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Any health related information on the following show provides general
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information only. Content presented on any show by any host
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or guests should not be substituted for a doctor's advice.
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Always consult your physician before beginning any new diet, exercise,
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or treatment program. Then now it's time for Pet Health
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Cafe where your Pet has a Voice. And here's your host,
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Bill the Pet Health Guru.
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And welcome to Pet Health Cafe, the show where your
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Pet has a Voice. This is Bill, pet Health Guru,
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with you again in a spot that you can find
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me every Thursday night. I'm here for you, here for
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your pets, here for your questions, and and a great,
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great topic. I think that will be very informative to
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a lot of pet owners out there that are trying
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to get their animals healthier, and a lot of this
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information will cross over into your health as well. As always,
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with that being said, I got a topic today because
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I've you know, I listened to what goes out in
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my store, I listen to what my clients ask me
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and that sort of thing. And there's a lot of
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confusion that's been brought about, primarily by the pet food
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industry and even the veterinary industry, on how we should
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be taking care of our pets as far as the
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nutritional area is concerned. Now, you know, since nineteen fifty
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five when kibble was invented, it's all become a marketing game,
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and sometimes the marketing is disguised as science when it
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comes to going into the veterinary veterinarian type of things.
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But is that really what we're looking for? Are we
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looking to feed our animals complete and balanced? Now you
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heard that, complete and balance, that's what it says on
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a lot of bad and it's also said that it's
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complete and balanced for all life stages. And when you
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look at the feeding chart, there's no discrepancy, there's no
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changes in most of them. Whether it's a puppy, whether
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it's an adult dog, whether it's a senior. Why did
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you find as the senior. What's the activity level, what's
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the health level? All of these things play into that
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whole thing. What I want to talk about is balancing
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your pet's diet. And I can tell you one thing
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that these foods that say they're complete and balanced, I
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have to ask you a very very simple question. Is
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the body static meaning that it never changes or is
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it dynamic, always changing? Which we know the answer. The
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dog's nutritional needs when it's sleeping are completely different than
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when it's running around and you're walking out there and
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exercising them and traveling and health's issues pop up. It's
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a moment the moment change. And I try to explain
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this to clients of course when I do consultations and
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in the store, and I'm going to explain it to
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you here. It's the marketing of the pet foods is
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nothing more than that. It's marketing and what ingredients you use,
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how much you use, all of that is subject to
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change on a moment to moment basis. Now, what I
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mean by that is in a wild animals don't have
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a choice. They eat what they can. When they can,
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they migrate looking for certain foods, looking for certain nutrition,
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so that they can they can fulfill their natural balance.
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Sometimes the nutrients they need are in abundance, and they
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may have a tendency to gorge on those food stuffs
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while it's available, and then at other times they go
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through fasting, not because they choose to like we do,
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but because there's no fully available. So we have to
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start taking all of this into consideration. As I'm looking
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at balancing a pet's diet. Now, one of the first
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things I want to get into is when we're doing diets,
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no animal should ever have basically a mono diet. And
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what I mean by that is no animal, no creature
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on earth, should be eating the same exact thing day
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in day out. When it comes to processed food, it's
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chemistry sets, the formulation is supposed to be always the same.
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That's why they can make a claim complete and balance. However,
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in nature, I mean, we can take a look at
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a cow where some of us get real milk. Other
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milk goes to obviously store ultra processed milks, but those
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cows are eating something diverse every day, even if at
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least if they're on pasture because they will eat different grasses.
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Those grasses those weeds what we consider weeds, But those
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plants will be at different life stages, and at different
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life stages they can take different vitamins, minerals, hormones, enzymes
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that are necessary for health. Now, when you get into
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industrial feed, which is what a lot of the so
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called factory farms are doing, where you have seed mixed
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that's supposed to be the same nutritionally balanced, but even
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that can vary tremendously without ever knowing it. I mean,
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let's take a standard commercial feed diet for a cow
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or horse whatever. Okay, you might see ten fifteen different
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items in there, but you start looking through, these are
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almost all industrial waste products. You know, the wheat hauls,
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the oat houlls, the soybean halls, the soybean meal. That's
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all waste products from making porn oil, soidbin oil, all
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that stuff. Those are waste products. What nutritional value to
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they have? Besides they're all dead. We need living nutrition.
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Every animal needs living nutrition in order to thry. So
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right there, we're starting out with a problem in making
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that complete and balanced statement. Second part of that is
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corn that's grown in Iowa is different than corn grown
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in Pennsylvania. Different varieties that are used, the soil is
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completely different. Some soil is going to be deficient in
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a lot of minerals. It's interesting because as our mass
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produced foods are done up in the Great Plains, because
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the land is flat for the most part, and we
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can run a combine for two miles without having to
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go up or down a hill, without even crossing a
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stream sometimes. So we have big, huge fields with these big, monstrous,
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expensive combines can do a lot of production. But when
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you get into places like upstate New York and Pennsylvania
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and Ohio, you know, basically where you have a lot
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of rolling ground, you can't use these big pieces of
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equipment because the terrain is such that you just can't
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get any efficiency. So those farms are raising it on
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smaller plots that are probably much better managed than these
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huge super farms that we find out in the Midwest.
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So the mineral content is going to be completely different.
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And I'm going to ask you a question. So, Okay,
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I got in a shipment of corn from Iowa and
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I test it. My next order is coming in from Pennsylvania.
