Ways to avoid getting sick. How is it that when the body is exposed to a germ (virus or bacteria or other pathogen) not everybody gets sick? Scientists concluded that the average human body contains approximately 37.2 trillion cells. The human body also contains trillions of microorganisms — outnumbering human cells by 10 to 1. Of course, your body will have more or fewer cells than that total, depending upon how your size compares to the average human being, but…
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…
How does the new coronavirus compare with the flu? An annual flu caused by viruses is expected to cause widespread respiratory infections that lasts about 2 days to 2 weeks. While people are trying to prevent the spread of COVID-19, many if not most are still getting infected by Influenza A and Influenza B, which represents the greater incidents of infections in any season. So how does the new coronavirus compare with the flu? Here are some collected facts to…
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Chiropractic Currently In The Country: Your Health and Safety Will Always Be Our Priority
Posted on 03/28/2020Chiropractic 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
Posted on 03/26/2020Ways 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…
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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Stressed Out With All The News? Do These 5 Things Today.
Posted on 03/21/2020
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
Posted on 03/20/2020The 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
Posted on 03/19/2020Are 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
Posted on 03/10/2020Stress… 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…