Do you bite your nails?

You may be deficient in minerals

What are minerals?

Yes, nail biting often begins with boredom or impatience or fidgeting.

If you are among the millions who regularly bite their nails, you've probably said to yourself "I wish I could stop biting my nails!"

But often your body needs the minerals in the nail material that your body is recycling. So the reward-cycle begins and continues.

Studies show that the mineral content of hair or nails is similar to the mineral content of bone.

The human body, like everything else in nature, is made up of chemicals.

Since the trace minerals group includes over 50 chemical elements, scientists further subdivide this group into three categories, to separate the minerals that are important in health from others that are in our bodies just because they are in the environment and probably have no special role. The first category is the essential trace minerals. These are minerals that are required in the diet for full health, and when the intake is insufficient, symptoms of deficiency will arise. They include nine known to be essential: zinc, copper, selenium, chromium, manganese, molybdenum, iodine, fluoride, and cobalt. About 10 more minerals are thought to be essential but the full proof is not yet in; these are arsenic, boron, bromine, cadmium, lead, lithium, nickel, silicon, tin, and vanadium.

You will note in this list several minerals (arsenic, cadmium, lead) that are normally thought to be toxic. This leads to the second category of trace minerals, the toxic trace minerals. The term is used for read more