• Genetics and Subtypology

• Blood Type and the Mind

• Digestion, Lectins and Toxicity

• Blood Type and Metabolism

• Blood Type, Cancer and the Immune System

Each section has between 3-6 subchapters and is extensively referenced.  LR4YT is extensively prescriptive in nature, and introduces even prior readers of ER4YT to an entirely new spectrum of modalities and supplements  that have potent, if different,  effects on each blood type.

Returning to assist  Dr. D'Adamo with the writing of LR4YT is award-winning author Catherine Whitney.  Of LR4YT, Catherine said:

"For a writer, there is nothing more gratifying than knowing you’ve made a tangible, lasting contribution through your work. I am not a scientist or a doctor, but my collaboration with Peter D’Adamo has provided me with an opportunity to participate in changing peoples’ lives. As I studied the thousands of responses from the Blood Type Outcome Registry, I realized that I was seeing the evidence, right before my eyes, of a remarkable breakthrough. I wish I could have included every outcome description in the text of Live Right 4 Your Type. Many were truly moving: The young mother whose 9-month-old son was suffering from a diaphragmatic hernia, which caused him to vomit after every meal. Surgery seemed imminent, until she tried the Type O Diet. Now she has a healthy, happy baby. Or the Navy Commander, a real skeptic, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Since following the blood type plan, he has cut his insulin shots in half, and reports, 'I feel like I’m on a constant energy high.' Or the young woman who was told she’d be facing a lifetime with irritable bowel syndrome, and there was little she could do about it. Imagine how discouraging that prospect would be. On the Type A diet, all of her symptoms disappeared. Hippocrates wrote that 'healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.' What a fantastic opportunity we all share to be part of that process. I can’t wait to see the results from Live Right 4 Your Type."

New to the team is Dr. Greg Kelly, Peter's friend and colleague. Dr. Kelly, an editor for the prestigious Alternative Medicine Review, is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles on human nutrition. Perhaps he more than anyone else can provide a unique perspective on the writing of LR4YT:

 

"When I first heard Dr. D'Adamo speak about blood type and health several years ago, I remember leaving the room thinking that this knowledge was incredibly important, but realizing that the ability to apply it really only existed with Dr. D'Adamo. To be quite honest with you, it would be generous to say that I was able to fully appreciate even 10 percent of the information he presented. And, I would soon learn that he was not even scratching the tip of the iceberg with respect to the health implications of blood type.

We share this information daily with our patients. We use it to help them design healthier lives. It has been a labor of love to work on LR4YT, knowing that now even more people will benefit from these strategies. Knowledge of blood type creates a profound power over health and disease. Although the amount of hours this project has consumed has been overwhelming at times, it has been an immensely satisfying and rewarding project. I wish I could somehow give you an idea of the effort that went into this project. Let me just leave it as follows; image spending virtually all of your weekends and evenings for the next 6-8 weeks and at the end of it all that remained was 1 chapter. But the work does not stop here, it will now cause an additional payout of many more days of several more people's time before it will even get to an editor. Now multiply this effort by many chapters. This was our process for the past year and we feel it was well worth the effort. I hope you will find this book as rewarding to read as we did to research and write."

"The exquisite circuitry of the human body relies on a system of interconnections that rivals any machinery ever created. We don’t yet understand all of these connections, but the Human Genome Project is making progress in mapping the genes and their functions.

By looking at the genetic expression of blood type, we can now understand many apparently unrelated physical and mental correlations. Even attributes that may have had a survival rationale, such as physiological adaptations to environment or diet, can be seen as genetic memory. If these adaptations were successful and persisted, they would be hard coded into one of the blood type alleles as a variant strategy for use by later generations. We already know of some intimate relationships between the blood type gene, located on chromosome 9 at band q34, and other genes that impact on our health and well-being. For example, in 1984, researchers reporting in the journal, Genetic Epidemiology, presented evidence of a family pedigree in which a major gene for breast cancer susceptibility is located near band q34 on chromosome 9. There is a clear connection between blood type and breast cancer.

Here’s another intriguing link that suggests a relationship between blood type and the brain. The gene for the enzyme dopamine beta hydroxylase (DBH), which converts dopamine to noradrenaline, is located right at 9q34. It’s literally sitting on top of the gene for blood type. As we will see later, this has vast implications for the association between blood type and stress, mental health, and even personality characteristics.

In addition, LR4YT features the newer typology findings with regard to one's ABO secretor state, affording the chance to 'fine-tune' the diets further.

When you think about it, it makes perfect sense that your blood type would play such a multifaceted role. Like the gatekeeper at a military installation, it must examine and vet each outsider, a job that requires close scrutiny of and familiarity with every division."

"How do you know something is true? What constitutes scientific proof? That’s a question that has some urgency when you’re embarking on a new course of diet and health. Not only do you need to know that blood type science has validity, but you may need to convince your primary care physician or other medical providers as well. To help you convince them, I’ve provided hundreds of references, based on some 1,200 scientific study articles (40 percent of which were reported in the past three years.) These articles illuminate various pieces of the blood type puzzle, based on clinical and laboratory testing in animals and humans; as well as sophisticated analyses of predominant characteristics according to blood type. In addition, you will find throughout the book the results of my three-year Blood Type Outcome Registry, which has been developed through my website to measure the effects of the Blood Type Diet. The 4,330 respondents culled from the Registry for use in this book are backed by medical records and other evidence. Also, in addition to the Outcome Registry, we have the 21,000 results of our Blood Type and Personality online inquiry."

Blood type can determine so many things: how much and how often we should eat; what our optimal daily schedule should be; what our best sleep/rest patterns are; how stress affects us and how to combat it; how to maximize our health; how to overcome disease; how we deal with aging; and even our degree of emotional well-being. Live Right 4 Your Type takes the blood type prescription to levels we couldn't have imagined even five years ago, and addresses these lifestyle issues in depth. The book is available in bookstores and through our products site, 4yourtype.com.

It's an exciting time. I invite you to join me in reaping the benefits of living right for your blood type.

-Peter D'Adamo, ND

LIVE RIGHT 4 YOUR TYPE: Table of Contents