Your fingernails harbor essential clues about your overall health. Observing them closely can uncover valuable insights and provide early warnings of potential health issues.
Examine your nails for breakage, chipping, variations in thickness, ridges, grooves, dips, and curves. Pay attention to the color beneath the nail, the surrounding skin, and the nail itself.
Changes in your nails can be indicative of various diseases. Typically, healthy nails are pink with a pinkish-white base. Conversely, discolored or lackluster nails may signal underlying health problems. For example, green nails might suggest bacterial presence, while red streaks in the nail bed could indicate a heart valve infection. Blueish nails may imply low blood oxygen, and dull nails might hint at a vitamin deficiency. White nails might be a sign of liver disorders. Monitoring nail color can yield valuable insights into potential health concerns.
Thickened Nails: Excessive thickness, resembling talons, might be a sign of lung or fungal infections, thyroid disease, or psoriasis. It’s also wise to consider possible allergic reactions to medications.
Broken or Split Nails: Nails that split or break, peeling in layers, could indicate nutritional deficiencies or psoriasis. Split nails might also signal chronic malnutrition.
To bolster your health:
– Maintain a balanced diet.
– Investigate potential links to psoriasis.
Spoon-Shaped Nails: Soft, curved, water-holding nails may hint at anemia, heart disease, hyperthyroidism, or liver disorders.
Pitted Nails: Dips or holes could result from trauma or indicate the need for closer health monitoring. Pitting has been linked to various conditions.
Ridge Lines: Ideally, nails should have flat surfaces with barely noticeable lines. Thick ridge lines may be associated with lupus, iron deficiency, or inflammatory arthritis.
Brittle, Dry Nails: Dry, brittle nails may indicate fungal infections, hormonal imbalances, or thyroid issues.
Clubbed Nails: Swelling over the nail bed may point to lung problems, IBS, AIDS, or liver disease.
Don’t underestimate the messages your hands and fingernails convey about your health. Regular nail inspections allow you to proactively safeguard your well-being.
Remember to compare any changes to potential health risks listed. By staying vigilant, you can unravel the intricate link between your fingernails and overall health, leading to a healthier, more informed life.
Fleetwood Mac star Stevie Nicks finally reveals what life changing advice Prince gave to her
She spent the night working on a song that would end up becoming the lead single from Nicks’ 1983 solo album “The Wild Heart” and the single went to No. 5 in the U.S. Billboard Top 100.
After writing her song ‘Stand Back” she asked for a meeting with Prince and 20 minutes later they were introduced to each other for the first time in a studio in Los Angeles.
Nicks said Prince listened to her song, inspired by his “Little Red Corvette” classic and went straight over to the keyboard to start adding his own parts.
He then got up, gave her a hug and left.
“He spoiled me for every band I’ve ever had because nobody can exactly re-create — not even with two piano players —what Prince did all by his little self,” she said in the book “Rock Lives.”
Nicks said as much as she admired Prince, she avoided a romantic relationship with him because she appreciated their musical connection.
“He spoiled me for every band I’ve ever had because nobody can exactly re-create — not even with two piano players —what Prince did all by his little self,” she said in the book “Rock Lives.”
Nicks said as much as she admired Prince, she avoided a romantic relationship with him because she appreciated their musical connection.
“I really wanted a musical relationship, and I had smartened up, even then,” she explained. “You’ll break up and never speak again. But he wasn’t interested in just that.”
In turn, Prince’s “When Doves Cry” was inspired by Nicks’ song “Edge of Seventeen.”
The Fleetwood Mac star said that she was heavily into drugs when she collaborated with Prince.
“The eighties were pretty bad drug years for me,” Stevie Nicks told The New Yorker. “And Prince was not very into drugs. And the fact that he ended up being on a lot of pain medication just blows my mind, because he was so against it, and he gave me so many lectures about it.”
The “Gypsy” singer said Prince warned her about her drug use. “I’d talk to him every once in a while on the phone, and we’d talk for hours, and he’d go, ‘You gotta be careful, Stevie.’ And I’d go, ‘I know, I know.’”
Following his death Nicks said, “My sadness is that he did die of an accidental drug overdose. He’s up there looking down, saying to me, ‘Sweetie, I can’t believe it happened either.’”
It seems Prince was right to be worried at the time as Nicks ended up in rehab twice. The singer checked into the Betty Ford clinic in 1986 for her cocaine addiction, and then went to another hospital in 1993 for her addiction to Klonopin, which Nicks said she was over-prescribed.
But in 1986, Nicks spoke to a plastic surgeon about her nose. The doctor told her she had burned a coin-sized hole in her nose from her cocaine abuse.
“I said, ‘What do you think about my nose?’” the singer recalled. “And he said, ‘Well, I think the next time you do a hit of cocaine, you could drop dead.’”
Following her conversation with the doctor, Nicks decided to check into the Betty Ford clinic. The move helped turn her life around and arguably saved her career and her life.
Thank goodness she had a conversation that set her on the right path. It sounds like it came at just the right time.
It is, however, a tragedy that Prince couldn’t get off the harmful opioids that he was on. Nicks’ story just confirms the musical genius he really was and how generous he was with his talent.
He will always be a musical legend, missed by millions.
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