ASK
BONNIE for September 2004
Question:
Why do I need my blood type for our consultation? Is it because you are a proponent of the blood type diet?
Answer:
As your personal health planner, my goal is to assist you in disease prevention and promotion of optimum health. In so doing, it is important to look
at your family health history, current symptoms, a recent blood urine panel, medication and dietary supplement status, stress level, exercise regimen,
food intake, and genetics. We are not "one size fits all." Designing a plan to meet your individual needs ensures the greatest success in
sticking to your carefully designed health plan. Blood type has been an an important piece of genetic history for thousands of years. It is
important that everyone know their blood type. I recommend that all babies be typed at birth. Your blood type may be very common or very rare. If you are blood type O (the universal donor), you can give blood or organs to anyone. However, you can only receive from 6.7% of the U.S. population.
You are in luck if you are a rare AB+ (the universal receiver). You can receive blood or organs from anyone, but can only give blood to another AB+.
It is also important to know your blood type because there is a vast difference in longevity (if accidental death and suicide are ruled out) between blood types; as much as 25 years between the two most common blood types, A and O. The reasons for the vast difference in longevity are heartiness of the DNA and the differences in tolerating the many medical procedures necessary to fight common disease.
It is important to know your blood type because the Rh negative factor in a pregnant woman's blood may harm her fetus if the father is Rh positive. Being aware of this before, not during pregnancy, can ensure that every preventive measure, especially the Rhogam injection, is performed. Other blood type incompatibilities between the fetus and mother should be determined early in pregnancy. If it is not addressed until birth, serious complications, including death to the fetus, may occur.
It is also important to know your blood type because it tells you how far back at least 51% of your DNA (your entire genetic blueprint) began. Blood Type O is the universal donor because it began 40,000 or more years ago. Top geneticists and nutrition experts, such as Dr. Artemis Simopoulos and S. Boyd Eaton, know what people ate and thrived on in that period of history called the Paleolithic era. Humans who have ancient DNA have changed so little (less than 1%), that their dietary and lifestyle needs are virtually the same as they were 40,000 years ago. Obviously, since the development of agriculture, human diets have changed too dramatically for O's to thrive unless they lower their carbo intake and increase lean animal protein.
Unlike Dr. Peter D'Adamo's (the author of Eat Right for Your Type) assertions, I look at the big genetic picture based upon blood type which gives us information as to when and where the majority of your DNA formed.
For those of you who would like a more detailed DNA picture, Dr. Bryan Sykes, genetics professor at Oxford University, and world authority on DNA and human evolution, will analyze your DNA from a cheek cell scraping.
The exciting news in genetics since the human genome project was completed, is that within ten years, all of us will be able to determine if any of
our DNA is defective and what medication, medical procedures, diet and lifestyle will ensure optimum health. Until then, our blood type
gives us a crude measure
Have a happy, healthy day.
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