Cause nails grow faster than toenails

Nails grow faster than toenails because they are more likely to be hit and receive more nutrients because they are located near the heart.

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Nails actually grow two to three times faster than toenail depending on age, gender, diet, genetic characteristics of each person and season of the year. While nails take about 6 months to replace themselves, counting from the root at a rate of 3mm per month, nails grow back in 12-18 months at just 1mm per month.

Nails can grow faster than toenails depending on gender characteristics, diet or genetics.(Artwork: Flickr)

According to USCcience, there are two possible reasons why the nail grows faster than the toenails.

The first assumption is that because the hand is closer to the heart than the foot, the blood flow is better, getting more oxygen and nutrition . Nutrients are transported to the nail via capillaries located just below the nail.

Meanwhile, according to the second hypothesis , this difference comes from "injuries" when nails are almost constantly affected by typing, typing, bumping and other actions. Small injuries can stimulate nail growth, so right-handed people often have right-hand nails that grow faster than the left hand and vice versa.

The main component of nails is keratin, which is also found in skin, hair and horns. Nails do not have living cells and grow from a special group of cells called nail spores, there are many blood vessels under the halo. The development of nails depends largely on finger length (longer fingers have faster growth of nails), nutrition (diet and low protein diets will make nails grow slowly), age ( people under 30 years of age have faster nail growth), and seasons (nails grow fastest in the summer).