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…
Chiropractic – an affordable investment for health Conventional Wisdom says that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” and nothing could be more true than an affordable investment in chiropractic care. When people suffer from reoccurring health problems that keep coming back or from unexpected injuries that, if mismanaged, can become a lifelong problem? They are a crossroads. To the left is a conventional medical pathway where expenses are heavy on testing, diagnosing and only a small…
docMIKE Tetrault Retires From Practice This month docMIKE turns 65 years of age. Born in Canada in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba on March 27, 1952 he grew up with his family of 8 other siblings and both parents until his marriage at only 18 years of age to his high school sweetheart. Michel undertook his studies into chiropractic graduating Summa Cum Laude in 1979 from Life Chiropractic College. He retires from active practice after 38 years of service; 27…
Add Accountability to Your New Year’s Resolutions The common social activity when January 1 rolls around is the feeling of “new hope” or the ability to “start again” with a new resolve. We give certain issues a higher priority, even make the proverbial new year’s resolution or commitment. This a healthy human trait, one that says: “Today s the first day of the rest of my life!” In all matters of life where we succeed there is always a driving…
Guard and Guide Yourself to Health Starting the blog with this famous quote we can begin to understand the title itself: “My problems are the result of doing too many of the WRONG things and not enough of the RIGHT things.” GUARD your health by avoiding all the wrong things and GUIDE your health by doing all the right things.” Last week we discussed re-framing how we view symptoms and that not all symptoms are necessarily bad and not having any symptoms does…
Metabolic Syndrome Stage 2 Vs Stage 3 This is session 3 of 3 that we are writing on a series introducing a health focus concept revolving around the term or state of the body’s metabolic status otherwise referred to as Metabolic Syndrome (MSy). There are 5 stages to MSy and we will contrast Stage 2 and 3 this week to conclude the series. We advise you to read the previous blogs on Stage 0 Vs Stage 5 and Stage 1…
Metabolic Syndrome Stage 1 Vs Stage 4 This is session 2 of 3 that we are writing on a series introducing a health focus concept revolving around the state of the body’s metabolic status otherwise referred to as Metabolic Syndrome (MSy). There are 5 stages to MSy and we will contrast Stage 1 and 4 this week, then Stage 2 and 3 next week. Stage 1 – Metabolic Syndrome (Health profile is 8 – 9 out of 10) This state…
Centenarians The National Respect for Centenarians Day is set on September 25 of every year. Effective July 2016, under Republic Act 10868, all Filipinos who reach 100 years of age will receive a P100,000 cash gift and a letter of felicitation from the President of the Philippines, whether they are residing in the Philippines or abroad. They will also be awarded with a plaque of recognition and additional cash gift from their respective city or municipal governments. Why is this an…
Community Validation Community Validation is an important if not essential part of developing and maintaining a secure and balanced life. Having a community that validates you does not come by accident; it comes from defining and recognizing those values about life that are relevant and true to you, and true about you. That makes community selection very personal. We will discuss below how to define your personal community. If you liked this post, say thanks by sharing it! Follow…
Wellness is the “pursuit of health lost” and at some point in time many people recognize that somewhere in life they got off course and they are unhappy with where they are. That is understandable yet it seems they get stuck in making lasting changes and keep ending up where they are, again. The reason is that they have not properly assessed where they were, where they are and finally where they see that they should be. To get from…