MARY JEAN Netario-Cruz, the world’s magnesium-clinic pioneer, introduced the natural and safe curative power of the mineral to retired priests from dioceses across the country during a recent retreat in Tagaytay City.
Cruz, who pioneered the clinic in 2014 in Antipolo City, put in plain words how the deficiency in the mineral triggers the nerves to communicate pain and how magnesium addresses it, said Msgr. Sabino Vengco Jr., retreat master.
In attendance were 60 retired priests, including six bishops, who complained of joints and muscle pains common among aging priests, he said.
The priests complained of various pains, including leg cramps, frozen shoulder, migraine and headache, said Netario-Cruz, a certified well-being coach, who demonstrated to the clergy how they could do the therapy themselves or with the help of a house companion.
Netario-Cruz, a member of the American Association of Drugless Practitioners, addresses arthritis, back pain, Charley horse, frozen shoulders, stiff neck and fingers, and even insomnia, with magnesium transdermally.
After the demonstration, the retreatants moved in haste to apply the mineral on the affected parts of their body, said Victoria Baterina-Solis, Kanlungan ni Maria-Home for the Aged (Kanlungan) special projects director.
“It was a big hit among the elderly priests, who have abundant stories to tell about painful joints and muscles,” Vengco said.
The typical diet poor in magnesium and a lifestyle that depletes it are responsible for pains, Netario- Cruz said.
“Magnesium has the capacity to relive pain, since it relaxes the muscles and prevents muscle spasms and the jolting of nerves,” she said.
Excessive calcium in the body is also responsible for pain, she said.
“The main symptoms of magnesium deficiency and calcium excess are headache, fatigue, muscle pain and insomnia,” she said. Large calcium deposit can deplete magnesium in the body, she noted.
Free 100ml bottles of magnesium, which were sponsored by Magiteque Pain Therapy Centre, were given to the retreatants, said Fr. Dari D. Dioquino, priest in charge of Kanlungan.
The four-day assembly of retired priests at the Angels’ Retreat House was the 17th, said Vengco, the founding president of Kadiwa sa Pagkapari Foundation, an arm of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines’s Episcopal Commission on Clergy.
The foundation’s Ephesus Ministry has been “caring for Filipino diocesan elderly priests in their retirement and sickness,” he said.
“The priests variously live in their family residences and diocesan retirement homes, like the Cardinal Sin Welcome Home in Sampaloc, Manila, and Villa San Rafael in Bonuan Gueset, Dagupan,” Vengco said.
The retreatants came from Metro Manila and as far as Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, Cagayan, La Union, Pangasinan, Pampanga, Bulacan, Laguna, Quezon, Albay, Sorsogon, Camarines Norte, Samar and Iloilo.
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3 comments
Why just 1 mineral?? If they responded so well to mag my bet they would be low in all minerals!!
Please watch the video or read this article to answer your question. However you are right for the Minerals potion we use is a triumvirate of OS and Ca but Mg takes the lead. On the other hand, it is not always correct to think the rest of the minerals are low.
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/844214?src=stfb
Nothing can beat exercise for good health. If all 40 and above will exercise, medical practice will become non lucrative.