Blood types

(see also under Helicobacter pylori/ulcers, below)

The Wrack seaweeds are excellent nutrients especially for Type O blood types. Dr P J D’Adamo (3) highlights the importance of the polysaccharide fucose, the basic building sugar of the O blood antigen which he notes as protecting the intestinal lining. The alkalizing effect of wrack seaweed also helps counter the hyperacidity of the Type O digestive tract, reducing the potential for ulcers.

Seagreens® is also a good source of vitamin K an important blood-clotting factor. Whilst conventional iodine supplements are not recomended, the iodine content in wrack seaweed is an ideal source to feed unstable thyroid metabolisms which in Type O have a tendency to cause weight gain, fluid retention and fatigue.

This is also a valuable source of the mineral manganese because Type Os would otherwise have to obtain these from whole grains and legumes which they have difficulty in digesting and are commonly intolerant to. Among all the vegetables for Type Os wrack seaweed is listed as ‘highly beneficial’.

Seafood generally, the second most concentrated animal protein, is best suited for Type Os of Asian and Caucasian Asian (Eurasian) descent. Blue-green algæ should be avoided. D’Adamo lists seaweed among only 6 recommended supplements in the blood type O diet and Seagreens® contains all the other 5 with the exception of licorice which can be purchased as a desiccated natural root for making delicious tea. Seagreens® Culinary Ingredient (Ascophyllum wrack) can also be infused in water overnight and drained off as tea, alone or as an ingredient.

Of the various species of Wrack, 3 are contained in Seagreens® Food Capsules including Fucus referred to by Dr P. D’Adamo as ‘bladderwrack’. He apparently singles out Fucus because of the research carried out using it, but all three Seagreens® sdpecies have an outstanding polysaccharide content so are theorewtically equally useful sources for Blood Type Os.