商品説明
ダダモ博士は、血液型、疾患、行動の間に見られる遺伝的な関係について新たに研究することで、特定の血液型によくみられる心理的・内科的特性を考察した。たとえばO型はドーパミンと呼ばれる脳内神経伝達物質が平均値より少なく、そのために気が散りやすく、過剰に活動したりかんしゃくを起こしたりする。A型は、高血圧症を引き起こしたりアルツハイマー症やがんにも関係するストレスホルモンのコルチゾールを分泌しやすい。一方、B型とAB型は体内から一酸化窒素を速やかに排出する傾向があり、そのためストレス状態におかれたときには、他の血液型に比べて気持ちが落ち着くまでの時間が短い。
ダダモ博士はそれぞれの血液型に応じて生活習慣の改善を詳しく説き、エクササイズのプログラムを提示し、心がけて取りたいあるいは避けたい食品を挙げ、また特定の疾患の治療法を紹介している。中には、O型の潰瘍治療にヒバマタ類の海草を勧めるという、あまり知られていない療法もある。
このシリーズの大きな魅力は、読者ならだれでもダダモ博士のホームページ（www.dadamo.com）に登録し参加できることだ。『Live Right 4 Your Type』には登録者からの証言が列挙され、食事と生活習慣をほんの少し変えただけで、好ましい健康状態、顔つき、スタイルが手に入り、ひいては「幸福」まで得られることを読者は知らされるのである。
内容紹介
From the doctor who brought us the blood-type health craze that has swept the nation, here is new research that shows you how to live according to your blood type so that you can achieve total physical and emotional well-being.
Over a million readers have used the individualized blood-type diet solution developed by Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo to achieve their ideal weight. In the five years since the New York Times bestseller Eat Right 4 (for) Your Type was published, new research has indicated that there's a blood-type profile for almost every aspect of our lives, and thanks to that new research, your blood type reveals how you can live a better life. Live Right 4 (for) Your Type is Dr. D'Adamo's ground breaking book that will give you individualized prescriptions according to blood type.
According to your blood type, should you:
• Eat three regular meals a day, or small, frequent ones?
• Have a regimented or flexible routine?
• Go to sleep at the same time every night or have a flexible bedtime?
• Do without rest periods or take them religiously?
• Achieve emotional balance through exercise, meditation, or herbs?
Each blood-type prescription is divided into five life areas. Recommendations, guidelines, and informational charts are provided for the following:
• Lifestyle
• Stress and Emotional Balance
• Maximizing Health
• Overcoming Disease
• Strategies for Aging
Live Right 4 (for) Your Type also has information compiled from new research that greatly expands on the information in Eat Right 4 (for) Your Type. Live Right features:
• new metabolism-boosting supplement lists to increase the body's efficiency and ability to achieve ideal weight;
• refined food and supplement lists to increase cardiac efficiency, lower cholesterol, and strengthen your ability to fight colds, flu, and more serious diseases;
• instructions on how to use vegetables and herbs to improve Natural Killer Cell activity; and
• new information on blood type subgroups that influence not only weight, but also physical and mental health.
Over a million readers have used the individualized blood-type diet solution developed by Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo to achieve their ideal weight. In the five years since the New York Times bestseller Eat Right 4 (for) Your Type was published, new research has indicated that there's a blood-type profile for almost every aspect of our lives, and thanks to that new research, your blood type reveals how you can live a better life. Live Right 4 (for) Your Type is Dr. D'Adamo's ground breaking book that will give you individualized prescriptions according to blood type.
According to your blood type, should you:
• Eat three regular meals a day, or small, frequent ones?
• Have a regimented or flexible routine?
• Go to sleep at the same time every night or have a flexible bedtime?
• Do without rest periods or take them religiously?
• Achieve emotional balance through exercise, meditation, or herbs?
