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Let Your Fingers Be Your Physician! by Lena Sanchez

Let Your Fingers Be Your Physician!

© By Lena Sanchez

Well, your fingers can’t really be your physician

but could your fingernails be the diagnostician?

Some fingernail changes can be indicative of problems

within your body! Here are but a few indications that

may save your life and/or health!

Brittle soft and shiny nails without a moon at the base

is indicative of an overactive thyroid.

Brittle nails alone can be indicative of a possible

Iron deficiency, multiple minerals deficiency, thyroid

problems or impaired kidney’ function and/or

circulatory problems.

A Vitamin B12 deficiency or anemia can be detected

by dark nails and/or thin, flat spoon-shaped nails. Also

can be detected when nails turn gray or dark when the

hands are placed in chemicals such as household

cleaning products or bleach.

Then there is the downward-curved nail ends that may

let you know there is a liver, heart or respiratory problem.

If you detect bumps or lumps (called beading) that just

appear on the nail surface, you may have impending

or full blown rheumatoid arthritis.

Ridges can indicate poor nutrient absorption, and/or

Iron deficiency. Those ridges could mean there is a

kidney problem also indicate a tendency to develop

arthritis if they are vertical ridges. Then the ridges

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BIO:

Lena Sanchez Author, Medical Office Nurse, Consultant and Editor of “Natural Environmental Health Facts Ezine.”
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