Biobalance: The Acid/Alkaline Solution to the Food-Mood-Health Puzzle

Book has some minor dampness damage.

I don't give a flying ---- about the theory behind biobalance or anything else. He presents basically two ways of eating. Acid and alkaline. I experimented with eating acidic and within a day I had deteriorated to the point where I nearly passed out on the freeway. I switched to eating alkaline and 80% of my symptoms disappeared within one day and haven't returned in over a year. It fixed problems I didn't know I had. I thought all guys were supposed to blow their wives out of bed with gas. I thought BM's were supposed to come in 1000 pieces. I thought you were supposed to have heartburn every night. I thought you were supposed to feel like doo-doo in the AM. I am now a meat eatin' fat chewin' carnivore and proud of it. Don't eat according to a theory. Don't eat according to your cravings. Pay attention to what happens to your body after you eat certain foods. I know exactly how to bring all my symptoms back, I've done it a few times just to see what would happen. Just today I ate some oatmel cookies and nearly fell off the couch. Oh well, It'll be steak again tonight and all will be well. His idea of which foods are acid and which are alkaline differs from every alternative book I've read. I really don't care though. I've tried the others, even all raw, no bueno, for ME. On another level, the success I had with this gives me hope that there are true answers out there in life. There are things that actually work. I have desperately spent a lot of money on things that don't work. I don't know how the sellers of some of these products/ systems live woth themselves. You start thinking all kinds of wacky ideas when you're desperate. You start thinking there are no answers to anything. You start to think life is all chance and these are the cards I've been dealt so I 've just got to play my hand. My success with this made me feel relieved that there are answers. At least one anyway. Next on my list to fix, allergies. To the author, are you out there? I've got a million questions for you. I am a health professional. Please leave a review here with info on how to contact you if you are available. Thanks

I am an M.D. with a holistic practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I underwent BioBalance Therapy via phone under Dr. Wiley's care several years ago for a constellation of problems revolving around depression, anxiety, obesity and insomnia. It took Dr. Wiley less than 20 minutes to decipher my metabolic type, and 3 additional sessions (1 per month) to essentially eliminate my problems with my biocomptaible nutritional regimens (I am a bipolar female - if you read the book, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about). I routinely tell other M.D.s about BioBalance, but the overwhelming majority won't listen. They (as I once did) have the attention spans of a gnat; mesmerized in short-lived fashion by each worthless cure du jour that crosses their desks. It's truly criminal that the press and media have failed to pick up on this incredible (and thus far silent) revolution in health care. I often wonder how many more millions of people will have to needlessly suffer, and - yes, die - from lack of appropriate care. I have made BioBalance Therapy an integral part of my practice. I would urge you to read this incredible book, and to paraphrase the popular ad, "Just Do It!"

I had to laugh aloud at the reviewer who complained that too many pH tests were involved in determining his metabolic profile. No such tests are required in order to obtain an accurate, life-changing result. Perhaps the reviewer was confused by Dr. Wiley's use of polysyllabic words. Perhaps the reviewer forgot to read the book before he rated it. I would also like to respond to the reviewer who said that the information in Dr. Wiley's book was contrary to what he found on the internet. As everyone knows, the internet is always a definitive source for all information, as all sites are checked daily for accuracy. Obviously, this is not true. I would suggest that something as critical as one's total well-being be researched thoroughly from sources outside the internet. If the information in Dr. Wiley's book was so widely-known that all internet sites aggreed with his findings, not only would it be pointless to write a book on this subject, but everyone would be aware of how completely Biobalance can improve your mental and physical health. Dr. Wiley's work has not been called "revolutionary" because it corresponds with what people think they already know. I give Dr. Wiley's book 5 stars for both his accuracy and straight-forward approach. I can absolutely recommend this book in good conscience.

Dr. Rudolf A. Wiley's book (BIOBALANCE: Using Acid/Alkaline Nutrition to Solve the Food-Mood-Health Puzzle) is nothing short of revolutionary. It deconflicts virtually all of the contradictory advice being dispensed to the public by the nutritional community; advice which promotes nutritional regimens ranging from low fat/high fiber vegetarianism at one extreme, to high protein/high meat fare at the other.As this review is being written (May 2000), the debate among the so-called nutrition experts rages. Characteristically, it has been forced to fever pitch by the recent clash between Dr. Richard Adkins (an advocate of the high protein diet), and much of the mainstream dietary community (advocating low fat, high complex carbohydrate fare). As illustrated in his book, Dr. Wiley has resolved this debate in addition to others being waged within the nutritional community by demonstrating that different individuals metabolize foods in different fashion. Specifically, he has shown that while some individuals will thrive on regimens similar to the regimen advocated by Dr. Adkins, other individuals will require low fat, high complex carbohydrate fare. (For biochemical reasons made clear in his book, Dr. Wiley classifies the former and latter as acid and alkaline metabolic types respectively.) Conversely, Dr. Wiley has demonstrated that each of these regimens can be catastrophic to both physical and mental health when inappropriately applied. Hence, metabolic compatibility is the key to matching or pairing each individual with his or her biocompatible nutritional regimen in the quest for optimal performance.Dr. Wiley has gone on to show that some individuals (most notably, some premenopausal women) metabolize in different fashion at different times during a monthly cycle. These individuals require not 1, but 2 different nutritional regimens (each at a different time of month) to sustain optimal metabolic performance. Dr. Wiley concludes that this metabolic variability over time, is genetically driven, is not the result "deep-seated psychological trauma" or "stress," and (if untreated) is largely responsible for the severe and often icapacitating distress which accompanies menstrual disorders. In fact, Dr. Wiley's research concludes that many disorders currently classified as "psychological" or "mental" (including chronic fatigue syndrome) are instead the result of metabolic or acid/alkaline biochemical imbalances, and will thus not lend themselves to "talking things over with a sensitive mental health expert."Equally remarkable is the fact that Dr. Wiley has been able to accurately reduce metabolic identification to one simple test, namely caffeine tolerance. Specifically, he has shown that individuals who report a favorable response to caffeine will generally thrive on low fat, high carbohydrate fare, while individuals who are caffeine-intolerant must limit their carbohydrate intake, and must increase their

Until I read this book, I hurt from head to toe. I had fibromyalgia, hypoglycemia, carpal tunnel syndrome, arthralgias and mild depression. Since following the acidic biochemical type diet, I can control my hypoglycemia, depression and have no arthralgias and fibromyalgia symptoms. I have been following this diet for five months. When I deviate from this diet many undesirable symptoms return. Finding the correct diet for me involved trial and error. Three diets are explained in the book: an acidic, an alkaline and a mixed biochemical type. This book could be the key to your health. All that we hear today is, "Don't eat red meat!" Well, I need it and I eat it! Perhaps one of these diets could help you to feel better! Sonia Bouli