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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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Ways to boost the immune system during quarantine

Ways to boost the immune system during quarantine  A virus by any other name is still just a virus. So what is a virus anyway? What we know is that it is a germ, a type of germ that is very, very small and is the cause of what we now refer to as the annual flu. This is not the computer type of virus, Webster’s defines a virus as: “any of a large group of submicroscopic infectious agents that…

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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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Personal Coaching Wellness, general

Stressed Out With All The News? Do These 5 Things Today.

Stressed Out With All The News? Do These 5 Things Today. Ever notice that when there is a fire in town everybody wants to go see it; or when there is an accident on the street just around the corner, everybody gets out of their houses to go see what happened? We are magnetically drawn to bad news. Are you always turning on the television or checking social media for recent news posts about the Coronavirus crisis? Yes, that’s you,…

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The One Thing You Should Be Regularly Doing While on Lock-down

The One Thing You Should Be Regularly Doing While on Lock-down (and no, it’s not washing your hands) Well first, when should you wash your hands? Anytime you go out from home and return. Do this before touching your personal and home items. If you are fortunate to still be working, same applies when you get to work. If your work involves regular contact with people, then with some regularity during the workday. OK, to open up your mind, step…

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Are You Stacking The Right Kind of Food? Here’s a Top Seven Checklist For You

Are You Stacking The Right Kind of Food? Here’s a Top Seven Checklist For You We no longer live in fear of nuclear war when people built a private nuclear bomb shelter and stocked them with non-perishable foods, should the unthinkable ever were to happen. Now, did your 2020 New Year’s resolution include stacking your pantry and freezer in case your family was going into self-quarantine before Easter? We do live in interesting times! Coronavirus -19 has turned the world…

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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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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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Positively Positive in 2019

Positively Positive in 2019 2019 is a wonderful year to focus on Positive Living. Last year my New Years message was on personal accountability. After a year of improving one’s discipline, the perfect follow through is to turn that personal growth outwardly to improve the lives of others. Holding a positive outlook inspires us to look at ways we can contribute the well being of others. Especially when their well being has a positive impact on your own life. To…

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10 Essential Body Systems – Circulatory

3. Circulatory or cardiovascular system 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 10 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…

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