Summer Care For Your Pets

0:14 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. 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, and welcome to Pet Health Cafe to show where your pet has a Voice.

1:00 This is Bill the Pet Health Guru, along with my special guest host, doctor Michael Damn. How are you doing, Doc? Doing well? Bill? Good to be here again. Yeah, another Thursday night. We don't have anything better to do, I guess except read the good word. I'm still a little off kilter because I'm used to the Wednesdays for so many years. I know, you got to get used to the newer schedule. Yeah, I know it. You know, because I have certain things that we do on certain days in the store, and it's like, Okay, it's Thursday. It's kind of a busy day with the liveries and stuff like that, and it's like, oh wait, I gotta get out of here.

1:40 It's right right, you know, before the weekend. You must be quite a busy, busy time for you in the store. Yeah. Well, Thursdays we get in our fresh Day area, we get in all our Freshman Florida meets for people and all that stuff. So that's all gotta be checked in and you know, customers called all that good stuff. Um, you know over at my Paleo Pet they you know, we're try trying to keep people healthy as well, right of course. I know. I always tell people when I'm recommending you know, your services at the store, you know, and you can buy you all your needs there too. It's not just for our animals, as you say, Yeah, I mean we're working on actually. Actually it's interesting because some of the biocomplete products are because of my relationship with our slaughterhouse and our butchers up there, and they cater to a lot of you know, grocery stores and restaurants, and that's we're thing in the Gainesville Ocala area. We're gonna start shipping our food, our our diets, and our herbs for the pets up there, so we'll be more much more statewide, so I'll make it a lot easier for people to get things.

2:50 Yeah, I just had a client this week from Port Saint Lucy and I said, I highly recommend you know the store, and said, you ship it all over and now that you're expanding, that's gonna be a lot easier. Yeah. Well, we have stores in a couple stores of course in the Jupiter area, which isn't that far from there, and then of course it in Melbourne if they go north. So Biocomplete is getting a you know, a much broader presence, and of course we do ship all over all over the country. But you know, it's as you know, it's summertimes. I think it's been summertime in Florida for like the last two months, hasn't it. It's just unbearable every day, right, It's the heat, humidity, the storms. Every day. It's kind of like just an instant replane and do over when it comes to our weather. That's for sure.

3:34 It's time, that's for sure. Yeah. But summertime has actually presents some challenges with our pets, doesn't it. Between Yes, it does. It's parasites and the heat, the heat and humidity by itself even right right, especially you know, I mean to all the animals for sure, but especially those people who have what are called brachiocephalic breeds, which are the short faced breed that we've bred them to be. The French bulldogs, the bulldogs, you know, the Boston Terriers, the pugs, just to name a few. They really leave about the don't leave about the pekines. They really have a hard time in this weather. And you know, we have to be mindful of the risk of heat stroke and might know we'll get into that in the show. Yeah. Well even on the cats side though, too.

4:23 You've got your Persians and uh, you know some of those breeds that hit the same problems, don't they. Yeah, yeah, Persian kitties, you know, definitely have that problem. And you know, certainly, uh, you know, from a holistic perspective, I recommend cats be in and out. I think they as long as somebody doesn't live in a in a really urban neighborhood, suburban neighborhood. Cats really they're healthier when they're out there getting exercise and you know, catching little creatures and climbing trees. And I know that there's a small risk of you know, a traumatic issues, but I find some of these outdoor cats are truly remarkably healthy. And so you know, whether they're persians or other breeds. I encourage clients to, you know, sometimes train their cats to be in and now, yeah, yeah, that's that's actually a good idea because you know, obviously you know, it's it's that's part of nature. Um. You know. One of the first things I think of, of course, when I think of the heat and that sort of thing, of course, is we have to keep them properly hydrated. Yeah, yeah, and that includes good water. I actually brought what I'm what I'm drinking here on the set is our alkaline water are ionized water, which has a smaller molecule which is absorbed on a cellular level.

