Answer:
I am commonly abbreviated to H
Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet, how you miss me when I have flown. What Am I?
Weight in my belly trees on my back nails in my ribs feet I do lack.
Take it and you will lose or gain more than the others.
I am the book one can never finish reading
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.