Dr. Peter D'Adamo: Personalized Healing

I just started studying your theory on blood types. There seems to be method to the madness, but I am concerned.

I shall be 44 years old at the end of the year and have been an ovo-lacto vegetarian for 17 years. My health is very good, but I am O positive!

How do I get around the meat problem, because I do not think I can face meat (or fish or poultry) again?!

I shall be studying the book more intensively, but would appreciate any feedback.

Looks like a helpful resource! I imagine many of my clients would benefit from checking it out.

I am enjoying all the content on your website and in your book "Eating Right 4 Your Type." I would, however, like to contact either Dr. D'Adamo or one of his staff via e mail to clarify some questions I have. Please contact me via my e mail that I entered on this form so that I may get my questions answered. Thank you!

I m being a programmer for many years,in my view,the "hello word" could be the most closed word to my programmer life

Wow! Thanks Dr.D. The thoughts in this blog make me grateful to be alive.

I'm really trying to pursue the recommended diet plan however i see some inconsistencies with the meal plan's ingredient's vs. the foods as listed in the book to avoid. for instance i am hunter, and in the book it lists to avoid the carbohydrate (amaranth), however on the recipes page found on this website amaranth cooked cereal is listed as a meal that's ok to eat. This is just 1 example can anyone explain this to me?

Well said Peter!

Like you state: it takes a master carpenter to build a barn and any fool with a match to burn it down.

Take care and stay well!

Cocky

Thank you! Keep working on the truth!
It will prevail!

This concept of typing makes sense - but it does not explain why some foods are better than others. I know you weren't answering that question. However, as someone for whom Ayurveda makes sense in a satisfying way, I am left feeling that the methodology for determining which foods are healthy/unhealthy for a type or an individual is too quantitative. Does food not have intelligence, at least once it enters the body of the eater? The whole premise that a computer or even a live person can determine that a potato, for example, is always a toxin for person X, regardless of how it is prepared, with the infinite possibilities that affords, strikes me as counter-intuitive.
From reading the forums of the BTD/GTD people are following their lists mostly with an eye for the smallest ingredients. Seems like the body would not react so much to the smallest amounts nearly as much as it would to the overall balance of the food item or meal. Is the body not more "holistic" than to treat a meal as a math equation?

I changed my diet in 1999, BTD A and have never in all my life felt so good.
People that stumble around in the dark have to wait untill the light comes on!

"Hello"

Physicists would concur with you. Nudge a few of our physical constants a few percent, and the Big Bang could not have happened. Forget about the likelihood of a habitable Earth....

Yes, it is a lovely positive way of looking at things, but, unfortunately, the opposite holds true as well! It will undoubtedly make a lot of people who are struggling through life, think that they have been very UNlucky to get through the whole process!

What a lovely truth; something that each one of us can be proud of.

Thanks for pointing it out.

Really enjoyed the blog and the comments, only one thing I would add.

Many family members and friends have seen the progress I have made on this diet over the years. Some have tried it, with great success; some have tried it and fallen off the wagon; some refuse (so far) to try it. In my experience it is more about whether one is willing to put one's health first, even on a trial basis.

Many people are addicted to their comfort foods (not always sugar or wheat-- I know people who would be better off without red meat, but they love it.) I admit that I occasionally am tempted by foods that are not good for me; I know what the outcome will be and don't fool myself into thinking there aren't consequences.

Many people will not even consider the possibility of eating a diet that might require them to limit a food that has emotional meaning to them. I no longer eat as a part of my regular diet a number of things that I grew up with and that equal "family", "love", "comfort", "pleasure". I may eat them once or twice a year at a family gathering. But a lot of people just can't give those things up. They will give you all kinds of "logical" reasons, or cite science, but the fact is they enslaved by their emotional (and sometimes physical) connections to the foods they eat, and it is too scary, or feels too much like deprivation, to change.

I always tell anyone who complains of ill health to try the diet for 2 weeks-- a month if they are really bad off. My attitude is, that it is 2 weeks out of your life. If you don't feel better, you have only invested 2 weeks to find out it doesn't help. If you do, then you can decide if feeling better is worth it. I have found that most people do see a change in 2 weeks and if they really want to feel better they now know how to do it.

If they don't bother to try it, then they don't have a right to complain...

congratulation, Peter, great blog
times and habits need to be changed, also here in Switzerland, the land all pratiotiones get confronted when not working or accepting the swiss food pyramide....:-(......

facts onto the table...no more lies!!!

all the success I've had with my clients were only about the introduction of BTD.... why should I change and adopt the swiss nutritionel models?? :-)....
Thank you for having tought me and giving a glimps about realities in life.
All my best wishes to you and your family
amicalement yours Isa

provokes a change in our grossly naive view of genetic determinism...i think this is very helpful....

"Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There's a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in." Reaction: that is the single most profound thing I ever read in my life.

Leonard Coehn?
P.S. My Doctor went to school with you at Bastyr!

Perhaps that's what I see in the elderly. I don't view the swollen joints and wrinkled skin as deformities or imperfections. Such a person is a work of art carved by time and experience.

I have Wegener Granulomatosis, and I am type A, I do the diet program and I am feeling much better. Do you think there is something more that I can do for this.

I am from Costa Rica.

Thanks
Maria