The Hauser Otter Diet is a modified high protein and fat, low carb diet. Many of you who have come to Caring Medical for Diet Typing test out to be Otters. This means that you have a tendency toward an acidic blood pH and are a fast oxidizer of food, especially carbohydrates.

So how is the Otter supposed eat?

The Otters should fill up their plates with protein-containing foods and vegetables, with very few other carbohydrates. We are talking about meat here, people! This means that you need to include beef, chicken, turkey, fish, eggs, pork, or lamb at every meal! Most people’s diets are completely devoid of vegetables. When we say vegetables, we mean that you should include foods such as asparagus, broccoli, eggplant, green beans, peas, carrots, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, tomatoes, or dark leafy greens at your lunches and dinners. Carbohydrates, particularly simple carbohydrates like white bread, pasta, and rice, make the blood pH more acidic. They are also metabolized the most quickly of all the macronutrients, therefore making the Otters’ fast oxidative rates worse.

So what? If an Otter eats the wrong foods, he/she may experience things like:

• weight gain or inability to lose weight
• mental fog
• fatigue
• malaise
• concentration problems
• lack of energy
• joint pain
• low libido
• eventual elevated lipids and blood sugar levels
• high blood pressure

These are the issues that many of our patients come to Caring Medical with! Could there be a connection? You bet there is! If you feed the body the wrong fuel, it will not function optimally, and consequently will start to break down – often producing some of the symptoms mentioned above.

So what about bread? What about cereal?

In counseling patients on the Otter Diet, we find that these are two of most commonly asked questions! Why? Because in our experience, Otters are carb-junkies! After a nice Otter dinner, many an-Otter has been known to pour a bowl of cereal at night before bed time.

I recently attended a BBQ where six of the people attending the party were Hauser Otters, including the hosts. The Otters who were following the Otter Diet (and looked great, by the way), put meat and veggies on their plates. Those who were still struggling went for the potato chips, buns, and desserts! And what did I see when I opened up the hosts’ freezer to get some ice? You got it – CARBS!

Their kitchen was loaded with these foods that are bad for Otters:

• sugar free fudgsicles
• low carb coffee cake
• low carb bagels
• low carb candies
• canned fruit
• cereal
• white bread
• sugar-free coffee creamer
• 4 kinds of Diet sodas, to name a few things!

Otters, put down the breads and cereals and nobody gets hurt! It’s as simple as this, carbs, and even “pseudo carbs” like those mentioned above, are not healthy food choices for the Otter. Carbs are carbs! Otters need, and we mean need, protein and vegetables. These are the nutrients that best feed the Otter physiology. Put in the right fuel, get the best results.

Otters who drop the carbs and pick up the protein and vegetables come in telling us things like –

“Wow, I have not had this much energy since I was 22 years old!”

“Amazing, I started religiously following the Otter Diet, and my pain is 50% gone without doing anything else.”

“I know my husband is happy, I now have a sex drive that I thought was gone due to the aging factor!”

“Thank you – I have never felt better!”

What do I do now?

If you have not gotten Diet Typing, but feel you might be a Hauser Otter, come in and find out. You don’t want to put the wrong fuel into your body. You can know for sure based on the laboratory tests from Hauser Diet Typing. There is no guessing.

If you have already had Hauser Diet Typing and have fallen off the Otter wagon, it’s time to get back on it! We’d be happy to consult with you and recheck your blood pH to find out where you fall right now. Chances are, if you are not achieving the results that you feel you want, then most likely you are not following the Otter Diet to its maximum potential or something in your body may have changed. Come in and find out. Don’t just sit there thinking there is no hope. We’ve seen it many times over – if you eat great, chances are you’ll feel great!