Each blood-type prescription is divided into five life areas. Recommendations, guidelines, and informational charts are provided for the following:
• Lifestyle
• Stress and Emotional Balance
• Maximizing Health
• Overcoming Disease
• Strategies for Aging
Live Right 4 (for) Your Type also has information compiled from new research that greatly expands on the information in Eat Right 4 (for) Your Type. Live Right features:
• new metabolism-boosting supplement lists to increase the body's efficiency and ability to achieve ideal weight;
• refined food and supplement lists to increase cardiac efficiency, lower cholesterol, and strengthen your ability to fight colds, flu, and more serious diseases;
• instructions on how to use vegetables and herbs to improve Natural Killer Cell activity; and
• new information on blood type subgroups that influence not only weight, but also physical and mental health.
抜粋
The Unmistakable You
The Blood Type Gene
What makes me me, and you you? This is the question that is at the heart of the genetic puzzle. It is also central to our exploration of blood types. What is the animating principle that determines the unique set of characteristics you possess, and the different set that belongs to me? The key is genetic heritage. Your genetic heritage is the unbroken story line of your life. Even though you are living in the twenty-first century, you share a common bond with your ancestors. The genetic 'information' that resulted in their particular characteristics has been passed on to you. A helpful analogy is the way a computer manages information. Think of the very process of writing this book. As I sit at my computer, only my creative powers and my typing skills limit me. I am free to move words, sentences, or even whole paragraphs around. This information lies in the dynamic portion of my computer, called the RAM (random access memory). Should a sudden power outage occur, or I neglect to save the material to the hard drive, it would all be lost. However, if I am satisfied with this writing, it will be permanently saved to the hard drive, available for use at a later time. Your genetic heritage is your biologic hard drive. Embedded within it are the recordings of past 'writings' that were saved for later use-along with, in some cases, a few 'disk errors.' These recordings are stored in your DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). One of the 'saved' pieces of information is your blood type. What determines your blood type? In genetic lingo, the blood type variations are known as alleles. Every person contains alleles-alternate forms of genes. The alleles determine whether you have blue eyes or brown, are tall or short, have black hair or red, and other distinctions. There are three blood type alleles-A, B, and O. That means there are three variations, or alternatives, for your blood type. However, the influence of your blood type is far greater than that of the gene that gives you eye color. Much of that influence has to do with its location and the way it interacts with other genes.
On the Street Where Blood Type Lives
The gene for ABO blood type is located on the q leg of chromosome number 9, around band 34. So the address for your blood type gene is 9q34. It is here that the three basic alleles of the ABO blood system are found, leaving you a Type O, A, B, or AB.1 The mechanics of blood type's influence have to do with the way genes influence other, seemingly unrelated, genes located immediately adjacent or nearby. This mechanism explains why your blood type can have an impact on such a diverse number of bodily systems-from digestive enzymes to neurochemicals. We already know of some intimate relationships between the blood type gene and other genes that impact on our health and well-being. For example, in 1984, researchers reporting in the journal Genetic Epidemiology presented evidence of a family pedigree in which a major gene for breast cancer susceptibility is located near band q34 on chromosome 9.2 There is a clear genetic connection between blood type and breast cancer. Many nutrition experts are baffled when they first hear about the link between blood type and digestion. That's because they are only considering the physical significance of blood type as a surface antigen. Actually, it is not your blood type antigen that is influencing the level of acid in your stomach, but rather the gene for your blood type influencing other seemingly unrelated genes located immediately adjacent (or very close ) to the ABO blood type gene that can exert an effect on your stomach acid levels. This phenomenon, called gene linkage, isn't well understood yet, but it is well known: Many genes influence the actions of other, seemingly unrelated genes. Here's another intriguing link that suggests a relationship between blood type and the brain. The gene for the enzyme dopamine beta hydroxylase (DBH), which converts dopamine to noradrenaline, is located right at 9q34. It's literally sitting on top of the gene for blood type.3 As we will see later, this has vast implications for the association between blood type and stress, mental health, and even personality characteristics.
Your Subtypography
Although there are four blood types-O, A, B, and AB-it would be a ridiculous simplification to suggest that there are only four types of people in the world. The reality is far more intricate and complex. Now, let's take it to another level. Subtyping your blood type, especially your secretor status, provides an even greater specificity of identification. Your blood type doesn't just sit inert in your body. It is expressed in countless ways-and the ways in which it is expressed make a difference. A simple analogy would be a water faucet. Depending on the water pressure, the faucet might pour or dribble. You have access to a lot of water or a little water. In the same way, your secretor status relates to how much and where your blood type antigen is expressed in your body.
