Caring for a Senior Pet

0:00 Any health related information on the following show provides general information only. Content presented on any show by any host or guest should not be substituted for a doctor's advice. Always consult your physician before beginning any new diet, exercise, or treatment program. And then now it's time for Pet Health Cafe where your Pet has a Voice. And here's your host, Bill, the Pet Health Guru.

0:43 And welcome to the Pet Health Cafe to show where your pet has a voice. This is Bill your Pet Health Gurroum, along with my special guest host, doctor Michael Dim. How are we doing tonight, Doc? Well, how about yourself? Hey, another damn paradise? What can I tell you? Yeah? But Thursdays go on Dog days of August, right, My Thursdays have become very interesting. We've been kind of tracking it over the last couple of months, and it seems that I at the show of course here on Thursday night, but my Thursday afternoons I have more people in there wanting me to talk. So I started like at one o'clock and I don't shut up until after this show is over.

1:24 Yeah, I referred to we referred to you one today that wanted to die and you know, she wanted you to interpret her all if she called the allergy test results on a test. Oh, I know you don't, I know your viewpoint on it, so I could have made it I sent her. Yeah, No, I mean it's it's it's I don't remember that particular one. When we had several new customers today, And actually I want to give a shout out to those that have been watching lately because I've been getting a lot of good feedback at the store. In fact, I had one new customer today that came in so she's been watching the show and I and we had her in tears because she was treating her dog so bad before she she stumbled upon us. You know. So I guess we're impacting some people anyway, which is a good thing. And it seems as though it keeps growing and growing and growing, which is a good thing.

2:20 Absolutely is sure more information, as you say, get get the word out there. Yeah, And even though sometimes we repeat the same things, you know, every week, it's it's interesting because we approach it from different angles, and some people pick up on it one way and other people, you know, you have to run it down the three four different ways before it's all sudden, like, oh really, you know they have to wake up. Yeah, well, it comes down to like you know I mentioned they're posted about. You know, it's very simple when you break it down to it. You know, the keys to good health, you know, it all comes back to thee whatever organ system we're doing, it all comes down to the same basic principles, right and you know, not that we can't we don't need certain specific treatments for different clinical conditions, but you know in terms of prevention, and the best treatment is prevention. You know what we preach every week is really what.

3:17 Yeah, it basically it basically comes out of those basic things. You know, it's about the toxicity. It's about the malnutrition, you know, the proper diets they go along with that, staying away from these toxic chemical That was on the phone with a practitioner in Canada last night, and it's like, you know, same mindset everything else. So the words getting out, the idea is getting out that we have to do things a little bit better. And it's really it really does boil down to being a simple approach. And of course the night we want to talk about a subject that you brought up of of course those of us senior care. And I don't think most you know, most pet owners even realize the longevity that their pet is supposed to be. They've been you know, lied to so for so long in the veterinary community that a senior you know, they're starting senior panels at what five and six years old, and if you're if you're if your dog makes it that eight or ten, you know, you want to be you know, thankful, you know that he lived that long and not look at what the natural lifespan would be, would would be normally over twenty years and maybe even as much as thirty and it's, uh, you know, it's one of the things I think we have to stress a lot more that you know, you're not getting the full healthy life of your pet even in that eight years because of all the procedures and

4:47 practices and you know everything that's that's that goes on from the time you acquire a brand new kitten or a puppy. Isn't that true? Yeah, no, it truly is. That's put it Bill, you know, But senior animals are obviously there. You know, it's a big population of our animals, and you know, because they're getting sicker, you know, gurageous. We have to implement senior care even even early on. But you know, it's definitely a you know, an aspect of health care that I think we should talk about. And you certainly you know there's a lot of a lot of aspects of senior healthcare, which I'm sure we'll get into tonight.

