Is there any proven way to grow healthy nails faster?
There are some basic facts about finger nails that apply to everyone. First, they are made of keratin, which is a protein. Keratin is manufactured at the matrix, just this side of the back of the nail. The farthest edge of the matrix is that pale crescent at the beginning of your nail. Fingernails grow out at a rate of 0.1mm/day, or 1 cm in 100days. That is really slow. And that is Jack and the Beanstalk fast as compared to toe nails which grow a third as fast. Further, your dominant hand nails grow faster than the other hand. All nails grow faster in the summer than the winter. In another one of life’s little ironies that prove we do have a creator with a sense of humor, fingernails grow faster in men (who don’t want them) than women (who do). Younger people grow nails faster than older people. Principally, growth rates of nails, like other tissues, are related to blood flow. Speaking of blood flow, that pinkish color is related to the tiny blood vessels, or capillaries, on the unders
