Here I go again!
Teaching you things that other veterinarians don’t tell you, or maybe don’t want you to know!
What if I told you there is a way for you to markedly improve your pet’s health and medical conditions right at your fingertips.
It does not involve trips to the doctor or additional expenses or drugs or medication of ANY kind.
What if I taught you that getting back in touch with nature, the way our pet’s ancestors did, is the key to vastly improved health.
Things like sunshine,fresh air, rain, ponds with frogs and critters in it, exposure to dust and dirt and insects.
Spurts of REALLY exhaustive exercise before feeding time (like when they have to run really hard to catch a prey)
And then periods of VERY hard, uninterrupted sleep, in pitch darkness not contaminated by TV noise or flashing screen lights or electronic distractions.
What about Dirt?
This is not a subject most veterinarians discuss. Who knows why? Maybe they just haven’t bothered thinking about it, or maybe they just cannot think of a way to turn it into a profitable service or product they can sell. But fear not! I have been known to tread where few others dare to go. Think about it:
In their true natural habitat wild dogs like wolves and wild cats like bobcats or lions, spend their wakefull energy hunting for food. And then when they catch something like a rabbit or a small antelope, no butcher with a sharp knife shows up to fillet out the juicy steaks. I often hear : “Oh Dr.N I only buy the most exclusive organic chicken for my pet” as if I am supposed to believe that would make it more healthy.
Yes, this wild prey is hopefully less toxic or less contaminated with hormones and antibiotics, but our beloved subject now has to devour it out there on the mud and ground, somewhere in the bushes.
They have to chew through the skin which has hair and dirt and pollen on it. Then as they chew through the abdominal wall and the organs fall outside on the dirt, it mixes with sand and grass and pieces of rotten leaves and bark and insect carcasses and raccoon poop and …you get the picture.
My theory is, this is a good thing. Modern processed pet food is sterilized at extremely high temperatures (killing bad bacteria sure, but also millions of beneficial microbes) Then it is “extruded” into a paste that can be made into kibble or canned pet food. There is supposedly none of the natural “dirt” that wild animals eat every day and they are proud if it! Not knowing how beneficial that foreign material is.
I believe that we have a terrible epidemic of horrible allergic diseases, outbreaks of autoimmune diseases, messed up hypersensitive immune systems everywhere. All because the immunity is not daily challenged by millions of little natural exposures to all sorts of naturally occuring physical breakdown products in nature and millions of exposure to multiple bacteria virusses, fungi and yeast every day. Which is natures own vaccination plan that creates immunity against the things in our environment and tones down these hyperimmune responses we know as “allergies”
So look the other way for an hour or two if your dog rolls on the carcass of a dead rat, or retrieves their stinky tennisbal from the trash heap, or heaven forbid, licks another dog under their tail! Don’t tell anybody I said that, but occasionally if a piece of dog foods happens to drop outside in the yard under a tree ….ooops!
There is a whole discipline in human medicine based on a medical theory called the Hygiene Hypothesis
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
In medicine, the hygiene hypothesis states that early childhood exposure to particular microorganisms (such as the gut flora and helminth parasites) protects against allergies by properly tuning the immune system. In particular, a lack of such exposure is thought to lead to poor immune tolerance
The time period for exposure begins before birth and ends at school age.
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