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Oh, how I feel.

Bitchy, bitchy, bitchy, bitchy, itchy, itchy, itchy, itchy, itchy, itchy.

Itchy and bitchy.

Hello, this is Karen Nicol family nurse practitioner, and you are listening to Itchy, bitchy, and bitchy. Hello, this is Karen Nicol family nurse practitioner, and you are listening to Itchy and Bitchy,

a podcast that provides answers to your many unanswered health questions.

I want to first thank those of you who have left reviews of the podcast.

I really appreciate it.

Diana wrote,

Love Karen's content. Her information always feels thoughtful, informative, and delivered in a straightforward way. Thank you for sharing so much great info about health, healing, and

triumph. Thank you for taking the time, Diana, to share those very kind words.

I told my husband that I was thinking about talking to all of you about digital health,

and he asked, what's that? And that response confirmed for me that others may not know what that

means either. Many of you are already using digital health,

but may not be aware that your Apple Watch or your Samsung Health on your Android device

fall under the classification of digital health. There are more and more apps that track your

heart rate, blood pressure, sleep, heart rhythm, are more and more apps that track your heart rate, blood pressure,

sleep, heart rhythm, exercise, and more. For instance, Apple Watch health monitoring features

include continuous heart rate tracking with high, low, and irregular rhythm alerts,

an ECG app, and what we call an echocardiogram, to detect atrial fibrillation,

blood oxygen monitoring, advanced sleep tracking that includes sleep stages and apnea detection,

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