Iligan Lifestyle and Obesity Medicine - Miguel Elijah T. Bibera MD PHD

07/09/2026

Agi og pag-amping batok sa "haze" (kuyaw nga a*o ug polusyon sa hangin) diri sa Iligan City, aniay mga pahimatngon gikan sa health authorities:

✅ Pahimatngon sa Panglawas:
- Magpabilin sa Sulod sa Balay: Kutob sa mahimo, likayi ang paggawas labi na sa mga bata, matagulangon, mabdos, ug kadtong adunay hupang sa baga sama sa hika (asthma) o sakit sa kasingkasing.
- Mag-suot og Face Mask: Kon kinahanglan gyud nga mogawas, mag-suot og N95 mask. Kon walang N95, mogamit og basang panyo o panapton aron matabonan ang ilong ug baba.
- Isira ang mga bintana ug pultahan aron dili makasulod ang hugaw nga hangin ug a*o sa sulod sa inyong panimalay.
- Inom og Daghang Tubig: Aron magpabilin nga hydrated ug makatabang sa paghugas sa tunlan kon makasinati og pagka-uga.
- Pangayo og Tabang sa Doktor: Kon makasinati og kalisod sa paggawas sa ginhawa, ubo, pagsakit sa dughan, o pangingit sa mata, adto dayon sa pinakaduol nga clinic o ospital.

05/09/2026

𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗬𝗟𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗣𝗬 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗗𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗗𝗜𝗔𝗟𝗬𝗦𝗜𝗦.

House Bill 2943, the “Preventive & Lifestyle Medicine Act of the Philippines,” seeks to make evidence-based preventive and lifestyle interventions more accessible and affordable for Filipinos—including patients at risk of chronic kidney disease and those in its earlier stages.

Today, we invest substantial healthcare resources in dialysis, kidney transplantation, and post-transplant care. These services are essential and life-saving. But we must also ask:

What if we invested more—earlier—to help prevent or slow the progression of chronic kidney disease before patients reach kidney failure?

Evidence-based lifestyle therapy, integrated with appropriate medical management, can address major modifiable drivers of chronic disease and support better cardiometabolic and kidney health.

This is not about replacing dialysis, transplantation, medications, or specialty care. It is about strengthening the healthcare continuum by making prevention and lifestyle treatment accessible before advanced disease develops.

A sustainable healthcare system should not only pay for the consequences of chronic disease. It should invest in preventing those consequences whenever possible.
From reactive care to proactive care.
From treating complications to addressing their causes and risk factors.
From disease management to prevention.

Join the Philippine College of Lifestyle Medicine in supporting the passage of House Bill 2943 — the Preventive & Lifestyle Medicine Act of the Philippines.

Let us make preventive and lifestyle medicine accessible, evidence-based, and part of mainstream healthcare.

The issue is not a choice between prevention and dialysis. The central issue is why public financing becomes so much more generous after kidneys fail than before they do.

Link to the full story in the comments section.

04/09/2026

Inspired to see our patients progress, heal and find joy in the process. 💚

One patient today is now 10 kg closer to their healthy weight-management goal, with improvements in metabolic health, lipids, quality of life, confidence and the return of once absent menstrual cycles.

Obesity care so much more than the number on the scale. It is about restoring physical and mental health, improving quality of life, and helping patients move closer to their health, life, and family goals.

For this patient and their spouse, that hope is to start their family next year. 🤲🏻👐🏻

This is why we continue to promote comprehensive, compassionate, and evidence-based obesity care.

Please feel free to contact the page for online and in-person lifestyle and obesity medicine care.

04/09/2026

We look forward to celebrating the 69th Annual Medicine Week with the Philippine Medical Association - Iligan Medical Society, through promoting healthy workers and workplaces. 👷🏻👩‍💼🧑🏻‍💻

Dr. Elijah Bibera - Lifestyle-related Diseases, Obesity, Diabetes, and Stress Management
Dr. Karen Magahin - Ergonomics and Injury Prevention
Dr. Gerard Ong - Smoking cessation

The lecture fora will be broadcast to the Holcim plants for their workers throughout the Philippines. 👐🏻❤️

We thank the hardworking IMS team, immediate past president Dr. Reyes, together with the IMS - PAFP, PCCP, PCOM, and Holcim administration with company physician Dr. Paolo Bacquiano, for the organization of the event.

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02/09/2026

GLP-1s may reduce binge eating and similar behaviours in people living with obesity, suggests the most comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis to date, published in eClinicalMedicine.

Find out more 👉 http://spkl.io/61897yUsZ

Figure: Visual summary of included studies and main findings.