What your physique reveals about your health: your hands!

Tall, short, or got a small head? Don’t forget to take a look at your fingers! Recently Roger Dobson – author at MailOnline.co.uk presented an interesting article titled: ‘Tall, short – or got a small head? Here’s what your physique reveals about your health’. In his article he described how various body dimensions – varying from your height to your foot size – can indicate a wealth of information about your risk of conditions, from cancer through to dementia and heart disease. You can read below what Roger Dobson wrote about the 2D:4D finger length ratio – a hand characterstic that has become very well-known in the past few years through the work and the two books of ‘the finger’ Professor John T. Manning Roger Dobson wrote in his article about the hand: “IF YOU HAVE LONG FINGERS Autism and ADHD, mental illness/depression A range of disorders has been linked to the length of fingers, and in particular the ratio between index and ring fingers. The ratio is thought to be a marker of what was happening hormonally in the womb when the foetus developed. It’s thought a relatively long ring finger is a sign that the foetus was exposed to higher levels of the male hormone testosterone, while a relatively long index finger is a marker of the female hormone, oestrogen. Conditions associated with a long ring finger compared to the index include autism and ADHD. Those associated with a longer index include depression. Males, who are more likely to develop autism and ADHD, tend to have a longer ring finger relative to their index finger. Exposure to certain hormones might increase or reduce the risk of certain conditions and traits. ‘It has been suggested that autism may arise as the result of exposure to high concentrations of prenatal testosterone,’ say researchers at Liverpool University.”