Can eating a diet based on your blood type -- O, A, B, or AB -- help you maintain and stimulate healthy hair growth? That's the idea behind the Blood Type Diet, which recommends choosing food and drinks based on your blood type to get the body operating at optimum performance.
Can eating a diet based on your blood type -- O, A, B, or AB -- help you maintain and stimulate healthy hair growth? That's the idea behind the Blood Type Diet, which recommends choosing food and drinks based on your blood type to get the body operating at optimum performance.
But, what’s the idea behind this emerging diet, and does it actually work? It’s important to note that the speed of hair growth is dependent on factors like, hormones, genetics and blood flow (the amount of oxygen and nutrient rich blood). By adhering to a blood type based diet, you maximize the intake of the foods that act as medicine to replenish cells and fight threats to the immune system, while avoiding the foods that act as a deterrent against hair growth. So, the idea is that if you consume foods that are most beneficial to your blood group, the more likely you’ll absorb the minerals and nutrients best suited to your blood type, and the greater the chance of maintaining the proper balance that promotes hair growth. As a result, eating according to your blood type stimulates the body’s self-healing of hair loss.
It’s worth exploring this diet with your dermatologist, naturopath, or trichologist. Knowing your blood type can help them devise a diet plan for you that will promote your body’s self-healing mechanisms. For example, people having A+ blood group cannot absorb B vitamins in their blood and as a result, thickness of their hair is low. This is why people having ‘A’ positive blood group have more chances of baldness, according to a MedCrave study.
If you suffer from alopecia or any other types of hair loss linked to chronic issues, exploring a Blood Type Diet can bring you one step closer in your search for a remedy.
