{"podcast":{"title":"Itchy and Bitchy Podcast","slug":"itchy-and-bitchy-podcast-397229","podcast_index_feed_id":397229,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/4303608/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://ItchyandBitchy.com/","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/dedca39f75cd214a503ab001ea80eba7.jpg","author":"Miller-Hnilica","episode_count":233,"summary":"Visit our website itchyandbitchy.com to read or listen to more Vist our Facebook at I&B Podcast Visit our Principle Sponsor at DocItchy.com. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/itchy-and-bitchy-podcast--4303608/support .","last_synced_at":"2026-09-14T10:20:40.686298+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/itchy-and-bitchy-podcast-397229"},"episode":{"title":"Vaginal Biofilm: Stranger Than Fiction! - Itchy and Bitchy","slug":"vaginal-biofilm-stranger-than-fiction","published_at":"2026-03-21T20:22:17+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/itchy-and-bitchy-podcast-397229/vaginal-biofilm-stranger-than-fiction","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/itchy-and-bitchy-podcast-397229","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/vaginal-biofilm-stranger-than-fiction-itchy-and-bitchy--70801648","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/70801648/iab_122.mp3","summary":"Karen answers a listener's question about vaginal biofilms. What are they and why do they make recurrent BV and yeast infections so hard to treat? She explains how these bacterial or fungal communities form protective layers that resist standard treatment, reviews options that may help break the cycle and looks at at-home microbiome testing. Visit our website itchyandbitchy.com to read blog posts on the many topics we have covered on the show. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/itchy-and-bitchy-podcast--4303608/support . Itchy & Bitchy: Have you felt dismissed, misdiagnosed, or gaslit by a broken medical system. From gut health, hormones, autoimmune disease, chronic pain, holistic health, and alternative medicine ... medical gaslighting, patient advocacy , or misdiagnosis we’ll call that too. For chronic illness warriors, self-advocacy seekers : WE OFFER No BS","meta_description":"Karen answers a listener's question about vaginal biofilms. What are they and why do they make recurrent BV and yeast infections so hard to treat? She exp…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1030,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/itchy-and-bitchy-podcast-397229/episodes/vaginal-biofilm-stranger-than-fiction/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/itchy-and-bitchy-podcast-397229/vaginal-biofilm-stranger-than-fiction.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}