5:45 Unlike you know, when you go to the beach and you get dehydrated, you know, you start drinking bottle, the regular bottle of water, which is nothing more than tap water, and all you do is run to the restroom every ten minutes and you know it comes right back out. That's a good point. And someone who's drinking those bottles of water over my life, that's exactly what happens as soon as you get into the second bottle, Yeah, exactly. And of course, you know with our food, when we're feeding our animals, especially if it's a specific species specific diet of a raw diet. They're getting that ionized lives living water in the foods, aren't they. Yeah, Yeah, that's all. It's a point we bring up all the time during the show. It's you know, people wonder, hey, my animals on it's now species appropriate raw diet. It's got all the moisture and hydration. And if they want to know why the animals aren't drinking much water, because they're getting it in those foods that you supply exactly and you know, I mean, and especially when it comes to cats, because they're a desert animal, they do need, you know, to get their their moisture from their food. And when you leave that dish of kibble down there all the time, and that's all they're munching on because they're not even eating a meal. They're just sustaining themselves, aren't they. Yeah, it's like eating cereal. I mean, that's really what it is. And because cats are you ever watched them drink water? You know, they really aren't efficient water drinkers because they didn't evolve to do that. They stick their tongue in one lap at a time, and you can see that it's not a

7:15 natural process, you know. For the Yeah, they really they really can't curl their they can't curl their tongue like a dog doesn't get volumes. That's that's part of the problem there. It's like it's like drinking a martini glass of wine or a martini, you know, dipping your finger in one drop at a time. You'll ever get drunk that way, obviously, that's how they drink. Yeah, And so you know the kibbles, I mean, that's the first thing you know when clients come in is is you know, you're feeding kibble, and so many people just leave the kibble down throughout the day for at almost a nibble on, thinking that that's good for them. It's good and you know the old adage saying it's good for their teeth, and uh, you know we talk about that. That's another shows that you know, the process kibbled carbohydrates are certainly not a way to good dental health.

7:58 No, it isn't. That actually causes it was causing you a lot of it because you know, I, you know, I referred to in another shows that back in the nineteen eighties, I actually started introducing dental dental equipment to veterinarians and groomers and an extra thing. And basically it was a hard sell because it was only in the eighties that we started to go to um the foods that didn't have more meat in it. Meat ends I was actually dissolved the tartar on their teeth, right right, I mean I clients ask all the time, what's what's my treatment for, you know, for dental tartar, And it's feed that species of appropriate diet with the raw bones and organ meat and you know, and they'll see that tartar wash away.

8:41 Yeah, they it really does. So you know, so hydration is obviously, yeah, yeah, the hydration is obviously a big part of it. One of the other things that actually came in from a client that when they saw that we were talking about summertime is people don't realize when they're you know, walking their dogs, especially not so much cats, but when they're walking their dogs that they have to be conscious about how hot the black top and the concrete gets. And you know, I understand they all want to keep the dogs off the lawns and the grass because of all the chemicals. So it's kind of a duel its sword there isn't it. Yeah, Yeah, it's tough. And sometimes those temperatures can get up to easily one hundred and thirty degrees or higher, and you know, definitely a recipe for potential burns on the pause. So yeah, we have to be mindful, especially the darker the surface, the black tops especially, you know, right, the temperatures can rise rapidly even on a you know, seventy five eighty degree you know, even in the eighties low eighties, which you know is actually cool for us this time of year. But right even at those temperatures, the strong Florida sun in this part of the country really can RecA on our pets pause. And you know, yeah, the problem, I know, we focus a lot of you know, of course on the special problems where you have down here, but of course our show is you know, basically worldwide now, so I mean, this is this is the problem that could go

10:11 on any place. Um, you know, it's it's it's it's a tough limit, isn't it for a pet owner, you know, burn the feed or chemical basically chemical burns as well from the chemicals. Yeah, I know, it's a it's a tight walk, it's a tight rope. Walk they have to do and balance and uh, you know, even the tar from the streets it's not is you know, not the best thing for these animals. Um. You know, just the some of the chemicals that can pick up on those surfaces, especially if they're newer surfaces. Um right, you know, the it's a catch twenty two either way. But uh, you know, we do want to be mindful for for our clients not to take their dogs on those hot surfaces. And I guess the grass wins out.

11:01 Bill. I don't know what you think, but it you know, and I think you kind of got to do a little bit of a blend, you know, you hope for the best, um. But yeah, because I mean the chemicals that are aerosol you know, spring for mosquitoes and Zekea and West Nile and the chemtrails and all of that stuff that's coming down on the street as well. So they're still being exposed to a lot of chemical toxins on the street or on the sidewalk. It's just the added um you know, um lawn chemicals that we really have to be worried about. And you know, actually it it you can actually kind of make some um differentials there because you know, if you look at that perfectly manicured lawn or that you know, the golf course or something like that, you know those who been treated with tons of of chemicals. So look for the yard that's got the most weeds and the law. That's right, right, I mean the dogs we're also loaded with toxins, you know exactly. It's it's it's crazy, and it's it's you know, like you say, is a you know an issue now, Um from your sid point, Um, how can people tell if their dog pause are burned or damaged? Well, I mean they could look and I mean obviously what can happen? I mean, the pads are very fine, fine skin. There's no fur obviously on them. Um.

