Thanks from a person with the saddest, most easily broken nails in the world. 
These sound like wonderful tips.
I heard about taking silica supplements and will be buying some soon, although I have no idea how much to take so I'll start with one 500 mg pill a day.
My dermatologist suggested 1,200 mcg of Biotin daily. I started with 2,000 mcg (the pills are 1,000 each) and a few years ago upped that to 4,000 mcg of Biotin daily (plus whatever is in my multivitamin) with no change to either the brittleness or the ridges or the splitting. I never considered MSM as both my mom and my sister said they got headaches from taking it and I have enough headaches in my life right now.
I love glass nail files and have completely stopped cutting my nails in favor of just filing them to the desired length. Maybe some day I'll actually reach my desired length. For now what I'm really doing is shaping and removing nicks and chips.
I wish I could find those metal "nail guards" (not sure if that's what they're called) that ancient oriental rulers would wear over their nails as extremely long nails signified that they were rich and did no manual work which might damage their nails. So what if I looked like Freddy Krueger from Nightmare on Elm Street?
Babakins, a question about the gelatin. You said you eat LOTS of it each day. By lots do you mean a tablespoon, a half cup, a cup, hopefully not a quart. I assume you mean the standard cooking gelatine you can buy in the market. Thanks
These sound like wonderful tips.I heard about taking silica supplements and will be buying some soon, although I have no idea how much to take so I'll start with one 500 mg pill a day.
My dermatologist suggested 1,200 mcg of Biotin daily. I started with 2,000 mcg (the pills are 1,000 each) and a few years ago upped that to 4,000 mcg of Biotin daily (plus whatever is in my multivitamin) with no change to either the brittleness or the ridges or the splitting. I never considered MSM as both my mom and my sister said they got headaches from taking it and I have enough headaches in my life right now.
I love glass nail files and have completely stopped cutting my nails in favor of just filing them to the desired length. Maybe some day I'll actually reach my desired length. For now what I'm really doing is shaping and removing nicks and chips.
I wish I could find those metal "nail guards" (not sure if that's what they're called) that ancient oriental rulers would wear over their nails as extremely long nails signified that they were rich and did no manual work which might damage their nails. So what if I looked like Freddy Krueger from Nightmare on Elm Street?
Babakins, a question about the gelatin. You said you eat LOTS of it each day. By lots do you mean a tablespoon, a half cup, a cup, hopefully not a quart. I assume you mean the standard cooking gelatine you can buy in the market. Thanks