General Nutrition: Eating as a Lifestyle Choice
 Nutritional Supplements
General Supplementation: What will do the most good?
Nutritional Supplements
Healthy Weight Management
Nutritional Supplements
Heart Smart Health and Wellness
Nutritional Supplements
Healthy Cholesterol Metabolism
Nutritional Supplements
Women's Health and Transitions
Nutritional Supplements Osteoporosis and Supporting the Bones
Nutritional Supplements
Men's Health
Nutritional Supplements
Supporting A Healthy
Mind
Nutritional Supplements
Children's Concentration
Nutritional Supplements
Supporting Digestive Function: The Soul of Health
Nutritional Supplements
Immune System Health
Nutritional Supplements
Cancer and the Quality of Life: Fatigue
Nutritional Supplements
Supporting the Joints and Muscles
Nutritional Supplements
Detoxification System and Supporting the Liver
Nutritional Supplements
Healthy Support for the Thyroid: Testing and Supplementation
Nutritional Supplements
Skin Care: Beauty from Within and Without
Nutritional Supplements
MORE TOPICS IN WELLNESS FROM OUR FREE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER |
Welcome to the Wellness Store Website…
We hope you will be glad you visited.
 Hello, my name is Mike Casso and I am the pharmacist for The Wellness Stores in Metairie and Mandeville Louisiana. I have been a pharmacist
since 1981. During my career, I have served as a hospital pharmacist, a retail pharmacist and more recently as the head of a medical infusion service pharmacy devoted to specialized injectable
medications in the field of oncology.
With my current practice, I see a large number of people suffering through major illnesses: in particular, cancer. I watched helplessly for years as they suffered through the extremely debilitating treatment programs
and saw so many quality of life issues surrounding their illness. This prompted me to learn how to help them in their day to day attempts at feeling good, as they recovered from both the
treatments and the ravages of the disease. I found that diet is the single most important step they could take to help themselves feel stronger and more vital. I also found that good
nutritional supplement programs were very effective at countering the quality of life concerns, gaining in vitality and protecting their body as it fought to regain its balance.
Just gaining the knowledge was not enough. I felt compelled to
share the information that would help. I developed my counseling skills over the past 20 years and now spend the majority of my day counseling patients and customers from all
walks of life on methods of obtaining and maintaining their optimal health. Through the careful use of targeted nutritional products, I have been able to truly help people affect a
positive change in their health and wellness.
Several years ago, I opened the first Wellness Store in Metairie, Louisiana. The store combined the presence of professional healthcare providers, educated in areas of
nutrition, disease management counseling and skin care, with professional grade products and an abundance of qualified, researched information. We soon opened another store in
Mandeville, Louisiana and are now helping over 500 people a week to achieve their targets in health and wellness. With more energy than we should expect, we are now able to take
our skills and products to the world, through our new website.
You Deserve Pharmacy Counseling Services!
We have a serious problem in the healthcare industry, in which there is an incredible amount of information available for
pharmacy consumers, but there is a significant lack of communicating the PROPER information to patients about their medications and combined methods of obtaining optimal health.
Let's face it: We are in a world of information overload. There
is so much information available that we are all confused about how to use it! You can read 100 articles on the Internet about your health conditions, your medications, their side effects,
your nutritional status and various ways to stay young and fit… and with all this info, who knows what to do?
Surveys show that the only time that people think seriously about their health and mortality is when they are at the doctor's office or the pharmacy counter. Yet, so often patients
leave these places without true knowledge about their conditions and medications, what effects to expect the medications to cause them, what potential for interactions
between other medications or diet and nutritional supplements. As a result, we self-medicate and that is quite dangerous.
Pharmacy Counseling Services
Medications do come with detailed drug information and you can learn about them in publications, but the information
includes terminology you need a Ph.D. to understand. Most people simply want to know what the medication will do, what the possible short and long-term effects of the medication may
be on their body and what can they do, as a patient, to be remain healthy while they are taking the medication…and when will they be healthy enough to not be on the medication.
Good pharmacy counseling services solve this problem. Having
a pharmacist well trained to counsel you on these topics would go a long way toward resolving the chaos of "information overload" we currently experience. But it is not hard for any
patient to see that many of the pharmacies they use are way too busy to spend any time with counseling, particularly if they shop at a high volume drug store. It is not that they don't
want to help, they just have so many medications to process, and they are not left with any time to translate the complicated medical information into "lay" terms we can all understand. And, that is a shame.
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