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What Is A Micronutrient Deficiency?

Today we talk about what is a micronutrient deficiency and how to correct them. Learn more about UMZU's mission to help people restore their health at https://umzu.com What is a vitamin deficiency? And what causes them? A micronutrient deficiency is quite literally a “lack” of one of the aforementioned nutrients that your body requires to fulfill its fundamental processes, like proper growth and metabolism. You might think, “I eat healthy; I am not deficient in anything.” You’re wrong. Statistically, half of the population of the entire world… yes the whole world… is deficient in multiple nutrients by the time they are 6 months old. Between the ages of 6 months and 5 years old, this half of the world’s children are deficient in iron, iodine, Vitamin A, folate, and zinc. These deficiencies cause, what the CDC refers to as, “devastating consequences.” Iron, for example, is essential in balanced levels in the body for cognitive and motor development from birth. One of the reasons that many children are iron deficient (along with other deficiencies) at or near birth is due to the deficiency of the mother. Anemia, low hemoglobin (a molecule in the blood responsible for transporting oxygen with a molecular structure containing four subunits each containing an iron atom bound to a heme group) in the blood, has been found to affect 38% of pregnant women globally. The iron deficiency is passed to the child at birth, and these prenatal deficiencies can also cause genetic and epigenetic expressions that become evident with age. (reference Nutrient Power epigenetics) Iodine, another extremely common prenatal deficiency, is a crucially important trace mineral needed for proper growth and development of the fetus, especially with relation to hormonal balance and brain development. Maternal iodine deficiency is “recognized as the greatest cause of preventable mental impairment in the world,” with 38 million newborn babies every year consequently at risk from iodine deficiency, and 18 million babies born yearly with iodine deficiency-caused mental impairment. It is estimated that worldwide, over 2 billion people do not consume adequate iodine to properly fuel their body’s daily requirements. Vitamin A, a crucial fat-soluble vitamin necessary in the development of your eyes and immune system, is another woefully common deficiency in children and pregnant women, with 1 in 6 pregnant women carrying the deficiency, and subsequently 1 in 3 school-age children with it as well. Vitamin A supplementation has, understandably, been found to improve important health biomarkers in deficient children ages 6 - 59 months old as the deficiencies are overcome. From birth, most of us are already at a disadvantage. And it only gets worse from there, with not only the magnitude of these prenatal deficiencies increasing with age, but also the breadth of different deficiencies increasing as well. Meanwhile, as a population we continue to feed our kids nutrient-void foods, and foods rich in anti-nutrients thinking they are healthy, when in fact, they are leeching more and more of these precious micronutrients from our youth. Malnutrition and micronutrients are major contributors to the global burden of disease, especially in children and mothers. This undernutrition has been determined a major cause of death and disability in young children. “When ranked among other causes, growth faltering and micronutrient deficiencies figure prominently. solid evidence shows that nutrition programs can be effective at addressing nutritional problems in young children.” According to research published in the British Journal of Nutrition, “there is a need for additional measures to increase the intake of certain micronutrients” in children, referencing specifically iron, Vitamin A, and iodine along with zinc, folate and the other B vitamins, as well as the trace mineral selenium. Micronutrients of all varieties, but especially the prevalent childhood deficiencies such as iodine and selenium, play a central role in the maintenance of metabolism and proper tissue function, so it should come as no surprise that the incidences of metabolic syndrome and epidemic level health issues such as hypothyroidism continue to rapidly rise every decade, with an estimated 20 million Americans having some kind of thyroid disease and over 60% of those individuals not even knowing about their condition. Women, specifically, are up to 8 times more likely to develop a thyroid condition than men, and 1 in 8 women globally are predicted to develop some kind of thyroid condition in their lifetime. These statistics are alarming! But we can fix this if we’re armed with the right knowledge. But don’t go rushing to some popular fad diet either… as they’ve been found to be one of the leading culprits of micronutrient deficiencies in adult populations.