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With that being said, we can jump into our topic here.
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You reached out to me, So this must have been
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something that you must had a good case or something,
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or a couple of them, because the topic, I mean,
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I know we've talked about it in a bunch of
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other shows, but now I think it's a specific show.
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And that's on these you.
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Know, neurological problems that we're seeing in our pests today.
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And it's it's epidemic, isn't it.
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Sure is everything from you know, functional problems of the
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brain like mental emotional symptoms uh, to brain pathology inflammation
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uh encephalitis as it's known as you know, seizure disorders,
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and then of course, uh, you know, mentioning on the
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mental emotional behavioral issues, uh. You know, a lot of
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the you know, anxieties, fears, aggression, you know, and then
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you go down the list build a whole nervous system,
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and you go down to the you know, to the
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spinal cord, and you have plenty of neurologic inflammations, degenerative
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dis disease, other you know, types of nervous system problems
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leading to weakness and paralysis of the legs. And so
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the nervous system certainly takes its hit, you know, in
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terms of common problems that we see in our companion
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animals today.
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You know, I don't think most people think of it,
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you know, when they think about you know, these zerological problems.
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The bulk of it, of course has to do with
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a brain. And you know, everybody's concerned about brain tumors
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today that you know, that seems to be the number
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one concern, if you will, And the allopathic side at
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anytime an animal is awful little bit, if you will.
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You know, anything from a head tilt to you know, just.
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You know, even.
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Just a bad attitude whatever. The first thing they jump
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to now is, oh my god, it's got to be
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a brain tumor.
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It's got to be.
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Cancer, right, And of course you and I the first
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thing we asked, would you know, my main question would
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be is if they think.
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It's that, why would they think it's that?
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And does it have anything to do with the drugs
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and the protocols that we follow with our animals as
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far as you know immunization, and of course you know
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all the so called preventative drugs and treatments, and I
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mean if they're not preventative of their treatments for things
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that you don't doesn't even have. And yet those are
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all labeled clearly as a neurotoxin, aren't they.
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Yeah, I mean they're supposed to just be toxic to
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the nervous system of the flea or the tick. Years ago,
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when these products first came out, you know, the early
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brands like Frontline Advantage, you know, the common ones. Years ago,
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they used to say, none of these substances get into
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the bloodstream of the of the dog or affects or
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the cat and affects them. And then you know, people
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started seeing order immune issues, neurologic issues because again you're
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targeting the nervous system of the of the parasite, but
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you're unfortunately our animals, you know, are often vulnerable victims
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to the side effects on the nervous system as well.
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Yeah, okay, you had a question there that that would
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be typically for you more myself because it was you know,
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as a veterinarian.
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What would you be looking at that would lead you
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down that neurologic path?
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Uh, what would I be looking at in terms of
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symptoms or in terms of products and things that no symptoms?
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Primarily? I think that's what they're making, you know, looking
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at that, we're looking at the pet. We already know
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the products are never mind there right quite yet?
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Yeah, So I mean what we look at, I mean,
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obviously in the nervous system are again changes in meditation,
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changes in behavior. You know, animals all of a sudden
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becoming more agitated or you know, their nervous system is
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on edge, they can become a little more aggressive where
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they can become the opposite, very subdued or very lethargic
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when these products are applied. And then you know, you
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look at the biggie, which of course we mentioned with
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the especially the flea and tick products. Are the seizures
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that can occur in these animals. Sometimes it's spinal cord symptoms, weakness,
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what we call a taxia in the clinic. So you know,
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those are the type of nervous systems symptoms we'll see.
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And you know the problem is is once the nervous
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system is a target of becomes a target of these products.
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Let's say it's a seizure issue, then we've actually caused
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the susceptibility to that problem down the road unless we
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do some heavy detoxing with herbs or omeopathic remedies to
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help lessen the susceptibility to that. But you know, certainly,
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you know, any symptoms of the nervous system can be
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you know, uh, the signs of you know, toxicity from
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these things.
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Well, you know, I mean one of the things that
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we see a lot of of course, you mentioned the
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you know, the problems with the back legs not being
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able to get up and that sort of thing. I
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automatically just automatically go to that the animals poison. It's
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a high toxicity level. Bodies pushing it all the al
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to the extremities and that's where it ends up. Is
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that always neurological or is it can then also be
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you know physiological based on blood and poisons in the
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blood and things of that nature.
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Yeah, No, I mean it definitely, uh, you know, it
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can be either system. Of course, physiologically, we see you know,
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changes like you said, in the blood, certain enzymes go up,
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you know, and uh, you know, you could look at
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that physioge logically, but it all comes down to you know,
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toxicity of the of the nervous system, and you know,
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certainly it can affect other organ systems too. The liver,
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you know, the major detoxifier in the body, is often
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a target of these products. So we'll see changes with liver.
