Secretor Status?

What Is Your Secretor Status?

The blood type diet caters a very specific diet plan to your personal blood type. This dietary approach has worked for millions for weight loss and optimal health. There are 4 different ABO blood types – A, B, AB and O. By following a specific diet that is friendly towards your blood type, you can achieve weight loss, a healthy weight maintenance and multiple health benefits. Your level of success on this diet plan also depends on whether you are or not a secretor.

What Is a Blood Type Secretor?

Your body is constantly producing mucus, saliva and other body fluids. In someone who is a blood type secretor, your blood antigens are present in those body fluids. Not everyone secretes their blood type, but most people do. As much as 70% to 80% of the human population can be labeled as secretors. The remaining 20% to 30% are known as non-secretors.

What is the Difference Health wise?

Someone who secretes his or her blood type antigens into their bodily fluids enjoys an extra level of protection against the environment. It has also been noticed that non-secretors tend to have a less stable “good bacteria” presence in their digestive tracts and intestines. Since up to 70% or 75% of all human disease is believed to begin in your gut, this means that non-secretors have a natural tendency towards developing diseases and infections that is greater than the average person.

Non-secretors also suffer another couple of health disadvantages. They tend to have a higher number of oral diseases, and develop dental cavities easier than secretors. They unfortunately have fewer natural probiotics, which can lead to digestive tract health problems. It is even more important for non-secretors to eat right for their blood type than secretors, since they have a higher than average susceptibility to the following health conditions:

• Heart disease
• Diabetes
• Cancer
• Asthma
• Urinary tract infections (UTIs)
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Leaky gut syndrome
• Alcoholism
• Graves’ disease
• Candida

How can you find out your secretor status? You can schedule an appointment with your blood doctor. Regardless of your secretor status, eating right for your blood type will give you the best opportunity at enjoying optimal health and well-being, whether your blood type antigens are or are not found in your bodily fluids.