18 Acidic Wastes: The Real Culprit
test indicates whether your stomach acid levels are excessive, defi cient,
or normal. (In the latter case, the individual should eat all kinds of pro-
tein so as to keep digestive acid levels stabilized.) If you have an excess
of stomach acid, you digest food too fast. In that case, you need the meat
eater’s diet. Red meat, by taking a long time to digest, slows excessively
speedy digestion. At the same time, acid levels stabilize because when
too rapid digestion slows down, the excessive acid is used up.
The grain eater’s diet addresses the opposite problem—too little
stomach acid. Grain, fowl, and fi sh, by speeding up the grain eater’s
sluggish digestion, make it possible for the grain eater’s defi cient acid
levels to complete digestion. Once the rate of digestion is normalized,THE METABOLIC-TYPE NIACIN TEST
To fi nd out whether his patients were grain eaters, meat eaters,
or had a balanced metabolism, Kelley had them answer hundreds
of questions in a bound book. But he also used a simpler test that
he said works equally well. Here it is:
➤ Swallow a 50 mg niacin tablet with water on an empty
stomach. The acid-based niacin on top of an excessive acid
level in the stomach is bound to cause a reaction. If within a
half hour your skin turns red and you feel very hot and itchy,
and possibly also experience vaginal itchiness, you know you
have a meat-eating metabolism. On the other hand, if the
niacin makes you feel warmer, have better color, and feel
euphoric, you have a balanced metabolism. If you feel
nothing after taking the niacin, you have a grain-eating
metabolism.
➤ If you feel the need to confi rm the fi rst test, take 8 g of
vitamin C a day three days in a row. If you feel depressed,
lethargic, exhausted, and irritable, or if you are a woman and
experience vaginal irritation, then you have a meat-eating
metabolism. If you don’t notice any change at all, you have a
balanced metabolism. If you feel an improvement—more
energy, better quality of sleep—you have a grain-eating
metabolism.^6