Designed for You: The Blood Type Diet Part 1 of 5

In 1996 the Blood Type Diet made is debut in a book by Peter J. D’Adamo, ND, Eat Right 4 Your Type: The Individualized Diet Solution for Staying Healthy: Living Longer & Achieving Your Ideal Weight (Putman, 1996). Fourteen years after the fact it’s still one of the best-selling diet books on Amazon.com. But does it work?

This is the story of Mr. Khyber Oser before, and after the Blood Type Diet. Vegetarian was a way of life for him and when he got older he turned vegan in college, cutting out eggs and dairy to subsist on grains, beans, nuts, seeds, and fresh produce. Even though his heart and mind felt great, his body didn’t. There were issues like the hand rash and debilitating hip pain on top of an array of other chronic problems, like his congestion, dry skin, and dandruff. He couldn’t sleep at night because of the persistent itching of the little pimples that kept coming up between his fingers and that debilitating hip.

So he began his medical journey. There were the two dermatologist who briskly diagnosed contact dermatitis and prescribed a steroid cream. He didn’t catch all the terms or the put a band aid on it solutions; instead he wanted to find out why he was “jumping out of his skin.”

The next stop was a naturopath who hold him he had candida, an overgrowth of fungus in the intestines, and advised him to avoid sugary, yeasty, pickled, and fermented foods. He soon gave up on that regimen because after he had sensitized his body, a slice of cake made him violently ill.

At last he went to Gina T. Ogorzaly, DC, a chiropractor and co-founder of the Diamondback Wellness Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. That first visit was when she asked him his blood type and he replied “O positive, why do you ask?”

She searched through her file cabinet and handed him O specific eating charts that broke down foods into three categories: highly beneficial, neutral, and foods to avoid. She told him to restrict himself to red meat and vegetables as much as possible and stay away from grains, especially wheat. She said, “You’re Type O. You’re a hunter.” He was stunned at the fact that he was predestined to be an obligatory meat eater something that he had tried all his life to avoid but he wanted to heal his aching body. So he started working on eating like a Type O, a hunter.