This thought has been brought up by Gordon Scherer previously.
Could it be that rh negative people are more likely to be lactose tolerant than rh positives?
This map of lactose intolerance worldwide definitely shows countries with high frequencies of rh negatives being more likely to be lactose tolerant and vice versa.
American Indians being 100% rh positive show high levels of lactose intolerance. Asians as well. Then there are a few countries in Africa showing high levels of tolerance as well, but it all depends on which groups you study, as there are populations within Chad, Cameroon and Sudan said to be high in rh negative blood.
This is definitely an area of interest to me as there are definitely connections between food tolerance and allergies and the rh blood group system.
So here is my question to you:
If you are rh negative, are you lactose tolerant or lactose intolerant?
See also:
What type of diet is ideal for Rh Negative people?
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I’m A- and I love to drink milk. 😛
Dairy products are part of my everyday diet.
ME TOO! I LOVE MILK. I love ALL dairy.
I am from South Africa. Rh A- Lactose intolerant, Gluten and Citrus aswell also dignosed with Fibromyalgia and have asthma. Can now tolerate small amounts of citrus and dairy products and had Incredible improvement in overall health since going gluten free.
Lactose Tolerant ! Was wondering how many of you have Thyroid problems ? All the female Rh- in my family have problems with theirs.
A- here. Nine years ago I had a toal thyroidectomy because I had Basedow disease. My mom also had a thyroidectomy, the same year, but she was suffering of goiter. She is A- also. My sisters also have some problems with their thyroids. They are also negs.
O rh negative here. I am tolerant to lactose and drink a gallon of locally produced, cream top milk, a week. I can’t get enough of it. Eat cottage cheese and a lot of yogurt, too.
Same here but I’m B neg. I love real creamy everything.
Rh neg, tolerates lactose, have thyroid problems
O – everytine I drink dairy products I feel terribly nauseas. I have not been diagnosed lactose intolerant however, I have cut dairy out of my diet and feel much better
Janine, I also hate milk, even in elementary school. My two sisters are the same way. Very strange
I’m an O-
When I was born I couldn’t have cow milk but goat milk was good. Now I don’t have a problem with lactose as far as I know, but I don’t fancy cow milk. I love almond milk and if I want creamy I will buy goat milk
I am O- and lactose intolerant. Also coeliac.
I am a- and I am lactose intolerant.
I am lactose intolerant as are my two grown children, all A- bloods. Mine came from my Irish Gram, Graham’s from Monaghan/Armagh. Red hair too. Iron issues as a child.
I am O- and I drink milk all my life.
O- and lactose intolerant, from Northern Europe…
O- and I have to have my milk and dairy daily! very lactose tolerant
I am B- and lactose intolerant.
B- i am allergic to shellfish…
Myself, my sister, my mother, and my daughter are A- and not lactose intolerant.
My dad is O- and he is lactose intolerant.
Also… as far as I know, none of the four A- females in my immediate family have any allergies.
There are so many chemicals in our environment that which might have something to do with many of our sensitivities.
Hello, I’m AB-, but never had any problems with lactose, I do not like milk, but I love cheese and yogurt.
I’m A+ and did not become lactose intolerant until I was about 39 or 40. Mayby its an A thing?
I can tolerate dairy, but the way it affects me mentally- no good. Very irritable afterwards, which is fine because I don’t crave dairy at all.
Do have terrible trouble digesting meat and bread, which- before kids was no problem. Anyone have that issue?
To add to the comment about thyroid.
Many of my symptoms after giving birth to my first child were thought to be thyroid issues- extensive tests proved nothing was wrong at all with my thyroid- was then thought to be d vitamin and iron deficiency and after 3 months of being on d3 and prescription iron- nada.
Still exhausted for… apparently no medical reason😒
Going in for more blood work next month …to find what? A unicorn? Hate doctors now.
My body feels like it’s just slowly, painfully deteriorating after 3 kids.
Before children I was super healthy. Never sick. Never had any childhood diseases. Etc.
Hi,
O- here. I’m Lactose intolerant and have really bad Anemia, so i have iron injections.
Also have a history of thyroid problems including thyroid cancer in my family all on the O- side.
I am o-neg and lactose intolerant. I have had a partial thyroidectomy. I knew I was a universal blood donor. I had no idea about all this other stuff until I got a computor and I am stunned to find I have many of the traits mentioned in these web sites.
I’m o negative, I believe it’s the protein in the dairy not the sugar (lactose) that negatives can have issues..
