secretor status
While it *might* indicate your secretor status it also might not. It appears
you have an allergy to the food (or it could be
coincidence) but having an allergy is a separate factor that eating an avoid.
For example you can be allergic to a food that
is “typically” a beneficial for your blood type/sec status. The blood type
secretor status is additional information in the
complex human system… the immune system is another source of information… so
you need to take both into account. Blood
type says yes ok, immune says no… then its no. OKay…
August 24th, 2004 at 11:15 am
Another thing to keep in mind is the possibility of a
reaction to molds. Avocados and acceptable melons and
mangoes all have the risk of harboring molds which we
react very easily to. I thought I couldn’t eat mangoes,
was allergic to them and avocadoes. Than I tried a
different kind of mango, one with less risk of molds,
and in using fresher avocadoes, though not as tasty,
just didn’t give me the same reaction (throat closing,
lips swelling, desire to scratch out my throat). Now I
know better, for myself. But there are so many other
foods, I might as well expand in areas more suited for
my O’ness. When I first began the diet, every avoid I
saw, even if it was a food I hardly ever ate, never
cooked for myself, or never even eaten in my life, a
part of me wanted very much to eat it. I guess it’s that
whole “forbidden fruit tastes sweetest” psychological
mind-game. I hope I’ve grown out of it… but I’m still
going to experiment with whey protein
isolate/concentrate for my weight training regimen,
we’ll see how that turns out.
October 6th, 2004 at 9:25 pm
<<Is there a “layman’s” way of determining secretor status? I haven’t
ordered the test yet.
Unfortunately not - you’ll need to get the test from www.dadamo.com
November 26th, 2004 at 9:39 pm
Hi. I’m a newby, type O-, with vitiligo and hypothyroidism. Kept
hearing about ER4YT, then when an MD recommended the plan, I knew I
had to try. Filled two carts at Wild Oats today. My husband and
daughter are A’s, so this should be interesting.
I’ve been reading posts and trying to learn as much as possible.
Seems like it is critical for O’s to know their secretor status. I
LOVE avocados and honey, and with my two autoimmune diseases, I
wouldn’t be surprised to learn I’m non-secretor. Are there big
changes in the “do’s and don’ts” for non-secretors?
Any advice is greatly appreciated. Just one question: Why is seltzer
water good for O’s. I thought carbonated water was bad for bones.
Chloe
November 29th, 2004 at 11:46 pm
Karen– My symptoms include fatique, mild depression, irritability,
cold hands and feet, PMS, hair loss, mental cloudiness, headaches and
increase in chemical sensitivity (perfume and smoke). I go back to
the doctor to discuss my blood work next week, but the doctor thinks
I am hypoT. Do you take prescription meds for it? Are you a non-
secretor? About.com has a good website on hypoT. I get their weekly
newsletter.
In September I began to aggressively research the vitiligo. That’s
when I learned that often people with vitiligo are hypo T. I began
taking bovine colostrum two weeks before starting ER4YR and I felt
immediately better when I rid myself of the wheat. (I’m a hobby
baker…mill my own wheat, bake my own bread–I’ll gladly give it up
if I continue to feel like this!) Today my 10-yodd said “Mommy, you
feel good, don’t you?” There is something to this plan! –Chloe
November 30th, 2004 at 4:29 am
Thanks for the information. I have many of the same symptoms as well as weight
gain/inability to loose weight & sleep
maintenance insomnia. About 18 months ago I was diagnosed with/as Bi-Polar II
(a less severe form of manic depression
characterized by more depression and less severe swings between mania and
depression) I didn’t agree with the diagnosis and
felt it was more likely to be PMS or PMDD as my ’swings’ seemed to coincide with
my monthly cycle. Since then I have been
attempting to correct my sleeping problem as the root cause and looking at the
’swings’ as a symptom. Once the sleep problems
are corrected, I can determine if there is another root cause that needs to be
addressed. I still disagree with the Bi-Polar
diagnosis. Interestingly, as I’ve been natural healing, one of the treatments
for individuals with bi-polar disorder is
removing the individual from processed foods. No good can come from that stuff!
While I’m not sleeping much better, I am feeling tremendously better. Yes,
there is something to this!
Karen
November 30th, 2004 at 2:34 pm
Before thinking bi-polar, think about the mood swings caused by sugar
sensitivity. perhaps look at “Sugar Addict’s Recovery Plan” - look on the
internet at www.radiantrecovery.com don’t bother with YLD tho’ in my opinion.
Are you a secretor or a nonnie? that could explain a lot. Ann
About 18 months ago I was diagnosed with/as Bi-Polar II (a less severe form of
manic depression
characterized by more depression and less severe swings between mania and
depression) I didn’t agree with the diagnosis and
felt it was more likely to be PMS or PMDD as my ’swings’ seemed to coincide
with my monthly cycle. Since then I have been
attempting to correct my sleeping problem as the root cause and looking at the
’swings’ as a symptom. Once the sleep problems
are corrected, I can determine if there is another root cause that needs to be
addressed. I still disagree with the Bi-Polar
diagnosis. Interestingly, as I’ve been natural healing, one of the treatments
for individuals with bi-polar disorder is
removing the individual from processed foods. No good can come from that
stuff!
