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Any health related information on the following show provides general
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information only. Content presented on any show by any host
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or guest should not be substituted for a doctor's advice.
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Always consult your physician before beginning any new diet, exercise,
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or treatment program. And then now it's time for Pet
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Health Cafe, where your Pet has a Voice. And here's
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your host, Bill the Pet Health Guru, And welcome.
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To the Pet Health Cafe to show where your Pet's voice.
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This is Bill the Pet Health Guru, and I'm joined
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tonight with my guest host, doctor Michael Dim. How are
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we doing, doc? All right?
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Be nice to be here.
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Yeah, well, a lot of the distractions are behind us
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now that the election's over, and.
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Here we're gonna here. We are going to be talking about.
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Health, which is I guess it's going to be one
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of the focal points in the next year or so,
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let's hope.
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So anyway, Yeah, yeah, hopefully for the better, that's for sure.
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Yeah. That would be nice, wouldn't it. Anyway?
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So again I want to tell people that if the
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chat room is open, they can go ahead and log
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in and ask their questions and make your comments. Go
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ahead and share and like and subscribe on whatever platforms
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you're watching on. Uh, let's get this message out. Tonight's
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message is going to be very, very important for anybody
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that probably has visited a conventional veterinarian in the last
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I don't know, a year, two years, three years, because
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it seems that these there's a major push and uh,
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doctor Jim, you'll be able to really help us out
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with this I'm pushing when are known as therapeutic diets
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or prescription so called prescription diets, and uh, it's it's
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like nobody can walk into into an animal health facility
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now without having a kind of jam down her throat.
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Yeah, no, absolutely, I mean, look, they've got maintenance diets
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in there for everyday living, you know, from uh you know,
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for all the all the breeds. They have large breeds,
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small breed. You know, they have all different breed sizes.
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Now specific bag foods for for you know, different breeds.
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But now, of course we're expanding into the area of
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of of course prescription foods, which means that diets that
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are formulated for various clinical health conditions that are animals face,
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you know, so whether your animal comes in for chronic
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skin or ear disease, or digestive issues or urinary tractive
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issues or you know, behavioral issues, cancer seizures. There's there's
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now diets for for everything. It's it's it's amazing. And
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I know we'll get into the discussion of what these
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diets are made from, but yeah, it's all specialty formulated
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synthetic diets to supposedly help animals with these different chronic conditions.
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Well, one of the things I mean, and I know
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that just to carry your license and that sort of thing,
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is as a doctor of veterinary medicine, you have to
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keep up with certain educational requirements and that sort of thing.
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What's really being taught on the nutritional you know area
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and continuating education or even into that school today, I
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don't think. I don't think the schools have changed very much.
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But what about the continuing education.
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Well, I mean the continuing education, I don't really teach
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us about a nutrition. They just teach us about, you know,
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specific synthetic commercial diets that the pet food companies are
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developing for these various clinical conditions. They're not actually sitting
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down and telling us, well, this particular diet is necessary
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for this carnivore under these conditions because of nutrient A,
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B or C or D. So they really aren't teaching
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us anything. They're just stuffing us down our throats, you know,
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the recommended foods. Because the truth is that we get
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next to no training on nutrition in our medical school training.
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You know, I think I got about a three hour
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course my third year of entery school. And you know
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that hasn't changed after all these decades. So veterinarians still
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are not trained well in nutrition, and we're still telling people,
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you know, what to feed their animals in the allopathic setting,
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based upon what pet food sales reps tell us rather
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than what's ideal for a particular meat eating animal.
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You know, it's interesting, you know, because I've watched this
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whole thing evolve. You know, I first, there's a question
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you just answered, But you know, I was part of
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the industry when basically the specialty diets first started to
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come out in the mid seventies, you know, with you know,
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several you know, major companies. Obviously it got involved ut
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and merely through buyouts, but they were started by small
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companies and but basically it's been nothing more than a
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take off of what was conventional.
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Dry foods.
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Just changing a few ingredients and putting it into a
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fancier bag with a you know, a name, and having
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you know, convincing somebody with a white jacket to push it.
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There's really not a whole lot of difference between most
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of these, is.
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There, No, not at all.
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You're this marketing bill is clever marketing with some pre
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bags and great verbiage, but not really much of a difference.
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But one of the things that I found interesting, and
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I told you, you know, when we set up this,
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you know, this show, is there's a couple of things
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that I've really noticed that really I.
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I took some concern to.
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First off, when I look at what's being offered in
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the therapeutic diets that are being pushed by the veterinary industry.
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One particularly class of foods that I found particularly missing
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is there is no offering for a health food or
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a health diet. It's all addressing so called symptoms, symptomatic
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issues for whatever might have been and suspected upon an
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examination or a client's concerns, but nothing just like, hey,
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you know what, you want your dog to be healthy,
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you want to get to be healthy.
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I don't see any of that to you.
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No, No, not at all. No, you're right, right, Yeah.
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It's like it's very concerning to me.
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But the other thing that really concerned me is a
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heavy push on prescribing these therapeutic diocees, so called prescription diets,
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And basically, I look at it is that.
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That industry that's pushing them.
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And I mean I've seen where the emphasis is with
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these companies as well. It's more on that therapeutic side
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than on their general diets that are in mass markets
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or specialty pets stores and food stores and things of
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that nature. But basically, they want all of our pets
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to be sick, don't they.
