Vitamin Deficiencies Are Sending People to Hospital – Here’s How to Protect Yourself

It’s not just something you read on the back of a supplement bottle—vitamin deficiencies are a growing public health issue in the UK, and the numbers are worrying.

Recent NHS data shows a dramatic increase in people being hospitalised due to a lack of essential nutrients:

📈 Iron deficiency caused nearly 192,000 hospital admissions in 2023–24—10x more than in 1999.
📈 Vitamin B12 and folate deficiency anaemia caused 3,490 admissions, up 4x since 1999.
📈 Other B vitamin deficiencies are up 15% in just one year.

That’s not including the hundreds of thousands of people who were treated for deficiencies alongside other conditions.

So, what’s going wrong?

🍟 Food Quality Has Dropped, and So Has Nutritional Intake

With fresh, healthy food prices on the rise, many people are relying more on fast food or convenience meals—cheaper and easier, but lacking in essential nutrients.

At the same time, we’ve become conditioned to focus on calories, protein, and quick fixes, rather than the micronutrients that keep us functioning.

🩺 Deficiencies Affect Everything

Feeling tired all the time? Constantly getting colds? Mood swings, brain fog, skin breakouts, hormone chaos…

These can all stem from vitamin deficiencies. Your body relies on nutrients like Vitamin B12, D, C, folate and iron to:

• Maintain energy

• Regulate hormones

• Support immune function

• Protect brain and heart health

💊 How Vigor Essential Can Help

At Vigor Vitamins, we’ve created a multivitamin that covers all 13 essential vitamins your body needs daily—no filler, no fluff, just everything you need to feel good and function well.

✔️ Iron, B12 & Folate – to support energy, red blood cells & hormone balance
✔️ Vitamins C, D, E – for immunity, mood & skin health
✔️ B-complex & Choline – for focus, brain function, and fatigue support

You can’t always control food prices or the state of the NHS—but you can give your body the tools it needs to stay strong.

💗 Final Thought:

No one should end up in hospital because they’re missing basic nutrition. Let’s stop treating symptoms and start supporting health—from the inside out.

Vigor Essential: your daily dose of what really matters.