Hair and nails are both made of keratin.
This poor woman had an "allergic reaction" to a steroid medication, which must have caused some sort of genetic mutation because that's the only way this could happen.
[video=youtube;vmO3AtJEL5s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmO3AtJEL5s[/video]
I wish there was a reverse process where instead of producing fingernails you produce more hair :$ She produces 12x the amount of skin cells a normal person does, and since hair follicles are just modified skin cells, it stands to reason that she would suffer some sort of damage to her skin, which she has.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...uses-woman-grow-fingernails-instead-hair.html
This poor woman had an "allergic reaction" to a steroid medication, which must have caused some sort of genetic mutation because that's the only way this could happen.
[video=youtube;vmO3AtJEL5s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmO3AtJEL5s[/video]
I wish there was a reverse process where instead of producing fingernails you produce more hair :$ She produces 12x the amount of skin cells a normal person does, and since hair follicles are just modified skin cells, it stands to reason that she would suffer some sort of damage to her skin, which she has.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...uses-woman-grow-fingernails-instead-hair.html