I seen on tik tok this women checking off a list of foods for your specific blood type, if it’s on tik tok well then it must be true! So I thought I would come here and see if this is an actual thing. They sell books and lists of foods that many people are purchasing. I think it’s a scam.
All diets are rubbish. There is no diet that will make you healthy. That’s not how health works.
Also, the “blood type diet” is based on shaky, unreliable science at best. A total scam at worst. Depends who you ask.
Health is about balance. Emotionally, socially, physically.
You don’t become healthy by being overly selective about what you eat, how much, and when.
You get healthy by shaping your lifestyle and your life into a healthy one. Be outside more. Connect with friends and loved ones more. Pursue your passions and work towards things that honor your values. Do good for others. Produce value that you give back to the community/world in the form of art, giving your time, sharing your skills, etc.
Think of food as fuel, nourishment, and connection. And use it to fuel your life, nourish you and your loved ones, and connect you with the people and places that are most meaningful to you.
That’s health. There is no shortcut.
Maybe it can work if we think in the past (like 100.000 years ago), when we wasn’t connected and each population had specific habits, but today it’s useless because we are all connected at some point in genes
If you learn about any health thing (or really anything) on tik Tok, be incredibly skeptical. There is so much garbage coming out of there, and unfortunately people who are great at marketing can pull a huge audience, even if they are spouting complete nonsense.
Sometimes, it’s all fun and games and who cares. But when it leads to people making unhealthy decisions about their lifestyle, believing they are wrong, that there is something wrong with them, it really grinds my gears.
I honestly felt there’s something to it but not much. Like it’s 10% truth in there 90% false. Like your blood type might have a small effect on how you respond to foods. When I tried it it inspired me to get off vegetarianism and helped me discover that meat actually settles my digestion. Whether that relates to my blood type I have no clue. But I’m always willing to give something a try that doesn’t involve poor nutrition.
Its an old theory. My mom had a book about it. It basically relies on the idea that some food make you healthy, some are neutral and some make you sick. I am blood type A and what I remember is that oranges made me healthy and sausages and tomatoes made me sick. I tried it but didn’t really see any changes…
Actually, blood types are linked to where your ancestors were from, which would then link them to a part of the world which had some foods available and others not at all.
The very long time we spent in that environment made us evolve to better fit it: therefore, the genetic traits that would emerge would be the fittest to make the most of the food available.
To make an obvious example: someone whose ancestors lived for millenia without encountering solanacee, shouldn’t eat them.
Not sure if it works, but it’s a very interesting theory.
Medical student here. As far as I’ve learned our metabolism, overall physiology or personality traits do not change based on blood types. It is relevant for certain things (transfusion, transplantation of course and the risk of complication during pregnancy depending on the blood type of you and your developing fetus) but this diet certainly sounds like a scam or a trick to get more social media attention.