What to eat for healthy nails

If you want to develop healthy nails that are tough, less stratified, and evenly shiny, you should prioritize eating enough high-quality protein, iron, zinc, and B vitamins in your daily diet. Most people don't need to buy hundreds of extra nail care supplements. Adjusting three meals a day will work.

Two years ago, I helped a best friend who had been on a diet to lose weight. At that time, her nails were as thin as a layer of soft plastic. She would have to split them if they were longer than two millimeters. There were also a lot of white spots on the nail surface. She went to a dermatologist to rule out fungal infection. She only ate too vegetarian and didn't even dare to eat more eggs. , and later ordered a very simple diet plan for her. She must eat one boiled egg every day, stir-fried pork liver twice a week, and replace the polished white rice with half brown rice. Within two months, she said that now she can just use her nails to unpack the express, and no longer need to look for scissors everywhere. To put it bluntly, nails themselves are made of hardened keratin, which is similar to the main component of our hair. Only with enough raw materials can they grow strong.

Speaking of this, someone must ask, is it true that eating pig trotters and drinking collagen peptides to nourish nails are popular on the Internet? This is really controversial at the moment. One school of nutritionists believes that whether it is collagen in pig trotters or commercially available peptides, it will be decomposed into amino acids before being absorbed by the human body. It is not clear whether it can be targeted to the nails. On the contrary, pig trotters have a high fat content. If you eat too much, you will gain weight much faster than raising nails. ； However, there are also many bloggers who have been eating fish maw for a long time and said that after half a year, their nails are indeed much stronger than before. Maybe they have supplemented other trace elements at the same time? I followed the trend last year and tried braised pig's trotters twice a week for more than half a month. My nails didn't feel hard and my waistline first increased by two centimeters, so I gave up decisively.

There are also many people who think it is calcium deficiency when they see small white spots on their nails and take calcium tablets like crazy. In fact, there is really no need. Most of the white spots are traces of minor bumps on the nail bed before and have nothing to do with calcium deficiency. Of course, long-term calcium deficiency will indeed make nails brittle, but as long as you drink enough 300 ml of milk a day, the deficiency will basically not be enough to affect the nails under normal eating conditions. Large-dose calcium supplements will cause constipation, which is not worth the candle.

I was a vegetarian for the past two years and rarely ate red meat. During that time, there were always barbs on the nail edges. Who knew, it hurt for half a day to tear it off, and it was also prone to inflammation. Later, I forced myself to buy 10 yuan of soy beef as a snack on the way home from get off work every day, and ate duck blood and vermicelli soup every two days. The barbs basically stopped growing in less than a month. After checking, I found out that the hangnails were caused by a lack of zinc and iron, and poor repair ability of the skin around the nails.

As for what everyone said that eating black sesame seeds can brighten the nail surface, I have tried it myself. I have taken a small spoonful of cooked black sesame seeds every day for almost three months. The nail surface is not as foggy as before. It should be that the vitamin E in black sesame seeds helps nourish the skin around the nails. The nails look much moisturized, but don’t eat too much. A small spoonful is enough, otherwise you will easily break out of acne if you consume too much oil. In fact, there are really not so many bells and whistles about nail care. Don’t always be picky about food and diet. Balanced nutrition is better than any supplement. If your nails are still layered, soft, and the color is wrong after adjusting your diet for two or three months, then it is best to go to a dermatologist to check whether you have onychomycosis or other metabolic problems. Don’t delay your work by supplementing on your own.