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- From: laurab@dip.cs.wisc.edu (Laura Berg)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: gelatin pills
- Message-ID: <laurab.726780115@cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 19:21:55 GMT
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- prange@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Henry Prange) writes:
-
- >Don't waste your time and money. As far as I know, that dietary intake
- >of gelatin will help your fingernails is a myth. Unless you are seriously
- >protein deficient, the protein in gelatin is not likely to make any
- >difference to the synthesis of your keratin. They all have to be broken
- >down into the constituent amino acids before being re-synthesized.
- >.
-
- I used to take them for about 3 months, about 3 a day and I had BEAUTIFUL
- nails. (They were able to grow longer because they were very strong.) So, in
- my experience, gelatin does help. That's why I want to start taking them
- again.
-
- Laura
- laura@legato.com
-
-