Vitamins

Vitamin deficiency is a lack of nutrients and can cause a range of minor health problems and increase your risk of long-term health problems. Nutrient deficiencies can be difficult to detect and can cause a range of symptoms, including lack of energy, headaches, insomnia, and muscle aches – symptoms we often attribute to modern life, which is why vitamin and mineral deficiencies can be so difficult to detect.

Vitamin D is essential for good health, but most of us lack it. You can get more from dietary supplements and sunlight. Vitamin D helps you absorb calcium and phosphorus from your diet and use these minerals to maintain the strength of your bones, teeth, and muscles. Vitamin D may have other roles in the body’s immune system and heart health. A lack of vitamin D causes bone diseases such as rickets (causing curvature of the legs) in children and muscle weakness, soreness, or tenderness in adults.