How Do You Get Long Healthy Nails?
Fingernails are barometers of your health. If your diet and nutrition is poor, it shows through brittle, cracked and short nails. For many, women especially, nails are a sign of beauty. Perfectly manicured, long, nails are desirable. While some of your nail traits definitely come from your family genes, there are some things you can control. Here’s what you can do to get long healthy nails, or simply improve the healthy nails you already have. Improve the strength of your nails from within by taking 300 micrograms of biotin vitamin B4 times per day. This vitamin is often used to strengthen horse hooves, which are made from the same substance as human nails–keratin. Increase your zinc intake. You don’t have to take a supplement to increase zinc. Simply eat a hard boiled egg each day, and increase your milk intake by 8 ounces. These foods are rich in zinc. Buff your nails daily, or massage the nail. If you have a nail buffer, swiftly rub it back and forth on the flat surface of the fing