[W]hat if your hands could say more about you than that? What if, looking down at your palms and the five digits attached to them, you could discover early signs of dangerous diseases you didn’t yet know you had? “It used to be common for doctors to look at the hands for important clues to overall health,” says endocrinologist Kenneth Blanchard of Newton, Massachusetts. “We need to get back to that, because hands can tell you a great deal about circulation, hormones, and thyroid function.”
