There’s more to navel gazing than meets the eye - literally. Look beyond your belly button to what it can tell you about your health.
Navels, belly button s, innies or outies … whatever term you use, your umbilicus may have plenty to tell you about the state of your health.
What you’re left with, in most cases, is a small wrinkled depression. That’s if you have an “innie”, as most of us – 90% apparently – do. From this point, the belly button seems to become redundant – other than to gather dust and fluff.The umbilicus is an access point for the vessels carrying blood to and from the foetus.
The umbilicus is a portal in the wall of the abdomen - it’s a little-known fact that during your embryonic development your intestines actually have to leave your abdominal cavity because of limited space, but return a few weeks later. They do so via the umbilicus, passing into the cord. At the time , cancers of the abdomen and pelvis were typically diagnosed much later, and unfortunately were often more extensive. We call this process metastasis, where a cancer starts in one organ or location, then spreads to another.
Medusa’s head Other signs can be observed in the navel that have a footing in mythology. One example allows us to draw a connection between the liver and the umbilicus.
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