Good morning/afternoon I am type O. Your list for dairy products under "neutral" lists "farmer cheese". I cannot find such an item where I live in Australia. Someone said it is a Continental Cottage Cheese Spread (was Bakers Cheese apparently). Can you assist please with what it might be here in Australia? Regards Carol



Hi, Carol! "Farmer cheese" is indeed "baker cheese" in some locales. Here is a quote from the Specific Carbohydrate Diet pages:















I hope those descriptions give you some tips on what to look for there in Oz ~ Thanks for writing, Carol! :-)

I am an O non-secretor. I have been on the diet in increasing dedication for about 3 or 4 years. My question is about Chlorela and Spirulina. It is not always easy to get my greens. I was wondering what you think of Chlorela and Spirulina as substitutes at times for green vegetables and generally are they good for an O+ NS. Thanks, P.S. Results speak for themselves! Jeff



Hey, Jeff! Well... we nons REALLY need our fresh veg every day! Chlorella is a perfectly wonderful supplement -- meaning, as an addition to an otherwise healthy diet. It will probably prevent a deficiency in some elements if your vegetable intake is low, but vegetables and fruits provide fiber and trace elements that a supp can't give you... you know where I'm going with this, right? :-} As a substitute for whole food, actually, well... it wouldn't work too well that way. Figure out how much time it would take to steam two servings of veg a day and prepare one plain salad ~ add up the cost, then figure out how much the supp costs per day. Put a price on your time & do your own comparison. This doesn't figure in the difference in "feeling" between a vegetable-based diet and one heavier on supps, but do work it out for yourself and make the best decision for your lifestyle! thanks, Jeff!! :-)

Heidi, I am O, secretor, and while I try to follow the diet for my well being (I especially BREATHE better), I have been able to maintain an ideal weight for my size for the past 10 years. My weak area although, is my "gut". Even Dr. Bron mentioned that it is not advantageous to harbor extra weight in your stomach and I have had this problem since high school. (Not overweight at that time, although I was for a brief period in college.) I have tried ab exercises, but that doesn't help much either. My question is, has the lectin damage of all these years (I'm now 42), caused such damage to my gut, that no diet or exercise can reverse? Amber



Hello, Amber! Body proportion is not a health issue if your diet is good and your weight is OK and steady. You can sculpt your body with weight work done regularly over a period of months, but we are all built differently (God must like it that way!) even at a high level of fitness. I know it can be discouraging to focus upon the one area that does not meet our standards, so I suggest going to the level of the solution and getting right stuck into a thrice-weekly weight workout. The changes will come, and improvements can be immensely cheering! But again, worry not about that tummy ~ just look at how far you've come already! :-)

Hello, After the birth of my daughter a few years ago, went on a wheat, dairy and sugar free diet and reached my ideal weight of 7St 6Ibs, Put after a perlonged period of stress including a miscarraige, I regained the weight and since then despite my best efforts, I keep gaining weight every year I now weigh 8st 4ibs. I've been following the O type diet for about 5 months now, along with the programme of exercise recommended for O- types, 3 times a week at the gym. Intially I lost some weight, but now I seem to have regained the weight and some extra, please can you tell me what I'm doing wrong, I don't know what else I can do, and my weight keeps creeping up every year. I don't want to put any more weight on, and would be grateful for any help or explination about whats happening, or what I'm doing wrong, Thanks for your help, Emma Welsh



Greetings, Emma ~ First, let me say you are doing NOTHING wrong at all, you're doing fine! All you need is a little test of fine-tuning for yourself. Even within the O blood type, there are variations in metabolism that must be worked out individually. We all do this if we see results are slow or difficult, so don't feel you're failing, please! ;-) Two suggestions: twelve pounds is not so terribly much to lose, and with your workouts, you've probably built up a bit more muscle mass (a GOOD thing, it's the fat-burning engine!) which is heavier than fat. So measure yourself (at waist, hips, thighs) rather than weighing for the next two months, and keep track weekly. That will give you a better indication of *fat* loss than the scale can do. Second, remove all grain and dairy from your diet, and fill in with beneficial vegetables, meat, fish, nuts and oils. Add two tablespoons of maca root powder to your daily diet (in a smoothie, perhaps) for its hormone-balancing effects, and have two cups of green tea and plenty of pure water between meals. Let me know your progress in a bit! :-D