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I test that do I have to change my diet formulation,
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which every batch of brain that comes in. Do you
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think they're going to do that? Do you think there's
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going to be a chemist up there?
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Like?
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Okay, so we have one hundred tons from here and
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we got two hundred tons from there. Now what do
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I have to do to do the math? Run it
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through my supercomputer, and we have to adjust the amounts
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to balance it out. But what about insect damage? What
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about improperly mature seed? All these things enter into it.
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And now I'm going to throw something into it that
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most veterinarians, most animal nutritionists, most doctors have no clue
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about those grain silos. I grew up in Buffalo, New York,
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and of course that at one point in time was
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the grain capital of the world. Can believe it, because
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everything coming from the Midwest came into the Buffalo Harbor,
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was stored there, got it put on either canal barges
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to be shipped to New York and Boston Harbors, be
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shipped overseas or to other cities in the United States.
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And of course, once the railroads came in, that took
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the place of the canal, the Erie Canal. But it's
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in these huge, huge concrete bunkers, basically the skyscraper. If
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you've ever seen a picture of the Buffalo waterfront, it's
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really eerie to see all these grain towers. But what
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people don't understand is, and I know it because I
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worked in a period of mill in that area. My
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father spent most of his career working in there as
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a maintenance electrician. Once a month, those plants close down
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for one weekend. Otherwise are running seven days a week,
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but one weekend every month they close down the plants
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to fumigate it. They're pumping that grain with our snack
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and other insecticidal killing products to kill all the insects
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that are hatching out. In that process, that food is contaminated,
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it's adults rated, it's not whole food, and most people
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don't realize that. So this is one of the reasons
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why we stay away from, especially in the carnivores. We're
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going to stay away from all the grains and the
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ultra processed foods that use them now, but moving away
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from that grain basin where all this stuff comes from.
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That grain is even being fed to our beef cattle
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and to our dairy cattle, So those insecticides and that fumigation,
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that mineral imbalance. All of those are going into our
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feed animals, our chickens, our turkeys, our cows. To a
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lesser extent buys in cheap goats, but it's still there.
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So we have these contaminants, we have these impurities, we
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have these imbalances already being created. So the myth of
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that marketing just went out the window. Now again, dogs
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and cats are carnivores. You'll hear the a lot of
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veterinarians will tell you that, no, they're omnivores. They're not.
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They've never been reclassified. They're reclassified by the big three
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food companies, not by science. And there's a whole bunch
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of myth that you can actually put together a carnivore
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diet using plants. Components aren't the same. You can't get
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the amino acids that without high processing, and if you do,
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processed food is not recognized by the body as real.
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So we can't captivate. We can't capture the minerals, the enzymes,
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the vitamins that are in that synthetic like we do
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from whole foods, and the top that off, we're the
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only creature on the face of the earth that cooks
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our food and destroys those enzymes and those vitamins. Everything
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else eats raw food every single day of their life. Now,
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I had a client, just to give you a little
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sidebar here, I had a couple of clients come in
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asking about the eggs that we sell and why sometimes
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you know, you'll get a dozen eggs and ours our
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pasture raised, completely pasture raised, not fed any sois or
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corn or anything like that. And why is it that
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some of the yolks are yellow and some are orange,
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Because there's a myth out there that if those big,
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those nice orange yolks are proof that it's raised on
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a pasture, it's a falsehood. Again, because today food dyes,
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food additives are being added to chickens diets to make
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the yolks different colors, green or purple ones. We can
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probably do that, but anyway, the variation is because of
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the feed that they're eating. The weather, all of that
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takes a dynamic part of that food coming together within
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that food animal. Now, one of the things I discussed
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with them, and I actually brought to their attention is
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weather has a lot to do with it. Well, you know,
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the warmer, the weather the more insects you're gonna have.
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But if your neighbor's been spraying their crops with insecticide
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and you get to drift into your pastures, guess what,
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We've got fewer bugs that they can feed on. You're
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gonna be more dependent on the grasses and what kind
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of grasses are they? Again, we have to figure all
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this stuff in on the backside. That's what I do.
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That's why I look at the food the way I
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do and how that works out because of the body
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always changing the dynamics moment to moment, and because of
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the inconsistency of any food, any given food that's out there,
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a rotational diet is paramount eat something different as many
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times a week as you can. They're animals. Every day
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should be a brand new entree one day, chicken, one day, turkey,
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one day, beef, lamb fish, seafood, whatever it happens to be.
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But do that be consistent with that rotation because all
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foods bring in different nutrients. I mean, you can take
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the three main steaks and beef, tenderloin, delmonocos or rabbis
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a New York strip, all three of them taste different
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because they contain different nutrients. It's that simple. So you
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know when you have a craving for one over the other,
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or like one over the other, it's because that's what
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your body needs. Because now we're starting to work on
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dynamics of natural selection of the diet cravings. That's why
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you crave on natural stuff, certain cuts on a synthetic stuff.
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We have cravings because of addictive drugs that are added
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to them. But the rotational diet is so important now
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when I talk about that too, I have clients that
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come up to me and said, I've been doing a
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rotational diet and it's not It doesn't going to be
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working as well as you said it would. So I
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asked what to do. Well, I bought chicken, I bought lamb,
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I bought turkey, I bought beef, and I bought some salmon. Okay,
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that's a good start. That's five Okay, so five days
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a week we can get different stuff. Well, no, I