When nails keep breaking and hair loses its shine, another serum may not be the whole answer. Nutrition, stress, ageing and everyday habits can all influence how your hair and nails look, so perhaps it’s time to think from the inside out.
We’re very good at treating beauty from the outside. Hair feels dull? Buy a mask. Nails keep splitting? Reach for another strengthening polish. Those products certainly have their place, but hair and nails are also products of what’s happening within the body. Both are primarily made from keratin, a structural protein, and their appearance can be influenced by everything from nutrition and ageing to stress, illness, hormonal changes and the way we treat them. Heat styling, colouring, tight hairstyles, detergents and repeated manicures can all take their toll too. So if your beauty routine seems to be working harder while your hair and nails look increasingly underwhelmed, it might be time to widen the conversation.
Start with the decidedly less glamorous beauty essentials. Are you eating enough protein? Is your diet varied enough to provide the vitamins and minerals your body needs? Are you sleeping properly, managing stress and giving your hair a break from relentless heat? Nutritional deficiencies can sometimes show themselves through changes in hair or nails, which is why sudden or significant hair loss, persistent nail changes or other unexplained symptoms deserve professional advice rather than another supplement bought on impulse. But if you’re simply becoming more interested in beauty from within, there’s a lesser-known mineral that makes for a fascinating next chapter: silicon.
Silicon rarely gets the beauty headlines, yet LLR-G5 has spent more than 25 years researching it. Its proprietary molecule, MMST or monomethylsilanetriol, is the form of silicon at the heart of the G5® range, and the brand highlights research into its high bioavailability. LLR-G5 also positions MMST within its research around collagen, connective tissue, skin and nail health. Does that mean we’d promise a bottle will transform your hair and nails? No. Beauty science deserves more nuance than that. But it does make silicon an intriguing ingredient to discover if you’ve already sorted the foundations and want your beauty routine to extend beyond what you apply in the bathroom.
So what would we actually try? Rather than adding several new products at once, we’d keep this one beautifully simple. G5® The Dietary Supplement is LLR-G5’s most natural inside-out introduction to MMST and can slot into an existing daily wellbeing routine without adding another complicated beauty ritual. It’s part of the wider G5® Wellbeing philosophy, so the appeal extends beyond a narrow hair-and-nails promise. If you’re already thinking about collagen, skin, connective tissue and how you want to look and feel as you age, this is where the proposition becomes much more interesting. One ingredient, a wider wellbeing story, and a very different approach from simply buying another bottle of hair gummies.
The beauty lesson? Keep your favourite conditioner and book the manicure, but don’t let your routine stop at the surface. Eat well, prioritise protein, be kinder with heat and chemical treatments, manage stress where you can and pay attention when your hair or nails suddenly change. Then, if you’re curious about taking a more inside-out approach, explore G5® The Dietary Supplement and discover the science behind MMST and the wider G5® Wellbeing range. Great hair and nails will always be partly about what you put on them. The more interesting question might be what you’re doing for them before they ever reach the surface.