5:28 Yeah. I mean, it's it's like you know, when I was looking in and again putting together some of my ideas and my thoughts and that sort of thing on it the aging, the aging process, and you know, I kind of look at this as far as the human aspect as well. It's not about a numerical time, but it's it. You know, we age because of the accumulation of a lot of bad things we do to the body, Isn't it true? Right, that's right. What goes in is what you know comes out, so to speak. But you know it's true, and we put if you have a healthy lifestyle and you you know, minimize the chemical exposure and the toxic exposure as best as possible and feed that species appropriate diet, which probably we should jump right into and just say that, you know, one of the biggest things about senior healthcare with conventional veentory medicine. Is is that you know, as soon as they start to see little signs of kidney disease, dysfunction or liver issues, they're immediately recommending, you know, low protein diets for these animals, you know, just to quote unquote spare the workload on these organs. But as I'm sure we'll just you know, you can get into as an expert in that area. You know, when we reduce the proteins, we're actually creating accelerated aging and break down of the body. So and there are some studies you know that that have shown that even I think you mentioned previous shows about the study at ten where I went to school, and you know that it was about

7:01 how low protein diets I think accelerated kidney disease. Yeah, what the problem was is when they found kidney diseases, they were putting you know, basically in the classroom. Of course, you had you know, the commercial pet food people saying that of course the lower no protein diets and you know, the hydrolyzed proteins and all this stuff, and on the you cross over the hallway into the research part of it, and it had nothing to do with the amount of protein. It had everything to do with the types of protein, because carnivores are designed to break down you know, animal based diets not you know, not corn and wheat and soybean and you know, potato starts and you know all that stuff. And of course when we looked at it on the back side of that too, when you start diminishing the amount of protein, of usable protein, metabolic protein in for a carnivore, the body still has to maintain the heart. That's the most important, you know, functioning part of the body, and that stops your dead. I mean, there's no two ways about it. And the body in order to try to keep the heart healthy, will steal the muscle proteins basically any place they can in the in the body, and generally, especially on big dogs, you see it immensely where the back the whole back end just becomes skin and bones and they have all kinds

8:31 of hip and joint problems and muscle the muscle can't even hold up the body anymore. And it's because it's just trying to feed that heart, keep that alive. And you know, I mean, how healthy can that be? You know, that animal be I mean you know, we cut down the protein and we created a brand new problem. And I don't know why. You know, again, the medical areas of the professional just don't even look at the research, because that's been out there. I think I reported on probably ten to fifteen. It's been probably fifteen years ago when I looked up the studies. But I also have to tell you that if you go in back into the archives at PEN you will not find that research, you know, because of course they partnered with I think they partnered with while they partnered with one of the big pet food companies, and all that research just disappears right because it's contrary to what the pet food companies you know, want you to know. I forgot at the beginning of the show to tell people go ahead and jump on the chat and of course like us and you know, share this podcast. Let's get everybody on here tonight if we can. I mean, that would be a great thing to do. You've already got a question up there, at what age do you do you consider a senior dog?

9:53 Well, in today's country, in the United States, the conventionally treated animal, of course, the senior is, like you mentioned, is going to be a lot younger than if they were raised in a in a purest way, and I should say over generations, because that's the best way to get healthier, you know, aspects of young animals in this generation. But the answer the question, I mean, again conventionally weird animal, It depends upon the size of the dog typically, so you know, that's how conventional vets have always looked at it. And you know, and the size of the dog. You know, basically a large breed dog like a Great Dane or a giant breed dog in other words, you know those type of breeds, great Pyrenees, U these breeds they're aging.

10:36 I mean, they're considered seniors, like you mentioned at the start of the show, after you know, four or five years of age, because their lifespan in this country is what eight or ten years. And then the smaller breeds, the poodles and the toy breeds, you know, they say the senior ages and until you know, after ten. So you know, the answer to that question depends upon the breed. But as you said earlier, if we raise them the way they're supposed to be raised, and as I mentioned, especially if it's done over generations, so you have healthier healthier animals to begin with, there's no reason why animals can live to be well over twenty Like you said, Yeah, well, you know. It's interesting, you know, listenly know what you're saying there, and that short thing with the big breeds and that strat thing. You know, I kind of I have, you know, this gut feeling that so many of those those giant breeds and the big breeds of dogs have this much shorter lifespan because when you're feeding a species inappropriate diet, primarily a carbohydrate based diet, of course they have a tendency to put on a lot of weight and excessively have trouble getting around just because of the extra weight.