12:20 You know, often the outer layer will peel away and they'll become red and warm to the touch and swollen. Um. Certainly that's the signs we see and visually. But that can occur in a split second, you know, that's how hot those pavements are. But you know, we have to assume that animals at walk on those things are gonna have some trauma and u and potential burn So we have to be real careful. And you know, I try to you know, there's even some homeopathic remedies that can be helpful if an animal does you know, come up with burned feet or burned pause. But uh, it can be a problem Bill, Yeah, Um, I know. One of the things that they use in you know, in the burn centers, that sort of thing for for people. Um, and they have been for quite some time. Uh it's menuka honey, which of which we we sell over at my paleopet and by complete has it as a brand um And that's I mean net heals a burning no time at all.

13:22 Wow. Yeah, it's a good point. And in the homeopathic world will use gels like colendula, which also are very soothing for irritated surfaces if especially if the outer layer of the pad peels away. Um right, I guess at a common presentation sometimes that will occur on multiple pads, and putting wonderful topicals, soothing topicals like manuka honey, you know, coconut oil, calendula all can be very soothing and healing, and then we can avoid the chemical and then it doesn't matter if the animals lick those areas, so much the better, more the better, that's right, they're getting the benefit of the Earth's or the or the honey itself. Yeah yeah, And of course you know if a burn like that too, if the skin has started to peel away, that's the thing. The manuka honey is a powerful it's actually the most powerful antibiotic that we've discovered so far in the world. Yeah, I mean, look at the wonders talking about the mouth a few minutes ago.

14:20 Look at the wonders it does for the gums, right, I mean, it's wonderful to apply there. I mean, that's people ask me, you know, what should we put on our animals gums? Manuka honey is the first thing that comes to mind. Yeah, it is. It is. And like even with tartar, I know, we find that a week to ten days of smoothing it on the gums and on the tartared area, that tartar actually gets to be like putty and you can literally scrape it off with your fingernail. Yeah yeah, good point. And then, like I said, with homeopathy, we get these burns. There's a couple of remedies to be aware of. This, one called can theist. That's where the sea can theists that wonderful for burns. M arsenicum album, which we use for digestive issues, is another remedy that sometimes comes in and can help heal burns very quickly. That's where homeopathy also shines. And you know, with an acute situation like a burn, the remedies work faster than you know drugs, unlike chronic disease where remedies take a long time to work and there has to be a lot more patients. But in acute burns, remedies like arsenicum and can theis and costicum another one. C a us Cum is another really good one. And you know I'll probably get into in a few minutes, you know, the homeopathic medicine chest. That's good to have in the summer to help with all sorts of problems that I know we'll get into during the show.

15:46 Yeah, yeah, that's that's that's true. Um, so you know you've got that kind of problem of course, Um, you know the heat stroke obviously you got to cool the animal down right quickly. That's very very important. Yeah, the number one remedy for that. And I used to work at you know, twenty four hour emergency clinics and they would wield those those bulldogs would come in in the summer. The pugs, you know, they want the breeze we mentioned they'd be Their will go up to one hundred and eight hundred and nine really rapidly, and they're panting, and you know, we take the animals in, we're rushing them into the back. We're going to start an IV. I'm putting the homeopathic remedy Belladonna right on the gums of those animals, and it's amazing. The temperature starts dropping within seconds to minutes, and before my technician can even get the catheter, and the temperatures already dropping and the animals starting to feel better just from the homeopathic.

