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Hello, everyone.

This is Karen Nicol family nurse practitioner, and this is Itchy and Bitchy, a podcast that provides answers to your many unanswered health questions.

I'm going to remind you again about my course called the perimenopause answer.

If you are going through this phase of life called

paraminopause or if you don't know if you're in paramedopause, I would love to have the opportunity

to talk to you about the course and see if it is the right fit for you. There is a link on our website,

itchy and bitchy.com and our Facebook page page, I and B podcast, where you can schedule an

appointment for a Zoom call with me. This is a Zoom call with me. When you make an appointment,

I will be sitting at my desk waiting for you to join the one-on-one Zoom call. I'm going to talk to you

today about iodine. What is iodine? And what does it do? And Karen, why are we talking about it? Well, one of the members in my course, the paramedipause answer, asked me about iodine and how would she know if she has low levels of iodine?

Iodine deficiency is one of the four major deficiency diseases in the world.

However, it is the easiest to control.

iodine deficiency affects about 2.2 billion people worldwide.

It's most common in developing countries where there is less

access to enough healthy food. In the United States, iodine deficiency disorders such as

goiter, cretanism, stillbirth, spontaneous abortion, and delayed physical and intellectual

development have been greatly reduced through the

iodization of salt. Recent surveys, however, have indicated that the proportion of the U.S.

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