Being type O on its own is not cause for wild celebration. In type O anti-A levels vary widely. They go down with age and are lower in urban dwellers when compared to rural dwellers, so just being type O in itself does not mean much<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nHowever, like any discovery with a true basis in reality, deep inside there is an engineering solution.<\/p>\n
Many of you know, that I’ve researched lectins for many years. These are proteins that are made by many plants and invertebrates that react with sugars typically found in living organisms. My interest in lectins stemmed from the fact that many of these are in common foods and quite a few are specific for one blood type or another. For example, a lectin found in lima beans can agglutinate cells of a person who is either blood type A or AB but will not react with the cells of those who are B or O. In a way lectins are primitive antibodies, made by nature to protect delicate seeds, beans and other delicate ’embryos’ from fungi and other parasites until they can germinate and protect themselves. It’s at least possible to consider using food lectins to impart a somewhat ‘anti-A’ defense, even in people who are blood type A.<\/p>\n
This is because lectins are extraordinarily specific molecules (the word ‘lectin’ was coined by its similarity to the Latin legere<\/em>, which connotes a lock and key and translates into ‘I choose’.) We’ve known that certain lectins are ‘A like’ (have a preference for type A) but don’t actually clump type A cells. This is due to subtle differences in the structural specificity of their choice in the sugars they react with. For example, sugars can be the same with regard to their chemical structure, but differ in the spacial structure (ie in one sugar a hydrogen might ‘bend’ to the left, but in another might go to the right.) Same molecular structure; different shape.<\/p>\nThese differences in lectin specificity are extraordinarily discreet. Let’s do something with this knowledge.<\/p>\n
Readers of my books know that for type A I advocate a diet comprised of many plant based foods. These include:<\/p>\n
\n- Mushrooms (the supermarket ‘Silver Dollar’ type)<\/li>\n
- Soy beans, tofu, tempeh, miso<\/li>\n
- Fava and Great Northern Beans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
It’s no coincidence that these foods all contain ‘A-like lectins,’ agglutinins that can act as pseudo anti-A antibodies. Also, as I wrote in a prior post, an entirely different class of lectins, known as as the ‘mannose-monocot class’ lectins have also been shown to block ACE2, the tethering dock for novel coronavirus. This class, which contains most of the Allium s<\/em>pecies (garlic, onion, shallots, leeks) also provide some pseudo-antibody support for type A, but can also be used by other blood types as well. The aforementioned lima beans would not be workable because they actually do clump type A cells,<\/em> and in this case we want a near miss; a case of slightly mistaken identity.<\/p>\nEven type O can hot-rod their anti-A defenses, to hedge their defense a bit.<\/p>\n
I were type O, I’d go into the closet and try to find that chondroitin sulphate I bought for my friend’s bum knee last year that didn’t work. chondroitin sulphate is actually polymerized GalNac<\/em> which is the type A epitope (antigen). Stomach acid hydrolysis should yield free GalNac<\/em>, which theoretically should induce an increase in anti-A antibodies. Sort of like using your gut to trick your immune system into thinking it received the wrong blood type in a transfusion, but the dose does make the poison I guess. The type O tips might even pimp up the antibodies for type B as well. Type AB should follow the tips for type A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The media was awash with reports of a preprint (not-peer reviewed) report that individuals who are blood type A might be at more risk of Covid19 infection than those who are type O. The study was conducted by scientists and doctors from cities across China including Beijing, Wuhan, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Medical researchers in<\/p>\n
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