Brittle nails

[Lily288]

Help with brittle, breaking nails anyone...

[Heloise]

Hi Lily, magnesium supplements always helped mine. It really is a shortage of probably all the minerals. Often this is due to the fact you are not really metabolizing them since we don't produce enough acid when we are hypothyroid. So you could take supplements and you could add HCL which is the acid our stomach should have and take with meals.

[Lily288 in reply to Heloise]

Thank you so much Heloise, I will certainly look into potential minerals shortage ...oils and other similar soaks rubbed on helps but only for a minute it seems so perhaps I do have to look deeper so to speak. I thought I was getting my minerals from sea salts but seems I any need a supplement.... Is HCL sold at a health food store? Again, thanks...

[Heloise in reply to Lily288]

Yes I'm sure, it could also be Betaine HCL. You adrenals use lots of magnesium so many people are actually deficient. It's also difficult to absorb and that's why they use it for constipation as it wants to go right through. Ask them for an absorbable type like glycinate, etc.

[Lily288 in reply to Heloise]

I'll be on my way to health food store first thing in the am ...thanks so much again... will certainly post my result... happy Sunday

[Lily288]

Just have to ask how safe is Betaine HCL because upon a search, I had to wonder .... And just to say, I do not have any of the symptoms mentioned for leaky gut on here.... However I'll take magnesium. Thanks Heloise.

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[Lily288 in reply to Lily288]

Hi, I'm Lily288

Just want to add that I've tried what you all have mentioned above but with not much luck and the reason for this is that what I thought was brittle nails is mostly caused by the tapping on my iPad and/or phone... I'm going back to a keyboard... 😂

[Lily288]

Brittle nails update by me Liky288. Not sure if im doing updates correctly... Do let me know and I'll change it.

I wanted to let you all know that my brittle nail problem is so much better. I've been taking a Multi Vitamin for a couple of years now. All the B Vitamins etc. but contain no magnesium because I can't tolerate magnesium... it makes me want to sleep all the time. But the main thing is, my nails have improved tremendously. Thank you. Lily288

[Heloise in reply to Lily288]

Hi Lily, your update came through and that's very good news. I think multivitamins have improved and are now recommended more often. You must be getting enough magnesium from the foods you are eating. It sounds as if you may have made all around improvement so keep it up. No one knows better than you as to what will work.