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What's your though on the Blood Type Diet
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Out of curiosity I went over the types. Pure phooey for my family and I, and when I heard about it a year or two ago everything I found about it agreed it was nonsense.0
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amorfati601070 wrote: »Do you know what blood type is? It's the antigen(s) (or lack of) present on your red blood cells. That's it, how this has ANY relevance to diet is beyond me. There's absolutely no evidence to support this bizarre theory and anyone who tells you otherwise has an agenda and is trying to SELL you something.
Source: common sense, basic understanding of human A&P...
Because it reacts to agglutinins, which are found in foods. Agglutinins cause clumping if red bloid cells and are used to determine blood type. Agglutinins are lectins, just one type of many, which can cause problems in our bodies if they come from plants our microbiome can't handle.
I really don't know anything about this particular diet, but I believe it's basis is in how we respond to lectins based on blood type. If it's true, then I would think our blood type and microbiome are somehow related, which isn't a far fetched idea given how our microbiome influences how we perceive and react to the world around us.
For a VERY interesting documentary on the microbiome see
The Gut: Our Second Brain
(I found it on Amazon Prime.)
Absolutely fascinating!
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'lol' is precisely what I think about that.2
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theresejesu wrote: »amorfati601070 wrote: »Do you know what blood type is? It's the antigen(s) (or lack of) present on your red blood cells. That's it, how this has ANY relevance to diet is beyond me. There's absolutely no evidence to support this bizarre theory and anyone who tells you otherwise has an agenda and is trying to SELL you something.
Source: common sense, basic understanding of human A&P...
Because it reacts to agglutinins, which are found in foods. Agglutinins cause clumping if red bloid cells and are used to determine blood type. Agglutinins are lectins, just one type of many, which can cause problems in our bodies if they come from plants our microbiome can't handle.
I really don't know anything about this particular diet, but I believe it's basis is in how we respond to lectins based on blood type. If it's true, then I would think our blood type and microbiome are somehow related, which isn't a far fetched idea given how our microbiome influences how we perceive and react to the world around us.
For a VERY interesting documentary on the microbiome see
The Gut: Our Second Brain
(I found it on Amazon Prime.)
Absolutely fascinating!
Just the hook was enough for me to say, nope.
"It's not just your stomach - it's a hub of intelligence. With billions of connected neurons, your "brain down below" holds the key to everything from personality traits to decision making skills."5 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »theresejesu wrote: »amorfati601070 wrote: »Do you know what blood type is? It's the antigen(s) (or lack of) present on your red blood cells. That's it, how this has ANY relevance to diet is beyond me. There's absolutely no evidence to support this bizarre theory and anyone who tells you otherwise has an agenda and is trying to SELL you something.
Source: common sense, basic understanding of human A&P...
Because it reacts to agglutinins, which are found in foods. Agglutinins cause clumping if red bloid cells and are used to determine blood type. Agglutinins are lectins, just one type of many, which can cause problems in our bodies if they come from plants our microbiome can't handle.
I really don't know anything about this particular diet, but I believe it's basis is in how we respond to lectins based on blood type. If it's true, then I would think our blood type and microbiome are somehow related, which isn't a far fetched idea given how our microbiome influences how we perceive and react to the world around us.
For a VERY interesting documentary on the microbiome see
The Gut: Our Second Brain
(I found it on Amazon Prime.)
Absolutely fascinating!
Just the hook was enough for me to say, nope.
"It's not just your stomach - it's a hub of intelligence. With billions of connected neurons, your "brain down below" holds the key to everything from personality traits to decision making skills."
Your loss, though I hope you will reconsider
It goes from one study to the next at leading research centers in the world.
Very well done.
Medicine is going to go through a huge paradigm shift, I'm really excited to be participating in some of it right now.
If you think the idea of the gut being our second brain is crazy, when, for instance, something like 95% of your serotonin is made in your gut for use by both your gut and your brain; when taking the microbiome from aggressive mice and putting it in calm mice makes the calm mice become aggressive, and when the micobiome from calm mice put into the aggressive mice make the aggressive mice calm; what are you going to-do when a pill to reverse aging is on the shelves in three years?
A pill to reverse aging was announced by Dr. Sinclair of Harvard University, developed in conjunction with a major pharmaceutical company, was about to go into human clinical trials when he announced it, and seeking FDA approval.
Niagen is the precursor to what he's been developing.
