Nail Biting
Funny, but I stopped biting mine after over 50 years, when I went on a gluten-free diet.
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posted by James Miller | 5:38 pm
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Funny, but I stopped biting mine after over 50 years, when I went on a gluten-free diet.
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Nail biting has been a severe problem since I was 7, I'm 35 now. I started a gluten free diet and suddenly stopped nail biting. I was shocked, as I wasn't even trying to stop, it just happened. This is one of the many bad things I lost when I went gluten free.
I think there's a link and now you think there's a link. It's only two but I suspect there are more out there.
Thanks for your comment.
Nail biting is only the half of it. I was also on psychiatrist prescribed meds for bi-polar disorder about 10 years ago. I gave up because my body would soon get normalized to the meds and the manic depression would return with a vengeance. About 2 days into the gluten free diet, my mood completely stabilized at a great level and it has stayed here since. I keep reading about how many lives gluten is destroying and am amazed at the number.
Thanks Mark
I have been a nail biter for 37 years. I have had serious mobility problems and vitamin deficiencies as well as skin/hair problems and gastric disorders for about 5 years now. I have already proven that it is gluten behind these problems by eliminating gluten and eliminating all of the symptoms bar vitamin deficiency. I know when I have eaten gluten because I bite off all my nails. Without gluten I have the most beautiful long nails for the first time in my life. I will also start biting again if I forget to take my prescribed vitamins so there is a link there too. My guess is that gluten blocks the absorption of vitamins that stop anxiety.
All my specialists insist it is psychological!
I would love to get a proper coeliac diagnosis to prove I am right but I cannot stomach eating gluten long enough. The specialists insist that not eating gluten does not make a negative a false negative.
Get yourself tested for B12 and folates. If you are short your doctor will give you injections. I had that before diagnosis. They are much more efficient than tablets.
But overall you know you're a coeliac and the gluten free diet works, so why bother.
James
I quit after 25 years of chronic nail biting after starting a gluten free diet!
Lost all urges to bite nails within a day.
I went on a ketogenic (low carb) diet that cut out all grains,sugar, etc. and I haven't bitten my nails in 4 months - I am 52...
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