10 Low Stomach Acid Symptoms
Reviewed: Dr. Gromatzky
Symptom #6: Weak, Cracking Nails
If your nails are weak and cracking, it is likely that you have deficiency of some nutrients such as protein, fatty acids, minerals, and vitamins. Your body requires these nutrients for the growth of healthy nails.
Because low stomach acid leads to poor digestion of food, the body ends up getting inadequate amounts of the nutrients contained in food. The body prioritizes use of the available nutrients. This means that the available nutrients go to the most essential functions. This leaves less essential functions, such as growth of nails, with leftover nutrients. And because these are usually inadequate, it leads to weak and cracking nails.
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