Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Heather, have u heard of....

Hi - I've heard of it, read the book a few years ago. It was interesting. I'm type A negative, and some of the foods to avoid seemed on target (meat and dairy, if I remember right) but others were a little odd. And some of the things that were supposed to be just fine would have killed me. I was looking at the diet specifically with an eye for IBS, though, and maybe that wasn't fair.

The science behind the book is interesting, but not validated. The theory is that the way a drop of your blood reacts to reagents in various foods can be extrapolated to predict how your entire body/health will react to eating those foods. The book has been trounced by a lot of medical authorities because the author hasn't moved out of the lab and into clinical studies, that are double-blind and published in peer-reviewed journals and all that stuff.

I've actually wondered if there is some weird tie-in here with IBS and blood type - I don't know why there would be, and I've never seen a study on this. But it might be interesting to see what most people with IBS have as their blood types in general. The people who have written to me asking about the book before have never had type A blood like me.

Wish I had more to offer here...

- Heather

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