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Healthy people don’t die… If they get infected, they just get healthy again.

Healthy people don’t die… If they get infected, they just get healthy again. Our central theme for Natural Health and Natural Immunity at docMIKEblog.com is simple. Get healthy and stay healthy! Even a healthy person is not always immune to infection. There is no guarantee that they will never have symptoms or even avoid injury for that matter. But a healthy person always gets better. Even in a serious injury when surgery is needed, they are the ones that survived…

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Chiropractic Spinal Health Wellness, general

How to set up your home office

How to set up your home office (with good posture and health in mind) We can actually start discussing post-COVID-19 realities. The uncertainties that follow has resulted in many private schools in the Philippines switching to home schooling with electronic classes and cloud assignments. The business world that has successfully switched to telecommuting during this quarantine period may also decide to to have that personnel continue to operate from home and only come to the company offices once a week.…

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Chiropractic Spinal Health Wellness, general

Chiropractic Care and the Flu

Chiropractic Care and the Flu (Adapted from the Portugese Chiropractic Association) When one combines proper lifestyle and chiropractic spinal adjustments to improve the nervous system, these healthier people are less likely to get sick and they have a greater ability to avoid serious consequences and to recover from the flu. The immune system protects us from any infectious disease and fights to improve when we get sick. The interaction between the nervous and immune systems are well known scientifically so…

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Chiropractic Fitness Health Nutritional Health Spinal Health Wellness, general

Chiropractic Currently In The Country: Your Health and Safety Will Always Be Our Priority

Chiropractic Currently In The Country: Your Health and Safety Will Always Be Our Priority For the first time since we opened our first chiropractic clinic in 2006, Mabuhay Chiropractic Clinics has had to close its doors during this enhanced community quarantine. All our clinics in Bacoor, Las Pinas, Alabang, Mall of Asia, Glorietta, Forbes Park, Megamall and Quezon city part of NCR; and also closed are our five provincial clinics in Cebu, CDO and Davao. All temporarily closed until the…

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Spinal Health Wellness, general

Exercises at Home to Keep Your Spine Healthy

Exercises at Home to Keep Your Spine Healthy Today. March 24, 2020 most nations have implemented some level of stay-at-home quarantine. Other nations have imposed a travel ban to reduce contamination spreading  from people contact. So, it is safe to say most readers today would be reading this from home. This is a short blog post to introduce one of docMIKEblog’s longstanding home exercises that target’s posture. Staying at home means you are less physically active and likely doing a…

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Chiropractic Fitness Health Spinal Health

Stress… the greater evil out of the coronavirus scare

Stress… the greater evil out of the corona-virus scare Our children are told not to attend school and we have a resistance to go into public places. Yet millions of Filipinos commute every day to work and are not contracting the virus. But we worry! That is completely understandable. Perceived threat is real stress for each of us at this time. But actual threat is extremely minimal. (3-10-20) After weeks of enhanced community quarantine, USA policy makers have deemed that…

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Chiropractic Personal Coaching Spinal Health Wellness, general

So, Who Is docMIKE?

My story as a pioneer chiropractor in Asia. Permit me to introduce myself, I am Michel Tetrault, DC, a Canadian who became an American and is now almost a Philippine citizen. I grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and after a five year career as a professional photographer and photo finisher and 2/3rd Bachelor’s degree, I moved to the USA to complete my post graduate studies graduating in 1979 as a Doctor of Chiropractic from Life Chiropractic College, Atlanta, Georgia,…

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Chiropractic Spinal Health

10 Essential Body Systems – Neurological

1. Neurological Body systems are a group of tissues and organs that are designed to work together to make the body work in specific ways. Some organs are part of more than one system when they serve more than one function. Since all systems are necessary for sustainable life we refer to them as Essential Systems. We will look at each system in a separate blog over the next months in chiropractic terms so our readers can see the connection…

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Chiropractic Spinal Health Wellness, general

10th Anniversary Presentation

10th Anniversary Presentation* Welcome to our Celebration! Mabuhay stands for Long-Life and this is at the center of what we do for the community. I would like to thank Bacoor City Mayor Lani Mercado for joining in this celebration and for the Mabuhay staff for preparing this anniversary event at this, our oldest location. So why do we matter??? Let me tell you why… If you liked this post, say thanks by sharing it! Follow…

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Chiropractic Spinal Health

Scoliosis Perspective

Scoliosis may be functional or congenital

Scoliosis Perspective Treatment of scoliosis, the lateral curving of the spine in an ‘S’ shape, is commonly misunderstood. The first thing to understand is that this is not a dreaded disease that medical scare tactics have forced many into undergoing spinal surgery. Second, spinal experts agree that a cure for scoliosis is not possible. To suggest this is irresponsible. The ideal process to best manage scoliosis is early identification at the ages of 8 or 9 for advanced cases and…

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