Weight Loss
If you’re losing weight, you may not want to worry about the conditions causing it. Instead, you just want to know how to stop or reverse it and put the pounds back on. However, if your weight loss is tied to a vitamin deficiency, knowing and understanding the condition causing it can help you make sense of what’s happening.
The most common vitamin deficiency weight-loss cases involve B12, B6, and folic acid deficiencies. A B12 deficiency can lead to anemia and fatigue, resulting in a loss of appetite (which can lead to weight loss). A B6 deficiency can cause a loss of energy and symptoms like tingling in your extremities, so again, a person will lose their appetite (and therefore weight) because they don’t feel like eating when they are experiencing these conditions.
Folic acid helps prevent congenital disabilities if a woman takes it during pregnancy; if she has a deficiency during those nine months, she could have problems with neural tube defects or anencephaly. The same goes for women who are trying to get pregnant—a folic acid deficiency can also lead to congenital disabilities.
