77. What Your Hands Are Trying to Tell You: Fingernail & Hand Diagnosis for Gut, Liver, and Hormonal Health

About this episode

The episode discusses how to interpret signals from hands and fingernails to assess gut, liver, and hormonal health.

Feeling unwell while your labs keep saying “normal”? We take a practical, empowering path: reading your hands as a living dashboard. By mapping each finger to organ systems and decoding nail clues—ridges, half-moons, shapes, and white spots—we connect everyday signals to gut health, liver load, circulation, adrenals, and immune balance. It’s a grounded, actionable guide to asking better questions and choosing the right next step. We walk through the thumb-to-pinky organ map popularized by Ro...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Rachaele Carver

Topics covered

• fingernail diagnosis
• hand diagnosis
• gut health
• liver health
• hormonal health
• immune balance

Keywords

• fingernails
• hand diagnosis
• gut health
• liver load
• hormonal health
• immune balance
• adrenals
• health signals

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Organizations: Ro

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