11:46 And of course the common approach to preventing that is a cut down on their diet, cut down on the calories that they're getting so they don't gain weight. And basically, I think these animals are are shorter lived because of starvation, if you will, or at least very very severe malnutrition. Yeah, yeah, no, it's and again it's you mentioned, it's the quality of the food, and the body goes into what we call a state of catabolism when it breaks down the protein. You see that atrophy over the muscles, you know, very common in cats too. They get very atrophied over their backbones and backbone and lower end of the body. So you know, we see that muscle wasting and it's often due to you know, the poor diets, the indigestible diets that they're that they're eating. Keep in mind all the chronic diseases that are linked to these diets, anything from cancer, which is obviously the number one, you know killer of dogs and cats today. The quality of those ingredients, the carcinogenic additives all go into you know, cancer increases the other We see a lot of diabetes and animals today very epidet is. And again the carbohydrate type diets over time are gonna is going to stress that pancreas and again lead to autoimmune issues. As I talk about all the time, most of these diseases of the body are due to an overactive immune system secondary to all the toxins we talk about each week on

13:17 the show. So when the immune system attacks the pancreas or the cells that make insulin, we get destruction of that and then we get diabetes. And again the carbohydrates just accelerate that. So you know, diabetes, we see mentioned cancer, you know, all sorts of hormonal disorders that we're seeing in senior pets. A lot of those have to do with the the ingredients and the pet food. So you know, it starts with what we eat always. Right exactly, you know, and you know, of course, you know we're talking about seeing your care and that sort of thing, and you know, when should we when should we really start that that prevention, if you will, of preventing the senior type issues. Isn't it when they're first born?

14:10 Yes, yes, that's right from our perspectives. Absolutely, But let's you know, for the purposes of the show, say that you know an animal, you know client comes into either you or me, and you know they've been raised in a typically conventional that officers they have some chronic problem that they want to try and solve. I mean, that population of animals usually has been somewhat raised at least partially on the conventional medical model. So you know, when we see our senior animals, I know my colleagues talk about this all the time. I mean, it is good to do some diagnostic testing, even though you and I talk about all the time. Out of the diagnostic testing isn't very sensitive, you know, and it often misses things. But certainly as a baseline, it's not a bad idea.

14:53 Just to get a rough idea and you know, you bring your animal in for a full exam if possible. You know, the field, the field, the abdomen, listen to the heart lungs. I mean that should be done once or twice a year in a senior pet. Again, the problem with going to the conventional vets is they want to do the heartworm tests and the medications and the vaccine. So you know, a senior visit becomes a you know, a recipe for a nightmare. But in general, we want to look at you know, an exam, you know, the Latin, some diagnostics. You know, getting a thorough history, which is always so important. A history on our patients is is huge because that gives us most of our information lifestyle from homeopathic perspectives, this individual symptom history of the patient, all the different body systems, you know, all of that would go into a senior assessment from my perspective as a as a holistic vet, because my approach is going to be individualized based upon you know, all of that information.

15:52 So you know, we bring them in and we do the we do the assessment and you know, we'll do the initial diagnostics. Hopefully they'll be on board for a homeopathic work up and usually I'll you know, talk about diet often refer them to, you know, work with you and you know, in a teamwork type approach, and you know, we'll often you know, do both herbal and dietary therapies and at the same time, as I said, I try and use homeopathic remedies to address a lot of these symptom tendencies that build up over the years. And it's amazing how senior animals can respond. People often think, well, they're old, you know, they're they're sick, they're not going to be able to respond. But as I'm sure you would mention, it's remarkable how pets can respond to our treatments and foods and that kind of stuff.

