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 running horizontal can result from stress, either/or psychological or physical as in the case of disease or infections.

Nails that chip, peel, crack or break easily show a General overall nutritional deficiency and insufficient hydrochloric acid and protein. This is seen in people who use antacids on an ongoing basis or eat foods low in nutrients. This calls for total minerals and Vitamins at triple the RDA’s.

Pitting red-brownish spots with frayed split ends are indicative of psoriasis. Also requires Vitamin C, folic acid and protein needs.

Black splinterlike bits under the nails can be a sign of 1. A serious heart infection called endocarditis 2. and/or other heart disease. 3.possible bleeding disorder.

This is but a partial list and you can find a more extensive list at http://www.antibiotic-alternatives.com/let_your_fingers.htm

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