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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.
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And here's your host, Bill the Pet Health Guru, and
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welcome to Pet Health Cafe, to show where your pet
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has a voice. Does is Bill the Pet Health Guru
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and my special guest host, which is in a foggy
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place right now, Doctor Michael dem how are you doing, Doc?
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I'm doing well.
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Let me man, now, you're just showing up a lot better.
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No, under the weather, not supposed to be.
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You're the health provider, remember, no ill health with the
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health people.
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Yeah. I just got off the phone with my homeopath
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and ironically, he prescribed them a remedy that I've never
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taken before. And it's ironical. So what you know, we
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do our business so the homeopathic. The homeopathic remedy is
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called lac canina much as dog milk.
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Okay, well, yeah, that's interesting. I don't know if I
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mentioned it to you. Or not. I was doing some
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research a couple of weeks ago, and first of all,
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I want to thank everybody that's tuning in, and you know,
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go ahead and share and like and subscribe to this podcast.
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Go into the chat if you have any questions, that's
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your thing. But I saw a report that from my
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I think it was nineteen twenty four to nineteen twenty eight,
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the number one prescription that was written by doctors for
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everything from prostate issues, tuberculosis exima, all kinds of digestive
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disorders was raw milk, raw coll's milk. And then we
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came up with this wonderful idea of the c d
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C that now says that raw milk is like poison
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death sentence.
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Wow.
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Yeah, but it's interesting that you know that again, you
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know raw products, and uh, of course you know dairy
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which has gotten you know, mixed reviews over years and
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years and years, whether it doesn't matter what species it is.
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You know, it's interesting that you know, raw cow's milk
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is fine for cams, but not for people. Rush sheep
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milk fine for lambs, but not for people, you know,
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and you know, when when.
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Their feet what about dogs?
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Book, Yeah exactly.
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I mean you know, you have to remember that it's
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it's not the actual physical substance, it's the it's prepared
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and diluted and the energy of the remedy. So that's
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what you're really taking, is right exactly.
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But still, I mean know, you know, all your remedies,
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you know, at least the bulk of your remedies are
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from nature anyway, right right, And that's one of the
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things we have to keep reminding people of. And of
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course that's that's going to tie in with our topic tonight.
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It basically, you know, what is holistic. I don't think
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most people really realize it. I'll probably go off on
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a couple of rams tonight, but you know, most people
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don't realize that that term itself basically refers to the
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whole body, not a set of symptoms. Isn't that true?
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That's very true exactly. A holistic approach doesn't deal with parts.
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It deals with the whole body as an integrative whole.
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You know, where the parts function is a all part
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of the same organism. So in homeopathy we call it
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is the life force of the animal or person, where
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the uh, you know, the life force when it's diseased,
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it's the whole life force that's affected, even though it
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may show us the symptom and a part of the body.
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So you know, that's the energy medicine way of putting it.
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But like you just put it, you know, from a
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functional medicine or dietary perspective, we look at the whole
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body as being interrelated.
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Well, you know, one of the things that really drives
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me crazy is when you know, I'm talking with clients
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and I know you run into the same thing and
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we we this term holistic is like thrown out there,
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like you know, like confetti. You know, well, I've got
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I've got a doctor that is both holistic and conventional.
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Is that a possibility?
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In reality?
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Yeah, yeah, it's a possibility, you know certainly, Well it's
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a possibility in their minds. Yeah, right, you know, I
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mean they should be and I guess they're under the
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you know, the category of the best of both worlds.
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So you know that's that's not all that's not holistic,
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that's allopathic. And we see that there are animal hospitals
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that call themselves, you know, holistic. It's usually a best
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of both worlds approach, and often the conventional approach is
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used first, and then the acupunctual homeopathy is used as
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a backup.
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Right, well, well, and that's that's the next thing I
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wanted to think. I mean, basically all probably at least
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in this country. You know, most veterinarians, most medical doctors,
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they're basically trained in conventional allopathic medicine, which obviously that's
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that's where they they practice. But when they get off
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and I think what sometimes referred to is more holistic,
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are doctors that do some alternative therapies and things like that.
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But that's not holistic because again, you're just using an
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alternative approach to those same basic symptoms, aren't you.
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Yep, that's exactly right. So it's not really, like you said,
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a holistic, individualized approach. It's you know, it definitely comes
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under the conventional model.
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It makes it, you know, it makes it tough, you know,
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especially when we're dealing with it because you know, you know,
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and I know it because we deal with this all
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the time. And when the client says, oh, I've been
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dealing with a holistic doctor, you know that, my head
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wants to, you know, just start spinning in circles. Because
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there's no real such thing. For the most part, and
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generally speaking, I probably if if you really went all
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the way out in the limb to be one hundred
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percent holistic, you probably lose your license because you're not
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following sandrew Care. Isn't that right?
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That's very true. I just got a letter in the
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mail from the California State Board and they said, we
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got to complaint that you're practicing telemedicine, you know, across
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state lines, and that's not it. That's not for the
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that's against the you know, the Practice Act in California.
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So I they asked me for a response and I said, well,
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I said, I'm not really prescribing drugs and medications, as
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you know, and I'm prescribing dietary therapies, nutritional therapies, verbal therapies,
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and you know, I kind of put it that way.
