Health factors - Non/Secretor and Rh-neg/pos

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wrote:

> I wonder how that works if one is a lewis double negative... they'd probably

> pass on non-secretor genes, whether they secrete or not? Just guessing

> here.

Hi and everyone,

Wow I found out a lot from everyone's helpful emails - thank you all!

Plus a lot of google work. I found a nice explanation of secretor versus

non-secretor of the components secreted into body fluids by secretors -

which for me removed the mystery. And as Don says it is simply a genetic

thing, Se the dominant gene for Secretor and se the recessive gene for

non-secretor.

If I understand correctly, the factors are separate from the

secretor gene. It's just by chance that some results can indicate

secretor status per my understanding.

I was trying to figure out my own secretor status and while I don't have

a test result I do seem to have all the long list of problems associated

with non-secretors that I found and then some :-((

So till I know for sure, I figure I'd best assume I am O negative

non-secretor. The O-neg I know from being a blood donor till they told

me my blood wasn't good enough because of lack of A & G globulins to

fight infection and too many E globulins for allergic reactions among

other things (low alpha-one anti-trypsin which predisposes respiratory

illness of the nasty kind like Bordetella bronchiseptica that only

happens to people with very poor immunity and more recently too high

stress hormone cortisol associated with auto-immune disease Cushing's

syndrome that I have).

Looking at the list of secretor health issues, I do not have those,

so really I doubt I need a test, it looks like I am a non-secretor.

Bummer!

But I suppose I should think positive and " knowing is power " ?

Here's a short list of what I found for secretor versus non-secretor

type O incase someone else is interested - and some associated with RH

factors. Forget reading the rest if that's not of interest!

Secretor not in brackets (non-secretor in brackets):

Increase incidence of rhinoviral and flu tendency

(Tendency to recurrent urinary tract infections, esp women)

Resist heart disease (tendency to heart disease)

Higher levels of auto anti-T cold hemagglutanin

long clotting time (prothrombic, short bleeding times)

Higher C4 numbers

Digest fat well

Less dental cavities

Hi gut alk phos (low gut alk phos)

(Syndrome-X and other auto-immune diseases incl asthma)

(peptic ulcers, strep throat, oral disease)

(diabetics tend to retinopathy more)

(gamma A and G globulins low but leucocytes engulf better)

Good local immune defence but greater parasite and bacterial infection

of lower digestive tract.

(poor immune defence of digestive tract, nose and throat)

(Kidney problems)

(alcoholism)

I also found Rh disease predispositions:

Rh positive:

Leprosy

Multiple sclerosis

Urinary tumours tend to be invasive type

Rh-negative:

Hypoercholesterolemia

Mononucleosis

Epstein Barr

Mumps

Urinary tumours are less invasive

Typhoid

Viral meningitis

So talk about getting all the negatives, I have em!

It looks like I am a relatively rare bird then, since 15% of people are

Rh-negative and 20% of those are nonsecretors so combined if I still

remember how to add that is 3% of folks who are Rh-negative

nonsecretors. That explains why my immune system is non-est!

Maybe this diet can improve that. I need to tell my older son (if he has

any ears on at his age) - he has the same kind of health issues and is

also a Rh neg bloke. Probably also non-secretor. Now my other son who is

O positive, can't get sick no matter what he does. (My A positive father

was that way, I am SO envious.)

Namaste,

Irene

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