16:41 It is really amazing, you know. I mean I get people command and it's like, you know, well, I don't want to change the dieties ten years old. He's eight years old. You know, it's too late. And you know it's like stop and think about ourselves. I mean, you know, we don't stop eating and we don't well, I mean, I guess some people do avoid certain foods and that sort of thing because they're afraid of changing, you know, they're routines. But I mean, first off, we have to break away from that fear, you know, because we put too you know, people put too much of their own emotion sometimes into it. I had a client today who's working with dogs, and we were talking about you know, even small dogs eating, you know, having recreational bones, and just explaining that she had one experience years ago where one of our dogs cracked a tooth on a marrow bone.

17:36 I said, you know, a marrow bone is probably the hardest bone that you can get because it's usually beef. And you know that animals, you know, a year and a half to two years old, so it's fully formed and the bones are good and hard. But when you look at things like you know, like chicken necks and turkey necks and pork bones and lamb bones, all of these which those animals are slaughtered so young, they're soft. And of course the next concern as well, what happens if they you know, won't they choke on? Can't they choke on the bonus that they can choke on? Water. They can choke on anything. And if they try to swallow, you know, well, my dog's like to swallow everything. I said, yeah, that's what they're supposed to do. They tear and swallow. They're not supposed to be standing. They're massacating like.

18:18 A dog ry a really good cow. Rather, you know, they don't. They don't regurgitate and keep chewing and chewing and chewing. It's uh, earror and swallow, terror and swallow. And if they get something caught in their throat, they have a mechanism to get rid of it. And it doesn't matter whether they're six weeks old or sixteen years old. Isn't that true? That's very true. Yes, you know, the body adapts very quickly, especially with diet. It's going to you know, yes, you're going to get things like diarrhea and vomiting sometimes when you do a quick change. But that's housekeeping. It's not that's not a sickness, it's you know, that's probably one of the biggest disservices I think that the medical community has done to us as well as to our animals. It's like, you know, every time that you know you have gas, oh my god, we better go to the er. You know, it's like, no, that's what the body is supposed to be doing, and you won't have that gas if you're if you're eating the right foods.

19:19 The same thing with our dogs and our cats. You know, we have to we have to discharges, like you said exactly. I mean, the body is very very. Precise and very accurate in doing and getting rid of the things it has to using the things that's supposed to. It breaks down the foods obviously the way it's supposed to do with the right you know, digestive enzymes and things like that, and then we end up with I think called health. So we're at the break already. I can't believe it, but we'll be right back after this quick break.

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22:17 All right, and we're back here on a pet house cafe. To show where your pet has voice is to build a pet house Guru along with doctor Michael Dim Again, I want people to share this wherever possible. Go ahead and hit that like button so we get our algorithms up so more and more people can enjoy what we're and learn from what we're putting out there. Subscribe so you don't miss any more of those, and jump into the chat with any of your questions. Before we went to break, I did see there was a question about dental. We should get into some of the clinical conditions we see in these older animals. I agree we might manage them well. The first thing I wanted to bring up back because I made him note here during the break, is as we were talking about, you know, with the older animals, people you know, are afraid to make the changes and things of that nature, but in realistic terms, which is actually harder on the body going through a detox or being poisoned and breaking down.

23:17 Yeah, good point. That's basically two choices, isn't it. The same could be said of like the question was asking about dental disease. So you know, it's usually a degenerator process in the mouth that actually leads to you know, overgrowth a bad bacteria or you know, build up a plaque and tarter and then secondary gum inflammation. But it's all again chronic illness that is again exacerbated by the same factors we talk about, bad foods, immune reactions against the toxins, the vaccines and all of that. But you know, the vetinary dental industry is a huge industry, as we've spoken about on many shows. As you said, as you said, many decades ago, there was you know, when you first got into this, there was minimal dentals done. And now it's, like I said, a big business. And you know, every practice is getting dental X rays and you know, and it's and what happens is is that when animals go in for dentals and loose teeth. You know, they're they're being bombarded with all sorts of drugs and chemicals and anesthetics and pain meds and antibiotics. And sometimes they catch them up on their shots at the same time, so they're deluged with a nagerie of chemicals and you know that stress just to clean teeth and pull of tooth.

