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    Question: After death substances such as hair and nails continue growing explain to me how

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    Asked by 325pink33 to Tim on 21 May 2018.
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      Timothy Chege answered on 21 May 2018:


      All physiological activities including the growth of hair and nails stop after death because there will be no more supply of glucose which is essential to generation of new cells. After death, the nails may appear longer after some time but this is often due to the shrinking of the body’s biomass .

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