16:37 It's just amazing. Yeah. Yeah, So, I mean those are a couple of the major problems that that you know, you can see, especially with dogs cats. It's going to be a lot more subtle, isn't it. Yeah, Because like you said, cats are evolved to be more desert species. They're they're definitely more heat seeking than our dogs. Typically they really enjoy the heat. So but they can overheat as well. I mean kitties, uh, like you said, especially the brachiocephalic pushed in breeds like the Persians, some of the Himalayans and some of the other related breeds. UM can really present a problem. So we have to be mindful of our kiddies, just like we do of our animals. And you know, we can't forget the you know, the standard faced breed dog because even though they're not as compromised as those other breeds we're talking about, you know, any any dog, dogs you know, don't do as well in that heat. You know, they pant, they sweat only through their pads, and it's hard for them to get rid of that excessive heat. So we have to be mindful for any dog. Right. One of the other things on the dogs, and we got a little over a minute here before we go to our break, um is the misconception that the long haired breeds need to be in some of the mid length hair length breeds need to be clipped down during the summertime because they want to cool them down. That coat is actually insulation against the heat, isn't it. Yeah. Yeah, it's actually the opposite of what people think, Like so many things in medicine and an animal care,

18:11 the opposite. Yeah. Yeah. And you know, and of course, you know, you take some of the like like sheep dogs, especially because you know, they'll have so times a lot of you know, a white fur and it's long and every nailed when they cut it off, that hair is that that skin is exposed to that um, all the sun and everything else, they can actually get sunburned. Yeah, yeah, animals, we get that question all the time. Can do I have to do anything for my animals? Or you know, I people ask me, should I put sunscreen on my animals? Say no, you don't want to put those You want to put it on yourself. Yeah, I know, just just read the label of what those things are. But yeah, definitely the fair skinned or the hairless animals or definitely more prone to to sunburn. And certainly moisturizes like vitamin e and other soothing agents can you know, be helpful aloe ye to the skin. Um, But yeah, the hair is definitely something we want to keep on those animals in the summer. The opposite. Yeah.

19:07 And actually, actually, for those of you out there listening and watching um biocomplete again, has we actually have a Manuka honey soap that if your dog does get sunburned again, well we've got a treatment right there in a bar or soap. Wow, that's good to know you know, and of course you're gonna get the healing properties of it, you know, even if you're just using it instead of you know, some of these harsh shampoos, especially you know that they sell in the veterinary clinics. Okay, we're at the break right now. Well we were right back after this quick break. We all want our pets to be as healthy as possible, and my Paleo Pets is the answer. Let us help relieve your pet of ear infections, allergies, scratching and itching, diabetes, joint problems, cancer, or other elements by providing our naturally raised, raw, cooked, or frozen biocomplete natural diet entres that are custom formulated to be species specific and USDA approved. For more information, visit mypaleopet dot com or called nine five four nine seven one two five zero zero. I'm picking up vibrations. Geez given mes, Do you want to become a wholesale dealer or distributor of healthy and clean food? Our friends and colleagues at Biocomplete Natural Diets and Herbs provide only the best USDA Human

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21:41 Right, yep. They have to be mindful of all these things we're talking about exactly, and you know, of course, we've got solutions to most of them, which is probably the best thing that we can do is spread that word. Some are all also presents a lot of problems, a lot of secondary issues that a lot of people are really concerned about, but concerned in I guess kind of the wrong way because they think they can prevent that certain things like parasites, please, and ticks and heartworms and West Nile and zeka and who knows what else. Right, it's a major, major issue. And basically in a healthy animal are the what are the odds of actually having a major problem with any of these Not much at all. I mean, the healthy immune system, the healthy gut immune system usually is strong enough to take care of you know, parasites and worms. And you know, even though especially here in Florida, the soils or you know, being warmer, you're going to have a more increased wormload like with hookworms. But in a healthy digestive tract and an animal on a species appropriate diet and where there's minimal chemicals being put into that patient, the odds of getting these type of parasites as an adult are very very small. Yeah, I know, in the studies that were done on wolves and wild canines, you know,

23:15 across the United States, less than three percent of wild canines ever get heartworms. And it doesn't it's not a killer in you know, two to three months. It takes literally eight to ten years for that whole syndrome to develop, which they call heartworm disease. I still haven't figured out that. But how is a disease? Right? Well, the animals, the few animals that do get sick bill clinically like I see them sometimes from these shelters. You know, you see a lot of positive animals, but we have to keep in mind not a lot, but you know, more than we see in general practice. But you have to keep in mind those animals are highly stressed. They're coming in from stressful environments. Some of them are storm survivors from different places. Right, They're crowded. Is crowding, poor nutrition, poor sanitation, and those are all the factors for why a patient would you know, come down with a parasite or an infectious disease. When you look at all those factors, you know, those play major roles. But for your typical house pet who's going out and doing their thing, or even your outdoor dog who's out there running and roaming and having good exercise, you know, the odds of seeing these organisms are really small. And you know, my conventional veterinary brethren, they take the summertime season as an opportunity to really push the chemicals and push the drugs and use fear to get people to use these things. Yeah, it's you know, I know that you know a