24:39 You know, it's just there's a lot of damage on the But I can't tell you how many animals I see in my holistic practice where you know, the clinical complaint is he's never been right here or she's never been right since they had a dental. So you know, you and I of course are much more proactive with that. I mean, just feeding a raw diet with you know, raw bones is going to act as a natural uh you know, washer of the teeth and removing of the plaque. You know, the gums improve on a species appropriate diet. And we also have you know, like you've talked about, you'll use Manuka honey on the gums as a natural antibacteria, will use coconut oil and so there are all these other options, you know, and you know, I don't recommend these these dentals unless an animals in a severe discomfort or you know, it's a huge situation. But even dental abscesses, I want to put a you know, commercial in for homeopathy dental abscesses. You know, it can be treated with remedies where they you know, they rupture and they heal once they open and discharge. So homeopathy does wonderful with tooth root abscesses. So a lot of the clients who have their animals that have a tooth root problem, it's a very expensive dental with a you know, a really severe extraction that's hard on the body of of the big tooth. So you know, uh, denal can be prevented by doing some of the things you and I talk about here.

26:04 Yeah, And it's funny because I was looking at some statistics and some procedures and that sort of thing. Even on the human side. Now, of course there's more, you know, the biological dentists that are out there and looking at more natural approaches and that sort of thing. But looking over in time and you know, I'm obviously the human dentistry practice has been around a lot longer than veterinary and when you look at some of the statistics between the botched root canals and you know, fillings and you know even cleanings and humans and stuff like that. With all that experience, with those many years and all that that specialized schooling, if you will, what is really the state of veterinary dentistry, I mean by compared.

26:50 To them exactly? Yeah, you know, I mean, like I say, it wasn't even a veterinary code until the middle nineteen eighties, middle or the end only because I was selling deadal equipment back then that I'm aware of that, But you know, they weren't doing anything up till then. So basically you're looking like only forty years of a total experience, right and research right. Well, again, it's the same factors, the food, even the vaccines, you know, especially cats that have this red ginger vitis that causes a lot of discomfort eat. You know, there was a Venory dentist several decades ago that published a paper that you know, the upper respiratory viruses and seen in cats are factors. But I've seen the upper respiratory viruses coming from the vaccines that trigger the immune gum issues and the ginger vitis. It's often again, these are all immune mediated illnesses that are you know, the immune system is attacking the body's own tissues because of these triggers from the environment and what we're injecting, and then we get ginger vitis. So you know, like we want to bring up back scenes. When it comes to senior pets, you should try and avoid them at all costs, you know, because they do trigger you know, worsening arthritis, you know, problems with the nervous system, urinary incontinence, which is a big problem in sure age and older, especially female dogs because the loss of their hormones. So you know, uh,

28:21 you know, we just have to be mindful that a lot of our interventions you know, can trigger worsening of these senior diseases. In other words, are conventional interventions, So you know, mindful of the vaccines for sure. Yeah. Now I did see another question up there. You know, the general problems, uh, create problems and compromise the heart, there's no do I mean, it's compromises basically every system in the body, doesn't it. Well, I think the question was poor dental health leading to heart disease. Absolutely it does. But poor you know, when you use the term poor dental health and you look at you know, some of the senior animals. That's used as a fear point to get the clients to actually get these dentals. They stay frightened them. If you don't do this, they're gonna get disease in their heart, or their liver, or their kidneys. And actually, over my thirty something years of doing this, I've seen plenty of older animals, including you know, two animals that I know that are very old and haven't been to the vet in years other than periodic exam by me. And you know, you know, we don't worry about the teeth leading to all these problems. The body, like you say all the time, Bill has this innate wisdom to kind of preserve the heart function. So I rarely have ever seen animals that have quote unquote poor allopathically defined dental health developing problems with their heart or their kidneys or deliver that's just a it's actually a fear based tactic that you use to get animals to If you don't clean these teeth,