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Yeah, that's exactly right. They want to be sick so.
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That they can make a food or a drug or
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a medicine to address that problem. It's all one big
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marketing chain bill. It's not about health, it's about sickness,
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and it's you know.
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I mean, I can't rep but I've been in this
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business too long. I just can't.
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I can't wrap my head around wishing that my clients
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animals get sick so that I can give them a
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food and you know, in our case, a good you know,
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a good diet or an herb or in your case,
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of homeopathic remedy or something of that nature, just so
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that we can make money. I mean, it's isn't it
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about the animals overall health and not only the animals health,
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but the health of the owner where we don't have
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to stress out and be worried about Number one, is
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our animal healthy? And number two, if it's diagnosed with anything,
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how am I going to pay for it today?
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Yeah? Yeah?
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The prices are astronomical for managing these chronic diseases in
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our animals here one hundred in right, Bill. So, but
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these foods they certainly are you know, priced way out
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of bounds. And you know it's it's really you know,
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like you said, back from the seventies, you know, there
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was one company right that had you know, a brand
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or two for an upset stomach or for you know,
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a skin or a kidney issue. And now it's like
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these pet food companies have tremendous variation of complex formulas
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that they say are better for our animals when they
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have these various clinical conditions. And you know, typically it's
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would be what's called the novel protein diet.
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You know, that was always the typical.
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You know, way of kind of trying to solve something,
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let's say related to the skin or the digestive tract.
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proteins that animals hadn't been exposed to before and many
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decades ago, remember you usould just be lamb, right, Lamb
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was the only protein, and that's what they said, Oh,
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we don't see laminar foods. But now there's so many
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poor quality, you know, meats that go into these commercial
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foods that now the novel protein has extended into you know,
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all the exotic animals that we've gone over in previous shows,
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from right, kangaroo to ostrich to alligator to you know,
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all these different quote unquote novel proteins Buffalo, I mean,
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I mean, yeah, the list.
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Goes on and on and uh.
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And so, you know, these novel proteins are a big
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thing of a big, a big intervention of my conventional
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vet colleagues to try and solve these chronic diseases, which
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really this, you know, to solve them is quite simple,
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as we go over very often on many of our shows.
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Yeah, yeah, I mean it's you know, first off, you know,
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again we go back to the fact that we're feeding
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a single food for their whole life, and that's one
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of the issues that we really, you know, have a
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major problem with because the body's dynamic, it's always changing,
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it's always going to need something different. But I saw,
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I saw a question pop up here about does it
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does kin these diets actually.
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Cause a problem? Yeah? Can they cause more harm to pats?
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And I wanted the part of this in my notes
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here because I was all over the place with us
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and so I needed you know, I don't usually work
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with any notes, but there are just so many parts
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and pieces of debate that I wanted to make sure
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I covered it all. The number one cause of almost
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all disease, probably all diseases is stress. And you know,
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of course then we look at the toxicity and the
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deficiencies below that stress level. When we look at that,
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when you start feeding a wrong diet, a wrong food product,
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adding chemicals to it, basically the body goes into a
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stress state because now it's got to make something of
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these foods that went in the body. How do I
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digest them? How do I break it down? Is there
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any nutrients? If they are, where are they? The body
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is stressing on all this stuff isn't It.
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Absolutely is, And you're right, you hit the nail on
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the head. I mean, it's stress is the number one
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word here. And of course when we put that stress
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on the body, we're affecting the whole you know, liver, kidney,
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adrenal gland system, you know, the endocrine system, and that
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toxicity leads to that prolonged stress leads to disease in
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these other organ systems, you know, and certainly you know,
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whether it be the liver, the kidneys, or the endocrine system,
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you know, we usually will see eventually adrenal gland problems,
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thyroid issues, pancreatic issues. I mean, the list goes on
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and on just from that one word that you mentioned.
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Yes, yeah, I mean, it's.
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No matter how you look at it, we're putting the
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body into an unnatural state. And you know, I've been
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listening to a couple of podcasters out there that are
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pushing the therapeutic diets, and of course they're talking about ingredients,
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particularly that you know, the.
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People like you and I.
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We we're looking at the ingredients, the fresh foods, the
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living foods, the most natural, species appropriate diet. They're looking
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at nutrients from strictly a biochemical standpoint, and number one,
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when we're looking at it strictly from that biochemical standpoint,
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you're not looking at living food. You're looking at playing
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chemistry set, aren't you.
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That's right.
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Yeah, there's hardly anything living in these synthetic diets. I
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mean they might look wonderful on paper to the manufacturers
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and of the clients, but you know, again, I think
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one of the readers asked the question of the viewers
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asked the question, if you can't understand the ingredients listed
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on the pet food label, then it's probably not something
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we want to be giving to our animals for sure.
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I mean, that's that's definite. I mean, you know, we
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have to look at the number of you know, ingredients.
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I mean, let's face it. You know, even if you're
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looking at just the ingredient label, which is one of
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the common things that they talk about when they're pushing
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the therapeutic diets as well. When usually conventional pet food,
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you know, everybody's looking at, you know, is meet the
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number one and number two or number three ingredient in it?
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But that doesn't mean it's good, you know, and that
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you know, when they cook it, it doesn't really destroy
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all the nutrients, and these chemists know how to rebalance
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in what's been taken out by the cooking process, and
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you know it's much more available, and you know it's
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it's such be asked when I listen to the stuff,