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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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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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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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Dry Skin Brushing
It's been many years ago now, but a client introduced me to dry brushing and through the years, it's been a practice I've certainly...
Dr. Penny Lane
May 14, 20244 min read
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Anemia in Children
Worldwide, anemia in children is a significant concern, impacting nearly half of all children younger than five years of age (Wang,...
Dr. Penny Lane
Apr 17, 202411 min read
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Gravitational Insecurity in Children: Sensory Processing Dysfunction
When my youngest was very little, she would scream when she rode in the car seat. We had her evaluated by occupational therapy, as most...
Dr. Penny Lane
Apr 16, 20246 min read
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Direct Primary Care: What does that mean?
My beginnings in private practice were from having first been a Nurse-Midwife and if you're at all familiar with midwifery, you may know...
Dr. Penny Lane
Apr 4, 20247 min read
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Acne: Inside the New Guidelines
New recommendations by the American Academy of Dermatology were released in February, just two months ago, regarding the conventional...
Dr. Penny Lane
Mar 15, 20244 min read
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Why I Love Caring for the Little Ones
As most of you know, my career started as a nurse in the Obstetrical Intensive Care Unit, and then I worked for a smidge in the Neonatal...
Dr. Penny Lane
Feb 12, 202410 min read
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Can You Check Your Own Blood Pressure at Home?
Healthcare is changing. Clinicians struggle more and more to offer all they know they should to improve health within the five-or-six...
Dr. Penny Lane
Jan 23, 20243 min read
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Teens & Suicide: Let's Make Safe Space to Talk About It
Suicide rates are increasing across all populations. I talk about this regularly with clients, and in each and every class I teach...
Dr. Penny Lane
Jan 5, 202412 min read
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