👀Did you know that over 70% of adults may be deficient in important vitamins or trace elements without even realizing it?
🤔 Constant fatigue and weakness, deterioration of hair, skin, nails, poor sleep…— these may not just be the consequences of stress, but a serious signal from your body. Let’s figure out which deficiencies are the most common, how to recognize them in time and what to do.
Vitamin D Deficiency
- ❗️Symptoms: fatigue, muscle and bone pain, frequent colds, bad mood.
- ❓Causes: Insufficient intake with food and sunlight, the presence of concomitant diseases (cystic fibrosis, Crohn’s disease and celiac disease, obesity, kidney and liver disease).
- ✅ Prevention: regular walks in the fresh air, including fatty fish (herring, salmon, tuna, mackerel), eggs and liver in the diet.
Iron deficiency
- ❗️Symptoms: weakness, dizziness, excessive hair loss, distorted taste (craving for unusual foods, such as chalk).
- ❓Causes: insufficient intake and/or impaired absorption with food, increased need (pregnancy, lactation, intensive growth), the effect of certain medications, chronic blood loss (heavy menstruation, gastrointestinal diseases)
- ✅ Prevention: including iron-containing foods (e.g. meat) in the diet; control of tea, coffee, milk.
Vitamin B12 and folic acid deficiency
- ❗️Symptoms: weakness, dizziness, irritability, memory impairment, numbness of the extremities, constipation, hair loss.
- ❓Causes: gastrointestinal diseases, veganism, vegetarianism, insufficient amount of meat, fish, eggs in the diet, the effect of some medications.
- ✅ Prevention: inclusion in the diet of meat, fish (mackerel, cod, tuna, salmon) and eggs.
Magnesium deficiency
- ❗️Symptoms: muscle cramps, arrhythmias, anxiety, headache, sleep problems.
- ❓Causes: stress, coffee abuse, insufficient consumption of foods with magnesium.
- ✅ Prevention: inclusion in the diet of greens (spinach, arugula, Chinese cabbage, celery), nuts and seeds, bananas, avocados, dried apricots, legumes (peas, beans, soybeans, chickpeas) and whole grain products.
Omega-3 fatty acid deficiency
- ❗️Symptoms: decreased concentration, dry skin, hair loss, joint pain, depressed mood and sleep problems.
- ❓Causes: insufficient intake and/or impaired absorption with food.
- ✅ Prevention: including fatty fish (herring, salmon, tuna, mackerel), seaweed and flaxseed in the diet.
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