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In Live Right 4 Your Type, physician and New York Times bestselling author Peter J. D'Adamo distills the voluminous data on blood type, physiology and metabolism into a series of fascinating observations and simple guidelines. Since his Eat Right 4 Your Type was published, new research has indicated that there is a blood-type profile for almost every aspect of our lives, and that knowing our profiles can help us each live a better life. Live Right 4 Your Type offers individualized prescriptions according to blood type and details:

• New data that looks at the importance of "secretor subtype" as a refinement to the blood type theory

• The use of blood type genetics to help understand the mind-body connection

• Extensive new food lists

• New prescriptive recommendations

Now, Dr. D'Adamo--armed with new studies on genetic links between blood types, disease, and behavior--looks at the psychological and medical peculiarities that seem to predominate in one blood type or another. Type O's, for example, have lower than average amounts of a brain chemical called dopamine, leading to poor concentration, hyperactivity, and temper tantrums. A's tend to manufacture too much cortisol, a stress hormone that can lead to hypertension and has even been implicated in Alzheimer's disease and cancer. Type B's and AB's clear nitric oxide out of their systems faster, allowing them to calm down more rapidly than other blood types when stressed.

Dr. D'Adamo offers detailed lifestyle modifications for each type, including exercise programs, long lists of food to either seek out or avoid, and suggested treatment of specific illnesses. Some of this gets pretty arcane, including his recommendation of bladder wrack (a seaweed) for ulcer treatment of Type O's.