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should be eating. According to the theory, when you eat foods that “agree” with your blood type, you
reduce the risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, infections and liver disease. Type A people supposedly
had ancestors that were farmers. If you are of this type, you should be a vegetarian and avoid meat and
dairy products. According to the author, people with Type B blood had ancestors that were nomads;
therefore they should eat red meat and fish. Those with Type O blood had ancestors that were hunters and
gatherers; this means they should eat lots of animal protein and few carbohydrates. Finally, those with
Type AB blood, had mixed ancestry, and are supposed to eat a combination of the Type A and B diet.
Does this mean, for example, that all nomads used to have the blood type 0, and all farmers used to have
type A blood? What about people who didn’t farm and who didn’t move from place to place?
Unfortunately, these theories are not supported by scientific literature, traditional knowledge and
records of the world’s oldest medical systems, such as Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda. D'Adamo’s
discoveries have not been confirmed anywhere else. There is little or no distinction made between
individuals who have lived in the Andes, the tropical rain forests, or plains of Africa for hundreds of
thousands of years. The Indian subcontinent thrived and flourished for thousands of years on a vegetarian
diet, and so has most of the world’s population. And where does ancestry begin anyway? Two thousand
years ago, 100 centuries ago, or 60 million years ago? How far do we go in the bloodline of our ancestors
to determine our dietary needs? When the last ice age began, many vegetarians living in formerly tropical
lands were suddenly forced to eat animals in order to survive. Some ate a mixed diet, because of more
moderate climates. Others in the all-year-round tropical places of the Earth continued with vegetarian
foods until quite recently. The proposed theory is highly inconclusive about all of these facts.
When I went on the high protein diet (very similar to the type O diet plan) at age five, I felt great for
about 18 months, as do so many others who go on the popular Atkins diet. Then I started developing
stones in my liver, a dangerous arrhythmia and juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, among other diseases. I had
no idea that these ailments were due to protein poisoning. Ten years later I switched to a balanced vegan
diet, and most of my illnesses went away within a matter of weeks. However, I still had to live with the
many stones that had been produced in my liver and gallbladder as a result of what is known today as the
O-type blood diet. Forty gallbladder attacks later, I did a series of liver and gallbladder flushes, which
cleaned out these vital organs. Finally, I was free of any illness or discomfort.
You won't notice the effects of a high protein diet until the blood vessel walls are well-thickened with
excessive protein. Eating lots of animal protein triggers a powerful immune response in order to get rid of
the foreign DNA and the dead, coagulated and damaged protein of meat, fish, eggs, poultry and dairy
products. This immune response involves a powerful release of energy, thereby cleaning out impurities,
improving skin functions and making you feel more grounded. However, as soon as the immune system is
exhausted by the constant excessive activity, which took a mere 18 months in my case, the situation
begins to backfire and the body becomes increasingly congested.
The blood type diet theory is flawed in the sense that it does not recognize the basic body type
requirements generated by the three forces/humors of nature (Vata, Pitta and Kapha) that control the
physicality of matter and the body of humans and animals. Only a fraction of the body's energy
requirements are met through food, and there are many more influences on the body than one's blood
type. The 6,000-year old medical system of Ayurveda accounts for most of these influences. One’s
constitutional body type is not as simply and easily determined as one's blood type. The theory of blood
type foods is really based on guesswork, not on science or time-tested traditional knowledge as found in
Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, Greek medicine or ancient Egyptian medicine.
If concentrated protein foods were a necessary part of the human diet, as the blood type diet advocates
for the O-type, for example, why does nature not reflect that need when it formulates human milk in a
mother’s breast? Its protein content is a mere trace amount of 1.1-1.6 percent, provided to a baby at the