As a health coach, I am always preaching the importance of getting your vitamin levels tested.   All vitamins and minerals perform a certain function in the body. Therefore, it is important that we are getting all the vitamins and minerals that our body needs to sustain life.  Deficiencies can come up for any number of reasons. Sometimes our body doesn’t absorb vitamins or minerals like it should, resulting in a deficiency.  In the past two weeks, I had a very personal experience come up with my mother and it was a very scary one.