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theresejesu wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »theresejesu wrote: »amorfati601070 wrote: »Do you know what blood type is? It's the antigen(s) (or lack of) present on your red blood cells. That's it, how this has ANY relevance to diet is beyond me. There's absolutely no evidence to support this bizarre theory and anyone who tells you otherwise has an agenda and is trying to SELL you something.
Source: common sense, basic understanding of human A&P...
Because it reacts to agglutinins, which are found in foods. Agglutinins cause clumping if red bloid cells and are used to determine blood type. Agglutinins are lectins, just one type of many, which can cause problems in our bodies if they come from plants our microbiome can't handle.
I really don't know anything about this particular diet, but I believe it's basis is in how we respond to lectins based on blood type. If it's true, then I would think our blood type and microbiome are somehow related, which isn't a far fetched idea given how our microbiome influences how we perceive and react to the world around us.
For a VERY interesting documentary on the microbiome see
The Gut: Our Second Brain
(I found it on Amazon Prime.)
Absolutely fascinating!
Just the hook was enough for me to say, nope.
"It's not just your stomach - it's a hub of intelligence. With billions of connected neurons, your "brain down below" holds the key to everything from personality traits to decision making skills."
Your loss, though I hope you will reconsider
It goes from one study to the next at leading research centers in the world.
Very well done.
Medicine is going to go through a huge paradigm shift, I'm really excited to be participating in some of it right now.
If you think the idea of the gut being our second brain is crazy, what are you going to-do when a pill to reverse aging is on the shelves in three years?
It was announced by Dr. Sinclair of Harvard University, developed in conjunction with a major pharmaceutical company, was about to go into human clinical trials when he announced it, and seeking FDA approval.
Niagen is the precursor to what he's been developing.
I'll wait until after the clinical trials and FDA approval before I decide. I'm just funny like that.5 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »theresejesu wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »theresejesu wrote: »amorfati601070 wrote: »Do you know what blood type is? It's the antigen(s) (or lack of) present on your red blood cells. That's it, how this has ANY relevance to diet is beyond me. There's absolutely no evidence to support this bizarre theory and anyone who tells you otherwise has an agenda and is trying to SELL you something.
Source: common sense, basic understanding of human A&P...
Because it reacts to agglutinins, which are found in foods. Agglutinins cause clumping if red bloid cells and are used to determine blood type. Agglutinins are lectins, just one type of many, which can cause problems in our bodies if they come from plants our microbiome can't handle.
I really don't know anything about this particular diet, but I believe it's basis is in how we respond to lectins based on blood type. If it's true, then I would think our blood type and microbiome are somehow related, which isn't a far fetched idea given how our microbiome influences how we perceive and react to the world around us.
For a VERY interesting documentary on the microbiome see
The Gut: Our Second Brain
(I found it on Amazon Prime.)
Absolutely fascinating!
Just the hook was enough for me to say, nope.
"It's not just your stomach - it's a hub of intelligence. With billions of connected neurons, your "brain down below" holds the key to everything from personality traits to decision making skills."
Your loss, though I hope you will reconsider
It goes from one study to the next at leading research centers in the world.
Very well done.
Medicine is going to go through a huge paradigm shift, I'm really excited to be participating in some of it right now.
If you think the idea of the gut being our second brain is crazy, what are you going to-do when a pill to reverse aging is on the shelves in three years?
It was announced by Dr. Sinclair of Harvard University, developed in conjunction with a major pharmaceutical company, was about to go into human clinical trials when he announced it, and seeking FDA approval.
Niagen is the precursor to what he's been developing.
I'll wait until after the clinical trials and FDA approval before I decide. I'm just funny like that.
Perfectly understandable, though if you check his research from 2013, and the results then, using nicotinamide mononucleotide resulted in 2 year old mice having essentially the cells of 6 month old mice in one week. He was named one of Time's Top 100 Men of the Year in 2014 for this discovery.
This is the real deal. It's exciting times we live in.9 -
theresejesu wrote: »which isn't a far fetched idea given how our microbiome influences how we perceive and react to the world around us.
I'm writing a book right now called "Republican Microbiomes, Democratic Microbiomes: the True Cause of Hyperpartisanship in US Politics."12 -
theresejesu wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »theresejesu wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »theresejesu wrote: »amorfati601070 wrote: »Do you know what blood type is? It's the antigen(s) (or lack of) present on your red blood cells. That's it, how this has ANY relevance to diet is beyond me. There's absolutely no evidence to support this bizarre theory and anyone who tells you otherwise has an agenda and is trying to SELL you something.
