Apart from weakening bones, vitamin-D deficiency can cause many diseases

Updated: 07-07-2025, 10.04 PM

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Vitamin-D is a nutrient that increases the absorption of calcium in the body and helps strengthen bones. Apart from this, it also increases the body’s ability to fight against diseases. Usually people associate vitamin-D with bone health, but its deficiency also causes many serious diseases. Let us know that the lack of vitamin-D can increase the risk of any diseases.

Bone weakness

Bones weakness is a condition in which the density of bones decreases and they start to break down easily. The main reason for this is the deficiency of vitamin-D. When the amount of vitamin-D in the body is low, the bones are unable to absorb calcium properly, which reduces their density. This weakens bones and increases the risk of breakdown.

Diabetes

Vitamin-D deficiency may increase the risk of diabetes. This disease occurs when the body is unable to use insulin properly or the amount of insulin in the body is very low. Insulin is a hormone, which helps control the level of sugar in the body. Lack of insulin increases the level of sugar in the body, which can cause many serious problems.

Mental sadness

Mental sadness is a mental illness, which forces the person to struggle with feelings such as sadness, disappointment and loneliness. This disease occurs when the balance of some chemicals in a person’s brain deteriorates. One of these chemicals is ‘serotonin’, which can cause mental sadness. Vitamin-D deficiency also affects serotonin levels, which may increase the risk of mental sadness.

Body immune diseases

In immune diseases, the body’s ability to fight against diseases starts attacking its own health and starts harming it. Diseases in this category such as lupus, chronic disease and rheumatoid arthritis etc. can deteriorate due to deficiency of vitamin-D. Actually, vitamin-D deficiency weakens the body’s ability to fight diseases, due to which these diseases can increase rapidly.

Cancer risk

Vitamin-D deficiency can also cause cancer. According to some studies, people who have less vitamin-D content in the blood have high risk of stomach and intestine cancer. Apart from this, the risk of lung and breast cancer as well as prostate cancer also increases. Therefore, it is important that vitamin-D deficiency is taken seriously and contact the doctor for this.