Secretor: 9q34's First Cousin
Across town from 9q34, on chromosomes 11 and 19, reside the blood type gene's very important first cousins, the blood type secretor genes. Although your secretor gene is independent of your blood type, it influences the way your blood type is expressed. Everyone carries a blood type antigen on their blood cells, but most people (between 80 and 85 percent of the population) have blood type antigens that float around freely in their body secretions. These people are called secretors, because they 'secrete' their blood type antigens into their body fluids, such as saliva, mucus, and sperm. If you're a secretor, you can learn your blood type from these other body fluids, as well as from your blood. People who do not secrete their blood type antigens in other fluids besides blood are called, reasonably enough, non-secretors. Because secretors have more places to put their blood type antigens, they have more blood type expression in their bodies than non-secretors. Your secretor status can have a great influence on the characteristics of your immune system and is associated with a wide variety of diseases and metabolic conditions.
Determining Your Secretor Status
There is a 'quick and dirty' method of estimating secretor status. This involves looking at an additional minor blood typing system, called the Lewis Blood Grouping System, which is functionally interlocked with secretor genetics, since the same gene codes for both the secretor type and the Lewis System. In the Lewis System, located on chromosome 19, there are two possible antigens that can be produced, called Lewisa and Lewisb. (The a and b antigens of the Lewis System should not be confused with the A and B of the ABO system.) People can type out as one of three varieties: Lewisa+ b-, Lewisa-b+, and Lewisa-b-. (A fourth variation, Lewisa+b+, is extremely rare.) The Lewis System can determine secretor status because it has been noted that people who type out Lewisa+b- are also non-secretors, while those who type out as Lewisa-b+ are also secretors. The connection between secretor status and the Lewis System occurs because secretors convert all of their Lewisa antigen into the Lewisb form (making them Lewisb+), while non-secretors do not (leaving them Lewisa+). The reason I say that this test is quick and dirty is that there are some leftovers that can't be typed this way. People who are Lewisa-b- cannot use this test for determining secretor status. Because they have no ability to produce Lewis substances to start with, they never have +a or +b characteristics on their blood or in their secretions. These individuals can either be secretors or non-secretors of blood type substances, but they will always be non-secretors of Lewis substances. In many instances, Lewis negative individuals have unique interactions with diseases, microbes, or metabolic syndromes. Typically, when I've used the Lewis System to determine secretor status, I've lumped Lewis negative patients and Lewisa+ patients into the category of non-secretors. Fortunately, only 6 percent of the Caucasian population and 16 percent of the black population are Lewisa-b-, allowing the greater majority of people to be secretor tested from the same blood samle that we use to test blood type.
Why Secretor Status Matters
We don't yet know precisely why nature made some of us secretors and some of us non-secretors, but we can surmise that secretor status is related to nature's effort to provide some additional layer of protection that didn't exist for the earliest humans. There is some evidence that the non-secretor state is genetically older than the secretor state and may have been more compatible with the digestive needs of hunter-gatherers. The secretor state was most likely an immunologic adaptation. When you are able to secrete your blood type antigens into saliva, digestive secretions, and other fluids, these secretions appear to create a barrier against environmental elements, such as bacteria, pollutants, and other irritants. Immunologically, non-secretors seem to have more of a 'death trap' strategy: They allow pathogenic invaders a way in, and then attack and kill them internally.4
These are some of the areas controlled or influenced by your secretor status:
* the degree to which foreign bacteria invade the system
* the adherence of lectins and other blood typeûsensitive structures in food to your digestive tissue
* syndrome X or Insulin Resistance Syndrome
* the balance of intestinal bacteria
* predicting the relevance of tumor markers for diagnosing cancer
* blood-clotting capabilities
* the makeup of a mother's breast milk
* susceptibility to Candida-type infections
* immune resistance
* susceptibility to dental cavities
* sensitivity to the bacteria that causes ulcers
* relative risk for the development of inflammatory bowel problems
* an influence in respiratory heath...
