Re: just curious-Dr D`Adamo

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............"Dr.D`Adamo.............................makes a good guideline, not a rigid setpoint"...................

A very informative post, Bruce!

As someone who has been using Dr D`Adamo`s book to advantage for some years, I would like to add a few remarks that may be of interest:

Firstly, while I agree that everyone is unique & ultimately must figure what foods best work for them, in my own experience, his book "Eat right for your Type" can be a remarkably helpful starting point that I wouldn`t want to have overlooked, I think that it likely merits careful consideration prior to going "independent".

For me, implementing Dr D`Adamo`s strictures seemed to engender a significant increase in wellbeing: What seems to be an important point is that some of his recommendations for a particular blood group might prove to be so contrary to our widely held ideas of what is "good for us" that, unless a particular food has already obviously demonstrated it`s inappropiateness for our system, more subtle incompatabilities may go unnoticed while the food continues to burden our already compromised systems.

For many of us (-but not all!) possibly the most obvious illustrations of how important it is to lessen the burden created by incompatible foods might be demonstrated by wheat & dairy: I am "O" blood group, & prior to succumbing to MS, utilized wheat & dairy with no inkling that it might have been be wiser for me to avoid them. However, post MS, it became obvious to me that I felt & functioned better without them, it seemed that my body no longer had the capacity to assimilate them without problems, hence, when I eventually obtained Dr D`Adamo`s book, I was intrigued to find that both wheat & dairy were in the "avoid" listing for O`s!

In my case, this particular bit of info was simply interesting, as I was already avoiding them, however, there were other foods on the avoid list (for O`s) that I was under the impression were good for me & was actually making an effort to eat frequently: eg. for around 8 years, I had been taking the trouble to sprout alfafa seeds & was consuming them daily, confident that they were a highly benefical food...................not for O`s, apparently! Another surprise was to learn that brassicas (incl. cabbage & brussel sprouts) were on the O`s avoid list. Now, I had never noticed any problem with either alfafa or brassicas, but it is a fact that when I stopped eating things on Dr D`Adamo`s avoid list,(- & commenced or recommenced eating some of the things on the highly recommended list!) that I did feel a lot better.

Interestingly, it was through noting characteristics in the book that applied to me that I was able to determine that I was O blood group: Further, not long after we started following the dietary guidelines, I was enthusing to my long suffering mother about how much better I felt, she observed that she hadn`t noticed any difference in herself: (-she also was following O group guidelines.) It transpired that in fact she was A blood group! As soon as the appropiate A group dietary corrections were made, she also noticed improvements in her health!

Regards,

Gerald

RE: [low dose naltrexone] just curious

Blood types and absorption usually is reserved for foodstuffs. Dr. D’Amado (spelling?) developed a theory based upon the collective work of his father and himself in observing several thousand patients over a 60 year span. According to him, each blood type either uses or fights specific foods for nutrients and this is based upon what your blood type is. It does have some merit in concept, but like all theories, in generality the concept is good, in actuality, everyone is unique and needs to look at what foods best work for them.

In theory, blood typing for eating develops a pattern or grouping of foodstuffs that your body can more easily gain nutrients from. For instance, “O” type can eat/utilize red meat, no dairy other than mozzarella cheese, some citrus fruits (grapefruit yes/oranges no) some legumes, etc… Type A’s cannot utilize any red meat but virtually all vegetables and dairy are OK.. Type B is a mix of the 2, but more towards A than O.

There are a number of books published on the concepts and there is some merit to it, but again, you need to determine what is good for you, not what is good for a specific blood type overall. I have utilized the theory loosely to develop eating patterns and dietary guidelines, but in the end, if you can eat it and it does not cause allergic reactions and you stay healthy, that is what is good for you. Makes a good guideline, not a rigid setpoint.

You are much further ahead worrying about how you combine foods as in eating starches and proteins, vegetables and fruits, etc… as this determines how the digestive juices break up your foods to make use of the nutrients. If you are a big sandwich eater, for instance, you are taking in both an acid and an alkali based food (bread and meat) which are opposites. Your body then issues forth an acid to break down one food stuff and an alkali to break down the other. These digestive juices then have a tendency to cancel each other out in your stomach. The food essentially lays there and rots and you receive only a very, very minor amount of nutrient where normally you would be capable of getting at least 1/3 of the nutrient value of what you ate.

Another consideration is wheat products. Your body’s immune system is required to digest anything with gluten. If your immune system has to attack your food, you are using precious resources to digest food that should be reserved for fighting your disease. Get gluten out of your life, even if you are not suffering from celiac’s disease. There are a great number of small things like this you can do to help yourself. No one thing is significant, but combined, they do make a large difference in your overall well being.

There are great complexities in how your body gets nourishment and anything you can do to help yourself along, the better off you are, especially when fighting immune system diseases.

Bruce Guilmette, Ph.D.

Survive Cancer Foundation, Inc.

http://www.survivecancer.net