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Cardiac Health & Yoga
Cardiac health is a big part of primary care. Elevated blood pressures and elevated cholesterol, even diabetes all plays a role in heart...
Dr. Penny Lane
Mar 304 min read
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Pelvic Exams without Consent or Knowledge
Yeah, it's as bad as it sounds, if not worse. About thirty years ago when I was a newer obstetrical nurse, I remember a medical student,...
Dr. Penny Lane
Feb 68 min read
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Why It May be Less Expensive to Use a Cash-Based Practice
Almost every day I get a new client request and essentially every one asks about insurance or Medicaid. It's interesting to me for a...
Dr. Penny Lane
Feb 45 min read
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Vitamin A
Vitamin A is a vital nutrient in our diet. It supports vision, the immune system, and all of our major organs. It's important for...
Dr. Penny Lane
Jan 184 min read
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Fiber Intake for Optimizing Health
We know that plant "roughage" is important to our health, but most of us still fall far short of meeting our daily dietary...
Dr. Penny Lane
Jan 127 min read
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Oil Pulling for Improving Oral Health
If you've nosed around holistic approaches to caring for your teeth, you've certainly come across oil pulling as a potential for...
Dr. Penny Lane
Dec 26, 20244 min read
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Healing the Thyroid
As a new clinician, nearly twenty years ago now, managing endocrine concerns was a bit intimidating. It seemed that a rather significant...
Dr. Penny Lane
Dec 25, 202410 min read
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Ten Barriers to Creating a Healthy & Happy Life
There is no judgment here. I am daily working on my own challenges for creating a healthy and happy life. But having been in functional...
Dr. Penny Lane
Dec 12, 20248 min read
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Difficult Swallowing?
Certainly if you've worked much with the elderly, or as a nursing assistant in a nursing home, you've worked with those who have...
Dr. Penny Lane
Dec 4, 20246 min read
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Have You Been Sleeping on Magnesium?
Most healthcare consumers, I would assume, are well aware that we have a profound, unnecessarily so, epidemic of chronic disease, as well...
Dr. Penny Lane
Oct 28, 202412 min read
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Midwifery Burn Out
The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any high-income country and Indiana has the third worst rates of maternal...
Dr. Penny Lane
Aug 26, 20244 min read
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Somatic Symptom Disorder: The New Hysteria
This may prove to be a rant post that I'll later delete, and I try really hard not to be overly reactive about the gross dysfunction in...
Dr. Penny Lane
Jul 15, 20244 min read
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Rheumatoid Arthritis or Osteoarthritic Fingers
My grandmother had big knuckles in her fingers, Herberden's nodes, and when I turned thirty, many years before even finding my first grey...
Dr. Penny Lane
Jul 10, 20248 min read
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Pelvic Pain: Are You Being Heard?
Women's health has long been a specialty focus in my practice, largely become I lean into caring for those who aren't heard, who feel...
Dr. Penny Lane
Jun 25, 20247 min read
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Acne: Healing Skin from Within
As a teenager, I did get the occasional #pimple, sometimes a few at a time, more often across my forehead or down my nose. It seemed I...
Dr. Penny Lane
Jun 23, 20249 min read
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Evening Primrose Oil: Not this Midwife
Evening primrose oil is commonly used as an alternative therapy, popular among women's health providers and midwives, and it is rich in...
Dr. Penny Lane
Jun 9, 20245 min read
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Joint Pain in the Mornings: Osteoarthritis
Aging has its privileges, but one of the reasons it isn't always embraced is because we are more inclined to joint pain, and general...
Dr. Penny Lane
Jun 8, 20245 min read
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Painful Menses in Our Youth: Dysmenorrhea
My oldest daughter, now 30 years-old, started her menses when she was crazy young. She was prepared though, not real bothered by it, nor...
Dr. Penny Lane
Jun 8, 20249 min read
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Otitis Externa: Swimmer's Ear
Oh, I can't believe I haven't written about this before because this little nasty condition plagued my childhood. I remember crying late...
Dr. Penny Lane
May 28, 202410 min read
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Brugada Syndrome: Sudden Cardiac Death
An inherited cardiac syndrome, Brugada syndrome is a condition that predisposes individuals to ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac...
Dr. Penny Lane
May 23, 20247 min read
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