24:48 lot of those rescue dogs that we see that our heartworn positive especially our animals that again came from uh you know, our storm survivors came in from the islands. Especially, those are the ones we see the most of, uh, some of amobile dogs that are rescued from backyards and farms where they're just chained outside and of course you know that. Yeah, they provide shelter in the doghouse. But just like in the summertime, you go outside and during the day there's not a mosquito to be found normally, but if you open up that garden shed where it's dark and humid, you know, you're you're closing the door real quick and running back out because the mosquito is that they're to attack. And that's the same as the doghouse, isn't it right?

25:34 Absolutely? Yeah, yeah, So you know, these are reasons why we really don't worry about heartward you know, heartworm and other parasites in in our animals, even in the summer um and especially that's more of a reason why we want to keep these animals on a species appropriate diet. Uh. Yeah, you know, so you know, the only organisms I've had problems with and practice clinically, but are really tough to prevent, especially in areas up north and the you know, the Carolinas and the central areas of the country in the northeast, are the pesky ticks. You know, they can be a problematic issue. Yeah, a little bit more so than than uh, than the others. But of course that that you know, we get rid of all the possums. That's what possums e. You know, we're afraid of that nil possum um. One of the things that I bring out in a lot of my lectures too when I talk about heartworm is of course it's it's it's only carried by one species of mosquitos. H It's got to be bitten by several mosquitos because you still would have to have a male and female larva in order for it to you know, get into body. It then has to migrate up from the mosquito bike which is generally in the groin area on most dogs um because um, you know, the lack of hair there.

26:55 And it takes sixty eight months for that larva to migrate to the heart before we can even start to start to breed and it has to mature. But one of the things I always bring up, especially when around veterinarians, it's like, when was the last time you were bit by mosquito on the top of your head? Mosquitoes don't like hair, they can't get through it. That's an excellent point, you're right, And so that's why you make the point of down in that growing areas, that's the hot spot for mosquito bikes. Yeah, and so it's so it's funny, you know. And of course we were just talking about the people that shave their dogs during the summertime. You're actually asking for heartworms that aren't you absolutely, yeah, you're shaving those areas, and that's those are all literal, you know, attraction points for those mosquitoes. Yeah. And then there are many areas of the country that don't have problems with mosquitos. So even a discussion of heartworm, you know, it shouldn't even occur, you know, areas like Colorado or you know, yeah, out that way southwest, you know, well even know, of course, I grew up in western New York and we had a farm cell to Buffalo, and it was kind of in not in real mountain mountains, but it was a much higher elevation and there were no mosquitos there year round. We never got a mosquito up there. And you know, but you go down, you know, sixty miles down to Buffalo along the you know, the shore of Lake Erie and the canals and everything, and you wouldn't want to be on the picnic unless you know, and lots

28:27 of bud killer. You know. The conventional vet community, though, bill uses this season and the opportunities to really use that fear and then they're you know, they're saying, well, we can see mosquitoes even in the wintertime. That's just you know, the way the biology of the heartworm works, as you were talking about earlier. I'll just add the average temperature has to be I believe, like sixty five or seventy degrees for thirty consecutive days from mosquitos to even potentially transmit heartworm. So in the northern to thirds of this country, that doesn't occur most of the year. So this push to have year round heartworm preventative really is not an evidence based recommendation like so many other recommendations you know, in the in the traditional vet world. And uh, you know, the summertime, I acknowledge, you know, there's gonna be more mosquitoes, But as you said, it's the odds of this infection really happening. And then clinical symptoms you know, are not that high. In other words, even in the positive animals, you know, I don't find that they often have symptoms of harworm. I mean we do occasionally see the again the stressed, poor nutrition, you know, storm surviving animals come down with clinical hartworm, But the vast majority of patients I don't see any symptoms of heartworm, even in the positive dogs. Well, it's the other thing, and because we just talked about it about you know, burning, you know, the hot surfaces and the pads and of course the chemicals on the

29:57 lawns and that sort of thing. Um, you know, the alternative that is being presented to them is these ineffective, actually non effective, so called preventative remedies that don't prevent anything, do they And they can actually stress the body a lot more than um than the heartworms could. Absolutely, and you know, of course we have you know, for those I mean I just tell clients not to worry about it. But for those people who are you know, still a little bit in the Fear World film Realm. You know, you certainly at the store have herbal alternatives, you know, for some of these strong chemicals and pesticides that people are applying in and on their animals.

