January 31, 2012

Regarding Old Nails.


A couple of years ago, I mentioned to my dermatologist that my nails had suddenly developed ridges, and showed her the ridges that ran the length of my nails.  She shrugged and said, "That's Old Age".  I replied, "So, I've gotten Old, the last month or two."  She replied, "Yes."

I was less than amused.  I am Old, but I thought there must be a solution to this.  I'm found a solution, but first I'll tell you about another, semi-connected problem.



I was born with baby fine hair, and it never changed.  When I was young my hair was thick, but baby fine.  Look how much hair, both Bob and I had, in the above photo.  We were about 26 and 22.  When I was 25, I had a tumor on my thyroid, it was removed, and it was benign.  But, and this was important to me, my hair started to thin, a lot.  To a woman in her 20's, thinning hair, especially thinning, baby fine, hair isn't a good thing.  I learned to deal with it.  Not only did my hair become thin, it grew very slowly.  I could go 8 to 10 weeks between haircuts.

OK, back to the title of this post.  We were watching the news and in the health segment a dermatologist was talking about nail health.  You can watch the interview here.



The Dr. talked about several things to help your nails, most of them I already did; one thing I wasn't doing was taking 2.5 milligrams of the supplement Biotin daily.  I'm still not taking that much; I'm only taking 300 mcg of Biotin daily.  I thought I'd start small and see what happened.


What a difference.  Not only are my nails super healthy and unridged, my hair is growing faster.  I had to get a haircut last week, only 6 weeks after my last haircut.  My hair may be thicker, but I honestly don't know.  My hair-cutter, Emily, couldn't believe how fast my hair had grown.
Be well and do good,

4 comments

  1. Biotin, hey? I'll put that on my list. You video won't play for me. :-(

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  2. Well all good info to know but do you have any idea what to do with all those 'laugh lines' that I seem to have developed over night. And I AM NOT OLD. I might look like it but on the inside I'm still in my mid twenties. Just with the rest of my body would go along with that. LOL

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  3. I'll have to pick some up - my nails just started to ridge, too.

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