Re: To Secrete or Not secrete

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Maddviking@... wrote:

> This keeps being quoted but, you know, outside of this group, I don't know

> anyone who know their secretor status. ...ASSUMED that I was a secretor

because,

> after all, 80% are secretors. ... I just wonder how accurate that statement

really is.

So do I, as another non-secretor.

What about a poll of the members to see the percentage here as a sample?

Not sure if the polling function is working now or defunct after

the recent " upgrades " or if MOST people here know their status even!

..IRene

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how do we find out

Irene de Villiers <furryboots@...> wrote:

Maddviking@... wrote:

> This keeps being quoted but, you know, outside of this group, I don't know

> anyone who know their secretor status. ...ASSUMED that I was a secretor

because,

> after all, 80% are secretors. ... I just wonder how accurate that statement

really is.

So do I, as another non-secretor.

What about a poll of the members to see the percentage here as a sample?

Not sure if the polling function is working now or defunct after

the recent " upgrades " or if MOST people here know their status even!

..IRene

--

Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.

P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.

www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)

" Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it. "

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In a message dated 7/11/2006 12:49:44 AM Eastern Standard Time,

tasdlocke@... writes:

how do we find out

LOL--WELL, let's just get everybody in the world to submit a sample.

I don't think there is a specific answer but to generalize leads to

inexactitude. In this case, it leads people to make the false assumption that

they are

probably a secretor, which may or may not be true.

A lot of " specifics " get thrown around where there is no definitive proof or

studies. Look how many years we lived through the eat lettuce and pasta low

fat crowd. Not long ago it was recommended that we limit calcium intake

because it caused stones, eggs caused high cholesterol, trans fat margerine was

better than butter. Now that has all been debunked. We need to be free thinkers

and sift through the " experts " . Instead of being blugeoned with the one new

case of mad cow disease in Canada, we need to hear about the hundreds of people

coming into America and other nations with TB, hepatitis, and HIV. Set up

border clinics for screening to stop real diseases instead of chasing mad cows.

Hope I didn't step on any sacred mad cows!!

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This is one vote for O+ non-secretor. I agree, there seem to be

more than 20%.

(I hope that " Reply to Group " was the right choice. It looks okay

anyway. There does not seem to be any previous message

attatched to this.)

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Although I'm not sure where he derived his statistics - the phenotype

(secretor/non-secretor) has been used in numerous medical studies and therefore

has had statistics gathered about it for years and years. This status is not

only applicable for the blood type diet, etc but has been implicated in such med

problems as getting or not getting H. Pylori (ulcers), etc. so it's quite

probable that this statistic is somewhat close. You can do a search on

secretor and get many hits.

And a poll here might be not be representative of the gen. population as it is

possible that non-secretors tend to have more problems which drive them to seek

alternative health/diet methods and therefor the statistics on this group could

be skewed. Also the statistic only say 80% of the pop was secretor .. it could

be more or less within each blood type also (don't know just speculation).

food for thought anyway

Maddviking@... wrote:

From http://www.dadamo.com/napharm/store3/template2/secretor.htm in

Aduladi's

email:

<From the Dadamo As a general rule, in the U.S. about 20% of the population

are Non-secretors (with the remaining 80% being Secretors).>

Well, many of us found out that was not the

case. I just wonder how accurate that statement really is.

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In a message dated 7/12/2006 4:47:30 PM Eastern Standard Time,

aduladi@... writes:

Also the statistic only say 80% of the pop was secretor .. it could be more

or less within each blood type also (don't know just speculation).

In the Dadamo discussion of this, he at least implied that it was independent

of blood type and that there were advantages and disadvantages to both with

each having their own little horror shop of diseases. He never mentioned

whether it was a recessive trait or not. Of course I believe this group is not

representative of the world population, in fact, I would think there would be

more non-secretors who would seek out this diet because of diseases related to

dietary problems from grains (ie celiacs, GIRD, etc). That being said, I would

still argue that the vast majority of people living or dead have not had their

secretor status tested so the 80/20 ratio is speculation at best. Even

police statistics that show that there are many more secretor criminals doesn't

prove anything. Maybe more secretors have a propensity to be nasty villains

(from eating too many grains)---LOL. Interesting discussion though.

Max

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I'm O+ and have not been tested, but after 5 years on ER4YT I am pretty sure

that I am a secretor.

I am complaint with that set of " avoids " and it has been working for me.

Merrill in Florida

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In a message dated 7/13/2006 10:21:44 AM Eastern Standard Time,

merrill724@... writes:

I'm O+ and have not been tested, but after 5 years on ER4YT I am pretty sure

that I am a secretor.

Yeah, I thought I was too.

[Guest guest]

LOL.. well in alternate view point most of the statistics I imagine were

gathered from blood typing donated blood.. maybe us secretors are just 80% more

likely to be charitable...

Maddviking@... wrote: Maybe more secretors have a propensity to be

nasty villains

(from eating too many grains)---LOL.

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In a message dated 7/16/2006 8:30:15 AM Eastern Standard Time,

aduladi@... writes:

well in alternate view point most of the statistics I imagine were gathered

from blood typing donated blood

Wish that was true then I wouldn't have had to pay $37 to spit in a test tube.