By: Seth Weeks

Seth Weeks — Thu, 04 Sep 2003 14:37:40 +0000

Leslie wrote (a few days ago):
Hi Leslie. I’m finally getting around to responding to your
excellent question. Is it just my observation, or does everyone on
this list suffer from some kind of gastric abnormality? Is this the
main thing that brings us all to the Type O program? I guess what
I’m asking is…is there anyone on the list (out of 255 subscribers)
who DON’T suffer from nausea or reflux or heartburn or indigestion or
some other gastro-related ailment? Is this just how life is for a
Type O? Either put yourself on a strict eating program, or suffer?
If Type O is the most “popular” blood type (meaning, there are more
Type O’s than any other type) then why is it so damn difficult to
find wheat-free products? Do ALL Type O’s have trouble with wheat
(many of whom have decided to eat it and suffer) …or just us? To answer your question, Leslie, I’ve been on the program for about
four months and when I first started I felt great (for the first time

in a long time) but then the gallbladder thing happened, so I can’t
follow the program as closely as I would like to. But, I noticed,
almost immediately, that not eating things like pickles and vinegar
made an immediate difference. But, you don’t always notice a
difference until you’ve done without something, and then you eat it.
Yikes!
Tomorrow, I am driving 2 1/2 hours to see a nutritionist from England
(who resides in the Los Angeles area) who does holistic, intuitive
nutritional counseling. (She studied under Dr. Henry Bieler, author
of “Food Is Your Best Medicine” many years ago.) I’ve waited three
months for this appointment…FINALLY! I’ve talked to people who
have gone to her, and they say she just *knows* what foods
should/should not eat. As soon as they start following her program,
they feel a difference. I’m very interested in learning what aspects
of the Type O program are important to my specific health concerns.
This post is really long…so I may as well make it a little longer. Leslie, you asked how my gallbladder is doing. I’m able to control
the symptoms by staying on a strict, low-fat diet, but this isn’t the
solution. I’m in the middle of homeopathic treatment, which has
drudged up all of my worst symptoms from the past several years.
(That’s how it works…chaos before order.) So, right now, I’m not
feeling particularly good. Hopefully, that will change soon. I’m
going in for a follow-up ultrasound this Friday, and am having a CAT
scan in a couple weeks. The surgeon I consulted with wants to get a
good view of my entire system, from the colon to the esophagus, to
make sure things are in their right place. I suffer from bouts of
reverse parastalsis and he wants to know if there’s a visible,
physical problem that causes this (it’s possible my parastalsis
problem is responsible for my gallbladder problem…who knows!)
Anyway, thanks for asking. I’m hanging in there. Lynn

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