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JULY PROMOTION
Interesting Nail Growth
Facts
- Nail plates grow about 20%
faster during the summer.
- Normally men’s nail plates grow
faster than women’s especially on the dominant hand.
- Nail plates grow fastest during
pregnancy.
- Nail plate growth increases by
about 3.5% between the 4th and 8th months of pregnancy.
- From the 9th ninth until after
delivery, nail growth increases by a whopping 20%.
- Age affects nail growth rate,
which peaks between the ages of 10 and 14 yrs and slowly declines after
age 20.
- Nail biting, accidental damage,
or loss causes nail plates to grow faster.
- Many factors cause slow growth
rate of nail plates such as: being immobilized or paralyzed, poor
circulation, malnutrition, lactation, serious infections, psoriasis, and
certain medications.
- The nail plate on each finger
grows at different rates.
- It takes about 5 or 6 months to
completely replace the entire nail plate.
- Toenails take about a year or
longer to replace
- As a rule, the longer the
finger, the faster the nail plate will grow.
- Nutrition and Nail
Growth
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- Nothing you can eat will
cause a healthy nail plate to become stronger than normal but poor
nutrition will certainly make them weaker. There are many studies that
show that poor nutrition and/or severe dieting can make the nail plates
thin and/or weak. Poor nutrition can also dramatically slow nail plate
growth and contribute to the nail splitting. It can also affect hair
growth and other parts of the body as well.
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- MYTH:
CALCIUM MAKES NAILS STRONGER.
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- In fact,
the nail plate contains less than 0.1% calcium. It is unlikely
that calcium is important to maintaining healthy nails. Applying calcium
rich products to the nail plate is even less likely to have a positive
benefit. Good nutrition is a great way normal nail health. Eating right
and exercising regularly will keep your entire body healthy, including
your nails and hair. That’s the best beauty secret known. Cosmetic
creams. Oils and lotions that say they are “nail growth accelerators”
are making false and misleading claims.
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- It is illegal to make such
statements about cosmetics, which are made for beautifying only. No
cosmetic product may legally claim that it changes or alters any
function of the body – only FDA approved drugs can make these types of
claims.
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- Sourced from: Nail
Structure and Product Chemistry 2nd Edition, Douglas D Schoon
2005.
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