Blood type testing

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Thank you for your very lenthy reply.  The Adkins diet worked for a lot of

people because the majority of people are type O.  And, meat as the stable of

the Adkins diet fit in well for type O's.  Others became very ill and there have

been some deaths attributed to the Adkins diet.  Could those folks have been

type A.  We may never know.

 

There will NEVER be enough proof for some people.  There will always be

something wrong with the testing.  I only know the results for myself.

My improvement could never be attributed to anything else but ER4YT, because

there weren't any other changes in my life, medication-wise, or food-wise.  I

hadn't even changed locations where I lived until after the improvements were

markedly there.

 

You sound like a very well-educated young man.  If you are convinced that this

program is not well-proved and are certain that we are just simply ignorant

people following some kind of a myth, then why are you wasting your time here on

this forum?  I am just as convinced that Dr. D is on the right track.  When I

read his first book it made sense to me.

I went on a 3 week challenge program to eat only Highly Beneficial foods with

several other folks on the original ER4YT list.  We were all amazed at the

energy we had and the total sense of well-being!!  I couldn't remember feeling

THAT good since childhool.  I don't need more proof than that. 

 

I'm not afraid of being found out wrong.  I know I feel good and that is all

that matters to me.  So thank you for reminding me about how I felt before I

started all this.  There are those on the list who try to micromanage ER4YT.  I

think it is better to keep it simple.  I don't care about secretor and

non-secretor.  There are so few things to worry about there that it isn't worth

my time.

 

I don't believe I am immature and unwilling to listen.  It seems all you want to

do is denigrate what we believe in.  If you don't believe, just leave.  We don't

need to hear negativity when we are trying to improve our health.

I don't wish to constantly be asked to PROVE this plan when I have seen over the

last 10 years what it has done for my life.  I don't even have a wrinkle.  My

skin is clear, my hair and nails strong.  I have good bones according to tests I

am in the 98% for my age.  At 64 I work harder than most young people and sleep

like a baby.  So, there you have it.  That is why I believe so strongly that Dr.

D. is onto something.

 

I am a medical professional, so I am aware of how much blood we have circulating

in our body and how fast it travels through our system.  Actually,  my specialty

was cardiac.  I believe that when all is said and done, Dr. J. D'Adamo and

his father will be proven right. 

 

We aren't taking nutrients alone without food.  We are taking into our bodies

those foods believed to assist our bodies the most.  We are avoiding those foods

thought to keep our bodies from running smoothly.  Similar to putting the

correct motor oil in an engine.  It is ok for you to disagree.  I don't know how

old you are, but you sound like a college man.  I don't know if you have a lot

of science background but the words you use sound like it. 

 

I find your email just as curious.  You wait for the data to pour in while I

collect on the results of eathing right for my type.

 

Cheers,

 

 

 

" A true friend is someone who thinks

you are a good egg

even though he knows

you are slightly cracked

From: mdstxag91 <mdstxag91@...>

Subject: Re: SOY

Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 4:56 PM

,

I just read your curious reply. I would be very interested to see

that testing information. ..provided it involved actual human beings,

and not just static blood samples in a lab somewhere at the

University of Oregon.

On average, each of us contains about 1-1/2 gallons of blood that

circulate continuously throughout our bodies. Blood represents a

living dynamic that works in concert with a host of other systems,

organs, networks and barriers. That human dynamic automatically

ceases to exist the minute you remove blood from the body, isolate it

in a lab and then poor in refined lectins (electrolytically and

ionically independent of the myriad of nutrients and other components

that constitute food), and then draw definitive conclusions about the

health of a particular food based on agglutination results.

Wildly extrapolating data from these types of static experiments is

analogous to nutritional supplementation. Most of us would not

survive long taking supplements alone (protein powders, vitamins,

minerals, etc.), even though these are the most fundamental nutritive

building blocks that comprise food. The reason for this is simple:

they have been isolated and removed from the living dynamic that

constitutes whole foods. Our blood and the nutrients we derive from

healthy foods co-exist together in this living dynamic. Drawing

conclusions about how static isolated blood samples reacted in a lab,

and then creating restrictive diets based on these static

observations is ludicrous.

Therefore, we cannot automatically conclude that certain foods are

detrimental just because they contain lectins that will agglutinate

isolated blood cells. Show me some statistically significant blinded

data (better known as HARD EVIDENCE) on groups of real people who

have been studied on ER4YT, and then the data from their control

groups who ate identically, except where nutrient dense AVOIDS were

added to that diet. I suspect you will find that the test

subjects will do fairly well, but the control groups will fair much

better. Finally, I want to see someone credible like Dr. Enig at

the University of land peer review these findings.

It's almost been 13- years since ER4YT, so I think this should have

been sufficient time to conduct a legitimate ER4YT study or two

(before he published the book would have been more appropriate) , and

then measure the health differences among these groups. The last time

I checked the ER4YT website (back in November '08), he confirmed that

no ER4YT diet studies (blinded, peer reviewed or otherwise) had been

conducted or published.

" Negativity " , " demoralizing " , " I don't care to argue just for the

argument " and " I can't see any good reason you are here " all

characterize a very insecure and immature mind-set. Rather than

actually making a legitimate attempt to address the issues that I've

advanced, you instead chose to waste your time on this series of

defeatist remarks. Is your true fear that I may actually be right?

I have relentlessly pursued one single truth for almost a decade- is

ER4YT real science or pseudo-science? I have debated these same

issues with dozens of devout blood type dieters over the years…only

to come to the same disappointing conclusion each time- no one is

willing, able or capable of directly answering the questions by

explaining the dramatic inconsistencies inherent in ER4YT. When

asked, the same vague answers and childish reactions ensue.

" Are you trying to change our minds? " No way, I know better. The

psychology behind ER4YT is some powerful stuff. Everyone wants to

belong to their own special group. D'Adamo has created something

mystical (if not mythical)in ER4YT.

, I am genuinely happy for you and your health recovery. But can

you really attribute your health and recovery to dietary lectins?

There are several other diets that preceded , with strikingly

similar dietary guidelines, which also " saved lives " , cured type II

diabetes, heart disease, cancer and a number of other health problems…

the most notable of which was Atkins. Could it be that the body's

positive physiological response to a high protein diet is actually

reversing the traumatic affects of hyperinsulinemia… not eliminating

these so-called " bad " lectins?

And what about all those folks who have been made seriously ill while

on ER4YT-A? Do you even care about them? If so, how do you explain

their poor results? If the legitimacy of a diet fails for so many in

blood type A, how then can the fundamental basis for ER4YT be so

differently heralded across the board in type O?

-Mike

> I'm not sure where you get your information, but I have read reams

of material about the testing of lectins/food.

I don't care to argue just for the arguement. We don't need the

negativity. Are you trying to change our minds? Or just demoralize

a perfectly good program for those who choose to go there? I can't

see any good reason you are here. I am the hard evidence. I should

be in a wheel-chair.

, R.N.