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Interesting facts about the blood type diet
Last reviewed: 04.07.2025
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What gets into the blood with food?
Substances that enter the bloodstream when we eat different foods affect our bodies differently. That is why some foods are recommended to be excluded from the diet, while others, on the contrary, a person needs more of for good health.
The blood type diet, according to reviews, improves the condition of hair, nails and teeth. This is especially noticeable in people with the first and second blood types - they suffer less from gum and dental diseases (they are not so often tormented by toothache, and they are less susceptible to caries).
If you include in their diet foods that help prevent gum and dental diseases, then the health of such people with a diet according to their blood type will always be at its best.
Blood, Food and Allergies
According to scientists, blood has many more roles than we imagined. For example, it is blood that actively participates in the intolerance to a particular product or, on the contrary, we especially like a particular product.
Therefore, a blood type diet with the right dishes can eliminate allergic reactions in those people who suffered from it and did not always even understand the reason.
If you give a person only those products that the body easily accepts, say fans of the blood type diet, they will be absorbed much better and will not cause rejection in the form of allergies.
Blood Type Diet and Stress
According to scientists who study blood, a person with the first blood group will react to a stressful situation differently than a person with the second or, for example, the fourth.
During a stressful situation, the hormone cortisol is actively produced in the blood. It is responsible for the so-called stress level. The more cortisol, the more, which means we are excited, depressed, stunned. The more stress we have been exposed to.
It is believed that those people whom nature has awarded with the second blood group suffer more from stress, since their cortisol levels in unplanned situations simply go off the charts. But if you feed such a person products that inhibit the production of cortisol, then the nervous system will work much more balanced.
Blood type and favorite dishes
Scientists who have dedicated their lives to studying blood types and the effect of foods on them write that the latter can have a great effect on one person's body and be completely unacceptable for another.
If I choose cottage cheese as a regular treat, as recommended by doctors, and I have the third blood group, then cottage cheese will have the most positive effect on me. I will lose weight, get healthier and I will be in a wonderful mood.
But if you put my friend, who has the first blood type and whose diet recommends meat in large quantities, on a cottage cheese diet, cottage cheese may cause her intolerance, even allergy. She will gain weight, will be constantly in a bad mood and will not benefit from cottage cheese at all. Unlike me.
Do you understand the difference in the effect of the same products on people with different blood types? So, scientists conclude, when developing a diet based on blood type, it is necessary to take into account the speed and other features of metabolism in the human body.
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How to choose “your” products correctly?
Each blood type diet has its own list of permitted and prohibited products. To choose the best products for yourself, follow not only the general recommendations, but also your own preferences. This will allow you to eat and lose weight comfortably.
Just study the list of permitted dishes and choose those products that you especially like. Include them in your diet as much as possible. If the list of prohibited foods includes your favorite dishes (for example, you don’t need to eat ice cream, but you adore it), don’t exclude ice cream from your diet completely. Just indulge yourself with it less often than before.
This way you will eat healthily and gradually reach your ideal weight. In addition, during the blood type diet you will not have psychological discomfort.