Joan Buckley from the NCC Nursing Department talks with Dr. Sanda Moldovan about ‘the mouth as the gateway to a person’s health and well-being’. Learn why certain foods are best, and learn how healing can be helped by water, light, energy, oxygen, plants and more. An award winning periodontist, she tirelessly advocates for alternatives for healing, which is the subject of her new book, ‘Heal Up! Seven ways to Faster Healing and Optimum Health.

Dr. Jeanine Cook-Garard talks with Natasha Simone Alexenko about her recently written memoir, “A Survivor's Journey: From Victim to Advocate.” Natasha recounts her experience being violently assaulted in New York City in 1993. She discusses the profound impact this trauma had on her life. Natasha founded Natasha’s Justice Project in 2011. She is a consultant for the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI), where she works with law enforcement officials, prosecutors, and rape crisis center staff members on techniques to properly support victims and process kits. In today's program, she discusses her road to healing, health and recovery through advocacy work, support networks and giving victims a voice.

Dr. Jeanine Cook-Gerard talks with Dr. Laurie Nadel, a journalist, distinguished scholar and practicing psychotherapist, and author of “The Five Gifts” which provides insight and thought as she guides us through what we need to know about coping with life's most troubling times. The Five Gifts is an emergency 'Go-Kit', packed with information that can minimize and prevent long-term psycho-spiritual damage from a traumatic event. Dr. Nadel discusses information, ideas, insight and tools to build the emotional stamina and clarity needed to cope with emotional aftershocks

Dr. Jeanine Cook-Garard discusses a cutting-edge approach to controlling pain with a non-opioid therapeutic management with Anthony Mack, who has more than 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and finance industries. Prior to founding VIRPAX in 2016, Mr. Mack founded SCILEX Pharmaceuticals and served as President and CEO. Mr. Mack explores the benefits of topical non-opioids vs. opioids; the opioid epidemic; communicating with health care providers about pain; and this new and innovative approach to pain management

Eileen Ennis discusses her children’s bereavement book, “You Wouldn’t Understand.” She is currently the Nassau Division Chair of New York State NASW. Eileen reviews how to explain death to a child, identifies significant behavioral and emotional warning signs, discusses the process and stages of grieving; and appropriate words to use when communicating with children who are grieving.

Dr. Jeanine Cook-Gerard talks with Stephen Conenna, a professional engineer and graduate of Columbia University, about his book, “Use Your Mind to Heal Your Body,” a new way to view common aches and pains. After a 15-year struggle with incapacitating back pain and unsuccessful traditional remedies, he meets the pioneer of modern mind body medicine, Dr. John Sarno, and discovers a treatment protocol that stops pain permanently without the use of drugs or surgery.

Dr. Jeanine Cook-Gerard talks with Kim B. Miller, an author, poet, mother and wife. Kim shares her life’s experience and her book, “How to Love Your Kids More Than You Hate That Man.” This discussion addresses the pain of divorcing parents, who are no longer together, however are left to raise children. Kim talks about her personal experience with divorce due to infidelity, her successful remarriage, and how it affects the health of not only herself, but her two children.

A neurologist who’s been specializing in memory loss for more than 20 years, Dr. Gayatri Devi talks with Dr. Jeanine Cook-Garard about Alzheimer’s by defining it as a spectrum disorder and how it affects different people differently. She encourages people to seek a diagnosis, because early treatment will enable doctors to manage the disease more effectively through drugs and other therapies

Dr. Jeanine Cook-Gerard talks with Joe Reynolds, Research Manager of Noble International Inc., about Biologics License Approvals. The success of these biologic drugs reflects their ability to treat major chronic diseases better than existing alternatives and with fewer side effects. At the same time, some of these biologics require patients to self-inject at home on a regular basis, using prefilled syringes and auto-injectors. During this show, self-injection anxiety, the standard-of-care for self-injection training, along with learning to perform self-injection safely is explored.

Dr. Jeanine Cook-Gerard talks with Dr. Marc Taczanowski, a Sports Chiropractor who practices in Nesconset. He has over 20 years of experience in Sports Medicine and was one of two doctors chosen to the U.S. Olympic Team in 2014 from his specialty. He works predominantly with athletes, managing injuries and improving their athletic performance. Dr. Taczanowski shares advice for effective preventative strengthening modalities and recommends therapies to alleviate pain and its underlying health conditions.