Self Health Check Secrets

Some health check secrets;
I would like to share some free health check secrets that can be used as an indicator for our health problems. Besides medical doctor examining your eyes, mouth and heart beat, there are still several ways to check your own body which are giving some signals or indicators when you are sick or having health problems and disease. But to have a exact report, confirmation, or detail of the sickness, it is still advisable to have your medical check up, blood test, screening, etc.



Self Health Check.
One of the indicator to be described here is looking at your own hands which include the palms, fingers and fingernails.  Example disease like diabetes can be found from your own nail abnormalities.
Check to see whether the nails are normal by looking at the normal fingernail figure above: 

• Shape and color;
• Softness and flexibility of free edge;
• Quality of paronychial tissue;
• Growth rate (about 6 months from cuticle to free edge).

A Quick Look on your Fingernails

• Clear and shiny fingernails

– good health.

• Dry and clouded fingernails

– unclear or uncertain prospect.

• Reddish fingernails

– god blood circulation.

• Pale and dry fingernails

– poor blood circulation or have blood clogs. 

• The base of the fingernail has a half-moon shape (Lunula)

– poor blood circulation and may have heart problems

• The more missing moons on each fingernails the more weak the thyroid.

- Weak Thyroid can cause fatigue, mood swings, depression, thinning of hair and skin.

• Thick nails

- possible poor circulation or yeast

• Brittle nails

- possible lack of vitamin A or calcium
- circulatory, thyroid or kidney problems

• Nail plate has verticle Ridges

- possible of ion deficiency

• Nail plate has horizontal ridges

- possible vitamin A or B complex deficiency

• Nail plate has white dots

- possble of zinc deficiency

• Yellow discoloration on the tips or the whole nail

- can be a smoke stain or indicate lymph,
- pancreas or liver problems.

• Deep split in the nail

- lack of hydrochloric acid in the stomach

• Blue color around the  moon

- possible lung or circulatory problems

• Red color around the moon

- possible heart problems

• Red skin around the nail

- possible connective tissue disorder.


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