Body Mass Index: Not a Fan
You're probably familiar with the BMI or the body mass index, for which clinicians or even your employer's wellness program or life...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Aug 11, 20237 min read
Childhood Memories: Understanding Our Resiliency
My memory, I am learning more and more, is not typical in that I can remember my childhood like it was last week. I don't have a few...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Aug 4, 20234 min read
Endometriosis
One in ten women are impacted by endometriosis ( Zondervan et al., 2018 & Coxon et al., 2018 ), or maybe I should be more clear; more...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Aug 3, 202310 min read
Tourette Syndrome
Billie Eilish and Lewis Capaldi have more recently announced their struggle with Tourette Syndrome. Lewis Capaldi even shared intimate...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Aug 1, 202310 min read
Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
When I was in my post-graduate training, I met a mother who had brought in her two children and a small stack of papers, having spent...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jul 7, 20232 min read
Hair Loss from Stress & Trauma
There are a variety of causes one might lose their hair, abruptly or more gradually, and in spots or patches or more throughout the...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jun 16, 20235 min read
Interstitial Cystitis: Painful Bladder Syndrome
Bladder pressure, bladder pain, even pelvic pain can cause chronic and fairly severe pain for about 6 percent of women. This phenomenon...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jun 2, 20231 min read
Menstrual Migraines
Upwards of 70 percent of women suffer #migraines associated with their menstrual flow and I can't tell you how grateful I am to not be...
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Dr. Penny Lane
May 28, 20235 min read
Rheumatoid Testing
When a connective tissue disorder is suspected there are a number of tests you'll want to have evaluated to confirm the diagnosis, and in...
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Dr. Penny Lane
May 27, 20233 min read
Premenstrual Syndrome
History has long reported that the symptoms of PMS were nothing more than hysteria and although science has well recognized the...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Apr 5, 20236 min read
Vitiligo
Vitiligo, made popular by Michael Jackson, is an autoimmune disease and while doctors have long claimed many of these diseases are life...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Apr 3, 20236 min read
Erectile Dysfunction
If this topic doesn't convince you of the importance of functional medicine then nothing will, because if there is any place conventional...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Apr 3, 20237 min read
Heart Health & Trauma
Yep, I am touching on this one again, because although I've written about heart health and integrative medicine, even shared some about...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Mar 26, 20235 min read
Psoriasis versus Eczema
This is a tricky one and admittedly, it can be a challenge even for experienced clinicians to tell these apart. They are both itchy, but...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Mar 23, 20238 min read
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Many may be aware that obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) features a pattern of unwanted thoughts and fears, even obsessions, that lead...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Mar 16, 20234 min read
Women's History Month: March
We do live in an amazing time. Women are more and more becoming embolden to speak their voice and really live in their truth. We are...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Mar 16, 20234 min read
Osteopenia: Let's Talk About Bone Health
If we want to live our lives with vitality through to the very end, we really must appreciate the importance of protecting our bone...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Feb 27, 20238 min read
Crohn's Disease: A Functional Medicine Approach
This is an interesting one for me because it really seems a super straightforward, well-known condition that is often misdiagnosed,...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Feb 23, 20238 min read
Exciting News!!
Super exciting news: Jeremy and I are getting married... in less than two weeks. He proposed back in November, on the second anniversary...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Feb 16, 20233 min read
Diabetes in Our Littles
This isn't the first time I've written about diabetes, nor I am sure, will it be my last. Diabetes has become a true epidemic, alongside...
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