What is The Hauser Diet?

The Hauser Diet is a scientifically determined approach to a practical, livable, and individualized lifestyle plan that can optimize your health, increase your energy, and help you maintain your ideal weight and youthful figure!

Each and every one of us has a unique individual physiology requiring different types of food—we each have our own Diet Type!

Did you ever wonder why some people appear to have really fast metabolisms, enabling them to eat everything and never gain weight, where others' metabolisms are so slow that they eat like birds and never lose weight? The answer lies in the manner in which each person extracts energy from his or her food. Lions, for instance, will get more energy out of protein and fat sources of food than vegetarian sources. Giraffes are the opposite. In other words, a lion will eat meat because the lion is able to obtain more energy from protein (meat) than carbohydrates (fruits, for example).

Thus the lion naturally eats more meat and is what we call a "carnivore" or meat-eater. These and other interesting facts occur because of Individual Diet Type. After years of testing patients' diet types at Caring Medical we determined that people fit into five categories. Kerri Slivka a nutritionist at Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Illinois, helped us determine where these diet breakdowns fit into the animal kingdom:


The Hauser Diets

Lion – 60% protein / 25% fat / 15% carbs
Otter – 50% protein / 25% fat / 25% carbs
Bear – 50% protein/fat & 50% carbs
Monkey – 35% protein/fat & 65% carbs
Giraffe – 20% protein/fat & 80% carbs


Ask The Expert

When asked what would happen if an animal were to eat the wrong type of diet, Kerri answers, "For horses (this would apply to captive zoo equids as well), excess starch (grain compared to hay) can decrease the pH of the GI tract, which can lead to gas which can lead to lactate absorption and metabolic acidosis. This can cause colic, diarrhea and laminitis. In domestic cats, high carbohydrate (cereal) diets increase blood glucose and insulin. It can predispose cats to obesity and diabetes. In domestic dogs (and I would apply this to some bear species) high fat diets."

"Nutrition can also affect reproduction as well. Weight issues for the females can lead to difficulties in getting pregnant, giving birth or laying eggs. In males, if they are too chubby to mount the female, weight is an issue too. Beyond the physical, imbalanced nutrients (low vitamin E, carotenoids, fatty acids, for example) can reduce fertility. Viability of eggs can be affected by any number of nutrients."

So as you can see, eating the appropriate diet for your diet type can significantly alter your health.

The Hauser Diet is a diet protocol that you can be tested for which particular Hauser Diet Type you are. Then when your health changes, you can get retested to see if your particular needs have changed. So in The Hauser Diet we are saying you can know for sure what diet you need to follow and as long as you feel great! If you stop feeling great, we’ll figure out why and tell you how to adjust it. Today you may be a Lion, tommorrow a Bear, the Hauser Diet adjusts to you!

With over 15 years of clinical experience, we have developed a program that allows us to individualize diet plans for people who want to start on the road to wellness now. We will show you how through testing, a diet system can be created to provide you with an individualized plan for weight loss, energy, and feeling better! Its called "Diet Typing" and its goal is to find the foods that will give you the maximum amount of energy. Diet Typing involves blood tests which determine the best diet for an individual: a Blood pH test, Modified Glucose Tolerance Test, and an additional test maybe ordered - the Food Allergy Profile. If you are interested in getting Hauser Diet Typing give us a call or make an appointment online!