The Blood Type Gene
What makes me me, and you you? This is the question that is at the heart of the genetic puzzle. It is also central to our exploration of blood types. What is the animating principle that determines the unique set of characteristics you possess, and the different set that belongs to me? The key is genetic heritage. Your genetic heritage is the unbroken story line of your life. Even though you are living in the twenty-first century, you share a common bond with your ancestors. The genetic 'information' that resulted in their particular characteristics has been passed on to you. A helpful analogy is the way a computer manages information. Think of the very process of writing this book. As I sit at my computer, only my creative powers and my typing skills limit me. I am free to move words, sentences, or even whole paragraphs around. This information lies in the dynamic portion of my computer, called the RAM (random access memory). Should a sudden power outage occur, or I neglect to save the material to the hard drive, it would all be lost. However, if I am satisfied with this writing, it will be permanently saved to the hard drive, available for use at a later time. Your genetic heritage is your biologic hard drive. Embedded within it are the recordings of past 'writings' that were saved for later use-along with, in some cases, a few 'disk errors.' These recordings are stored in your DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). One of the 'saved' pieces of information is your blood type. What determines your blood type? In genetic lingo, the blood type variations are known as alleles. Every person contains alleles-alternate forms of genes. The alleles determine whether you have blue eyes or brown, are tall or short, have black hair or red, and other distinctions. There are three blood type alleles-A, B, and O. That means there are three variations, or alternatives, for your blood type. However, the influence of your blood type is far greater than that of the gene that gives you eye color. Much of that influence has to do with its location and the way it interacts with other genes.
On the Street Where Blood Type Lives
The gene for ABO blood type is located on the q leg of chromosome number 9, around band 34. So the address for your blood type gene is 9q34. It is here that the three basic alleles of the ABO blood system are found, leaving you a Type O, A, B, or AB.1 The mechanics of blood type's influence have to do with the way genes influence other, seemingly unrelated, genes located immediately adjacent or nearby. This mechanism explains why your blood type can have an impact on such a diverse number of bodily systems-from digestive enzymes to neurochemicals. We already know of some intimate relationships between the blood type gene and other genes that impact on our health and well-being. For example, in 1984, researchers reporting in the journal Genetic Epidemiology presented evidence of a family pedigree in which a major gene for breast cancer susceptibility is located near band q34 on chromosome 9.2 There is a clear genetic connection between blood type and breast cancer. Many nutrition experts are baffled when they first hear about the link between blood type and digestion. That's because they are only considering the physical significance of blood type as a surface antigen. Actually, it is not your blood type antigen that is influencing the level of acid in your stomach, but rather the gene for your blood type influencing other seemingly unrelated genes located immediately adjacent (or very close ) to the ABO blood type gene that can exert an effect on your stomach acid levels. This phenomenon, called gene linkage, isn't well understood yet, but it is well known: Many genes influence the actions of other, seemingly unrelated genes. Here's another intriguing link that suggests a relationship between blood type and the brain. The gene for the enzyme dopamine beta hydroxylase (DBH), which converts dopamine to noradrenaline, is located right at 9q34. It's literally sitting on top of the gene for blood type.3 As we will see later, this has vast implications for the association between blood type and stress, mental health, and even personality characteristics.
Your Subtypography
Although there are four blood types-O, A, B, and AB-it would be a ridiculous simplification to suggest that there are only four types of people in the world. The reality is far more intricate and complex. Now, let's take it to another level. Subtyping your blood type, especially your secretor status, provides an even greater specificity of identification. Your blood type doesn't just sit inert in your body. It is expressed in countless ways-and the ways in which it is expressed make a difference. A simple analogy would be a water faucet. Depending on the water pressure, the faucet might pour or dribble. You have access to a lot of water or a little water. In the same way, your secretor status relates to how much and where your blood type antigen is expressed in your body.
Secretor: 9q34's First Cousin
Across town from 9q34, on chromosomes 11 and 19, reside the blood type gene's very important first cousins, the blood type secretor genes. Although your secretor gene is independent of your blood type, it influences the way your blood type is expressed. Everyone carries a blood type antigen on their blood cells, but most people (between 80 and 85 percent of the population) have blood type antigens that float around freely in their body secretions. These people are called secretors, because they 'secrete' their blood type antigens into their body fluids, such as saliva, mucus, and sperm. If you're a secretor, you can learn your blood type from these other body fluids, as well as from your blood. People who do not secrete their blood type antigens in other fluids besides blood are called, reasonably enough, non-secretors. Because secretors have more places to put their blood type antigens, they have more blood type expression in their bodies than non-secretors. Your secretor status can have a great influence on the characteristics of your immune system and is associated with a wide variety of diseases and metabolic conditions.
