This article, written by Sidhesh Phaldessai, provides an overview of geriatric psychopharmacology, including the epidemiology of mental health disorders in the older population, the physiological changes that occur with ageing and their impact on pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, and the use of psychotropic medications in older adults
Would you like salt with that? Iodine deficiency re-emerges
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Would you like salt with that? Iodine deficiency re-emerges
Thursday 1 August 2019, 09:00 AM
Iodised salt is the most widely used strategy to control iodine deficiency
Have public health messages about reducing salt consumption been too effective? Should we be getting our nutritional "fix" of iodine some other way? Complementary medicines expert Shaun Holt discusses the merits of iodine
Iodine is an essential element – our bodies need it, but we are unable to make it, so it has to come from our diet.
Although only small amounts are