What your nails can say about you? Here is the Top 5 things

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0:09 don't health not just for decoration they protect your fingers and toes and
0:14 help you pick up tiny things like splinters of that piece of spinach stick
0:18 between the teeth after lunch and they can also tell you a lot about your
0:21 health nails are collections of dead cells that grow from the root cause of
0:25 matrix hidden just beneath your cuticle the lighter crescent shaped area at the
0:30 base the matrix constantly makes news cells called plate cells in each layer
0:34 pushes the old dead plate sells out of the cuticle and they'll start to grow
0:38 differently or even change color it usually means that there's something
0:41 wrong with the matrix or with the surrounding tissue working backward you
0:45 can often figure out what's doing the interfering and in the process may be
0:48 learned something about what's going on in your own body those lines for example
0:52 are horizontal ripples on the surface of the nail they look like little waves
0:55 they form when the matrix stops producing new cells for a while the
0:59 major start making new cells again they pushed the nail out as usual but there's
1:02 an indentation marking the spot where it stopped kinda like a trier and there's a
1:06 reason why the matrix would have hit the pause button probably it wasn't getting
1:10 enough nutrients from the bloodstream usually that means that the person has
1:12 an infection or some other kind of serious illness about a shift its
1:16 nutrient flow away from low priority activities like growing nails and
1:19 towards high priority activities like not dying people who have high fevers
1:23 for a while often develop those lines a month or so afterwards citadel's are
1:27 another potential matrix issue with a nail services have indentation is that
1:31 look like very small potholes parents are linked to skin disorders like
1:34 psoriasis and eczema which can cause inflammation of the matrix and inflamed
1:38 matrix produces new plate cells unevenly so you end up with depressions on the
1:42 nail surface areas can also change color something you've probably noticed if
1:46 you've studied your nails on a cold day and I realized that they were blue
1:49 generally that means that your extremities are not receive enough
1:51 oxygen blood with low oxygen is darker and reflects light differently through
1:56 your skin making your nails look bluish it could just be a body reacting too
1:59 cold by constructing your blood vessels that a person whose blood is in
2:02 receiving enough oxygen could have a respiratory illness like asthma or
2:05 emphysema who knows can also be a sign of
2:08 of Raynaud's disease or disorder marked by spasms in a person's blood vessels
2:12 that narrow them in narrowing reduces blood flow to the extremities so they
2:15 get blue nails all bloomingdale's it's not a true the nail changing color to
2:18 the bed underneath it but now you can also turn yellow and that's actually the
2:22 nail changing color this can happen for a lot of different reasons most cases
2:25 it's caused by a fungal infection known as a nickel mycoses mold set up shop
2:29 within the actual nail plate turning yellow
2:31 doesn't smell too great either other times lol mean something more serious
2:34 like yellow nail syndrome which doesn't sound super serious but it happens when
2:38 the matrix does produce new plates house but very slowly so they pile up and
2:42 create a thicker yellowish nail plate but like Beau's lines yellow nail
2:46 syndrome is caused by something else it could be a chronic respiratory disease
2:49 which would reduce the nails oxygen supply and slow growth or it could be a
2:53 sign of an issue with the lymphatic system which distributes protein-rich
2:56 fluids throughout the body usually that issue is cancer or AIDS a black or brown
3:01 streak at a nail can also be super serious or nothing at all the people
3:05 that treat can signal sublingual melanoma a form of skin cancer that
3:08 affects the nail bed which is the skin underneath the nail plate doesn't often
3:12 changes the color of the skin including the skin under nails and intrigue also
3:16 might be harmless if you have a darker complexion it's completely normal and
3:19 one study seventy-seven percent of black people over the age of 20 reported
3:23 having a darker streak in their nails or something or it could be nothing which
3:26 is why if you're worried about the color look at your nails here's a tip don't
3:29 get all your medical device from the internet these changes can mean more
3:33 than one thing so talk to a real doctor before jumping to any conclusions we are
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