Eden Family Practice, LLC

11/15/2025

11/13/2025

When I was working with mommas as they planned their births, we would often talk about how so many women simply choose their neighborhood hospital and a physician from their list of in-network providers for their first birth, and then when things didn't go the way they wanted, they would dive in and plan every detail of their second birth.

We research the college we want to attend. We research when buying a home, even a car. But why don't we invest in life-changing transformations like birth and menopause.

It's funny to think that we take classes in school about puberty, but middle age women are just blindly walking into the biggest hormone change of their life hoping everything is okay... often worrying that it for sure isn't.

Do we just let it happen or might we take a few positive steps to protect our energy, reboot our metabolism, and support our hormones - even create a complete life transformation that boosts our vitality and happiness?

Once you understand what is happening in your body during this transition, you can become empowered to make changes to feel like yourself again. I have always been a teacher a heart. My approach to healing others has always been about empowering through education, and then supporting my clients in their own journeys.

I have educational programs you can move through at your own pace. They are filled with scientific data, lifestyle medicine, nutrition and movement, botanicals and hormones. I even talk about intimacy and being fit into your 40s and 50s, sexy into your 60s, and powerful into your 70s.

I want you to thrive.

Embrace your autumn, turning in with gratitude, caring for self, understanding physical norms, optimize your vitality!

11/12/2025

Did you know that women of color tend to have worse hot flashes in their peri-menopause season than non-Hispanic white women? They also tend to enter this season of life earlier and hang out there a little longer.

Women of color also have more interrupted sleep and depression, and I share this because Black women are less likely to receive care and treatment for these disruptive symptoms.

Interestingly, Latina women are more likely to experience more genitourinary symptoms like vaginal dryness, painful in*******se, and urine leakage than other women. Who knew? The SWAN study is revealing intriguing information about the variations in perimenopausal symptoms across ethnicities.

Black women do seem to take the longest to settle into the Crone years and therefore suffer the hormonal rollercoaster the greatest. And if you don't like Crone - maybe that's because the patriarchy has caused you to forget what our ancestors treated - the wisdom, appreciation, and honor in aging.

Interesting as well, Black women are three times more likely to undergo premature menopause - before the age of 40 years - which increases their risk for heart attack by 40% and guess why... midwives know... because Black women have less resiliency due to racism. They endure more stress on their bodies due to the challenges and adversity to endure.

11/12/2025

Having little ones in your 40s is interesting. It's amazing how much perimenopause feels like postpartum and how it can be challenging to know what-is-what and how to support oneself.

Extreme fatigue, sleepless nights, brain fog, mood swings, missed me**es, and unexpected weight gain - could be postpartum, could be stress, could be perimenopause.

In your forties, you're also, often, well into your responsibilities at work, at home, even caring for aging parents. It's an incredible time for your most significant hormonal change to start smacking you in the face. All these demands makes it even more challenging to distinguish if life is just more overwhelming or if you're finally catching the consequences of self-neglect or if maybe this is perimenopause. And if so, what is there to do, just muscle through and hope to get to the other side as unscathed as possible?

Perimenopause can begin as early as your mid-to-late 30s and last anywhere from 4 to 10 years, most often, but for some women, as long as 20 years post-menopause!

I'll admit, I am really loving this season in life.

I am learning about myself more, finding more time and space to care for myself, and really grateful to have so much life behind me and hopefully, a significant amount of vitality in front of me.

Having spent most of my career caring for women in their mothering years, I am now really enjoying midwifing women through menopause. If you are loving your Crone season or want to love it - circle up with me to discuss all things Wise Woman.

Nature has always known what we must try to remember. Connect with women seeking to find their inner magic.

11/12/2025

Did you know that during the decade prior to menopause, women tend to start gaining more weight compared with the weight they may have gained even prior to perimenopause? Women also more likely to be overweight or obese at the age of 45 than men.

Their rate of fat mass doubles in that same decade, changing their body composition and greatly increasing their cardio-metabolic risk!

Are you monitoring your weight as you age? How about your body composition? Do you know your muscle mass? Is your doctor talking to you about this? These are the basics in any primary care practice and especially so when working with mid-life or weight loss clients.

11/11/2025

I really do have the best clients, always have. When you work in private practice, you can be a bit spoiled as a clinician, because our clients seek us out. They do their homework. They want something different. They care about their health and are willing to invest in it.

