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Ruphus -> RE: Nananananaaaails (Mar. 25 2011 13:46:15)
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Hi Julian,
( Can it be that I know your avatar from GS? It would mean good memories.)
Here is what I think about nail treatment, without certainty of it being all correct.
Nails are made of creatin. With hair, horns, hooves, skin armings and feathers consisting of it, one of the significant inventions of evolution.
Unusually thin nails should be because of lack of biotin ( vitamin H or B7 / B8 ).
Here is what I gathered once, when a girl-friend asked me to make a quick research on biotin:
Daily dosis: 0,03 - 0,1 mg
Symptoms of lack:
Skin irritations, hair loss, brittle nails, anemia, depression, tiredness, faint, anorexia, raised general chlosterine level, low bloodsugar, tongue inflammation.
Symptoms of affluence:
Delayed or decreased insulin distribution, encreased demand of vitamine C + B6, encreased level of bloodsugar.
Most supply would be with calf liver, salmon, peanuts, cauliflower, raw oats, yolk and rice.
However, unless with overconsumption of raw egg, with pregnancy and nursing ( + 0,005 mg adviced ) or with genetical preference ( +0,05 - 15 mg ), lack of biotin won´t commonly occure.
Lack through diet being practically non-existent.
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Once stuffed with pretty thick ones, my nails have become quite thin too since almost twenty years.
Maybe I must be rasping much less rasgeuados than other fellas, still there gathers quite some nail dust on tops section under the strings, and my way of plucking tends to be rather forte too.
But there seems no problem with the nails despite daily practising ( mostly for hours ).
Could be the nail issue to be similar like the one with car shells.
Constructors used to go for stiffening / arming race cars, until it showed that deforming was the way to go. ( Laotse must have said something to the extent of: "The gras blade won´t break as it flexes" or so. :0D )
I think to have read here on the foro from players who returned from all the hardening measures from tinctures and laqueres and sheets back to plain, only to find that things were much better without applications.
They found that used chemicals had thinned out, brittle ( and slow down in growth / diameter ) and that their natural / deflecting nails would wear off less than nails with rigid layers on top. Rediscovering the advantage of felxible nails, some even mentioned how they like to wetten their hands / steep fingertips before practising.
Women will also confirm that laquered nails over time suffer from being suspended from air.
Another note is the hearsaying that nail as an reaction will grow encreasingly at rasped spots. From there moderate measures of rasgeuados could even be beneficial to nail growth.
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Supplements logically might work either not at all or only very little; seing how normal diet already supplies more than enough of biotin.
With enhancement of nail growth intented the solution should not be lying in symptomatic treatment, but in analyzing the individual, metabolistic background of biotin absorption and going from there.
Ruphus
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