Blood Type Diet: Ask a question.

[Sprocket]

I will be happy to anser questions about the Blood Type Diet. I'm not as well versed as many others who post on the Blood Type Diet message board, but I will give it my best effort.

To start off, I recommend reading some balanced reviews on the diet:

You can find several links to published media on the diet, here:

http://www.dadamo.com/media.htm

It's a good a place as any, to get started.

[NicoMoon]

I will be happy to anser questions about the Blood Type Diet. I'm not as well versed as many others who post on the Blood Type Diet message board, but I will give it my best effort.

To start off, I recommend reading some balanced reviews on the diet:

You can find several links to published media on the diet, here:

http://www.dadamo.com/media.htm

It's a good a place as any, to get started.

Thanks, Sprocket, I'll be reading it over my morning coffee. Which I'll likely find to be wrong for my blood type!! Say it isn't sooooooo!!!

[Sprocket]

Thanks, Sprocket, I'll be reading it over my morning coffee. Which I'll likely find to be wrong for my blood type!! Say it isn't sooooooo!!!

I can answer that real quick for you. :D What's your blood type?

[Sprocket]

Here is an excellent review of Dr. D'Adamo's BTD theory, from

The Nutrition Practitioner, 2:1, 47-49, Feb 2000.
By Simon Martin, BSc (Hons), FSMT, LCSP (Phys), ANLP

http://www.dadamo.com/knowbase/citations/citation3.htm

I post a small excerpt from this review:

In an article of this length, it is impossible to give the full picture of the impact of blood group on health. D'Adamo's conclusions about the non-transfusion significance of blood type are routinely challenged. Critics tend to miss the point: D'Adamo has not invented this association, he has found it in the scientific and medical literature. What he has done is draw together research from many disciplines. The facts needed to draw even minor conclusions are spread throughout many different areas of science. (Bolding emphasis mine.)Recent research,for example, has shown that the Pima Indians of the Gila River reservation in Arizona have what appears to be a genetic tendency to insulin resistance and have the highest rates of diabetes and diabetic-related disease and mortality in the world. I attempted to find out the Pima's blood type. Based on D'Adamo's work, it would surely be type O. Hunter-gatherers - even modern ones - do very badly on diets high in refined carbohydrates, particularly wheat, which is what the reservation Pima's live on. Wheat germ agglutinate is an insulin mimic, which adds to the picture. It is known that a separate group of Pima, who still live in the mountains, and eat a more traditional type O diet, do not have the same rates of diabetes - despite their genetic predisposition to insulin resistance. In order to confirm the Pima blood group, I contacted University of Arizona biochemists, biologists, anthropologists, evolutionary ecologists (all in separate departments), a grad student doing field research on diabetes and pregnancy with the Pima, the National Institutes of Health, and the US National Institute for Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Disorders. Finally, a Native American health researcher at the University of Mexico referred me to the lead scientist of the NIDDKD's research centre on the reservation, who referred me to chart in a 1992 paper in the American Journal of Human Genetics. Yes, the Pima are type O.

[NicoMoon]

I can answer that real quick for you. :D What's your blood type?

No clue! That's probably why I never did the diet! :rotate:

[SpareOOM]

I will be happy to anser questions about the Blood Type Diet. I'm not as well versed as many others who post on the Blood Type Diet message board, but I will give it my best effort.

To start off, I recommend reading some balanced reviews on the diet:

You can find several links to published media on the diet, here:

http://www.dadamo.com/media.htm

It's a good a place as any, to get started.


For me the Blood diet is a little too: what came first: the chicken or the egg.

Blood=DNA=Which influences health (but does always predetermine)=good or bad health=good or bad blood=genetics=blood=DNA= and so on.....

Genetics are affected by diet (the genes didn't get that way by their little ole selves), and diet over time affects the genes, which evolve into something....

Not knocking it for others --if folks are OK with it, but for me, it's just appropriate. You are what you eat. I want my future generations to evolve into being human tacos : ) With the genetic mutations that we're creating, I think kids are going to be born with the golden arches on their backsides. Ay vey!

[Sprocket]

Your genes came first.

[SpareOOM]

Your genes came first.

And what influences your genes....

[NicoMoon]

Uh oh! This could get to be a long thread! :D

Human being tacos!! I hope I come back as one! :lol:

Or could I be a Hot Tamale?

[Sprocket]

And what influences your genes....

Well, Brooke Shields said NOTHING came between her and her Calvin's! :D

Your genes are the big kahuna. The can influence each other.

From: LIVE RIGHT 4 YOUR TYPE, by Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo, pg5

The GENE for ABO blood type is located on the q leg of chromosome number 9, around band 34. So the address for your blood type gene is 9q34. It is here that the three basic alleles of the ABO blood system are found, leaving you a Type O, A, B, or AB.(1) The mechanics of blood type's influence have to do with the way genes influence other, seemingly unrelated, genes located immediately adjacent or nearby. This mechanism explains why your blood type can have an impact on such a diverse number of bodily systems--from digestive enzymes to neurochemicals.

We already know of some intimate relationships between the blood type gene and other genes that impact on our health and well-being. For example, in 1984, researchers reporting in the journal [i]Genetic Epidemiology presented evidence of a family pedigree in which a major gene for breast cancer susceptibility is located near band q34 on chromosome 9.(2) There is a clear genetic connection between blood type and breast cancer.

Many nutrition experts are baffled when they first hear about the link between blood type and digestion. That's because they are only considering the physical significance of blood type as a surface antigen. Actually, it is not your blood type antigen that is influencing the level of acid in your stomach, but rather the gene for your blood type influencing other seemingly unrelated genes located immediately adjacent (or very close) to the ABO blood type gene that can exert an effect on your stomach acid levels. This phenomenon, called gene linkage, isn't well understood yet, but it is well known; Many genes influence the actions of other, seemingly unrelated genes.

Here's another intriguing link that suggests a relationship between blood type and the brain. The gene for the enzyme dopamine beta hydroxylase (DBH), which converts dopamine to noradrenaline, is located right at 9q34. It's literally sitting on top of the gene for blood type.(3) As we will see later, this has vast implications for the association between blood type and stress, mental health, and even personality characteristics.

[SpareOOM]

Well, Brooke Shields said NOTHING came between her and her Calvin's! :D

Your genes are the big kahuna. The can influence each other.

From: LIVE RIGHT 4 YOUR TYPE, [i]by Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo, pg5

They most certainly can influence each other; as can factors in the environment, diet, stress, as well as the begining of evolutionary change (hence all the fat American Asians). The genes of the latter are now changed/changing as a result of having been comprimised by the relocation of that ethnicity to a new climate, and a different diet (and a crappy one at that).

[hot sauce]

Okay, Sprocket...

BTW, thanks for answering my dumb question about secretors/non-secretors on another thread. :dork:

Anyway, is there ANY way I can find out if I'm a secretor or non-secretor besides buying the test for $50?

Thanks!

HS