| “Food is your investment, and your return measures far beyond any fiscal value. You can live, or you can LIVE. I thank God that I have been set free.”
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Eric Morrison is both an IfHI Master
and a long time devotee to eating right for his type. You may be familiar
with Eric from the Right For Your Type Forums – he’s frequently on the boards dispensing helpful information to “newbies” and veterans alike. His desire to spread the word about eating right for your type led him to create a website www.battleforhealth.com, that is devoted to teaching people about The Blood Type Diets, and a DVD, “The Blood Type Diet Explained,” that has been endorsed by Dr. D’Adamo and can be purchased through his website. Eric will be teaching alongside Dr. D’Adamo and Larry Nesbit at the IfHI Certification and Conference in Nashville, Tennessee in April (http://www.dadamo.com/ifhi/2010spring.htm).
Eric was kind enough to share his inspiring journey into blood type and his own personal battle for health with us.
Eric had been a sickly child, enduring repeated doctor visits to manage asthma and taking medication that helped keep the asthma under control, but left him with an increasingly weak stomach.
Eric recalls one of his earliest memories of being in the hospital. “I thought I was going to die. I learned quickly that being sick was no fun.“
Aside from the vomiting and stomach aches, he suffered from recurring ear infections, common colds, intestinal cramping, chronic headaches, and an over reactive immune system which had him receiving frequent inoculations of synthetic cortisol from the general practitioner by the time he was 18.
“If my physical ailments weren’t enough, I also suffered from increased irritability and ‘Type A’ personality, with mild bouts of depression that seemed to come and go. I was a fairly easy person to get along with, but I definitely had my own internal struggles.”
As he matured into adulthood, Eric was asked to serve a full-time mission for his church in Mexico.
“When young men in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints turn 19, they are expected to leave home for two years in the service of their church and God.” Eric explains, “This is a great experience that teaches these high school graduates about the difficulties and satisfactions in life via hard work, obedience, and service to others. Unfortunately, nutrition is not placed in high priority and medical care is scary to say the least. I contracted parasites one week, amoebas another week, food poisoning on several occasions, and diarrhea during my free time. Not to leave any empty spaces, I also had gas throughout the two years-- kind of like the mortar to keep the bricks of bowel disturbances from going anywhere.”
Eric says that one night he woke up with the most horrible pain I had ever experienced, leaving incapacitated for the next few hours.
“With my upper GI tract in the grass and my lower GI tract in the commode, I was ready to start the day on the right foot. Except I began my morning with a sinus infection unlike any other sinus infection.”
The following day, Eric saw the local doctor in our small shoe-making village of Ticúl, Yucatán, who put him on a heavy dose of antibiotics.
“This sounded like a great idea... and why shouldn’t it have? It killed the infection and it was cheap, taking care of my two biggest concerns at the time.
What I didn’t know then was that antibiotics screw up your immune system because they slaughter ALL the bacteria in your system, leaving the yeast and ultimately bad bacteria to overpopulate the colon if you don’t eat well. Which I didn’t. So the rest of my mission I spent dealing with monthly colds and infections, constipation, fatigue, and horrible gastric indigestion.“
After arriving back home in the US, Eric went to the local health food store to try to find some answers to his digestive problems.
“I thumbed through a white hard-covered book with black and red lettering whose title read, Eat Right for Your Type written by Dr. Peter, D’Adamo.
‘Interesting,’ I thought to myself. Four blood types, four diets…sounds logical. I wonder what it says about Type O.”
When he read the section on Type O, Eric says he sensed something profound.
“One of the first things I noticed was that wheat was an avoid for O’s. Meaning that it acts like poison in the body. Dr. D’Adamo was the first person I’ve ever heard acknowledge that.“
Eric immediately began to follow the diet and soon learned that he was a non-secretor, which helped him to refine his diet further.
He says that the biggest surprise was that the diet was helping him to feel better in ways he never expected. He says he woke up clear headed and ready to start the day. He could breathe better and didn’t feel achy and sluggish.
Three years later, Eric says he is in the best shape of his life and no longer suffers from any health problems.
“More importantly, I have gained a whole new depth of expression – Vitamin E, as Dr. D’Adamo says. I feel happy to be alive.”
Eric has become passionate about Dr. D’Adamo’s work and has made a personal commitment to spreading the knowledge. He has achieved the level of IfHI Master and plans to attend naturopathic school in the future.
“Food is your investment, and your return measures far beyond any fiscal value. You can live, or you can LIVE. I thank God that I have been set free.”
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There are several groups sprouting
up regarding the Blood Type Diet. You can search for them by name at:
http://www.facebook.com.
This is Dr. Peter D'Adamo's group:
Blood
Type Diet / Eat Right For Your Type
There is now a group based in France:
Hygiène de vie par les Groupes Sanguins
Here's a group based in London:
The
Blood Type Diet
This
group is based in Montreal, Canada:
Blood
Type Diet
A new group out of New York has just started up.
"We are interested in the Genotype and Bloodtype diets as published by Dr. Peter
D'Adamo. We get together monthly in Manhattan for informal discussions. Come
on down: learn new information, talk the 'language', and share experiences!"
NYC
Genotype Diet Group
This group is based in Boise, ID
The
GenoType Diet
And last but not least, this group is based in Los Angeles, CA
Genotype
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