THE country’s leading magnesium-therapy practitioner, Mary Jean Netario-Cruz, introduced to the Philippines and, perhaps, the world to the first magnesium-therapy clinic when she opened The Magiteque Pain Therapy Centre, in Antipolo City on November 9.
Dr. Carolyn Dean, a medical and naturopath doctor based in the US who is regarded as the world’s foremost magnesium advocate, confirmed this innovating development in an e-mail to the BusinessMirror on November 21.
“I don’t know of any other magnesium clinics anywhere in the world,” she said. “She [Netario Cruz] is an amazing pioneer in this field.”
As early as 1964 magnesium was already being championed as a natural and safe treatment to various health conditions, particularly in the US, by Dr. Mildred Seelig.
“Seelig spent the rest of her career studying and writing about magnesium,” Dean said. “When I met her, she was writing The Magnesium Factor,”her first book on magnesium at the same time I was writing mine, The Magnesium Miracle.
In 2011 the mineral, popularly known as “The Spark of Life” among international naturopaths, roused the curiosity of Netario Cruz, while she was studying at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition—New York.
“As I researched, I came across Magnesium in Central Nervous System published by Adelaide State University in Australia,” she said. “I also found a lecture by Dr. Dean and got a copy of her book The Magnesium Miracle.”
Dr. Mark Sircus’s “Transdermal Magnesium Therapy” also caught her interest.
In 2012 Netario Cruz conducted researches on cases involving relatives, friends, and neighbors, who complained of various body pains, leading to the formulation of her signature liquid magnesium.
She set out to campaign publicly for the mineral on Mother’s Day in the same year, giving away bottles of magnesium.
The first person to report relief was Danny Olondriz, a neighbor who complained of
arthritis, Netario Cruz said.
She personally witnessed for the first time magnesium’s curative power when it worked on Teresita Iglesias of Malaya, Rizal, who also had arthritis.
Iglesias is the mother of Marilyn I. Domingo, one of over a dozen Magiteque coaches Netario- Cruz certified.
Two years before she established the magnesium clinic, Netario-Cruz’s first client, Fr. Ben Villote, approached her. Father Villote was a Mother Teresa awardee, who suffered from dementia.
On January 29, 2012, she got associated with Kanlungan ni Maria-Home for the Aged Inc. (Kanlungan) in Antipolo, after accepting the offer of Fr. Dari Dioquino to assume the post of Kanlungan’s well-being program director.
Father Dioquino, priest in charge of Kanlungan, and Victoria Baterina-Solis, its special project director, played a major role to help Netario-Cruz further introduce the mineral to the public before setting up the clinic.
Magnesium gained more ground after earning the respect of senior citizens in Rizal (a province east of Manila), religious people—clergy and nuns alike—who felt relief from various body pains after receiving therapy, Baterina-Solis said.
Prior to opening the clinic, Kanlungan pushed Netario Cruz’s “pain relief missions” for the less- fortunate elderly across Rizal, capitalizing on magnesium’s natural and safe power to relieve pain, Baterina-Solis said.
The opening of the Magiteque Pain Therapy Centre was preceded by the relief of several hundreds people, mostly older citizens, who complained of back pain, migraine, frozen shoulders, insomnia, arthritis, gout, muscle cramps, adrenal fatigue and other health conditions since 2011, Father Dioquino said.
About two weeks after its opening, Charmaine Molina, a client who complained of upper back pain, expressed interest in franchising the clinic.
“I am confident that I can learn the technique and apply the procedure to our clients,” Molina said.
The magnesium clinic addresses various body pains and non-pain cases, like insomnia, panic attack, anxiety and cholesterol, through transdermal repletion of the mineral, Netario Cruz said.
“My husband is also a health coach, who knows myotherapy, acupressure and fitness program,” Molina said. “We can partner to deliver excellent holistic services.”