30:44 And you know, herbs like I remember your black walnut and Quasia bark and others that you you know have in your formulations that are anti parasitic and you know, or anti heartworm as well. So for clients that want to use anything right, direct them right to the store. Yeah, yeah, I mean, and you know, we appreciate it, and it's great because because it is you know, with herbs and botanicals of course being foods, they will only stay in the system, you know for twenty four to forty eight hours, where as like the heartworm so called preventions that don't prevent anything, they're there for literally generations. Yeah, they build up in those tissues very very much, deliver the fat. You know, some of them are a lot of them are neurotoxic. So yeah, they're they're going to stick around for sure. But Doc, I've been using it on the dog for eight years and I by my other dog for ten years before he passed away.

31:40 It's perfectly safe, isn't it? Well, why did it pass away at ten years old? Right? Right? Unfortunately, they're not looking at chronic toxicity. You know. That's the problem with the Western mindset is is unless somebody gets sick or shows symptoms right away, they don't feel that a chemical draw or vaccine can cause any illness or or effect. But we know that all of these stressors on the body, in the immune system, all can lead to disease prematurely at younger and younger ages, whether you're dealing with you know, liver problems, kidney problems, chronic allergies, cancers. I mean, these are all because of these chemicals that are building up in the system. Toxicity the number one, you know, reason why we have sick animals exactly. And of course on the other part of the parasite thing is that you get you get the fleas and some animals that are basically what I consider to be flea magnets. And you know, when I was a kid, I mean, if you don't picked up a few fleas, you gave him a bath, maybe use a flee spray one time, and it was done, one and done. We didn't have these massive insensations of the house.

32:50 But it's because those animals are already immune suppressed. Parasites love sick animals, don't they Absolutely, Yeah, And I should add that, you know, the war, literally, the war, the war against these parasites is becoming more and more inclusive of more chemicals. In other words, these products that you know, my colleagues are now recommending are including more and more drugs in one product. So the toxicity of the products being used for prevention and treatment has increased because of the number of ingredients that they're putting into these preventives. Like you said, years ago, we did a fleabath, you know, a little spray, a Pietheman spray. You know, those are not natural chemicals, but they weren't as toxic as what we're seeing today. This onslaught of new chemicals, new generations of products that are just doing a number on our animals. Well, the thing is, it's what natural private restorms.

33:50 One of the things that they've you know, that we've seen in the research is it eventually will clear the body a lot quicker. And these modern new ones, which like I said, are sometimes they're for generations now, and those are the ones that we see they have the biggest, biggest problems and breaking that cycle. It's you know, it's not a one and done deal. I mean you have because once you get infestations, you know you've got eggs all over the place and larvae all over the place, and you know you have to treat you know, the environment as much as anything else. Of course, we use you know a lot of natural products, things like knem oil we can use in a spray, but dietemacious earth in the environment. I mean it's it's a mechanical kill. With a mechanical kill on insects, they don't know that they're dying, and because of that, they don't start laying eggs all over the place where we don't have to worry about that great big infestation popping up that explosion. If you will, well at the break again and we'll be right back after this quick break. Does your pet suffer from allergies, cancer, digestive issues, or joint and skin problems?

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37:54 They would come to your house and they would work it into the well, you know in different areas of the country that add more carpeting, but working into the carpets and treat the home. And it was a nice service for clients. It was called Fleabusters. I don't think they're still around anymore, though, I haven't seen any of their stuff around for a while though, I mean there's been a couple others. But one of the suggestions and you don't have to use a lot of it. This is where people, you know, it's like my you know, um, my house looks like a snow you know, like a powder snowstorm because I put it all over the place, and like especially down here in Florida. What I tell me and you can do. Of course, it was carpets. You do have to sprinkle it all, you know, in a lot of different areas, but always make sure you're hitting the baseboard areas because that's where fleas, like the in any insectquakes to hide. It's good for ants, roaches, all of that. But like we have down here a lot of tile and um, you know, wood floors, things of that nature, which you do.