I recently started on the diet for "O Blood Type." After reading the book, I picked up the little companion book for "O's" on food, beverage & supplement lists that I could keep with me. I noticed in that book I'm allowed to eat "oat bran, oatmeal & oat flour which was considered "avoid" foods in your original book. Has more study gone into this changing some of the foods that "0's" can now consume as a neutral food? Karen



Yes, much more study has taken place ~ and we have come to what appears to be the final version for the foods already tested. So, the "little books" are of a much later date than the BTD book, and are the updated versions of the food lists! thanks, Karen!! :-)

Last year I took your Proberry 3 during the winter months and did not get sick (I am around kids all the time). I started your PolyFlora and Polyvite recently and wondered if I still need the Proberry 3 or is there enough in the vitimins? A recent blood test showed hypothyroidism The doctor suggested a product called Nature thyroid. The rest of the blood test was very healthy and I have to give credit to the type O diet I have been following for two years. I would be open to any suggestions you have as to how I can help myself other than the diet and the Nature thyroid. Thanks. Carol



Hi there, Carol ~ Would you write back and tell me what is actually in the Nature thyroid product you're taking? and how it's working for you? Since you're around kids constantly, yes, I'd keep taking the ProBerry3 year-round. Besides, it makes a magnificent soda ~ add other fruit concentrates if desired, fill up with mineral water and add a few ice cubes. :-D

How does blood type O react soy and tofu? It says to avoid soybeans, does that mean all soy drinks and products? Sorah



Hi, Sorah ~ The guidelines for soy differ, depending upon one's secretor status. Since most people are secretors, I usually advise that it is safe to follow the secretor list unless they are in severe difficulty to start with. For nonsecretors, soy is "avoid," and for secretors, "neutral." To check individual foods, use the TYPEbase 3 database. Thanks for your note, dear! ;-)

This is my first visit to your website. I would appreciate it very much if you can tell me what are the foods that I can eat and what I should avoid. My blood type is O+ and I suffer from intensely painful gout flare ups (in my ankle joint and knees) occasionally. Thank you. Kan Yau



Hello, Kan Yau ~ Right away, I will suggest that you avoid wheat and corn in every form and every product. And take a couple of tablespoons of black cherry juice or a handful of fresh black cherries every day ~ it is quite effective against the gout. You'll need the book Live Right 4 Your Type for the complete explanation of this plan ~ it's available from the Store on this site, as well as many online and neighborhood booksellers. Have a good look, and write again -- I wish you Godspeed in your healing!!

I am type O, and am trying to follow the Eat right for your blood type. I have eaten more or less a vegetarian diet for years and avoided red meat because I had polyops in my intestianal trace. Also I had a sister die of colon cancer. Can I safely eat meats. I was diagnosed with mycoplasm pnumomia and took antibotics at first and swiched to Colodial Silver and other supplements. Now I seem to have it back, and have been diagnosed with emphasema. I have been told that I need to take antibotics for 1 to 2 years to cure the mycoplasma and colodial silver to keep the yeast and bad bacteria under control. Originally, I took Dyfluken to control that. Please help me. I seem to continually have sinus and bronchal problems. Please excuse mispelled words. Thank you, Dorothy



Dear Dorothy ~ it is wheat and many other foods inappropriate for type O which bear the blame for intestinal disease, not the clean Beneficial and Neutral meats that we need for health and healing! Fish is especially important for you now, along with plenty of steamed vegetables and fruits. Please try your best to eliminate all grains and dairy for now, as it will make things far easier for you after the initial adjustment period. Diflucan is what started the problems with yeast and bacteria, and has worsened the gut trouble you have today. Antibiotics will severely damage the intestinal flora and fauna that make up your immune system! Please do not believe anyone who would have you take them for years! INSTEAD: please visit www.heallix.com and purchase a few bottles of Heallix -- it is ionized silver (far more effective and safe than colloidal silver) in a base of fulvic acid, and will do wonders in helping your immune and digestive system regain health. If possible, get a mini-trampoline and just sit and bounce on it for five or ten minutes every day -- it will help your lungs clear up. Do get out and walk, if at all possible! Dorothy, please keep in touch, OK? I want to hear how you're doing! thanks, dear!!

