Find Out The Deeper Causes of Brittle Nails

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so I’ve gotten this question a lot what remedy can help with my brittle nails now that’s a good question because there’s a lot of different remedies that can work but I always like to use the now as an indicator to look deeper inside the body and the nail is a really good place to start because it gives you a lot of Clues on what’s going on in the body but brittle nails is very similar to like a symptom of fatigue there could be many different reasons for that problem so you have several options you can actually take a remedy to strengthen your nails or better yet you can try to understand what the nail is doing so you can actually fix the problem once and for all unfortunately in medicine they don’t do that everything is based on a certain symptom and a treatment so today let’s do this differently let’s take a look at the nail and look at all the potential reasons why you might have I don’t know slow growing nails or brittle nails or lines to your nails or a problem with the nail and when I go through this I think what’s going to happen is one or two things that I talk about will become more real to you and it will pop out as a potential problem let’s say for example something that’s missing in your diet or maybe something that you’re eating that you shouldn’t be eating so let’s start out with protein your nail is protein it’s a very specific type of protein called keratin and the thing that you need to know about keratin is that it’s very high in Sulfur okay and also amino acids because protein is just a combination of amino acids so doing a deep dive and understanding kind of what’s making up this specific body tissue can give you Clues on what you may need to eat more of so the two main sulfur amino acids are cysteine and methionine and so for example if you’re eating foods that don’t have those two amino acids or are incomplete that could be the reason why you are missing those amino acids and developing problems with your nail and realize if you have a problem with your nails it’s not just happening with your nails it’s happening all over the place so you could either be deficient in Sulfur okay which by the way the number one symptom of a sulfur deficiency is brittle nails or it can be very specific amino acids that you’re deficient in because you’re eating foods that are not complete with the amino acids now rather than bore you and complicate things tell you all the foods that don’t have that I’m just going to recommend eating foods that contain plenty of all of the amino acids that way you don’t have to worry about trying to focus on just you know increasing very specific amino acids you got to realize amino acids is not just about making your your nails your hair your muscle your skin it’s about making all these other proteins involved with biochemistry energy production digestion everything your body has millions of different enzymes and they need these amino acids so what kind of foods can you eat to get a complete amino acid profile okay well the best foods you can eat would be animal products specifically things like eggs fish Meats versus legumes or grain type proteins with those you’re always going to be missing one or two amino acids or those amino acids are going to be very very low and you’re going to have to do food combining to fix this problem you also have the factor of the hydrochloric acid in your stomach if if you don’t have enough hydrochloric acid you can’t digest these proteins to extract the amino acids from the protein and so how do you know if you have a lack of a hydrochloric acid well you have indigestion you have gas you have bloating heartburn if you have intestinal inflammation you could also have a problem with amino acid absorption now the other thing that’s interesting about protein is that you may tend to not be satisfied when you eat unless you have sufficient amount of that balanced amino acids as your requirements because out of all the macronutrients like carbs protein and fats proteins are probably needed as the most important survival raw material and so in other words let’s say you’re eating a lot of food but you’re not hitting that requirement for amino acids the hunger won’t turn off you’ll just stay hungry you’ll never be satisfied so this is one problem with vegans is that they’ll tend to try to get their amino acids from plant type things and Grains and legumes but since they need to consume so much of those foods to get the required amount of amino acids they end up overdoing it on the carbohydrates now if you want a general pretty good estimate of how much protein a person would need on average now this is on average it could go up it can go down I would do this I would take 0. 64 grams times your body weight in pounds that you weigh and you’ll get a good estimate of roughly how much protein that your body requires you know when you’re deficient amino acids boy all sorts of things will happen not just the increase in appetite without being satisfied but you could even develop edema in your legs a swollen belly you can be chronically fatigued but again I’m just emphasizing out of all the macro nutrients protein is the most important and if you’re deficient in amino acids and it’s showing up in your nail realize it’s also going to be affecting your immune system your endocrine system your reproductive system the next topic is trace minerals and minerals trace minerals act as helper called cofactors or coenzymes for proteins so we just talked about amino acids which are proteins now to activate these proteins that help you grow nails okay you need certain helper minerals or trace minerals which are just kind of minerals needed in smaller amounts so the most important mineral would be sulfur you can get it in cruciferous vegetables you can get it in eggs you can get it in meats and fish you can also get it in garlic and onion there’s also a product that can help brittle nails called MSM but I would recommend try to get it from the food then you have zinc another very very important cofactor where do you get zinc red meat animal products shellfish Seafood selenium is another one copper is another one magnesium is a factor it’s not very common but the can show up in the nails if you’re deficient in magnesium and that would be more of the leafy greens but the amount of calcium that’s in the nail is very very very tiny so if you have a Calcium deficiency it’s probably not going to show up necessarily in brittle nails I mean potentially it could but it’s more likely these other elements silicon also a lot of people take silicon to improve their nails because silicon is involved in the formation of collagen now another important vitamin to strengthen the nails is is vitamin C now typically you’re going to get enough C if you’re doing leafy greens or sauerkraut or Peppers or lemons but if you’re consuming a lot of sugar that is definitely going to block your vitamin C biotin is another B vitamin that people take in very high levels to help their nails and yes that will work but what you have to realize is that you produce just as much biotin as you get from your diet and chances are the real reason why you might be deficient in biotin has to do with your gut micro Flora more than your diet maybe you had an antibiotic maybe you have some type of gut issue maybe you’re not eating right maybe you don’t eat enough Probiotic foods or Prebiotic foods and that’s why you’re low in biotin but biotin is very high in chicken liver beef liver eggs salmon and pork and a couple other reasons why you might be deficient in biotin you drink a good amount of alcohol you’re on some type of medication you have low hydrochloric acid you are an athlete okay you exercise a lot that can create a major deficiency in biotin or you’re getting older and so the requirements for biotin go up B6 is an