29:52 you're gonna have all sorts of problems. And I just don't find that right. It's you know, unfortunately, you're you're right on that. I mean, it is you know, any kind of real challenge where we're not basically trying to do optimal you know, foods and health and uh, keep the bodies resources in that optimal state. Every single breakdown can have an effect on another body part, and you know it because the body is always trying to compensate. And you know we we didn't throw in I mean, you know these poor animals that were spade and neutered and altered, you know, as as infants basically, and you know we're taxing that body from day one, and that's going to have a major effect on on that senior care, isn't it.

30:48 Yeah, Well, we talked in previous shows about the lack of the sex hormones leading to all sorts of problems, not just uh, you know, the loss of the hormone function, but cancer and own and joint issues and cancer across many organ systems are all significantly increased, especially in the early neutered or spain animal. And not to mention all the middle age and senior hormonal problems, thyroid disease and adrenal gland problems, these diabetes. Again, these epidemics often are related to not just the food issues that we describe, but also a loss of sex hormones leading to these other diseases when they become middle aged or older. So you're right, you know, we have to be mindful of you know, of that early span and neutering.

31:36 Yeah. Well, of course, you know too when we look at that, you know, you're looking at the development of the body at a very young age. If it doesn't develop properly, that whole system is going to have a much more limited life, isn't it. Yeah, now what sure is? I agree? So you know, you know, we take a look at that. Unfortunately, so many of our pets have gone through this stuff at such an early age, and you know, and then of course creating onto the bad foods and getting onto all the medications and everything else, and it's you know, it does present a major challenge, you know, for the pet owner and of course on the other side, and then it presents a major challenge as far as economics is concerned, isn't it.

32:22 Yeah, No, it does. It does present challenges. You know, these are very expensive things. Yeah. Yeah, going back to the senior aspect of things, so the you know, you know, when we look at different types of problems again, you mentioned the staying in the neutering. You know, we also look at you know, the cancer issue. Now, so many animals have these innocent lumps and bumps and fatty tumors and skin tags, and we talk about that all the time and the multi factorial component of those things. But you know, having these lumps and bumps removed we are aspirated, is probably the worst thing that a client can do, because, as I told a client today, by removing these external expressions of overgrowth of tissue, we actually increase the likelihood that they're going to get sicker inside the body deeper with either other cancers of different types or other origin dysfunction later on. So we want to avoid kind of removing and aspirating these lumps and bumps on these senior animals.

33:30 And you know, and again you and I have ways of approaching these issues where these bumps and lumps can often you know, get smaller or fall off, and as a minimum, we're going to increase the health so that again these animals don't get sick with internal cancer. So you know, cancer is a biggie, you know, I know we are up on a break, but we can also look at you know, also joint issues. You know, again are a pandemic in our animals senior you know, cognitive issues, you know obviously organ disease and you know, I know I want to put a plug in and maybe we'll do it. Have to break for you know, a good detox protocol for Middle Asian senior animals with good herbal foods like you have at the store.

34:12 Yeah, I mean as an important part of it. And you know, like I said, we'll do what. You know why I brought it up at the beginning of the segment. You know which is worse. I mean, you know, the stress of being poisoned or detox. I mean it's uh, you know, you know as a pet owner you have to make that choice. But you know, we know the outcome on poisoning that it's not going to get any better. But if we're doing a detox and getting fixing those cells and feeding them proper way, they're going to replicate in a good, healthy fashion and that's only going to lead to better things. We're going to be right back after this quick message.

