Marcello Menapace
M&Ms Consulting Ltd., UK
Title: Physical and genetic constitution: A new biotype synthesis
Biography
Biography: Marcello Menapace
Abstract
Statement of the Problem: Historically, medicine has always looked at humanity as distinguished in various constitutional
types. Constitutional Medicine, with its tenets, was the main form of Western medicine until the 1950s, is now
included in more modern forms of medicine such as Evolutionary medicine and is the basis of all non-Western (Eastern)
medicines: Unani, TCM, Ayurveda, etc. While the number of somatotypes varies according to tradition, the fundamental
concepts remain the same. On this basis, dietary recommendations have been developed for each body type, in the past
as in the present. In the 1920s a new division of humanity has opened the doors to modern chemical testing: the ABO
blood type. Women and men are divided into four blood groups: A, B, AB and O. The blood type diet has risen from this
division and spread worldwide. It is herewith proposed a new synthesis between these two biotypologies. The Western
biotype classification has been used for simplicity and for traditional purposes. As per all currently known constitutional
medicines, dietary advices are tailored to the physical constitution and now, with the ABO grouping, also to genetic
constitution (biochemical determinants). The result is a new nutritional system, which takes into account both the welltested
traditional suggestions (seasonal foods, etc) and the contemporary biological medicine. Food, as in all Oriental and
traditional medicines, becomes the primary treatment for ailments and for the maintenance of health. The new system
will be reviewed in light of recent advances in nutritional sciences.