Health
Plain-language health writing for Filipino families — the Super Dok column, 2006 to today.
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My Mother Said I Would Not Grow Tall
What a physiology teacher now knows about sleep, growth, and the summer afternoons I spent outside My mother had one warning she repeated every summer.
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Microplastics in Your Child's Bottle
Microplastics, baby bottles, and the small habits that keep a child's exposure down When my children were still on the bottle, nobody was talking about microplastics.
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Thin Is Not the Same as Strong
Why older adults need weights, not just zumba Walk past any covered court early in the morning and you will hear the music before you see the dancers.
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The Box Does Not Know Your Child
Why a child's medicine is dosed by weight, not by the age printed on the box A mother came back to my clinic with the prescription I had written for her two-year-old.
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The Prescription Pad Is Not a Finish Line
Why maintenance medicine does not end when the tablets do Thirty tablets is not a treatment. It is thirty days.
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What the Cream Cannot Reach
Creams work on the surface. A face ages underneath it. Skin is the only organ you can watch grow old.
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Feeding the Thing That Feeds You
Why the gut microbiome matters, what it wants from your plate, and what quietly starves it If you count all the cells in a person, roughly half turn out to be bacteria, most of them living in the gut.
