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We take various creatures into our home in an effort of providing shelter and building a loving familial relationship. I love my pets, and if you’re here you probably do as well. As you’re about to learn, the biggest factor for your pet living a long healthy life is you, not your vet and not you pet’s genetics. If you have already taken the responsibility of caring for your pet, then I hope you go one step further and care about the health of your pet and aim to make dog or cat’s life as long and symptom free as possible.
Ignorance of the cause of sickness is among the scariest things in life but when combined with the care of another who can’t speak and is a different species than you, you can feel powerless in an instant. The usual thing to do is ask an expert, anyone you perceive to know more about animal care than you. But shouldn’t we as guardians of these creature, have a basic understanding of how to care for our ‘fur babies’, our cats and dogs? Who do we trust to give us the right information?
As an Integrative Health Practitioner, I am able to confidently help coach other people to optimal health but when it came to helping my dog and cats I was scared to make any changes to there diet or lifestyle. I searched online knowing what I found would be similar to what everyone else finds online when they search for health information, 99% misinformation aimed to make you fearful of nature and to make you feel safe with drugs and fake food (“dog/cat food”). Everything I could find led me to believe it is dangerous to give them anything else besides the conventional. So I decided to ask someone who I trust with human natural health advice and see if they could point me in the direction of information that mirrored what I learned to be effective natural health advice for humans.
Short Recap on Why Natural/Holistic Health is More Necessary
You may be under the impression that the human body is an increasingly genetically flawed organism and that is why disease is in tandem increasing. But that is because we are told that story repeatedly, it is programed into us. The truth is, genetics is about 10% of the trouble and the environment is the remaining 90%. Layman and expert alike build their understanding on a false premise so that the answers we look for are how can we tell this malfunctioning body what it should do when the real answers lie with understanding why the body is exhibiting these symptoms then remove the ‘root cause’. Without the spinner in the paw, so to speak, the paw can heal. The common way of thinking is more akin to sewing the wound over the splinter, great job security for the whoever is doing the sewing but lousy for the long-term health of the furry patient.
I’ve been diagnosed with arthritis and hypothyroidism, I’ve coached people to naturally balance their hormones, I’ve helped with many things deemed to be caused by the body ‘messing up’ by many text books and experts and institutions. But the reality is the mainstream science community is historically wrong and I believe over time, when the truth cannot be denied any longer, the mainstream will view the truth as self-evident and scoff at their ignorant predecessors. Right now we have a choice to follow what we know doesn’t work evident by the mass decline of health or we can learn how to help the body do what it wants to do, which is be healthy and thrive.
How Do I Take Care of My Fur Babies?
I shouldn’t have been shocked to learn that our pet’s health is affected nearly identical to our own health. Acupuncture works nearly the same way on them, diet, dis-ease, exercise, detoxification, psychology, Chinese herbs, all fit into the principles that I teach in every article, video, or consultation. In a beautiful symbiotic way, if we learn to better take care of them, we learn to better take care of ourselves and vice-versa. At times what I may tell you will sound hopeless but I want you to remember that nature is capable of miraculous things even in the face of impossible odds.
The Dark History
Before we learn any better we tend to listen to the ‘experts’. These use what they are told are beneficial drugs, necessary drugs, for the well-being of the animal. Unfortunately the story is more complicated than that. Many vaccine, drugs and other practices like superficial surgeries, have long-term consequences that will catch us off guard and will seem random.
We give our pets too many vaccines, and sometimes all at the same time and all at the same dose regardless of the pets size or history. This shouldn’t come as a surprise because this one-size-fits-all approach is what we do to ourselves but what did surprise me is that the Vet has the option to see whether the previously administered vaccine effect on the immune system is still in effect and providing the ‘protection’ the vet is looking to provide in the case of an anti-body repose to the desired antigen. This is called a titer test. You have the option of seeing whether the desired immune protection response is still there, but the conventionally trained vet may view vaccines as harmless as good clean water therefore ‘who cares how many vaccines get injected, their harmless’. Vaccine fanaticism has caused unnecessary risk for millions but potentially vaccines like any tool, can still have a place.
Heart-worm, flea & tick preventatives, are they necessary? Is there anything we can do naturally? I’ll refer you to the book The Nature of Animal Healing by Martin Goldstein for more information on all the subjects I bring up here but I want to point out what we do when we feed our pets these drugs. We are essentially using a toxic chemicals to kill potential parasites that enter our pets. The liver and kidneys and other detoxifying organs need to deal with those chemicals. Basically we add poison on top of poison on top of poor nutrition which means those detoxifying organs are under performing which lead to more toxicity and inflammation that will one day pop-up as any number of symptoms that we will then give more drugs to counter or suppress those symptoms leading to a vicious cycle drug, disease, drug, disease until death. This may sound familiar because this the same way human health care is built. The answer is simple, take yourself and your pets out of the cycle, and only use these drugs for emergency, when you have no other choice.
Dog/Cat Food- Real whole food, as best you can manage to what they would consume in the wild with considerations given to the state of their health before adjusting the diet gradually towards 100% whole food.
Before making changes to their diet consider what they have been through. They have survived off of cereal for every meal for years. No matter how good the ‘dog food’ or rather cereal, it is not real food and it will lack in vital macro and micro nutrients. A common tactic in ‘food’ brands is to do what thy do in the dirty side of the supplement business which is called pixie-dusting.
Pixie-dusting is a cute name for having many good ingredients while inadequately supplying all of the ingredients, meaning a dusting of B-12 here, a dust of glucosamine here and for good measure quantum particle of D3.
Real food is the answer just as it is for humans but it is a process of trial and error and if possible should be backed up with supplements. I recommend starting with the basics which is a multi-vitamin and mineral. Just like anything, do your research on supplementation because many brands even decent brands will sell you useless supplements. To learn how to spot a good supplement go to my previous article or video; https://mathewdiazihp.medium.com/5-case-studies-to-show-you-how-to-read-a-multivitamin-label-8208aa035f42 or
https://rumble.com/vcodhl-ep-123-5-case-studies-show-you-how-to-pick-a-multivitamin-and-mineral.html
I hope this has been helpful I recommend learning from holistically minded and open minded sources like this book The Nature of Animal Healing by Martin which is a bit old but the book recommends a plethora of other good books so you can arm yourself with knowledge, not just for your own sake but for your pet’s sake.
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