Blood Type's effect on your health
Our website shows not everyone should eat the same food, nor do the same training program, because they have different body types. Well, our blood types influence our nutritional and training choices as well. The way you absorb nutrients, what foods you absorb well, and how your body handles stress differ with each blood type.
Are you Blood Type O, A, B, or AB? If you don’t know look for what best resembles your traits.
Are you Blood Type O, A, B, or AB? If you don’t know look for what best resembles your traits.
Type O: The Hunter
Every Person with Type O blood carries a genetic memory of strength, endurance, self-reliance, daring, intuition and optimism. The original Type Os were the epitome of focus, drive, and a strong sense of self-preservation. They believed in themselves.
Nutrition: Follow a high protein, low carbohydrate diet with meat your staple. Most of the meat consumed today is shot through with fat and tainted by the indiscriminate use of hormones and antibiotics. To avoid this pitfall try to eat organic and free range meats. Avoid dairy products and grains; Type Os don’t find dairy products and grains quite as user friendly as most other blood types because their digestive systems still have not adapted to them fully.
Stress: The ability to reverse the negative effects of stress lives in your blood type. You have the immediate and physical response of our ancestors: stress goes directly to your muscles. Healthy Type Os are meant to release the built up hormonal forces through and intense physical exercise. Their systems are literally suited for it.
Exercise: Your exercise should be vigorous. Not only does a regular intense exercise program elevate your spirits, it enables the Type O to maintain weight control, emotional balance, and a strong self-image. Type Os respond well to heavy exercise in almost every way. Your exercise length should be about 30 minutes for strength training, 30-45 swimming, and 40-60 minutes for aerobics.
Every Person with Type O blood carries a genetic memory of strength, endurance, self-reliance, daring, intuition and optimism. The original Type Os were the epitome of focus, drive, and a strong sense of self-preservation. They believed in themselves.
Nutrition: Follow a high protein, low carbohydrate diet with meat your staple. Most of the meat consumed today is shot through with fat and tainted by the indiscriminate use of hormones and antibiotics. To avoid this pitfall try to eat organic and free range meats. Avoid dairy products and grains; Type Os don’t find dairy products and grains quite as user friendly as most other blood types because their digestive systems still have not adapted to them fully.
Stress: The ability to reverse the negative effects of stress lives in your blood type. You have the immediate and physical response of our ancestors: stress goes directly to your muscles. Healthy Type Os are meant to release the built up hormonal forces through and intense physical exercise. Their systems are literally suited for it.
Exercise: Your exercise should be vigorous. Not only does a regular intense exercise program elevate your spirits, it enables the Type O to maintain weight control, emotional balance, and a strong self-image. Type Os respond well to heavy exercise in almost every way. Your exercise length should be about 30 minutes for strength training, 30-45 swimming, and 40-60 minutes for aerobics.
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Type A: The Cultivator
Blood Type A was originally adapted to deal with dense population concentrations and the stresses of a more sedentary but intense urban lifestyle. The original Type As had to be decent, orderly, and law abiding, and had to exhibit self-control.
Nutrition: Type As flourish on vegetarian diets…the inheritance of their more settled and less warlike farmer ancestors. Today an American Type A blood might find it too big an adjustment to move away from the typical meat and potato fare to soy beans, grains, and vegetables. Also, since our diets now are increasingly composed of convenient toxins you might find it hard to eliminate overly processed and refined foods. But it is important for Type As to get their foods in as natural a state as possible: fresh, pure, and organic.
Stress: Type As first react to stress intellectually. Charged bulbs flash in your brain, producing anxiety, irritability, and hyperactivity. As stress signals throb in your immune system you, you grow weaker. You become too weary to fight the infections and bacteria entering your body. Exercises that provide calm and focus, such as yoga or meditation, are the remedy that pulls the Type A from the grip of stress.
Exercise: The following work well for Type As. The slow-motion, ritualistic pattern of Tai chi, the relaxation of yoga, the calming of meditation, moderate isotonic exercises such as hiking, swimming and bicycling. Heavy competitive sports will only exhaust your nervous energy, make you tense all over again, and leave your immune system open to illness or disease. You can break a sweat, but the key is really your mental engagement in your physical activity.
Blood Type A was originally adapted to deal with dense population concentrations and the stresses of a more sedentary but intense urban lifestyle. The original Type As had to be decent, orderly, and law abiding, and had to exhibit self-control.
Nutrition: Type As flourish on vegetarian diets…the inheritance of their more settled and less warlike farmer ancestors. Today an American Type A blood might find it too big an adjustment to move away from the typical meat and potato fare to soy beans, grains, and vegetables. Also, since our diets now are increasingly composed of convenient toxins you might find it hard to eliminate overly processed and refined foods. But it is important for Type As to get their foods in as natural a state as possible: fresh, pure, and organic.
Stress: Type As first react to stress intellectually. Charged bulbs flash in your brain, producing anxiety, irritability, and hyperactivity. As stress signals throb in your immune system you, you grow weaker. You become too weary to fight the infections and bacteria entering your body. Exercises that provide calm and focus, such as yoga or meditation, are the remedy that pulls the Type A from the grip of stress.
Exercise: The following work well for Type As. The slow-motion, ritualistic pattern of Tai chi, the relaxation of yoga, the calming of meditation, moderate isotonic exercises such as hiking, swimming and bicycling. Heavy competitive sports will only exhaust your nervous energy, make you tense all over again, and leave your immune system open to illness or disease. You can break a sweat, but the key is really your mental engagement in your physical activity.