While I’m not sleeping much better, I am feeling tremendously better. Yes,
there is something to this!
Karen
December 1st, 2004 at 1:04 am
I’ll take a look. I’m not doing much sugar right now, just beef and
veggies.
I feel that the traditional medical establishment has let me down in a
number of ways. When pursuing my sleep disorder, all they wanted to
do was give me sleeping pills. The bi-polar diagnosis was made based
on answers to a handful of questions.
I was pretty much addicted to Coca-Cola and/or Mountain Dew for a lot
of years. I went cold turkey off the rut-got a few months ago. Now I
drink nothing but water. Of course, psychiatrists don’t take those
things into consideration; they just want to prescribe medication.
Okay, I’ll get off my soap box now.
I’m not sure if I’m secretor or not. My ND thinks I am not. I wasn’t
going to bother with the test, but the longer I’m here, the more I
realize it matters.
Karen
December 1st, 2004 at 7:03 am
Hi Karen, It takes quite a while for you brain chemistry to readjust after
changing diet or drink esp one like coke. You say you are just doing beef and
veggies now - I hope the essential fats too.
I too had a bad time with the medical establishment and was very hooked on
sleeping pills for a long while after going through 2 cancers and the death of
my SIL and a good friend all in short order- very difficult to get off. The doc
at the sleep clinic said that it would be almost impossible for me to get off
them - he wanted to increase them! but I did get off them!!!
Stick with your convictions but try for example having a bowl of oatmeal with
just a little soy before bed or better yet, have a homemade oatmeal granola that
does not have any protein source in it. I found that this gave me an incredible
sleep. However, as a nonnie, after a number of days I started to feel very foggy
and toxic and cannot go that route. the 5HTP has been great. The last couple of
months i have been sleeping too long - 8, 9 or 10 hours - and dreaming a lot. I
think this is excessive and plan to cut back on the 5 HTP but am enjoying it so
much after years of not sleeping.
Take care, and do that secretor test! Ann
I’ll take a look. I’m not doing much sugar right now, just beef and
veggies.
I feel that the traditional medical establishment has let me down in a
number of ways. When pursuing my sleep disorder, all they wanted to
do was give me sleeping pills. The bi-polar diagnosis was made based
on answers to a handful of questions.
I was pretty much addicted to Coca-Cola and/or Mountain Dew for a lot
of years. I went cold turkey off the rut-got a few months ago. Now I
drink nothing but water. Of course, psychiatrists don’t take those
things into consideration; they just want to prescribe medication.
Okay, I’ll get off my soap box now.
I’m not sure if I’m secretor or not. My ND thinks I am not. I wasn’t
going to bother with the test, but the longer I’m here, the more I
realize it matters.
Karen
December 3rd, 2004 at 8:17 am
Hi Ann
I noticed you mentioned 5-HTP and how well it did for you. What dosage do
you take for sleep?
Sarah
too long - 8, 9 or 10 hours - and dreaming a lot. I think this is excessive
and plan to cut back on the 5 HTP but am enjoying it so much after years of
not sleeping. <
December 4th, 2004 at 7:18 am
or drink esp one like coke. You say you are just doing beef and veggies now - I
hope the essential fats too.
A little olive oil here and there & I’m adding the flax into my diet now. Are
there others?
sleeping pills for a long while after going through 2 cancers and the death of
my SIL and a good friend all in short order- very difficult to get off. The doc
at the sleep clinic said that it would be almost impossible for me to get off
them - he wanted to increase them! but I did get off them!!!
Good for you! I simply refused the sleeping pills, but it was difficult at
times. If I really needed help, I went with benadryl or valerian root for help.
I really didn’t want to get hooked on something. I knew it would be difficult
to get off of it.
just a little soy before bed or better yet, have a homemade oatmeal granola that
does not have any protein source in it.
Is oatmeal okay for us? Okay, the website says neutral for secretors and avoid
for non-secretors. I really need that test! Right now I’m doing a piece or two
of spelt bread with my night time vitamins (B6, magnesium, 5HTP). Oatmeal is
probably better. I resist eating at night because of weight gain concerns.
Even with this night time regimen, I’ve been loosing 3 pounds a week so I’m
relaxing into it.
Karen
December 4th, 2004 at 11:25 am
Sometimes it feels like I don’t! My evening meal is around 6pm and then I have
my night time complex carbohydrate vitamin
transport and sleep aid (that’s how I think of it, not really a meal, but
vitamin transport and sleep aid) around 9. The
night time vitamins & 5HTP are supposed to be taken about 45 minutes before you
go to sleep.
Karen
December 8th, 2004 at 6:22 pm
Actually that is too much on a long term basis. For the first few weeks, OK
because it is probably a lot of water weight but after that you may be losing
lean mass and need to slow down or it will come back.