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I didn't bring in homeopathy because that's a system of medicine.
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But right, but I did you know not that you know,
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herbal therapies are not you know, sure food based herbs
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are in medicine. They are, but you know, the way
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they look at it is, you know, certainly different modalities medicine.
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So I'll see what they say, but you know that
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they did send me. That's the first time I've ever
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gotten a letter like that in over thirty years of practice. So,
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you know, and I suspect here's what I suspect that
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it could have been a client that you know, the
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animal didn't do well. But it also you know, could
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have been a you know, they could have shared my
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information with the veterinarian and then the veterinarian turns it in.
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You know, that's typically what often happens.
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went through a year in Florida just with doing an
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alternative practice. I mean, I don't know, yeah, you know,
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you mean, you don't want to give those nasty things
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that you know, you would put into a tube with
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a needle on them.
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You know, we have to watch what we say about
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that too, because they keep shadow banning us, you know,
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because of the terminology. So right, we have to have
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to watch what we say to a greater degree. But again,
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the term holistic, it's thrown out all over the place,
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and not only with obviously with the doctors and the
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practices so called that are are holistic. But then you
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jum fetting into what is a holistic remedy or a
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holistic drug, because we hear that banded about a lot
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that oh, well you treat you know this doctor treats
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with holistic drugs. Well, you know, I mean the most
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holistic drug obviously, and I use the term loosely in
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the word drug, but that would be something called food
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because that basically is that the main approach that I
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see that basically takes care of the whole body and
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takes into account the whole body, isn't it.
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Yes, yes, you know, as I've quoted, you know, I've
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quoted on the show many times when I give talks.
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You know, Hippocrates said let food be thy medicine, and
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medicine my food. So you know, nothing is more true
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than that. So, yes, food is medicine. Not viewed that
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way in conventional medical terms, but it is. It is
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medicine obviously.
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Yeah. So every meal that you eat, if it's not
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meant for health, then that that screws everything up. I
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don't know, it's like, you know, but you know, you
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have to eat, you have to have good nutrition, and
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you can't really separate it. I mean I look at
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food today a lot more, a lot differently than I
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did when I was traveling as a rep on the
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road all the time, and every eat in restaurants and
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things of that nature. I love good food. I love food.
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It tastes good, and that most of us are the
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same way. However, now I have a tendency to look
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at a food from more of a functional basis. You know,
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how is this going to help the body rather than
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just taste good? You know, I mean I can add
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those you know, twenty seven different chemicals to what they
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will meg it taste really really super. But what are
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those chemicals to do to me? What?
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What?
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What am I trying to accomplish with this this meal?
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I mean, is it just satisfaction? Is it just flavor?
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Or do I want it to actually help respect and
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build my body?
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Right? Exactly? Well? Put so, yeah, you want to build
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a body, and that's what food should be doing, not
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not tearing it down and not not causing a breakdown
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in protein, which a lot of the especially commercial prescription
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foods often do. Our diets, you know, ideally are you know,
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should be building up protein and body tissues and that
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kind of thing. And of course, in traditional medicine, given
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how let's say, the obesity epidemic in our animals that
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are traditionally raised, you know, often from the carbohydrate based kibbles,
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they're often recommended to put those animals on low fat diets,
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low fat kibbles, and that's just the worst stuff.
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It's interesting. I've been listening to a a podcaster that's
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been out there that has worked in the pet nutrition
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field for like thirty years, and it was with one
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of the big so called script companies and basically believed
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in everything that they've ever come out with and the philosophy.
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And I really had to dig back into my brain
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because I helped actually introduce a lot of these products
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back in the early nineteen seventies. Is their philosophy is
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not that you don't look at the ingredients, which of
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course that's what's on the bag. You know, you're looking
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at an ingredient panel, but you need to look at
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the nutrition that that product is going to bring to
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the table. So if I need protein, it really doesn't
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matter what the protein is. That's their philosophy. And I
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think you know that from attending enough that conferences and
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stuff like that. That's the way they approach it. Carbohydrates,
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it doesn't matter because we need that energy, even though
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a carnivore is going to need those carbohydrates to provide
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a depth. But even the denial that dogs are carnivores,
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I mean, they're opportunistic. They're not an ominivore. They're not
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out there picking apples and you know years of corn,
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are they?
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No? Just look at their teeth, right, that's if you
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can see what they That's how they evolve eat. You know,
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you look at our teeth. You know that's well, I
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shouldn't go too much there, because we should. You know,
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I know there are paleo people for for paleo, right,
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but in general, of course, are you know the the
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primates you know typically or you know, the primates, the
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animal primates are definitely more adapt to eating plant and
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vegetable based and fruit based materials. But our dogs and cats,
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you know, especially cats, I mean, god, you know, there's
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such obligatory carnivores. And then when we feed them these kibbles,
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you know, we talk about that all the time. It's
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just the kibble is a dehydrating diet. It causes tremendous
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stress on the urinary tract and the kidneys, leading to
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often crystals or early kidney failure. So you know, the
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dry kimbal is probably the worst thing that cats can be,
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not that it's good for dogs, but with cats it's
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really poison sure.
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Well, I mean you're starting out, especially with the dry
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food and cats being a desert animal, they need to
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get their moisture hydration through their food because they're not