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You know, the liver enzymes go up, which they don't
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always have to either with liver toxicity. You and I
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talk about it all the time, when you know, a
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significant percentage of liver function or kidney function has to
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be affected before we see elevations in those enzymes. So
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you know, you could see liver toxicity or kidney toxicity
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without even seeing blood changes. But you know we'll look
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for that on the blood work. Often there's an inflammatory
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response physiologically, you know, the white blood cell count may
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go up, sometimes it goes down if there's a component
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of what we call an autoimmune component to the toxicity,
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where the blood cell count or the or the platelet
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count will drop. So you know, we definitely can see
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changes in a physiological perspective.
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Well, you know, looking at it from a pet owner's perspective,
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you know, I've you know, I've gone to I've been
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following the protocols that were set forth when I got
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my puppy or my kitten.
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You know, I've done all the shots, I've done all
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the wormings, I've done all the flea products, the heartworm,
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all that stuff. And I've got these problems now, and
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they don't know where to turn. And it's like, I'm
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believing and I'm trusting in who's supposed to be the expert,
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the professional expert in this field. And yet when they
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start doing the exams, it's like, well, it could be this,
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it might be that they talk in such generalities, and
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of course then the next thing is a referral to
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a neurologist or other specialists, and all the owner is
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looking at I don't have a single answer yet, but
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I see that meter just click click, click, click, click dollars,
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and I would like some answers, if that's at all possible.
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And I mean, how do you address that, and how
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you know, how do your colleagues address that?
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If yeah, I mean you're right, typically, you know, the
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animals get worked up, but the you know, the general
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practice with your typical lab work, you know, blood work,
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your analysis. Sometimes they look at the thyroid gland. When
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the nervous system is affected, you know, that's always blame
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for everything. You know, if the thyroid is borderline or low.
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You know a lot of times that the traditional vets
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will say that's why the cause of it is, which
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you know, if the thyroid is truly low, you can
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see changes in the nervous system. But again, the thyroid
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gland is a target of toxicity too, especially when it
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comes to the vaccines. You know, they're well known toxic
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players on the thyroid gland function. But typically happens in
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the general clinic is they'll do the workups. Let's say
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it's a seizure case. I had one that came in,
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you know in this past week. You know, an animal
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that all of a sudden started seizuring. It had been
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using all mentioned the brand name, but it had been
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using a you know, a typical long acting flee in
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tick medicine for a long time. And again we talk
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about this all the time on the show. You know,
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those things build up cumulatively in the body, as pesticides
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typically do. And you know a few days after the
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last dose, the dog had its first seizure at age four,
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I believe and went to the local vet, got the
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typical we're talking about work up, didn't find anything, and
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then they sent it to the neurologist. And not everybody
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goes through all this. If it's a repetitive seizures, a
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lot of times they'll end up being symptomatically managed with
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anti seizure drugs or medications. But these particular clients wanted
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a whole work up, so the neurologist did a you know,
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a CSF tap, which is where they get a sample
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of the wid that circulates around the nervous system. You know,
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they did an MRI of the of the nervous system
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and they didn't find anything. No tumors know this. So
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the and they call that, you know, idiopathic epilepsy, which
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I always say, you know when they use terms like that,
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we're the idiots because we don't illo perfectly know what
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what the causes are. Yeah, and so you know, that
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dog ended up being put on a common seizure drug
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called kepra and came because the clients didn't want to
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keep that animal on that drug. You know, I worked it.
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I gave it an initial homeopathic remedy for toxicity, like
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Knox fomica and I told them to change the diet.
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I referred them to you guys done in my paliopet
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for some herbal blends and detoxing and you know, and
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I think she called you and uh, you know, so
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now the dog's hopefully on the path. But she asked me,
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I don't want to ever see another seizure. And I
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said to them, this is important also the stress to
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the audience. And I said that, well, you know, because
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the nervous system is in a toxic state, sometimes as
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part of detoxification, we can see a return briefly of
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old symptoms so or discharges, so that could be you know,
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mild seizures. And when she heard that, she's like, oh
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my god, I can't see that again. And you know,
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sometimes that's part of the process of holistically healing the
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body or in this case, the nervous system. And so
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you know, whether it's discharged through the digestive tract or
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the skin or the ears. You know that detoxing mechanism
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can occur a lot of different ways. But you know,
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we have to keep that in mind when we see
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these animals with nervous system diseases that you know that
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that detox reaction can occasionally occur initially on the nervous
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system level.
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You know, it's interesting, and you know, I'm glad you
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brought dead up there so much of its detox and
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that sort of thing. And people that you know, their
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expectation is that, you know, we're going to be able
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to fix it immediately. It's going to put a stop
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to the seizures, it's going to the behaviors, whatever happens
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to be.
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