Skin, hair and fingernails are in constant renovation, and because of this the body needs a continuous supply of nutrients. It is well known that lack of certain substances in the diet causes growth alterations and a difference in your appearance.
Facts are revealing: we change our skin completely every 28 days and on average a person produces 100 kilograms of skin cells in a whole lifetime. Each year, our hair grows 125 mm. On average, our fingernails grow half a millimeter a week.
More than one might believe, the inadequate diet in combination with daily stress and the effect of the sun’s rays reflects itself on our hair, fingernails and skin. Hair grows fragile, breaks easily and loses its luster; or it might be excessively greasy and it might fall out with no apparent reason. Fingernails become brittle and white spots come and go; the skin becomes too dry and flaky giving a neglectful appearance and lack of adequate hydration.
Collagen is the most abundant protein in our body, representing 20 to 30 percent of the total proteins in an adult person. From 25 years of age on, the production of collagen begins to diminish and loses 300 grams of its production of collagen every 10 years, causing a premature aging.