Cold feet or fingers may indicate serious problems or stress, but may also indicate a lack of iron in the blood. Read below some of the symptoms that you should not ignore. To maintain constant internal body temperature, thermogenesis has the following role: the brain orders the capillaries to spread for the blood and thus to provide heat or to be tightened to slow the blood flow and cooling. If this mechanism is not perfect, first it is going to be felt by the limbs that are farthest from the heart In some cases, cold hands or feet can be a sign of serious health problems that should be examined and treated. If other than cold hands, you constantly feel tired, your heart beat faster and often feel dizzy, check the iron levels in the blood, because you might suffer from anemia. Iron is a major component of hemoglobin, the molecule that transports oxygen to the blood and gives it a red color. If iron level is below normal, there is less hemoglobin, and tissues have less oxygen to produce heat. |