Determining Your Secretor Status
There is a 'quick and dirty' method of estimating secretor status. This involves looking at an additional minor blood typing system, called the Lewis Blood Grouping System, which is functionally interlocked with secretor genetics, since the same gene codes for both the secretor type and the Lewis System. In the Lewis System, located on chromosome 19, there are two possible antigens that can be produced, called Lewisa and Lewisb. (The a and b antigens of the Lewis System should not be confused with the A and B of the ABO system.) People can type out as one of three varieties: Lewisa+ b-, Lewisa-b+, and Lewisa-b-. (A fourth variation, Lewisa+b+, is extremely rare.) The Lewis System can determine secretor status because it has been noted that people who type out Lewisa+b- are also non-secretors, while those who type out as Lewisa-b+ are also secretors. The connection between secretor status and the Lewis System occurs because secretors convert all of their Lewisa antigen into the Lewisb form (making them Lewisb+), while non-secretors do not (leaving them Lewisa+). The reason I say that this test is quick and dirty is that there are some leftovers that can't be typed this way. People who are Lewisa-b- cannot use this test for determining secretor status. Because they have no ability to produce Lewis substances to start with, they never have +a or +b characteristics on their blood or in their secretions. These individuals can either be secretors or non-secretors of blood type substances, but they will always be non-secretors of Lewis substances. In many instances, Lewis negative individuals have unique interactions with diseases, microbes, or metabolic syndromes. Typically, when I've used the Lewis System to determine secretor status, I've lumped Lewis negative patients and Lewisa+ patients into the category of non-secretors. Fortunately, only 6 percent of the Caucasian population and 16 percent of the black population are Lewisa-b-, allowing the greater majority of people to be secretor tested from the same blood samle that we use to test blood type.
Why Secretor Status Matters
We don't yet know precisely why nature made some of us secretors and some of us non-secretors, but we can surmise that secretor status is related to nature's effort to provide some additional layer of protection that didn't exist for the earliest humans. There is some evidence that the non-secretor state is genetically older than the secretor state and may have been more compatible with the digestive needs of hunter-gatherers. The secretor state was most likely an immunologic adaptation. When you are able to secrete your blood type antigens into saliva, digestive secretions, and other fluids, these secretions appear to create a barrier against environmental elements, such as bacteria, pollutants, and other irritants. Immunologically, non-secretors seem to have more of a 'death trap' strategy: They allow pathogenic invaders a way in, and then attack and kill them internally.4
These are some of the areas controlled or influenced by your secretor status:
* the degree to which foreign bacteria invade the system
* the adherence of lectins and other blood typeûsensitive structures in food to your digestive tissue
* syndrome X or Insulin Resistance Syndrome
* the balance of intestinal bacteria
* predicting the relevance of tumor markers for diagnosing cancer
* blood-clotting capabilities
* the makeup of a mother's breast milk
* susceptibility to Candida-type infections
* immune resistance
* susceptibility to dental cavities
* sensitivity to the bacteria that causes ulcers
* relative risk for the development of inflammatory bowel problems
* an influence in respiratory heath...
著者について
Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo is the author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Eat Right 4 (for) Your Type, which was recently named the most influential health book of the 1990s by Nutri-Books. A second-generation naturopathic physician, he is also a noted researcher and lecturer. Dr. D'Adamo was selected Physician of the Year in 1990 by the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians for his work on blood types and their connection to diet and lifestyle. He currently serves on the board of trustees for Bastyr University, the nation's leading naturopathic institution. The founder and editor emeritus of The Journal of Naturopathic Medicine, he has a thriving practice in Stamford, Connecticut.
Catherine Whitney is the coauthor of numerous bestselling books on health and medicine.
Catherine Whitney is the coauthor of numerous bestselling books on health and medicine.
