Lauren Gray for Best Life
THIS COMMON DEFICIENCY CAN CAUSE A WIDE RANGE OF HEALTH WOES.
Erika Aragona, MD, a board-certified family medicine physician and wellness expert for BioShell, tells Best Life that this is because the vitamin is essential for your body to absorb calcium and phosphorus. “If your calcium level falls, your body may try to compensate by making another gland, your parathyroid, increase its function in attempts to balance out the low calcium,” she says.