Dear Heidi, I just read the Sept. 3 note and my husband isn't quite as bad, but he is in the hopital right now with a severe attack of ulcerative colitis. He is Type O,so am I, but he doesn't follow the Blood Type diet like I do, but from now on he is game to try anything to avoid severe pain and bloody diarrhea. I've looked all the info. up in LR4YT, plus other books I have on hand. I know it is important to eat alkaline food, one info I have lists all fruits as alkaline except cranberries AND blueberries. I know how important blueberries are for Type O as beneficial, thank goodness I bought lots of wild blueberries on holidays and have in freezer. Also, should he avoid all grains right now except this white rice concoction? I glean so much insight from your column, thanks for your help. Jayne



:-} hey, we all had different reasons for coming to this plan, and it looks like your husband has found his own reasons. Yes, do avoid all grains other than the rice and blueberries dish. Don't worry yourself trying to run his diet on an acid/alkaline list ~ just keep healing that gut of his, and add other foods as he heals. Thanks for your kind words, Jayne, and I know he will come through and be healthier than ever! Keep me posted! :-)

Why is colustrum contraindicatdd for Type Os? I have taken it in the past with much success and want to resume taking it now (I've just spent the past 10 days recovering from a very bad reaction to Cipro that a dermatologist put me on for a fingernail infection). It really helped in the past for other reasons and I'd like to try it again. What do you think? Carolyn



Hi, Carolyn ~ I'd use our type-specific probiotic, PolyFlora-O, instead. And be aware that antibiotics are killers, and don't particularly care whether the casualties are the good guys or the bad guys ~ they just wipe them ALL out. An antiviral like ProBerry3 is an excellent preventative, and "Heallix" (available at www.heallix.com) is marvelous for preventing and treating internal and topical infections of a wide variety - and it actually supports natural immune function rather than compromising it as antibiotic drugs do. Those are my thoughts ~ I hope they help! :-)

I am a type O and am gaining much success by the Blood Type Diet. I started the diet in June of this year and have added a rigorous workout routine to my daily schedule. I am interested in taking fat burners, but, it seems that over 50% of ingredients in fat burner products are listed as "avoid" for my blood type. What do you recommend for me as suulements that will enhance my weight loss? Thank you V



Most fat burners contain harmful stimulants, and I'd advise strongly against taking any of them. Instead, get bladderwrack (fucus vesiculosis) in capsules, and take two or three per day. Drink a cup or two of green tea daily. Limit your grain and dairy servings to the absolute minimum, and fill up on green veg whenever possible. And use only the good oils, and pure water ~ with your determination, you'll see results in no time! and they'll stick with you, which I can't say for the effects of fat burners... OK? :-)

Firstly I would just like to say thank you so much for creating this amazing diet/way of living. I am an O from New Zealand and I live and swear by the book. Its my bible. At times it is frustrating that I cant dive into a plate of spaghetti cabonara at the italian restaurant, but when I look down at myself and see my improvements and assess the way I now feel it is all worth it. My question however, is regarding the portion sizes that the book gives as a guideline. One serving is 1 cup of uncooked rice and yet that is of course physically impossible to eat. Usually it is a 1/3 of a cup and I was just wondering why there was such a huge difference. Also, cheese portion is 60g whereas the backs of most cheese packets recomend 20g. These contradicitons confuse me somewhat. Its not a major problem because I know how much I need to eat and I do so. I have pretty much eliminated the carbs anyway, I would just like this matter cleared up. I have a few other questions but do not want to ask too many at this one time. It would be greatly appreciated to have this first one answered and I would love to know if I could ask a few more questions. I am sure you are inundated as it is. Thank you very much in anticipation. Sarah the kiwi.



:-D You'd be surprised! :-D Yes, just keep with it according to what you need to eat. Your results are telling you everything you need to know! The published portions may be a bit high ~ but thanks for that note, and I'd certainly like to hear your other questions. Congratulations on your success, and I look forward to hearing from you again! :-D