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36:00 Are clean and all natural, species appropriate diets are made daily in small batches from local farm fresh dairy products. Over one hundred herbal and botanical verbal products are available by only the best, any clean. To learn more called Biocomplete Natural Diets and Herbs nine five four four seven two one four zero four or visit Biocomplete Naturaldiets dot com. And we're back here in a pet Heal's cafe to show where your Pet's Voice. This is build a pet Heal School rule with my special guest host, doctor Michael dimm I don't know that I've got any sound right now. No, I do you hear me? Are you okay? Uh so, I guess I guess we're okay. I don't know if rebels checking on anything or not, but it seemed like we ran into a little bit of goods there. One of the senior things that I hear a lot about too with older animals and that sort of thing that's kind of taking the place of like being expected, and that's vision problems, eye problems, cataracts, just going blind. And of course it's the same thing with I guess the hearing again. You know, when we look at it, I mean, I see the toxicity problem with that. Obviously, the body

37:34 is trying to keep a lot of these toxins away from the brain, and so the areas around them are going to be affected by those toxins, aren't they. Yeah, No, absolutely, it sure is. And you know, you bring up a good point. The eyes and the ears are common complaints. But the one thing I alse tell clients is is that you know, if there's one sense dogs can do with that and they know their way around everywhere from their sense of smell and other senses. Is if they're not seeing, it's not I mean, obviously we don't want that, but they they utilize their other senses and it's amazing how they really have a good quality of life sometimes even without their vision. But you're right about the role of toxins play again, and you know that's what again this is all about, is trying to also find other natural alternatives to the traditional treatments.

38:25 So like with early cataracts and early eye problems, and you know, if we go on certain herbals and you know, like you have at the store, I know you have a blend for eye health with all sorts of herbs for eye health and you know again the foods and homeopathy and a lot of times we can lessen or occasionally reverse eye pathology. The same could be said of you know, joint problems in our animals. Yeah, you know a lot of these middle aged senior animals, they have all these newer injections now for both dogs and cats, you know, drugs that I I recently joined a Facebook support group for the one that's approved for dogs. For several weeks at a time. And you know a lot of these newer drugs as well as the older drugs, they have all sorts of problems. And on this you know support group, I wrote a column and you know, and it said, you know how my experience of what I've seen animals have side affection these things. So whether it's the nonsteroidal anti inflammatory drugs like the Remadill's and the medicams you know, the trade and age or the Gabba pentans and you know which is a nerve pain medicine that they use for pain and animals. You know, there are other herbal alternatives and homeopathic alternatives that are less toxic on the body. And I know you have some herbal lens for a joint issues, you know, the joints AM and PM product, the you know the pain and inflammation, I mean chalk full of herbs, you know, white willow and boswilia, and you know, I could think of some others Devil's claw. You know, there's a lot

39:56 of good natural alternatives to these strong drugs that have an effect on our animals and upside effects on their liver kidneys, you know, other I means, so you know, just because an animal slowing down doesn't mean, you know, we're developing joint problems, neurologic problems. Doesn't mean we have to run and go to the strong drugs, at least not initially. And then we have to keep in mind also the acupuncture and chiropractic and massage and water therapy, underwater therapy, hydrotherapy, these are all wonderful, you know. Uh, you know, non harm causing interventions that work wonderfully with good food and homeopathy. So there's other, you know, supports other than the standard drug therapies that are used for these aging diseases in our animals.

40:43 And you know, it's interesting. I had a client in earlier this week and we were talking a little bit about the joint problems, and of course we talked a little bit about the wasting type disease you know, in the back legs and that sort of thing. And I just was upfront with her and I said, you know that my approach and this is the way it was in the health industry, And I said, my approach is that basically, it's it's a it's a toxicity problem. The poisons are being moved to that doue, to those extremities and it's causing that weakness and that sort of thing. I said. But you go into the allopathic model, the first thing you get is a referral to a neurologist. Obviously it must be you know, a neurological problem. And uh, you know, at the end of the day here, you know, we haven't really addressed the problem. They generally can't find the problem, isn't that true?

