48: Stop Chasing the Perfect Diet - Marcia Murata

Now, I would love to dig a little more into your specific area of expertise.

So you describe everyone as bio-individual.

So for listeners who's new to that idea, how would you explain it in your practice? Like not just in theory, but in practice.

What does that mean? Okay.

Um, so my, um, my mentor is, her name is Julie Matthews and she is the, I think she's the mother of by individuality, but, um, you know, the term by individuality, um, was coined by Dr. Roger Williams.

I think he's the father of, uh, by individual nutrition.

or biochemical individuality.

So what I see in my practice usually is that people, regardless of their diagnosis, autoimmune diagnosis, they can react to certain foods that are considered healthy.

So for example, tomatoes, cucumbers, strawberries, avocado.

So biochemically, those foods contain compounds such as histamine, salicylates, or oxalates, and those may influence the release of these compounds in the body.

So some people just simply will not tolerate a lot of histamine, and some people will be very sensitive to oxalates.

I know there's a lot of sort of talk around whether oxalates are a real thing or not.

I know there's a lot of like, but it is real.

It exists.

And yes, it can affect people in several ways.

Susan Owens has been researching oxalates for 30 years.

She has a complete work on what oxalates are and how they can drive inflammation in some people.

So I think that what I see in my practice is exactly that.

Some people, they come to me afraid of food and they don't understand how it can be possible eating a banana can trigger migraines, for example, or like just by eating an avocado can trigger migraines or hives.

So And this is when I explained to them that we're all by individual.

We all have our own unique biology.

So we all have our own intolerances and sensitivities.

And those may not be exclusively tied to gluten-containing foods or dairy or casein.

It can happen with just any food, depending on who you are by individually.

how would you say the bio-individuality itself changed the way that you approach, let's say reintroduction compared to that more one size fits all AIP? Yeah.