Micronutrients

Role

Micronutrient deficiency is simultaneously the most prevalent and the most invisible nutritional problem in both developing and developed nations — with subclinical deficiencies (levels insufficient for optimal function but not low enough to produce classic deficiency symptoms) affecting the majority of people eating standard modern diets in ways that impair energy, immunity, cognitive function, mood, and disease resistance without producing any single symptom that points directly to the nutritional cause. Most people supplementing vitamins without dietary evaluation are guessing at solutions to problems they cannot name; most people not supplementing are ignoring deficiencies they do not know they have.