Health & Healing

04/26/2020

From the March 2020 issue of Health&Healing in the Triangle:

GENES: A BLUEPRINT, BUT NOT YOUR DESTINY
By Bobbie Barbrey, RPh, CCN

Do your genes define your destiny? Must you resign yourself to a lifetime of health issues because you got the wrong genes? The genes we are born with are a fixed sequence of base pairs forming our DNA. Our DNA does not change. You will have this genetic code the rest of your life. More:

https://healthandhealingonline.com/genes-a-blueprint-but-not-your-destiny/

From the March 2020 issue of Health&Healing in the Triangle:

Certified Clinical Nutritionist MEDICAP PHARMACY 6675-101 Falls of Neuse Rd Raleigh, NC 27615 Telephone: (919) 676-6161 FAX: (919) 676-6575 [email protected] www.MedicapRaleigh.com Shop.MedicapRaleigh.com  

04/26/2020

From the March 2020 issue of Health&Healing in the Triangle:

MOVING TOWARD PERSONALIZED MEDICINE

Imagine knowing in advance which medical treatments will work best for an individual patient—and which won’t. That’s the promise of personalized medicine. And that’s just the beginning, according to Dr. Jennifer Burch of Central Pharmacy and Central Compounding Center in Durham. She envisions a future where preventive and holistic care is tailored to individual molecular and genetic profiles. More:

Bill Burch, RPh Jennifer Burch, PharmD Sejjal Patel, PharmD Donna Ferrell, RPh Michael Verble, PharmD Kayla Harris, PharmD Ziyad Jabar, PharmD Mynam Vuong, PharmD Jhuvon Francis, PharmD

04/26/2020

From the March 2020 issue of Health&Healing in the Triangle:

UNTANGLING THE THREADS OF MENTAL HEALTH

Psychiatrist Duncan McEwen compares the complicated factors affecting mental health to a tangled skein of yarn. “Your genes certainly matter,” he says, “but they’re only one strand—and they only suggest a path in life, they don’t determine it.” More:

3308 Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, Suite 131 Durham, NC 27707 Telephone: (919) 810-3536 www.wfpanc.com www.facebook.com/ wellnessfirstpsychiatric

04/26/2020

From the March 2020 issue of Health&Healing in the Triangle:

WHEN NATURE AND NURTURE COMBINE TO OBSTRUCT SLEEP

Epidemiological studies have shown that African Americans are three times more likely to develop sleep apnea than Caucasians. Asians, too, face higher risk. Yet as Dr. Charles Ferzli explains, the condition is not necessarily tied to any specific gene or genetic predisposition. The same is true of temporo-mandibular joint (TMJ) issues, another common problem he sees at his TMJ and Sleep Therapy Centre in Cary. More:

TMJ & SLEEP THERAPY CENTRE OF RALEIGH-DURHAM Charles Ferzli, DDS, FAACP, DABCP, DABCDSM, DABDSM 1150 NW Maynard Road, #140 Cary, NC 27613 Telephone: (919) 323-4242 www.RaleighTMJandSleep.com

04/24/2020

A MESSAGE FROM THE PUBLISHERS OF HEALTH&HEALING

First, we hope you all are staying well and are coping with the unprecedented changes in daily life as we move through this extraordinary chapter in history.

Clearly, the Covid-19 pandemic affects all our lives, and it is also clear that it is having particular impact on those who provide health care services. This is true not only for first-line responders but for the many practitioners who offer healing and wellness care. For nearly 30 years, these practitioners have been featured in the pages of Health&Healing—fulfilling our publication’s mission to let readers know of the many health care options in the Greater Triangle area.

Our goal as we move through this crisis is to continue to provide a connection between health care providers and readers. We are constrained, at present, by limitations on our ability to distribute copies of the printed publication, but we also publish each issue at www.healthandhealingonline.com—and invite all our readers to visit the site to enjoy all the articles from the most recent two issues. Each of the articles has contact information for the featured practice, so you may connect directly with each practice to discover how they are responding to the Covid-19 restrictions.

It is likely to be quite some time before we return to something like “normal,” and “normal” itself is likely to change. That said, our goal is to return to a regular publication schedule over the next several months—perhaps relying more heavily on digital publication. We will keep you updated.

Stay well!

Sheilah Thomas and Joshua Hartford, Publishers