In his groundbreaking book "Eat Right 4 Your Type"** Dr. Peter D'Adamo discusses the importance of one's blood type in determining the types of foods that one's body will either accept or reject as metabolically useful.

He has shown with solid research to back it up that foods have on the surface of their cells markers called antigens that are similar to the markers we have on our blood cells that determine our respective blood types. An individual's body will generally accept blood and foods whose markers are similar to those found on one's blood cells. Alternately the immune system is programmed genetically to be on the look out for "foreign" looking blood types. This is the basis behind the blood type screening used by hospitals when transfusing blood.

Well it turns out that the same is true for the foods that we eat.

Now I know from first had experience as a body builder whose blood type is O Positive (the O blood type is the most common on the planet with around 63% of people having it) that I am personally sensitive to Whey products solely based on my Blood Type. Whey is one of the protein sources that is extracted from dairy products and concentrated to become one of the main ingredients of the Body Building Powders that many body builders use.

When I consume foods that my immune system recognizes as foreign, i.e. Whey for example, it becomes activated to mop up the whey and it gets stored as fat because metabolically it has limited usefulness for the body. This leads to many untoward consequences which include:

1. Depletion of energy.

2. The body becomes "protein starved" in the face of a body building challenge.

3. Foreign foods get stored in tissues and joints that can lead to arteriosclerosis, depression, arthritis, diabetes, obesity and other chronic diseases.

4. Significantly reduced performance, strength and muscle bulk.

So the body builder who has an O Blood type (and you have a 63% chance of being in this group) and who is unwittingly using Whey products to build muscle is actually not only doing damage to their body but they are also not getting the extra protein requirements they need to build muscle.

This essentially means they are putting their bodies in a very stressful state, much like driving your car on water rather than gas.

Several years ago after starting the Blood Type Diet prescribed by Dr. D'Adamo I felt that although he suggested animal protein to be the best source for me as a body builder I felt a bit queasy about going this route as it meant putting into my body meats processed with potentially harmful hormones and antibiotics often used by meat processors world wide. This concern was only accentuated by the BSE scare.

So in search of a better and safer source of protein I was happy to find a product made by Young Living Essential Oils called Power Meal. This is a naturally produced product with many organic ingredients and which has a rice protein concentrate as its base along with the world renown Ningxia Wolfberry as a rich protein and antioxidant adjunct.

Rice protein is generally blood type friendly for most of the world's population and is rapidly assimilated for high energy activities such as body building. After starting Power Meal I was amazed at how after a few short weeks my energy, muscle bulk and strength improved but my weight decreased. I not only felt fit I also was sleeping better and not getting the aches and pains I often got following a workout.

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References:

** Dr. Peter D'Adamo, Eat Right 4 Your Type, Putnam, New York, NY, 1996