Memories of the 28th Century

I just learned that The Blood Type Diet existed. Skeptic that I am, I immediately thought it was a scam, but I thought that I’d do well to look into it a little and find out what the theory and causational links are supposed to be. Web MD has an article about the diet that is quite balanced and not completely critical. Then I looked at the web site of Peter D’Adamo, who dreamed up the diet, and all I found were irrelevant comments that didn’t tell how this is supposed to work. That got me to wondering exactly what the differences among the major blood types were.

There are antigens for the other blood types that attack blood cells of other types. In essence the other types are viewed as invading cells by a body’s immune system. That means that there are different sets of chemicals on the cell walls of red blood cells. I didn’t find lists of the actual chemicals, but those would be proteins of various types. That’s all. That’s the difference among people of the different blood types.

Would that mean that they would digest and absorb food differently? No, that would not make any difference to the digestive tract. There would be differences in DNA that codes for red blood cell surface proteins; that’s it.

It is conceivable that the gene that determines blood type is also involved in how are absorbed in the digestive tract, but I couldn’t find anything that suggested that.

Conclusion:
If there is no difference except for what proteins are on the surfaces of red blood cells involved in blood types, then blood type makes no difference in how one absorbs or stores food; therefore, a diet designed for one blood type would have the same on people of all blood types.

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Web MD article
http://www.webmd.com/diet/blood-type-diet
Homepage of the diet founder Peter D’Adamo
http://www.dadamo.com/