Re: Toe or fingernail irregularities

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> I have noticed that I developed bands or horizontal raised areas

across my big toe nails for every period of time I mega dosed iodine

stopped and restarted. Its just that the toe nail got thicker when

on iodine apparently. Anyone else have these finger or toe nail

growth bands?

I don't have any from iodine yet (6 weeks is probably a bit soon to

spot it), but when I was a farrier, I regularly spotted changes in

my client's horse's diet by the change in the quality/amount of

their hoof growth. Better nutrition resulted in thicker, more

resiliant, less brittle growth. There was often a ridge where this

better growth had started. My clients would wonder how I knew that

they had changed their horse's feed/supplement program 3 months

earlier, for example. Maybe I should have told them I was physic

<lol>.

During the winter, growth would slow down. Keratin metabolism is

affected by temperature.

One might infer that raised areas during time of iodine

supplementing are from either increased metabolism, improved

nutrition, or both.

As an aside, before I went on progesterone supplementation, I had

very thick, yellow, ugly toenails. They looked like they belonged to

a 95-year old. I used to file the entire nail down to make them look

half-way presentable. They are now a normal thickness and relatively

pink.