38:49 You just sprinkle a bunch of it in the middle of the floor. Un you don't have to use a lot and then sweep to the edges because if there's any larva or live fleet there, they're gonna get coated with it, which is LEAs that mechanical kill. Get it over to the baseboard and just leave it there overnight. Next day, sque back into the middle again and do the same thing for two or three days and then vacuum it up and basically you've done a good job of knocking that problem down by probably nine You might have to come back to three weeks later, you know, when the next hatch comes out, but that's gonna be significantly smaller. Yeah, And you know, it takes a little bit of effort. It's not the one and done pill or the one and done topical agent. I mean, I know all of us, you know, our busy lives, and we you know, get involved with things, and certainly it's easy to fall back on the simple chemical or the simple drug. But you know, as we're saying, I mean the toxicity of these things is tremendously high, and you know, certainly putting the extra effort in with what you're talking about, Bill, which isn't really you know, too much effort, Like you said, it's over a few days and then come back in said a few weeks later to get the next round. And uh, you know your fleet control is I mean, you're being actively involved with your pets health, which isn't which isn't, which is a wonderful thing. Now, since we're in the last segment here, one of the things that I wanted to ask you, what are the types of problem health issues do you do? Veterinarians classically see uh,

40:23 in the hot months with different breeds, cats, dogs, um that you know that the that the summer heat and the summer stresses, if you will. Obviously the chemicals we know about that we're adding to their um uh body, you know, to prevent the stuff. But what other kinds of problems do you typically see? Well, the number one problem we see, you know, even though it's year round here in South Florida. But the number one problem we see our skin disease, allergies, you know, the dermatitis, is the the you know, the hot spots. I mean, I would say that's by far the number one summer problem we see animals coming in with those, you know, often seasonal allergies. As the air becomes more stagnant um and they animals start to their immune systems start to react, especially as the toxins increase in concentration, both in the air and in the in the environment. That's key, you know. I know my colleagues will often say it's dander and pollens and ragweed, but it's the toxins that they're exposed to that lead to these skin disorders, you know, And so skin disease is probably the number one thing that we see. You know, sometimes there's stress, colitises, diarrheas, um, you know, some upset tummies in the summertime, especially as people are doing more barbecuing, and you know, giving their animals not healthy things from their from their table, but giving fatty greasy you know, not what fatty greasy items, not what we're preaching here

41:57 from my paleopeit. But you know, so digestive issues are biggie in the summer as well. Now it's interesting I had in the last three days, I think I've had three or four clients talk about their jobs going off food and usually having in These are animals that are rough that healthy all the time, all of a sudden ended up with kind of a drown bile type vomit, very small amount, but just out of nowhere, usually followed by running or looser stools, you know, that urgency type of I need to go out daddy type thing. And as soon as that happened, they were fine.

42:45 I'm convinced it had to be something that they were spraying or applying or you know, even the EMFs. I mean, who knows. I mean, why would we have it in different areas and these were in several different areas around the south part of the state. Um, just very weird, and it's like do I need to go? You know, I mean everybody's panicked then, and doing need to go to the emergency room because it's not that normal you know, bile or normal food, normal mucus that we see the body trying to expel all the time. Any thoughts on that, Yeah, I mean, I definitely agree. It's the it's the toxins that they're exposed to that often are unidentified. But you've gone through the list very well that lead to these discharges from the body, these toxic discharges. It's also important to keep in mind that our animals, bodies do do some periodic housecleaning.

43:37 You know, they're they're going to react to these toxins, and sometimes the discharges and a little bit of diarrhea of vomiting is can be seen as a good thing because it's the body doing what it evolved to do. If it gets a little out of control, you know, we can come in with herbs and homeopathy to help, you know, ease the that sort of detoxification strategy that the bodies going through. And so I would encourage clients not to rush to the emergency room, even though seeing diarrhea with a little blood sometimes it can be alarming to a client. And again they're worried about hydration. You know, I find that most of my clients I can deal with with using herbs from the store or homeopathy and oral hydration to get over a lot of these things. Right, Yeah, I mean, the main problem that with vomiting in diarrhea that you know they talk about in emergency medicine and that sort of thing is the dehydration factor. But if you're feeding that raw diet, it's almost impossible to get a dehydrated animal, isn't it. Yeah, yeah, because of all that moisture in the food, you know, And so you know, sometimes we have to keep in mind too that when animals are going through these toxic exposures that are causing these symptoms, that fasting is actually sometimes a good thing for the bodies as it allows the body time to do its house cleaning. So I'll often you know, that's when it comes in, like what you have at the store, the bone broth, the different you know, vegetable broths, you know, bone broth being wonderful.