Source: common sense, basic understanding of human A&P...
Because it reacts to agglutinins, which are found in foods. Agglutinins cause clumping if red bloid cells and are used to determine blood type. Agglutinins are lectins, just one type of many, which can cause problems in our bodies if they come from plants our microbiome can't handle.
I really don't know anything about this particular diet, but I believe it's basis is in how we respond to lectins based on blood type. If it's true, then I would think our blood type and microbiome are somehow related, which isn't a far fetched idea given how our microbiome influences how we perceive and react to the world around us.
For a VERY interesting documentary on the microbiome see
The Gut: Our Second Brain
(I found it on Amazon Prime.)
Absolutely fascinating!
Just the hook was enough for me to say, nope.
"It's not just your stomach - it's a hub of intelligence. With billions of connected neurons, your "brain down below" holds the key to everything from personality traits to decision making skills."
Your loss, though I hope you will reconsider
It goes from one study to the next at leading research centers in the world.
Very well done.
Medicine is going to go through a huge paradigm shift, I'm really excited to be participating in some of it right now.
If you think the idea of the gut being our second brain is crazy, what are you going to-do when a pill to reverse aging is on the shelves in three years?
It was announced by Dr. Sinclair of Harvard University, developed in conjunction with a major pharmaceutical company, was about to go into human clinical trials when he announced it, and seeking FDA approval.
Niagen is the precursor to what he's been developing.
I'll wait until after the clinical trials and FDA approval before I decide. I'm just funny like that.
Perfectly understandable, though if you check his research from 2013, and the results then, using nicotinamide mononucleotide resulted in 2 year old mice having essentially the cells of 6 month old mice in one week. He was named one of Time's Top 100 Men of the Year in 2014 for this discovery.
This is the real deal. It's exciting times we live in.
Mice aren't humans. There are literally hundreds of drugs that looked really promising until they got into the clinical trial stage.
Yes, these are exciting times. But erring on the side of caution is never a bad thing.5 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »theresejesu wrote: »which isn't a far fetched idea given how our microbiome influences how we perceive and react to the world around us.
I'm writing a book right now called "Republican Microbiomes, Democratic Microbiomes: the True Cause of Hyperpartisanship in US Politics."
You might be on to something!1 -
theresejesu wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »theresejesu wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »theresejesu wrote: »amorfati601070 wrote: »Do you know what blood type is? It's the antigen(s) (or lack of) present on your red blood cells. That's it, how this has ANY relevance to diet is beyond me. There's absolutely no evidence to support this bizarre theory and anyone who tells you otherwise has an agenda and is trying to SELL you something.
Source: common sense, basic understanding of human A&P...
Because it reacts to agglutinins, which are found in foods. Agglutinins cause clumping if red bloid cells and are used to determine blood type. Agglutinins are lectins, just one type of many, which can cause problems in our bodies if they come from plants our microbiome can't handle.
I really don't know anything about this particular diet, but I believe it's basis is in how we respond to lectins based on blood type. If it's true, then I would think our blood type and microbiome are somehow related, which isn't a far fetched idea given how our microbiome influences how we perceive and react to the world around us.
For a VERY interesting documentary on the microbiome see
The Gut: Our Second Brain
(I found it on Amazon Prime.)
Absolutely fascinating!
Just the hook was enough for me to say, nope.
"It's not just your stomach - it's a hub of intelligence. With billions of connected neurons, your "brain down below" holds the key to everything from personality traits to decision making skills."
Your loss, though I hope you will reconsider
It goes from one study to the next at leading research centers in the world.
Very well done.
Medicine is going to go through a huge paradigm shift, I'm really excited to be participating in some of it right now.
If you think the idea of the gut being our second brain is crazy, what are you going to-do when a pill to reverse aging is on the shelves in three years?
It was announced by Dr. Sinclair of Harvard University, developed in conjunction with a major pharmaceutical company, was about to go into human clinical trials when he announced it, and seeking FDA approval.
Niagen is the precursor to what he's been developing.
I'll wait until after the clinical trials and FDA approval before I decide. I'm just funny like that.
Perfectly understandable, though if you check his research from 2013, and the results then, using nicotinamide mononucleotide resulted in 2 year old mice having essentially the cells of 6 month old mice in one week. He was named one of Time's Top 100 Men of the Year in 2014 for this discovery.
This is the real deal. It's exciting times we live in.
And 4 years later, still no peer reviewed studies or further progress.5
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