Tuesday, 7 April 2015

Why Do Fingernails Grow So Much Faster Than Toenails?

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The short answer is that, like many of the body's physiological mechanisms, the reason for differential growth rates isn't 100% clear. But we do know a surprising lot about nail growth.

Based on decades of observations, researchers have developed a couple of pretty compelling hypotheses, not just about the difference between toenail growth and fingernail growth, but about differential growth rates among individual digits.

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