Anti-nutrients

Yesterday I had a weight lifting competition where I ran into a former lifter I had not seen in three years. Back then I would often hear him speak about the ketogenic diet which has grown in popularity and I wanted to know if he still followed the diet. He sure does eating mostly organic red meats.

As he spoke to others who were now beginning to listen to him, I heard him begin to speak about anti- nutrients. When he finished, I asked him if he knew his blood type. It was type O.  And there it was! I looked at him and said, "Just as I thought." Then I asked him if he knew about lectins, and he did for lectins are one of the anti-nutrients he was talking about.

 

Lectins affect each blood type and this is why many years ago when I read a book called Eat for your Blood Type by Peter J D'Adamo, I started to avoid foods with lectins wrong for my blood type A. Would I eat all the red meat he ate for his blood type O?

Not a chance, for when I do, I gain weight. Those with blood type A have low stomach acid, and it is more difficult to digest meats, and lectins are only 1 type of anti- nutrient.

Oxylates phytates saponins and other types of anti-nutrients are found in grains seeds and vegetables and affect each of us differently. As an example it's why type O can enjoy tomatoes and the other blood types cannot. A process called aglutination occurs. Cooking and fermenting foods or soaking nuts will help remove some of these anti- nutrients. I simply do not buy foods that contain them for my blood type and if I decide to have any it's only occasionally.

In D'Adamo's book you will find the science that supports how foods affect each blood type. Understanding our plants and vegetables contain these anti-nutrients I make wise choices in foods for type A and stay away from labeled AVOID foods for my blood type. 

I would recommend your reading up on anti nutrients and also blood type foods. I can only report on my results of having over 25 years of avoiding greens grains nuts seeds and vegetables with these anti-nutrients that are wrong for my blood type. 

Why I still adhere to this is because at 75 I continue to have no arthritic pain or need any medication. In that book you will read about how these lectins can and will cause a process called agglutination thus affecting the body.

So when I listened to Wally yesterday talk about his red meat carnivore diet I was thinking..I bet his blood type is O. I was right!

Blessings 

❤️ Norma Jean