Thanks for sharing. A few other people have brought up Dr. D’Adamo’s work on this site. I am personally not familiar with it so I can’t comment on it’s potential accuracy. I glanced at your link but I see quite a few variables that could otherwise explain his conclusions. What I am familiar with is the data emerging from the MP trial in which we see no documented differences between how people with certain blood types react to the treatment or recover. Perhaps people with certain blood types may have certain blood cell populations that either help or hinder their ability to combat the Th1 pathogens that cause chronic inflammatory disease, although that’s just a thought. However even if one blood type was found to be more effective in defending a host from a particular pathogen there is no guarantee that it would have the same effect on bacteria with other characteristics. Now that we know that the human microbiota is composed of hundreds of thousands of species of bacteria, dealing with specific species is becoming a lot more complicated.

Your co-infections (chlamydia and herpes) strongly suggest that your immune function is being compromised by the Th1 pathogens. We have many patients who’s viral and other titers have reduced as they’ve done the MP so I think the treatment would be a good option for you. It’s never too early to start the MP..the sooner one starts the lower the pathogen load they have to kill and the easier the treatment and immunopathology are to tolerate.

Best,

Amy

Thank you for yet another great piece!.

I have been interested for a while in what D’adamo finds about suseptibility to infection and blood types: ABO and secretor/nonsecretor. Here is an article that looked at this for heliobacter and found and ABO relationship, but not S/NS relationship. D’Adamo claims that non secretors although comprising 20% of the pop have higher incidence of chronic disease. Don’t know what he bases this on?

this is the reference for the heliobacter study.
http://biblioteca.universia.net/html_bura/ficha/params/id/634155.html

Might be another piece of the puzzle.

I recently had some fairly accurate pcr work done on my blood and found chlamydia pneumoniae and human herpes 6. I was diagnosed with sarc about 15 months ago.

Carmen
GU bio/psych ’75
Was Dr. Spoon still there when you were?

I might not be writing too many long pieces in the coming months due to the holidays but I am definitely going to keep the Newsflashes coming.

Also, I am planning to spend more of my time helping Paul write articles for the new MP Knowledgebase:

http://mpkb.org/doku.php

Anyone can help out and I think that as it grows, it will be a tremendous resource for people interested in the MP.

Best,

Amy

Your bottom line struck me! Perhaps female bacterial loads may be higher, but life expectancies suggest otherwise for women being more immunocomprimised. The balance of pathogenic and “beneficial”, like you say will take time and further research.

Hope all is well.

~Greg