How Many Hours You Sleep, The poison Ricin, The Blood Type Diet and "That Magic Metabolism?" Oh yes, they're ALL related!

Ricin

Ricin is a poison, made from the hull of the castor bean. In its finished form it is a collection of tiny proteins. These proteins are 'incompatible' with all animals.

What's so bad about the proteins? They stick to the cells of your body. Why is this bad? Think about it. A red blood cell touches a ricin protein and they stick to each other. The red blood cell travels along and touches another blood cell or the blood vessel wall and they're not joined. They're not coming apart.

Ingesting even a tiny amount of ricin will put enough proteins in your blood stream, all of your blood clumps up and stops moving. Then, you die. This process takes a scant few minutes.

This process is called "Agglutination" with ricin being a "super agglutinator." The name for the type of protein? It's called a 'lectin.'

The Blood Type Diet

This information has been developing for over 20 years now. The majority of the food differences are based on their lectin content. Though ricin is "avoid" (extremely avoid!) for all blood types, the lectins in various foods have different levels of agglutination for differing blood types. The research on lectins goes back over 100 years and is quite solid.

The various blood types, and the differences in lectins in various foods, explains why the different diets have different effects on people. I watched this, while growing up, with my parents. My father is O blood type, my mother is A. They cycled through every 'diet' which came along for over 20 years.

Some worked great for my father, not my mother. Others worked for my mother, not my father. Some worked 'so-so' for both. NONE of the diets they tried worked for both of them.

Ever see a family with one skinny parent, one fat parent and a gaggle of skinny and fat kids? They're all eating the same food, and some of the food is 'avoid' for the fat parent/kids. You'll find the fat parent is one blood type and the fat kids are the same blood type as they are. The skinny parent and kids will also be the same blood type.

Holy Over Obvious Batman! I know, right?

Everyone (who doesn't have it) Wants "That Magic Metabolism"

Struggling to gain or lose weight? Unhealthy? No energy? Sleeping 8hrs a night or more and STILL waking up tired? It's your food, baby. The amazing thing about eating correctly for your blood type is the energy and health boost. I literally sleep 4-5hrs a night, when my food is correct. I'm flat out unable to 'sleep in,' and have my feet tapping within mintues of waking up. I eat 'avoid' foods and I'm sleepy. I eat too many avoids and I sleep for 8hrs or more, and wake up tired.

When my diet is according to my blood type, I either don't get sick, or I kick whatever I catch within hours. Currently, my food is not quite proper and I'm sick for the first time in at least a year. Fun.

Things Which Make the BTD Ineffective

Your body is quite sensitive to 'avoid' foods. I've read a lot of stories over the years of people who 'tried' the BTD and it "didn't work" for them. After working with the BTD for over 10 years, I understand why people say this.

My wife was nearly 400lbs when I met her, she's now around 260. She would be 185'ish (normal for her height) if we had been eating correctly the last 10 years. Since real food is expensive, we've been on and off the diet. She's lost and regained around 300lbs in 10 years, still down about 100 :)

This weight loss occurs at 3-4lbs a week, when her diet is proper. No excercise, no extra activity, simply changing what she eats. She can eat two snicker's bars in a week and her weight loss will drop to zero. Talk about sensitive!

Stay Away From:

• Foods listed as 'Avoid' for your blood type
• Artificial anything (if it's not on 'the list' it's best to treat it as an avoid for everyone)
• Highly processed or refined foods
• Adulterated foods (B blood type and can't have chicken? Better check those packages of turkey, a lot of mfgs use it as a filler.)
• Packaged foods

Read Food Labels

Soy milk is great for my blood type. Unless I make it myself, reading the lable on any packaged soy milk is a necessity. Soy milk is made from soybeans (non-gmo, thanks) and water. I don't care how 'organic' the cane sugar is, it's avoid for my blood type. SILK(tm) is definitely NOT soy milk.

Your package needs to list real foods, without any fillers, binders, sweeteners, artificial or "natural" flavors. The legalese behind "natural flavors" is disgusting, just stay away. Let's face it, if it was a 'natura' flavor your package would say "crushed strawberry pulp" or something similar. Caffeine is a 'natural' flavor and it's made from petroleum. (Organically derived caffeine is generaly too expensive to add ot foods for flavor)

Enjoy the Energy

What would you do with 4 more hours a day?