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Sachin Kumar Jha

Wed 02/05/20 08:04 PM

Why out finger can't grow as well as hair
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Ladywind7

Wed 02/05/20 08:12 PM


Why our fingernails can't grow as well as hair?


Keratin differs in each?
Edited by Ladywind7 on Wed 02/05/20 08:15 PM
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Tom4Uhere

Wed 02/05/20 11:47 PM

Growth Rates
Toenails grow slower than fingernails, at a rate of about 1 mm per month. Hair, on the other hand, grows at a much faster rate: roughly ¼ to ½ inch per month, or 6 inches per year.

Biotin is a B-complex vitamin that proponents say can promote healthy hair and nail growth. Biotin may strengthen brittle nails, and prevent them from breaking, but there is little evidence that biotin supplements will help the nails grow faster.

Hair and fingernails may appear longer after death, but not because they are still growing. Instead, a persons fingernails and hair may appear longer because the skin around them has retracted, according to the Dermatology Clinic at UAMS. After death, dehydration causes the skin and other soft tissues to shrink.

The "Why" is probably a type of gene difference or the triggers that determine the growth rate may be a specific DNA switch or configuration.

Found this at http://www.naturallycurly.com/curlreading/beauty-style/do-your-nails-grow-faster-than-your-hair
Both hair and nails have living parts, but those living parts are beneath the skin. Hair and nails grow out from a matrix, which for our hair turns into our hair follicle; for our nails it is the nail bed or nail plate. Audrey Sivasothy says, “Cells grow out from the matrix, and older cells eventually are pushed out by newer cells growing in. The newer cells cause the older cells to become compacted, and as the cells are further removed from their blood supply, they form keratin proteins and begin to harden into the hair fiber, or nail, that we see.” Hair and nails are the results and are known as keratinization, which is what makes our hair and nails grow.

Nails grow faster on the hand that is most dominant or used more often, pinkie nails grow the slowest, and index fingernails grow the fastest. Hair grows faster than all other tissues in the body other than bone marrow.
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SparklingCrystal 💖💎

Thu 02/06/20 03:10 AM

I suppose our fingers don't grow as the length and shape has to do with the form of our species. You might as well ask why we don't have claws like a cat or a beak like a parrot.
Not our species.

I do think it is possible to regrow a finger. We cannot do it (yet), but if memory serves, then genetically speaking there's no reason for this not being possible.
Like there is NO reason whatsoever for our bodies to age.
The only reason we do is because everyone believes we will and that it's normal, stress, and toxic things (air pollution, smoking, drinking, crap food etc.).
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Tom4Uhere

Thu 02/06/20 07:54 AM


I suppose our fingers don't grow as the length and shape has to do with the form of our species. You might as well ask why we don't have claws like a cat or a beak like a parrot.
Not our species.

I do think it is possible to regrow a finger. We cannot do it (yet), but if memory serves, then genetically speaking there's no reason for this not being possible.
Like there is NO reason whatsoever for our bodies to age.
The only reason we do is because everyone believes we will and that it's normal, stress, and toxic things (air pollution, smoking, drinking, crap food etc.).

I forget where I read the response (might have been here) on why cell generation degrades but I recall it had something to do with the genetic coding or triggers within each cell.
The respondent mentions a bunch of DNA/RNA components but the gist of it was the triggers that cause cell continuation degrade or are switched off or something like that. Something to do with stem cells or the components in them that make them generate specific cells.

I doubt "belief" has much to do with it.
Edited by Tom4Uhere on Thu 02/06/20 07:55 AM
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Fri 02/07/20 03:09 AM



I suppose our fingers don't grow as the length and shape has to do with the form of our species. You might as well ask why we don't have claws like a cat or a beak like a parrot.
Not our species.

I do think it is possible to regrow a finger. We cannot do it (yet), but if memory serves, then genetically speaking there's no reason for this not being possible.
Like there is NO reason whatsoever for our bodies to age.
The only reason we do is because everyone believes we will and that it's normal, stress, and toxic things (air pollution, smoking, drinking, crap food etc.).

I forget where I read the response (might have been here) on why cell generation degrades but I recall it had something to do with the genetic coding or triggers within each cell.
The respondent mentions a bunch of DNA/RNA components but the gist of it was the triggers that cause cell continuation degrade or are switched off or something like that. Something to do with stem cells or the components in them that make them generate specific cells.

I doubt "belief" has much to do with it.

To each their own. It has been proven. The way we feel, think, belief -so our energy- defines how our cells behave.
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Tom4Uhere

Wed 03/11/20 12:06 PM




I suppose our fingers don't grow as the length and shape has to do with the form of our species. You might as well ask why we don't have claws like a cat or a beak like a parrot.
Not our species.

I do think it is possible to regrow a finger. We cannot do it (yet), but if memory serves, then genetically speaking there's no reason for this not being possible.
Like there is NO reason whatsoever for our bodies to age.
The only reason we do is because everyone believes we will and that it's normal, stress, and toxic things (air pollution, smoking, drinking, crap food etc.).

I forget where I read the response (might have been here) on why cell generation degrades but I recall it had something to do with the genetic coding or triggers within each cell.
The respondent mentions a bunch of DNA/RNA components but the gist of it was the triggers that cause cell continuation degrade or are switched off or something like that. Something to do with stem cells or the components in them that make them generate specific cells.

I doubt "belief" has much to do with it.

To each their own. It has been proven. The way we feel, think, belief -so our energy- defines how our cells behave.

Inspired by your claim it has been proven I did some searching for papers on Google Scholar.
I found no scientific proof of your claim?
Could you direct me to citation source?
I'm interested in reading about it.