Did you know that the average life expectancy for women in the United States is 79 years? Did you know that the average health span is 67 years? Meaning that the last 12 years of a woman's life are often lived with limitations in their function from disease and disabilities.

For much of my life I had the smarts, the know-how, but limited support to make it happen in my life. It took years for me to carve out the space to prioritize myself and this is in spite of being an expert in the field! It's hard. In fact, it's harder to change one's diet than it is their religion.

I am working through updating my peri-menopause and menopause program right now and thinking of each of you. We don't want to just lengthen our life, but also to shorten the disease span, so we can live a life of vitality. I am not just offering consultations in my practice, but also pathways towards living your best life.

Connect with me if you're ready to discover your most favorite self. No quick fixes. No chest sheets. This is the real stuff. ❤

Embrace your autumn, turning in with gratitude, caring for self, understanding physical norms, optimize your vitality!

11/10/2025

Never have I charged a membership fee for healthcare. It doesn't matter what medication you need to optimize your health, you simply pay for the service provided. No mark-up on medications, ever!

No concierge fee. Pay for the service you need. You still get free yoga and free education. You can still join my free talks on current healthcare topics. No hidden costs.

Dr. Penny Lane, family nurse practitioner & certified nurse-midwife

11/06/2025

Did you know the prevalence of cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease and related dementias is increasing?

Did you know 40% of older adults are undiagnosed and 20% have no idea of their diagnosis?

Did you know that current testing is antiquated, time-consuming, and inconsistently applied?

Did you know the average visit with a primary care provider is only 18 minutes, but only 6 of those minutes are with the clinician? This time does not allow for additional screening.

When one doesn't have time, they often lack the experience and confidence to diagnose. I find this to be true not only for chronic disease in the elderly, such as COPD and Alzheimers, but also autism which is well within the scope of a primary care provider that has the time in their schedule to make appropriate diagnosis.

Referrals to specialists have an average wait time of 12 months.

Delays in identifying cognitive change are costly, dangerous, and scary. Seniors with Alzheimer's are hospitalized more than twice as often as those without dementia.

Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, accounting for 60-80% of cases, and it begins 20 years before symptoms such as memory loss, difficulty thinking, or any signs of cognitive decline are identified. These symptoms progress slowly and are often not identified until the disease has become chronic. Early detection and treatment can slow cognitive decline.

Diabetes as well, once diagnosed, your body has been suffering from elevated blood sugar for decades. Conventional medicine doesn't have time to really engage in optimizing health prior to onset of disease; their role is diagnose overt disease and prescribe.

SIX MILLION Americans 65 years of age or older are living with cognitive impairment and that number is expected to double by 2050. Twelve to 18% of adults over the age of 60 years are living with symptoms of mild cognitive impairment. Many times this is the result of unmanaged blood sugars.

One in four over the age of 80 years have symptoms of mild cognitive impairment, and 15% of these individuals will develop dementia.

If you want a clinician who has time to offer a thorough evaluation, can diagnose, and create a treatment plan or better, a plan to work aggressively to prevent or minimize impact, then connect with me. I have an office in the Hamburg area of Lexington, or can provide home visits.

11/05/2025

One in six people are over 65 years of age.

11/04/2025

Yoga is a popular exercise activity for older adults, and increasingly popular for seniors.

Many claim improved joint range of motion, strength, and balance, as well as improved emotional and spiritual wellness.

Yoga is relatively safe too!

Studies have found that yoga appears to be especially suited for seniors because programs and individual postures can be modified and tailored to accommodate a variety of participant physical capabilities and limitations.

Yoga is not just for the young, the thin, and the flexible - it is for every body.

Join me! Teaching yoga to my clients now since 2021!

10/26/2025

Our Yoga Teacher's Training course today is largely about yoga stereotypes, myths, and misconceptions. What have you been told about yoga that now you know to be inaccurate?

I know that I was taught it was the gateway to the occult.

I've also long had the perception that it was for young, thin, flexible ladies.

Once a teacher though, misconceptions didn't stop because then it was beliefs that we can't do inversions on our me**es, or we can't rest our foot on our knee during the tree pose, or that the joints must always be stacked.

We're deconstructing these stereotypes and misconceptions!