¶ Uncovering Root Causes of Nail Ridges
Unfortunately, in the medical profession, they don't do this. They don't look deeper. Basically, I'm taking one symptom and I'm going to show you how I find out what's underneath the symptom because you never want to just treat the symptom without finding the root cause. For example, the ridges on the nail are the tip of the iceberg. They don't ask why do I have ridges on my nails? There are several connections between ridge nails.
and a nutrient deficiency. You have to kind of know the potential causes. But the question is, how do we know which one of those potential causes is the cause? There's really only three deficiencies that are going to create the vertical ridges. Number one, an iron deficiency. Number two, a zinc deficiency. And number three, a biotin deficiency. Biotin is a B vitamin. Basically what I do with the figure this out is I will start with iron. And I'm gonna ask them questions to find out.
if they are iron deficient and if that's the problem. If they're a female, are you menstruating too much? Do you have symptoms of anemia? Like are you tired a lot? Did they get weak easily? Of course I'll get into the diet too. Are they a vegan? Because vegans never eat red meat and Red meat is loaded with iron and when you consume plants like spinach, there's iron in there, but it's not very bioavailable. I also know that someone could actually have a genetic problem with iron.
where they have too much iron. This is interesting because if they have too much iron, they're also going to be anemic. because it's dysfunctional. It asked them questions about their liver. Do they have a history of cirrhosis of the liver? Do they feel better when they donate blood? Have you ever had a genetic test where they said something about iron? I'm looking for iron deficiency? or an iron excess. I might ask a question like, do you crave ice? And uh even people that crave dirt.
uh are deficient in iron. And then I also might ask'em, are they cold? Do they have cold feet, cold hands? And that just would Kind of give me a clue if it's more of an iron deficiency based on those questions. But of course I'm not just only gonna ask them those questions. I'm gonna shift also to some other questions to rule out is it a zinc deficiency? Do they ever have a problem with getting sick
¶ Identifying Zinc and Biotin Deficiencies
frequently and taking a long time to overcome. An infection. I'm gonna ask them about testosterone because zinc is definitely helps increase testosterone. And let's say they have a libido issue or erectile dysfunction or a loss of muscle mass. That could help me kind of associate those symptoms with the cause. I will also ask them when they're driving
at night, do they have a difficult time seeing in the dark? Night blindness is usually a vitamin A deficiency, but zinc is also necessary for vitamin A to work. And this is all related to a certain pigment in the eye that allows you to see in dim light. As far as hair goes, alopecia
would be one symptom of a zinc deficiency. I'm also going to ask them about their skin. Do they have any skin rashes? Inflammation of the skin is definitely related to zinc. I might also ask them did they drink a lot of alcohol or do they eat junk foods? Which will really deplete you of zinc. Then I also might ask them about the foods related to zinc because you're gonna get a lot of zinc if you have red meat, but also shellfish, uh seafood, things like that. After I have those questions.
I'll shift to the biotin deficiency questions. What's unique about biotin is that a good percentage of your biotin is made by your own microbes. I will ask them, do you have a history of a lot of antibiotics? Because that's going to destroy the microbes that make Biotin. Then I'll ask them about their hair. Does their hair break easily? Is their nail thin? That's gonna give me a huge clue on if it's a biotin deficiency. Sometimes when people just
Bang their nail on something and it just breaks could be a biotin deficiency as well. If someone's very severely deficient in biotin, they're gonna have neurological problems. It's called peripheral neuropathy in their feet. So that would be something I would also look for. But what you need to know is biotin, zinc, and iron all control collagen. And if you're deficient in those,
You're not gonna make the collagen necessary for the nail to be formed correctly. After assessing all these questions, it's gonna be very easy for me to isolate the real underlying cause or the most likely cause.
¶ Correcting Nutrient Deficiencies Effectively
which then I will either recommend eating more of that food or I will recommend consuming it as a supplement. As far as iron goes, I never like recommending an iron supplement because it's very harsh and I don't like the types of iron that they give people. I might uh recommend grass-fed liver pills or spleen extract pills. They work great. Or just consume more red meat, that's for iron. And of course with zinc, the best source of zinc is shellfish. Oysters are the top of the list.
But you can also get a good amount of zinc in grass-fed beef. As far as a zinc supplement, I would recommend taking probably 50 milligrams of zinc in a blend. of other trace minerals that include copper because anytime you take zinc in higher amounts over a long period of time. It can deplete you of copper. I like my zinc to be in a blend of uh trace minerals with copper. You always want to have ten times as much zinc as copper. So it'd be like a one to ten
ratio. And this is a very rough estimate. So if you're doing ten milligrams of zinc, You have one milligram of copper. Then we get to biotin. If we need more biotin, I would recommend taking a supplement. But here's the problem. You don't necessarily want to buy the supplement that has the most biotin because there's bottles of biotin that have like thirty thousand times the the RDA. So you don't need to go that extreme. But I do know a lot of people take biotin
Boy, their nails get really super strong. As far as reestablishing biotin in your body, like consuming foods, it's not necessarily going to be adding Certain foods that will increase biotin because biotin is in so many different foods, as it is to build up your gut microbiome. And for that, you want to take a good probiotic. or consume foods that are fermented. One other interesting thing about biotin is if you consume raw egg white.
you can become biotin deficient because there's something in this raw white of the egg. that blocks your ability to absorb biotin. I just wanted to give you a a simple example of the best way to figure things out is not to treat this tip of the iceberg, to find out what's deeper. Really understand that for every effect or symptom, there's a cause.
All 5700 videos that I have are all about making these connections. And this is a huge gap within our healthcare system. They don't make these connections. They just treat the symptom. as a problem and it covers up the real problem. Thank you for watching and I will see you in the next.