I cannot tolerate casein (milk protein) or gluten (wheat protein) Plenty of meat, veg and fruits and I’m as fit as a fiddle, eat anything that was brought in after the introduction of farming/agriculture and I get ill!
Paleo diet suits o negs best!
0- here, Lactose intolerance, I never go to doctor becouse of that but I have terrible abdominal pains and diarrhea if I drinking a milk…
A-. Love milk and dairy, no intolerance except I seem allergic to hard cheese these days…
Severely allergic to nuts, fish and seafood.
I’m A- and my whole life I have detested the taste of milk and wouldn’t even nurse as a baby. However, the last couple months I decided to fast by having only one meal a day. To curb hunger I resorted to drinking local non-hormone treated milk blended with honey. In the past I have had bowel issues and hypothyroid and extranet dry skin. Oddly after only a couple months of drinking something I thought I hated my whole life all these issues are gone and I look 5 years younger. I can’t even believe it. My son also is A- and has never liked milk and suffered bowel issues. Now he drinks milk (milkshakes) and has been cured too. My adult daughter is O- and is hypothyroid.
I am O-, 60 years old and am lactose tolerant. My mother and hers before her were all great dairy lovers. Cheese, milk, yoghurt… As a side note, my MTDNA Haplogroup is H11a4, which has a current resting/origin place in Ossetia/Georgia in the Caucasus…this is Mesolithic at this point, until they dig up another donor…. grin
K. Howe
My sister & I are both B-. Mother is AB -. All 3 of us are lactose intolerant to some degree. Just got my DNA results back….all quite interesting and actually make sense based on many physical traits.
O neg. Lactose tolerant. Major source of protein for me. However. I have organic raw milk and cream. My body functions well and it made my hair curly. I kept my own house cow.
O- Lactose intolerant.
A- Lactose tolerant.
My ancestor are from way north Europe (the viking guy’s…)
Its been told, the “Nordmann” is more used to lactose than other cultures.
This might be interesting to share. Ötzi the Iceman mummy found in the European Alps, was wiry, short (5’2”), and about 46 years old when he died. He was LEFT-HANDED and wore a U.S. men’s size 8 shoe. Otzi had BROWN EYES AND DARK BROWN HAIR, and he had a typical Mediterranean skin tone,” says Albert Zink, head of the EURAC Institute of Mummy Studies in Bolzano, which has done much of the core research on Ötzi. The Iceman had type O BLOOD, was LACTOSE INTOLLERANT, and had a rare genetic anomaly that prevented his 12th pair of ribs from forming. He was covered in 61 tattoos.
Many of these descriptions of Otzi resemble that of the Pict / pygmy race of Scotland, Ireland and Britain. Perhaps the O blood type comes through the pict race, that was a short, dark skinned celtic race covered in tatoos / pictures hunch the name picts which inhabited Britain, and Scotland. In 731 Bede reported that the Picts were SCYTHIANS, (by which he may have meant Scandinavians) from the Lineage of Japhet, who landed in the north of Ireland and asked for land. The Irish sent them on to Scotland and gave all male Picts Irish wives with the admonishment that the lineage must be traced through the women thus explaining the puzzle of matrilineage among the Picts (Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People).
Based on carbon dating, Ötzi lived roughly 5,200 years ago (3350–3110 B.C.)
WHO WERE HIS PEOPLE?
Based on his DNA signature, Ötzi was part of the migration of Neolithic farmers that came through Anatolia (modern Turkey) 8,000 to 6,000 years ago, replacing Europe’s Paleolithic hunters and gatherers. His maternal genetic heritage no longer exists in modern populations, but his paternal line lives on in groups found on Mediterranean islands, especially Sardinia. The Mediterranean island of Sardinia has the shortest stature amongst all European tribes, perhaps not able to absorb lactose from dairy products which is essential for calcium in bone growth, might be the contributory factor in short stature, amongst the pygmy people
O neg lactose tolerant
I am b neg and I have no prob with any milk. Used to drink gallons when I was young. My son who is o neg had to drink goat milk. He couldn’t drink cows milk.. I still love dairy products but I read that was a blood type B thing. O blood types have a prob with.
I am B- and love milk, cheese, yogurt and ice cream. I am in my 50s. As a baby I did not tolerate the formula I was on, and at 4 months the doctor told my mother to put me on cow’s milk. My colic went away and I was fine after that.
I am O neg and lactose tolerant, however I am allergic to the casein in dairy. Ì aim also allergic to gluten, wheat, weigh tools, bananas, and sesame seeds.