Nails advice needed.

I don't know if this will meet with Jess's approval, but it sounds OK and I have thought of trying it myself.

Gillie it is probably your healthier eating. Ridged nails are supposed to be caused by a lack of some vitamins. A healthy diet is packed with vitamins, no need to take supplements. Try stopping the QH phials but keep on the diet and see what happens.

Well I wouldn't be tempted anno. Silica is the main constituent of sand and glass. If inhaled it can cause the terrible industrial illness silicosis. It is not one of the things the human body uses as a nutrient as far as I know. So how it would work "synergistically" with vitamin C and why one would want to swallow some, I have no idea.
TBH the vast majority of supplements are a complete waste of money with no proven benefits. If they were sold as "foods" they would not be able to make any of the suggestions of benefits that they do make. Regulation of the supplement industry is currently far more lax than the regulation of health claims on food. Not the disappearance of "probiotic" yogurts last year.
The only supplement worth taking as far as I can tell is probably vitamin D or sometimes calcium and vitamin d.

Thanks, Jess. You've saved me a few quid!

When I was young eating a cube of jelly every day was considered a good way of strengthening nails. Tastes nice too!.

£220 a week! for the Alizonne diet and treatment. You must need to be very focussed. That is more than some people's weekly entire budget.

It's certainly more than a week's state pension.

I am very over-weight and I saw details of the diet in a magazine in February - I started in March. DH and I had a long discussion about it, and with our DC, and we decided, if it enabled me to live for a few years longer, it was worth spending our savings. So I have been doing it for three months and have already lost three stone. I visit the clinic every week for treatment and to pick up the food sachets which I then make into meals. I am absolutely slap bang in the middle of the estimate of the time it would take to lose the weight I wanted - 22 - 28 weeks (should be 25 for me).

I am very, very focused and have kept very rigidly to the diet (I am also very well aware of how much money it is costing, so why would I not stick to it?). If you know that by having a sweet or biscuit, it will take you three days to get back on track and you will have wasted over £200 it concentrates your mind wonderfully.

My problem with ordinary diets is that I am happy to do them for a few months, I lose 1 - 2 stone, then I get fed up and revert back to how I was eating before and the weight always goes back on. The particular clinic I go to helps with maintenance, etc., which is very important to me. I have deliberately not mentioned the diet before as I knew it would be contentious - however, it is working for me and the difference to my health is staggering. My health is being monitored by a GP and, for me, giving up 28 weeks of my life to be fit and healthy again was worth that (as is the money, to be honest).

Anyway, back to nails - I have no idea whether or not the QH are helping, just saying that my nails are definitely better now.

Well done. Healthier diet good for your nails maybe?

Don't understand the comments about the Alizonne diet? How did it get into this thread? Sounds interesting.
My nails are awful as well nothing has ever worked - oils, gel nails or supplements. Xx