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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

What Would Happen If You Used RICE WATER on Your Hair for 2 Weeks

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re going to talk about using rice water for hair growth. Fermented rice water is the best rice water for your hair. It takes 48 hours to make probiotic rice water!


Rice water contains B vitamins and amino acids essential for the hair. Fermented rice water contains pitera, a byproduct of fermentation often used in skin care. Pitera helps brighten the hair and also helps with dandruff and itchiness.


Fermented rice water contains lactic acid, which decreases dullness and frizziness. It also contains magnesium and selenium. Fermented rice water increases nitric oxide, which helps bring oxygen to the hair's root.


To make fermented rice water, combine 2 cups of organic rice in a bowl with 4 cups of water. Massage the rice with water and drain. Add 2 cups of water to the wet rice and allow the mixture to sit at room temperature for 2 hours. Strain the liquid into a glass jar and cover lightly.


After 48 hours, cover your fermented rice water with a lid and store it in the refrigerator. The cold temperature will slow down bacterial growth.


To use fermented rice water for your hair, apply it to your hair and scalp, leave it on for 20 minutes, and then rinse. Do this twice per week for hair growth and healthier hair.


Fermented rice water helps repair the hair and puts beneficial microbes back into the hair. It can also be used on your face!

Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:

Dr. Berg, age 60, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan, and is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.

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0:00.0

What would happen if you used rice water on your hair for two weeks?

0:04.3

This is actually one of those ancient secrets that have been used in Asia for hundreds of years.

0:09.5

I'm going to show you the biggest mistake that people make when they do this,

0:12.6

as well as the exact way of how to do this to maximize your results.

0:17.0

Making your hair stronger, your scalp is going to be much healthier.

0:20.5

Big question is,

0:21.2

how can the water from rice do anything, really? You're not actually eating the rice and you're

0:27.0

not even drinking the water. If you look this up, there's several ways to do this. Some people

0:31.1

will take a cup of rice in two cups of water and they'll mix it together and then they'll let

0:36.5

it sit for a couple hours.

0:38.1

They'll strain off the rice and then use that rice water on their hair.

0:42.1

That's really not going to do anything.

0:43.9

There's a way to make this rice water that you can turn that into a probiotic.

0:48.1

What's interesting is you're not actually adding any microbes at all.

0:51.1

The microbes are already on the rice.

0:54.1

The microbes are actually in the air.

0:56.1

And so what you're going to do is you're going to create this probiotic liquid, which is going to

1:00.3

be made over a period of time of 48 hours, where these microbes are going to eat the starch

1:06.0

from the rice, and they're going to reproduce at a massive level. And you're going to use that

1:09.9

probiotic with all the

1:11.6

additional byproducts that are created on your hair and your scalp. A lot of great things occur

1:16.9

from fermentation. Of course, you have yogurt, kefir, cheese. All these wonderful things occur when you

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