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 Layne
- Jul 7
- 2 min
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 Layne
- Jun 7
- 6 min
A Witch's Diary: Another Old Book Discovery
If you're new here, I love old books, particularly on medicine and midwifery, botanicals and raising a family. Witches were the women...
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Dr. Penny Layne
- Apr 5
- 6 min
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 Layne
- Apr 3
- 7 min
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 Layne
- Mar 26
- 5 min
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 Layne
- Mar 21
- 3 min
Yoga Hikes
Maybe you're familiar with this trend, maybe you're even familiar with the term, "Hikyoga," or maybe this is all new to you, but if you...
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Dr. Penny Layne
- Mar 16
- 4 min
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 Layne
- Mar 16
- 4 min
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 Layne
- Feb 27
- 8 min
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 Layne
- Feb 23
- 8 min
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 Layne
- Jan 5
- 10 min
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Many years ago, while watching the sitcom Parenthood with Ray Romano and the hunky, Dax Shepard, it occurred to my former husband that he...
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Dr. Penny Layne
- Dec 11, 2022
- 3 min
Winter Solstice or Yule
The winter #solstice is the shortest day of the year, the moment when half the Earth is tilted the farthest away from the sun when in the...
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Dr. Penny Layne
- Nov 22, 2022
- 9 min
Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
Not a pathology we typically learn in school. I don't remember it in any of the textbooks I read, and I am a self-proclaimed nerd; I do...
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Dr. Penny Layne
- Nov 4, 2022
- 7 min
Well Child Checks: Getting Beyond the Immunization Schedule
Assessing children and adolescents really is an art, maybe more so than it is even a highly sophisticated science. Children themselves...
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Dr. Penny Layne
- Oct 5, 2022
- 3 min
Vaping & The Risks
Cloud chasing has become quite common among teenagers and young adults, even among a few of my own not-so-little ones unfortunately, and...
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Dr. Penny Layne
- Oct 2, 2022
- 16 min
The 7 Types of Adult Attention Deficit Disorder
Easily one of the more common diagnosis I am finding in my primary care practice more recently is ADD in adults, and admittedly, these...
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Dr. Penny Layne
- Sep 1, 2022
- 2 min
Autumn Equinox or Mabon
Having wanted to dive in a bit more this year to celebrating the seasonal transitions more so than stressing myself out with spending far...
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Dr. Penny Layne
- Aug 19, 2022
- 5 min
Mononucleosis: The Kissing Disease
As one of the many herpes viruses, this one living in the epithelial cells of the pharynx and parotid duct, #mononucleosis infects about...
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Dr. Penny Layne
- Aug 8, 2022
- 4 min
No Headstands while Menstruating: Truth or Fallacy
When I was working through my initial 200 hour yoga teacher training, one of my assignments was to offer the benefits and risks of a...
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