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 Layne-Gooden
- 2 days ago
- 2 min
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 Layne-Gooden
- May 18
- 4 min
Vitamin D & Sunscreen
We have recently moved and our new place as a saltwater #swimming pool. We love this as it allows us to play in the water without...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- May 17
- 2 min
Androgenetic Alopecia
Androgenetic alopecia is the most common form of hair loss in men and women. It is a normal variant, more often just part of our genetic...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- 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-Gooden
- Apr 3
- 6 min
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 Layne-Gooden
- 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-Gooden
- Mar 27
- 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-Gooden
- Mar 23
- 8 min
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 Layne-Gooden
- 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-Gooden
- 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-Gooden
- Mar 15
- 6 min
Hair Loss: Variety of Causes and Treatments
Hair loss can be very distressing, having significant impact on an individual's quality of life. Some report early and others sort of...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- Mar 1
- 5 min
Varicella-Zoster: Chickenpox
Most everyone my age and older endured the chickenpox as a child. Certainly none of us feared it; really, it was more an inconvenience or...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- Mar 1
- 5 min
Measles
The Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) alerted clinicians today to a report from the Kentucky Department for Public Health of a...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- 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-Gooden
- 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-Gooden
- Feb 19
- 4 min
Hemophilia
We all know about #hemophilia, as the AIDS epidemic made us real familiar back in the 1990s. Ryan White suffered with this genetic...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- Feb 9
- 5 min
Babesiosis
Lyme disease is difficult to diagnose. Testing to identify its presence is often negative, for a variety of reasons, and when exposed to...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- Feb 5
- 4 min
Hepatitis C
This is one of the more commonly missed chronic diseases in conventional medicine. Hepatitis C is an infection of the liver and it can...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- Feb 2
- 6 min
Hypertension: The Silent Killer
High blood pressure (hypertension) affects almost a third of our population, with 75 percent of those individuals prescribed medications...
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