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The topic of the Sept. 25 Healthy Woman Ladies Night Out event was “Thyroid Problems – Symptoms and Treatment Options,” presented by Dr. Christopher Toupin, M.D. at Fallbrook Library. Close to 200 ladies showed up for the talk and a Mexican salad dinner provided by Silvergate Residence.
Toupin started his presentation by describing the thyroid as a butterfly-shaped gland in the neck, located below the Adam’s apple. An endocrine gland, it makes hormones which control many activity rates in the body including metabolism (how fast calories are burned) and how fast the heart beats.
He said t...
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