartbeat, so the blood
circulates more rapidly, and more ox ygen fl ows into the lungs. All these
actions speed up the thought processes and supply the body with bursts
of energy needed in earlier times for fi ghting, hunting, and outmaneu-
vering enemies.
The sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves have another func-
tion. Besides regulating the rate of organ function, each acts as a brake
on the other if it speeds up too much. The reason these two halves of
the autonomic nervous system act in opposite ways is that their acid-
alkaline ratios are different. The parasympathetic nerves are predomi-
nantly alkaline while the sympathetic nerves are more acidic. When
the acid-alkaline balance between these two nerve branches is normal
they keep the metabolic functions in balance. But when one half of the
autonomic nervous system exerts too much control over the other half,
some organs function at too great a speed while others function too
slowly. In a few individuals, however, the parasympathetic and sympa-
thetic nerves regulate organ function at about the same rate. These
people have balanced metabolisms and so can digest all kinds of pro-
tein. Besides the balanced metabolic type, there are two other meta-
bolic types: the parasympathetic dominant, the meat eaters, and the
sympathetic dominant, the grain, fi sh, and fowl eaters.
Kelley’s theory on metabolic food typing was built primarily on the
research of Emanuel Revici, M.D., and George Watson, Ph.D., both of
whom held that the imbalance of certain cellular functions was the
cause of disease. Revici believed that in some individuals the regenera-
tion (anabolism) and breakdown (catabolism) of cells don’t proceed at
the same rate. When this disparity occurs, according to Revici, cellular
membranes deteriorate, making it possible for cancer and the AIDS
virus to enter cells through tears and holes in cellular membranes. He
used injections of fatty acid molecular chains to heal damaged cell
membranes. This brought about an equilibrium between the break-
down of cells and their regeneration (catabolic/anabolic function).
Watson, on the other hand, based his metabolic classifi cation on the
rate at which cells oxidize (burn food for energy). He believed that in