I eat lots of lean meat and vegetables - almost exclusively - and drink lots of
water. I strive for my body weight in grams of protein and my body weight in
ounces of water daily. My day is pretty much as follows:
4:30 am Awake
4:35 Drink the juice of 1 large lemon with an equal amount of water (to
help with digestion)
4:45 Begin hydration - Drink 30 ounces of water
5:30 Work out, 1 hour
Alternate cardio or weight lifting, 6 days/week (oh, okay, this
is a goal, but I do work out at least 4 days a week! Cardio should never go
more than 1 hour as the lactic acid build deteriorates the muscle.)
Drink 20 oz of water per 15 minutes of exercise
Drink 30 oz of water 30 minutes after exercise
7:30 Breakfast 3 hard-boiled eggs or egg salad (21g protein)
8:30 Drink 20 ounces water
10 4 oz beef & vegetables, vitamin supplements (31g protein)
11 Drink 20 ounces water
12:30 4 oz beef & vegetables, vitamin supplements (31g protein)
1:30 pm Drink 20 ounces water
3 4 oz beef & vegetables (31g
protein)
4 pm Drink 20 ounces water
4:30 4 oz beef & vegetables (31g
protein)
5:30 Drink 20 ounces water
6 3 oz salt-water fish & vegetables (19g
protein)
May substitute chicken here
7 Drink 20 ounces water
8 - 9 Complex carbohydrate/nighttime vitamin transport (one of the vits I
take needs the carb transport, I don’t remember which one.)
9 - 10 Off to bed
starvation mode and will use fewer calories and in the end you will regret this
speedy weight loss. Sorry - end of lecture!!!
I’m not sure how my body could POSSIBLY think it’s in starvation mode! I must
consume between 2000 - 2500 calories. I weigh 164 pounds. I have lost over 70
pounds in the past year. Additionally, I have spent much of that time working
out with a personal trainer building lean muscle mass and learning how to rev my
metabolism. You should have seen the scant calories I was eating before I met
him! His
favorite saying is “You need to eat to loose”. I had hit a plateau for a while,
but I was getting most of my protein from dairy products and chicken, not to
mention eating WAY too many carbs. Now that I’m getting them from beef and
salt-water fish, the weight is dropping off of me. I eat almost exclusively HB
vegetables, too. Spinach, artichokes & asparagus (neutral) are among my
favorites. I’m starting to
get a taste for broccoli again, too.
I wouldn’t want to loose it more quickly than 3 pounds a week - and, yes, even
that is a bit of a concern. I’m probably going to add a sweet potato or two
into my diet for fiber and to slow down the weight loss. The rest of my body
needs the time to catch up!
I’ll give the oatmeal a try and see if holds me better than the spelt bread.
Any suggestions for complex carbohydrates for nonnies?
Karen
December 10th, 2004 at 11:32 am
sensitivity. perhaps look at “Sugar Addict’s Recovery Plan” - look on the
internet at www.radiantrecovery.com don’t bother with YLD tho’ in my opinion.
Are you a secretor or a nonnie? that could explain a lot. Ann
Oh, this was interesting!! My mother is following the Atkins diet. No carbs,
no sugar. The other day she said that the two things she missed most on this
diet is her alcohol and her ice cream. Yeah, I think Mom has a sugar
sensitivity. I don’t drink except rarely in social situations,
but if I get going on sweets, it is addictive.
I don’t have near the problem with sugar that Mom has, though, but that doesn’t
mean that I’m not sensitive to it. I do miss my bread, though. That’s one
thing I have to watch the temptation in restaurants.
Once I get through the withdrawal phase with sugar, I’m okay. Mom seems to
resist getting through the withdrawal phase. She was hunting up candy bars with
low carb sugar substitutes the other day. I read a book a couple of years ago,
LOW FAT LIVING, that opened my eyes. Most of the
sugar substitutes trigger the same insulin response as sugar. Wow! So you save
a few calories, but your body reacts the same. Sure, makes sense. No wonder
we’re living in the the fattest society since the dawn of time. Oh, yeah, that
and SUPER SIZE IT.
Karen - getting off her soap box now
Thanks for the information. I renew my resolve that I am not bi-polar and I
think that the traditional medical establishment is failing us.
December 12th, 2004 at 6:07 pm
Good idea about planning. Seems like it might help me as I forget to
— Lilla Luoma
eat and don’t get hungry that often, so planning meal times might be helpful for
me (and even setting an alarm as reminder). I love the fact that you are
eating this much/often and losing so well. Hmmmm, maybe I try to do better?
Confirms what Thomas has been telling us all along, thanks for being an
inspiration,
Love,
Lilla
Thank you, thank you very much.
I was inspired by Bill Philips program “Body for Life” last
year. If he didn’t advocate pasta rice so much, it might
have
actually worked for me.
Anyway… one thing that stuck with me was “Failure to plan is planning to
fail.” If you don’t plan to get enough protein or
enough water (the two ingredients for success in my opinion), then you
won’t. Last year, I made a plan to drink 20 oz of
water every hour and actually set an alarm clock to make it
happen. So, when you - Thomas - helped me figure out this
program, I made a plan - wrote it down. What I need to eat and
when; what I need to drink and when. Eventually it’ll become
second nature and then I can relax a bit, but for now, I have a plan.
Failure to plan is planning to fail - and Karen hates to
fail!
— lillabell@…
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