Vitamins for Your Hair and Nails

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[music] Hello, I’m Dr. Neal Schultz

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and welcome to DermTV.

Women often ask me what vitamins or minerals can they take to make their

hair and nails grow faster or even to make their hails harder or thicker

and, unfortunately, the answer is, none. The reality is that, unless you’re

severely malnourished or unless you have a severe vitamin deficiency,

taking extra vitamins and minerals just has no effect on your hair or

nails. Lots of websites and advertisers recommend vitamin and mineral

supplements, especially vitamin B6 and biotin, folic acid and beta-

carotene, and the minerals, magnesium and zinc. But there’s no medical

evidence to suggest that taking supplements of these minerals or vitamins

has any effect on the growth of your hair or nails if you have a normal

diet and you are normally nourished. Let me explain why.

The vitamins and minerals that you use for your hair and nails work in

very, very small, tiny, minute amounts. And the small amounts that are

present in everybody’s diet is sufficient to make your hair and nails grow

normally. Those vitamins and minerals act like on/off switches. Let me give

you an example. This lamp has a regular on/off switch with no dimmer. If I

push the switch on, you get this much light. If I push harder as I am

pushing now, the light doesn’t get any brighter. It works the same way with

the vitamins and minerals in your body for hair and nails. The normal

amounts you have will allow normal growth, and taking extra amounts have no

effect on their growth. So, despite deceptive advertising, your hair and

nails can’t be fooled.

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