Type B: The Nomad
Early Type Bs, confronted with new lands, unfamiliar climates, and the intermingling of races, had to be flexible and creative in order to survive. Type Bs required less ordered and harmonious conformity than the settled Type As, as well as less of the hunter’s purposefulness that characterized Type Os. Type Bs are more flexible than Type Os, Types As, and Type ABs…less vulnerable to many diseases common to the others. The Type B who lives in harmony, working, exercising and eating in a balanced way, is the essence of a survivor.
Nutrition: The Type B has chameleon like characteristics. Sometimes it resembles Type O then suddenly take on a totally unfamiliar shape…one that is their own. The B diet is balanced and wholesome, including a wide variety of foods.
Stress: The Type Bs response to stress represents a balance of the nervous mental activity of Type A and the more physically aggressive reactions of Type O. Type Bs temper each of these qualities and so respond with harmony and balance…harnessing the best qualities of the other blood types. As a Type B you confront stress very well for the most part, because you blend more easily into unfamiliar situations. You’re less confrontational than Type Os, but more physically charged than Type Bs.
Exercise: Type Bs do well with exercises that are neither to aerobically intense nor completely aimed at mental relaxation. The ideal balance for many Type Bs consists of moderate activities that involve other people…such as hiking, biking excursions, the less aggressive martial arts, tennis, and aerobic classes. You don’t do as well when the sport is fiercely competitive…such as football or basketball.
Early Type Bs, confronted with new lands, unfamiliar climates, and the intermingling of races, had to be flexible and creative in order to survive. Type Bs required less ordered and harmonious conformity than the settled Type As, as well as less of the hunter’s purposefulness that characterized Type Os. Type Bs are more flexible than Type Os, Types As, and Type ABs…less vulnerable to many diseases common to the others. The Type B who lives in harmony, working, exercising and eating in a balanced way, is the essence of a survivor.
Nutrition: The Type B has chameleon like characteristics. Sometimes it resembles Type O then suddenly take on a totally unfamiliar shape…one that is their own. The B diet is balanced and wholesome, including a wide variety of foods.
Stress: The Type Bs response to stress represents a balance of the nervous mental activity of Type A and the more physically aggressive reactions of Type O. Type Bs temper each of these qualities and so respond with harmony and balance…harnessing the best qualities of the other blood types. As a Type B you confront stress very well for the most part, because you blend more easily into unfamiliar situations. You’re less confrontational than Type Os, but more physically charged than Type Bs.
Exercise: Type Bs do well with exercises that are neither to aerobically intense nor completely aimed at mental relaxation. The ideal balance for many Type Bs consists of moderate activities that involve other people…such as hiking, biking excursions, the less aggressive martial arts, tennis, and aerobic classes. You don’t do as well when the sport is fiercely competitive…such as football or basketball.
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Type AB: The Enigma
Blood Type AB is less than a thousand years old, rare, and biologically complex. Type AB is a merging of the edgy, sensitive Type A with the more balanced and centered Type B. The result is a spiritual nature that embraces all aspects of life.
Nutrition: The Type AB diet requires that you read your food lists very carefully, and familiarize yourself with both the Type A and Type B diets to better understand the parameters of your own diet.
Stress: The ability to reverse the negative effects of stress lives in your blood type. Type ABs have inherited the exact stress pattern of Type As. In this way you are not at all B-like. Type ABs first react to stress intellectually. Charged bulbs flash in your brain, producing anxiety, irritability, and hyperactivity. ABs stress signals throb in your immune system you, you grow weaker. You become too weary to fight the infections and bacteria entering your body. Exercises that provide calm and focus, such as yoga or meditation, are the remedy that pulls the Type AB from the grip of stress.
Exercise: These work well for Type ABs. The slow-motion, ritualistic pattern of Tai chi, the relaxation of yoga, the calming of meditation, moderate isotonic exercises such as hiking, swimming and bicycling. Heavy competitive sports will only exhaust your nervous energy, make you tense all over again, and leave your immune system open to illness or disease. You can break a sweat, but the key is really your mental engagement in your physical activity.
Blood Type AB is less than a thousand years old, rare, and biologically complex. Type AB is a merging of the edgy, sensitive Type A with the more balanced and centered Type B. The result is a spiritual nature that embraces all aspects of life.
Nutrition: The Type AB diet requires that you read your food lists very carefully, and familiarize yourself with both the Type A and Type B diets to better understand the parameters of your own diet.
Stress: The ability to reverse the negative effects of stress lives in your blood type. Type ABs have inherited the exact stress pattern of Type As. In this way you are not at all B-like. Type ABs first react to stress intellectually. Charged bulbs flash in your brain, producing anxiety, irritability, and hyperactivity. ABs stress signals throb in your immune system you, you grow weaker. You become too weary to fight the infections and bacteria entering your body. Exercises that provide calm and focus, such as yoga or meditation, are the remedy that pulls the Type AB from the grip of stress.
Exercise: These work well for Type ABs. The slow-motion, ritualistic pattern of Tai chi, the relaxation of yoga, the calming of meditation, moderate isotonic exercises such as hiking, swimming and bicycling. Heavy competitive sports will only exhaust your nervous energy, make you tense all over again, and leave your immune system open to illness or disease. You can break a sweat, but the key is really your mental engagement in your physical activity.
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Writer’s comment:
I’m Blood Type O, knowing what helps me live a healthier life is great; but learning about the other blood types potential effect on other's responses to stress has helped me be more tolerant of the people in my life that aren’t like me. It has made me a better personal trainer as well. Once you find your blood type, learn more your Body Profile, the basis of our bodysculpting philosophy. |
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