Fingernail Moons

Fingernails tell you many things about your health and your lifestyle. This is told by looking at your fingernail moons, at the nail form, the nail color, lines in your palm etc. A fingernail consists of more different parts that are the nail plate is the hard portion that is the most visible, the nail bed; the cuticle is the tissue that comes over the nail plate at the base of the nail, the nail folds represents the skin forming the three sides of the nail plate, the lunula or the whitish half-moon shaped at the base of the nail and the matrix.  Each one of these parts plays its own role in the fingernail’s growth.

The lunula is a crescent body part that finds at the base of fingernails, characterized by whitish mark in the form of a half-moon. Once you advance in age, the fingernails moons tend to reduce, day by day, without you even noticing.

The fingernails moons are a good thing to have, long fingernails with a proper fingernail moon, means that your heart is functioning right. If you have good thick nails, the lunula, should be seen more properly and be bigger, but if you have thin and uneven fingernails, the moon can hardly be seen on any of the nail.

Anyhow, there is also the thesis that half-moon on the fingernails, may indicate that you have a low quantity of zinc in the body. It is a good alarm sign to take into account about your organism.

If you cannot see any moons on the base of your fingernails, you have to pay very good attention, as this is a sign that something is not right in your body. Most of the times, it is about a low quantity of vitamin B12 in your body. But, before the moons on your fingers disappear, they are replaced by vertical lines, which start to appear on your nails. If you observe that this thing has happened to you, you should change your diet, and replace it with aliments containing vitamins and less fat.

The absent fingernail moons may also indicate that your body does not absorb the proteins from the food you are eating. This is also a question sign for the liver performance, lung problems. The liver problems can be detected when the moon on your fingernails is blue-colored, and when is red colored is a sign of heart failure or some disturbance in the blood circulation.

Though some doctor believe in the traditional sayings about the fingernail moons presence or absence, there are also, doctors that consider that the lunula differs from person to person as those having a small lunula are believed to have a better vascularity of the nail bed.

Whether you believe this myths or not, it is a good thing that our organism also shows through an external factor, what our internal problems are. And though you may find you have no problem, it is better safe than sorry.

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