45:08 Um, and sometimes a liquid fast when their animals are having upset stomachs actually also helps the body, you know, go through the process and heal quicker. Yeah, it's very very true. Um. You know, we we're down to like four minutes here on the show. It's just going by way too fast. Um. What about don'ts that you know, we hear a lot And of course again our recommendation would be the species appropriate that and instially, but animals with heart problems and um, you know, of course we've talked about the respiratory problems that we've developed through just genetics and you know, breeding um, but aren't aren't help our heart problems sometimes an issue too, absolutely because if animals have heart pre existing heart disease um and the heart is a little bit compromise and having trouble pumping blood out and you know to the tissues that excess of heat definitely plays a role in cardiac functions. So we do have to be mindful of our heart patients and an excellent timey year to institute some herbal support for that heart, you know, using herbs like hawthorn and dandelion and other herbs that are wonderful for heart function. So you know, it shouldn't be that their drugs have to be adjusted up. You know, we can just come in with what nature provided us and do a lot more good for the body than some of these other drugs. Yeah.

46:36 Well, and you know, I mean, you know, we've developed over the years, you know, twenty five thirty different herbal blends that you know, everything from heart and blood pressure and you know, brain function, healthy eyes and obviously our heartworm and parasite gastro type things. So I mean we have a whole range of things that are available on the website and of course available through yourself, you know, to you know, to work through it. And again, you know, I mentioned at the beginning of the show, Uh, the great you know, ionized water that's going to keep, i mean, be the best thing. That's one of the that's the best antioxidant there is. You can be flushing everything else, you're cleaning everything out on a you know, if especially when you use it um on a regular basis of vactive bone all of our uh, anything that we have to use water in in in the biocomplete line, especially our bone, brows and things of that nature, we're using only ionized water now. And it's it's a big, big difference. It's it's it's a game changer. Look better way to get those animals through these toxicity reactions than like you said, ionized water.

47:45 What the number one nutrient in the body, which is water what we're all made up of. Yeah, so I mean and and you know, providing it, you know, uh, you know, easily and readily available to your animals, um, you know during this you know, especially during the summer one. Also not even especially during the summer ones, because if you are up north and your dog is inside and you you're heating your apartment or your house. Um, that's very dehydrating too, isn't it. Yeah, sure is so that it's an artificial condition. And of course you've you're also not getting any fresh air. No, no, no at all. Okay, one thing we didn't get to, Like you said, it's amazing how the hour goes by, was you know, in the hurricanes and things like that. Well, maybe another show, right, Yeah, yeah, we'll do that. I mean that's something we're gonna have to take a look at, being prepared for the hurricanes. That's the thing. Because we're in under two minutes, Doctor Dim. How can we get a hold of you?

48:39 Oh, they can go to my website, which is doctordim dot com d O C T O R dym dot com. That has more in my practice, my contact information. My email address is doctor dim at gmail dot com. That's doctor spelled out dim dym all one word at gmail dot com. And I try to answer any email inquiry within within the day, so I'm always checking, so it's not like I'll have to wait days a week for me to respond. Yeah. That's good to know. Uh. And for those of you you know how to reach me through my paleopath biocomplete. Uh. You know we have the numbers that that are scrolling all the time, all our email information. UM. One of the things I want, I would like anybody that's listening and watching, share and like and subscribe, you know, because we're trying to get this message out to as many people as we possibly can. Um. You know, doctor Dim and I are very passionate about what we what we're doing and how we're doing it. And you know we need we just need that support, don't we, Doctor Dim?

49:45 Yeah? Yeah, we need support. And again, UM, we need your trust and faith that animals can live and survive without the chemicals, drugs and vaccines they can ye yep, Okay. The end of the show, all I could say is thank you for listening and watching, and we'll be back here again next week. Good night, everybody. Thank you. How healthy is your pet? Does your pet suffer from ear infections, scratching and itching, diabetes, cancer, or other elements. If you want the best health for your pet and to prevent or relieve these symptoms, my paleopet is here to help. The key to healing is a clean, natural, appropriate rotational plan. Start your pet on the healthiest diet ever with our easy online ordering guide and nationwide shipping at my paleopet dot com. Call ahead for your takeout order, or stop by our location on West Sample Road in Pompano Beach, Florida. A Fordable solutions for your pets health issues are here today.

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