Healthy body, healthy scalp, healthy hair, right? But what if the key to health lies in our blood? If you haven’t heard of the blood group diet yet, it’s the buzz in the natural/holistic health community. The idea is to eat a specific diet based on your blood type. This should not only leave you feeling healthier and more nourished, it should also boost your hair growth, length and health.
Healthy body, healthy scalp, healthy hair, right? But what if the key to health lies in our blood? If you haven’t heard of the blood group diet yet, it’s the buzz in the natural/holistic health community. The idea is to eat a specific diet based on your blood type. This should not only leave you feeling healthier and more nourished, it should also boost your hair growth, length and health.
The blood-group diet is popularized by Dr. Peter J. D’Adamo. The concept is that everyone should maintain a diet based on their blood type in order to be in optimum health. In this nutrition system, some foods are beneficial and act as medicine to replenish cells and fight threats to the immune system, while other foods act as a poison. The foods that act as poison are the foods that cause allergies and lead to chronic diseases or illnesses that linger and cause other health related issues. The diet also takes ethnicity into account.
Blood groups are the complex chemical systems present on the surface of blood cells. Hair is a protein that grows from the follicle present in the dermis so it does make sense that blood effects its growth. The correlation between blood type diet and hair growth is something you’ll see all over Google. But most of the articles and posts are anecdotal – lots of people sharing their own personal experiences or those of family and friends.
However, you will find a few scientific studies which bolster the idea like this one from a university in Pakistan. Researchers studied a group of 181 subjects to see if there was a correlation between blood group and hair texture. The study says, “It was concluded from present study that females having B+ blood group had maximum straight hair while A- subjects (males and females), B- subjects (males & females), AB+ males, AB- subjects (males and females), O- males had minimum curly hair similarly AB- and O- males had minimum straight hair.”
Many states of malnutrition have important effects on hair growth. The most widespread is protein-calorie malnutrition, which is more prevalent in developing countries but is also seen in countries with high standards of living. Nutritionists confirm that people with certain nutritional deficiencies tend to have dry, stringy and dull hair, and sometimes experience hair loss. The latter may be restored once the deficiency is addressed. If you’re interested in boosting hair growth and health, you may want to look into the blood type diet more in depth and give it a try.