41:36 No, they can, and they end up with, you know, a diagnosis of idiopathic which again I always use the term idiot pathic because we're the idiots you mentioned. And so, yeah, they don't find the cause, and then we're left with the same symptomatic medications, you know, the antibiotics, prednizonner steroids and if they're having seizures, and then we use anti convulsive and so nothing that gets at the underlying cause of the problem. And like you said, after these expensive thousands of dollars work ups, they end up just being put on these few classes of medications. So they're looking for some magic cause that the traditional model is going to cure, and it just isn't there.

42:17 Yeah, And of course this is a you know, of course, this is things that are. You know, it's sad this hours going by fast, but these are things that accumulate over time, so they be these all become senior issues, right, you know. And it's it's like I think a lot of ped owners don't understand. It's like, why my dog, I mean, it was so good. I've been him on you know this food and you know, I've been to the vet. I've made every single appointment and everything else. Why is my dog falling apart at eight or ten years of age? Right? Right? And you know it shouldn't be that way, right. No, it shouldn't. And you know the young guy, you know large you know, dogs like Golden Retrievers getting cancer at age eight or nine and that's considered normal in you know, this country. And you know there's just no reason for that. I mean, were with cancer, like we've talked about on other shows touched on that topic. You know, you and I have other treatments that are often as effective than the strong chemo and the radiation and the surgery.

43:21 So you know, we again want to do things in a more gentle, milder way, working with the body and its attempt to put itself back into balance and heal itself if it's possible, and very often it can. And you know, especially in our senior animals, we shouldn't lose hope that they can't do the job of at least, you know, strengthening their life force or cheat to deal with some of these aging conditions and even you know, again healing themselves. Right. It's you know, you know when we look at the detox and again I want to stress that things like diarrhea and vomiting it our housekeeping. It is not an illness. Are we going to see more problems with that and an older dog? Quite possibly because the accumulation of toxins is going to be much much greater, you know, I mean, it's not it's happening every day, you know, it's it's I mentioned it. I know there's on other shows too that I get clients coming in all the time, even for themselves. It's like I just finished a six week detox program. What do I do now? It's like, don't stop, don't ever stop, right, because we're continuously being bombarded and you know we can't continue that. I mean, otherwise, you know, the senior panels are then going to be for four year old dogs and you know, you know,

44:52 forty year old men. I mean it's uh. And again to bring up the other topic again, I want to sure I drive home the point, like we do often is really avoid the vaccines and these middle aged and older animals, and especially if they have degenerative conditions, even the rabies vaccine. In many states, like here in Florida, we can write a medical exemption. I mean I get requests for that all the time. And if an animal has a chronic health condition, you know, I have new clients that call my practice. I mean I establish a relationship, I can medically exempt them from you know, rabies vaccines. So you know, we want to avoid those vaccines because they really lead to a worsening or a causing agent of cancer and a lot of these degenerative and immune conditions across all the organ systems. So you know, feed good food, you know, make it simple, feed good food, you know, minimize the or avoid the vaccines and avoid the other typical conventional you know, pesticides, and you know, give love, fresh air and exercise and there you go.

45:53 That's the recipe for good health and the senior animal. Yeah, absolutely, I saw that last question. There can can it actually revert uh you know, kating to a human grade a species of rot probably diet reverse the aging process. Age is not about a number, It's about the about the basically the energy of the animal, the vibration of the animal or the person. And yes, you know, you can take an old person, change their lifestyle, singdir their diet and change their age, you know, not in chronological years, but in activity wise. How can people get a hold of you, doctor dim. They can go to my website which is doctor Diimm dot com d O C T O R D y M.

46:33 That has my email address, my contact information, and you know, I also have you know, the presence on social media. We do little videos and video clips, you know, little healthcare information. So we're back doing that and I hope the audience enjoys that as well. Yeah, that's great. And of course they can you know, people can reach me of course through my paleopad or through biocomplete, uh social media here on the you know, at uh Peedhealthcafe dot I mean they have a kid to the chat area there and and I understand that people may have may in a very near future be able to see you down at the store. I can't wait I'm looking forward to it. That would be great.

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