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The Raw Dog Food Truth
Pets with allergies, skin issues gut issues and behavior issues can live better lives eating a species appropriate diet not hard kibble or cooked foods. Your Pet's Health Is Our Business "Friends Don't Let Friends Feed Kibble"
The Raw Dog Food Truth
Bird Flu and Raw Food - Dr. Judy Jasek
We delve into the essential truths and myths surrounding raw feeding for dogs, highlighting the significant health benefits of abandoning kibble for a species-appropriate diet. Throughout the episode, we tackle common misconceptions about allergies, food intolerances, and the role of raw milk, urging listeners to challenge current narratives that impact their pets' health.
• Discussing the adverse health effects of kibble
• Debunking the myths around pet allergies
• The importance of monitoring dietary reactions
• Exploring effective strategies for transitioning pets to a raw diet
• Addressing misconceptions about raw milk and avian flu
• Encouragement to shift to an informed, fear-free approach to pet nutrition
• Resources available for pet owners looking to transition diets
Raw Dog Food and Company where Your Pet's Health is Our Business and Friends Don't Let Friends Feed Kibble
well, hello, raw feeders. I'm dd mercer, moffitt, ceo of a raw dog food and company where your pets health is our business and we're friends, like my dear friend dr judy jason got there in tennessee, she didn't let friends feed, kibble or any clients. But you know what do you do? You're not the pet police, I'm not the pet police and I I'm I. I am just still shocked, dr jayzik. When you have dogs with itchy skin, you have bad poops. You have you know, uh, uh, lymphomas, lymphomas all over that thing.
Speaker 1:Fatty tumors, yeah, yeah you're just're just like come on now. Come on now. It's got to be food. You know, I think we're hearing a lot more these days about bad food and how it can affect your skin, your eyes, in humans, right. So why wouldn't it affect our pets? Come on.
Speaker 2:Of course it does. I have no idea what's what's even in that stuff, you know, and it's not allergies. It's another thing that drives me crazy when people come in and say, well, I did all this allergy testing and you know, my dog can only eat ostrich or something it's like. Well, was that testing done while your dog was eating kibble? And if the answer is yes, well, all those things tested positive because your dog was just inflamed from the kibble. It's nothing to do with the meat proteins. I mean, I still contend that true meat allergies, meat protein allergies, are extremely rare.
Speaker 2:I mean sometimes pets might have preferences. Sometimes they might, for whatever reason, do a little better on one protein than the other. So when people, especially when people are transitioning, follow that, follow your pet's body. If it just loves turkey and does really well on it and has great poops and all that stuff, well, maybe start with that and then slowly add in another protein. But as time goes on the digestion is going to get stronger and they can tolerate more proteins. It's a big change for their body to be digesting and metabolizing raw if they're used to kibble. So it's like a whole metabolic shift. So there is sometimes, you know, and and adjustment period. So roll with that. But it's not. It's not allergies, it's, I think. I think I think out.
Speaker 2:True, allergies and pets are extremely rare and these companies make a boatload of money to the testing and selling supplements and it's. People are just going completely down the wrong path because they need to be looking at what else could be inflaming the body. And, yes, you have to correct the food, but it's not about I mean, I still hear this all the time and constantly Well, my dog can't eat chicken, or my dog can't eat beef, or my dog can't eat this, or my dog can't eat that. It's all the other stuff. Usually that they're giving the dog the processed carbohydrates or the unhealthy treats or the flea and tick vaccines just the vaccines is enough, but people always blame the meat proteins. I would not want to be in your business because you're like the scapegoat for everything Not you personally, but the food.
Speaker 1:Yes, me personally.
Speaker 2:Yes, me personally.
Speaker 1:But here's the thing, dr Jasek, we also, as human beings, we make these correlations that sometimes aren't even valid, and I would tell you this because it happened to me just the other day. So I get up every morning. We are now in the Scottsdale area and we're here for a little while with a family member who's going through some cancer treatments. I get up every day and I walk Lazi around the lake, okay, and there's a lot of dog poop, goose poop, and this dog loves it, right, and she is so fast you know how fast dogs are. It's like I know I'm going to get in trouble, so I'm going to eat it really fast, okay.
Speaker 1:So the other day she was getting us up. I mean it was like this was really weird, she. She was just like whining, whining and whining and she got Rick up at like one in the morning to go out and poop. And then she was getting me up and she just had this awful diarrhea. It was like literally, I mean, but she would, I mean she would do it like that. It was like literally.
Speaker 1:I mean she would do it like that and I was like, oh my gosh, duck poop, you know causing some issues. So I gave her marshmallow root and I gave her Nux Vomica and it stopped. And I was like, ah, worked really great. Stopped. And then the next day I open up the fridge to get her food out and I realized what I had done. I had brought a bunch of turkey hearts with me and I had given her like five she hadn't had any additional hearts right and all of a sudden, here I do this, I give her five raw turkey hearts on top of her food. And it dawned on me at that moment Oops, that was my fault.
Speaker 2:It was too much heart.
Speaker 1:Too much. Yeah, and it had nothing to do with the duck poop, and it would be very easy to assume that it was the duck poop. And, oh my gosh, you've got this bacteria and now we've got to get antibiotics and we've got to put some sort of pharmaceutical in your body when it wasn't that at all. It was the dad gum duck hearts, I mean turkey hearts, and so, anyway, yes, it just happened to me because for some reason I forgot I'd given her all those hearts.
Speaker 2:Right, but either way, you know the body has a way of resolving that. So what's the diarrhea? Bodies like okay, too much of this, we got to get it out of here. Can't process this, let's get it out. Get it out of here regardless of the cause, and usually the body can process it, you know, handle it just fine. It's inconvenient to be up every couple hours during the night, but you know their bodies can tolerate it, just, you know just fine. Or handle it if the pets are otherwise healthy.
Speaker 2:Um, because the other knee jerk is to go in to the vet and then you get antibiotics and then the vet will pop would probably say yeah, you know, um, probably the duck poop, you know which. I think dogs can eat any kind of poop and it doesn't necessarily make them sick. I mean, I think that's a big, especially when it's a different species, like if dogs were going to get sick from any kind of poop, the most likely would be another dog, because there could be like a parasite egg in there or something. You know they could ingest something out of there. But from other species it's really not likely. It's just a very easy scapegoat but yeah I mean, I was watching her.
Speaker 1:She didn't have, you know, she wasn't vomiting, she wasn't didn't have lethargy, nothing like that. It was just this very, you know, runny gassy poop, and it didn't have lethargy, nothing like that. It was just this very, you know, runny gassy poop, and it didn't last that long. And as soon as I backed off the hearts you know I don't know what I was thinking, you know I was just, I just threw them in there. I'm like you have a bunch of hearts and she was like hearts are more muscle, you know, than the glandular organs.
Speaker 2:So I could see where you know. I would think that the hearts, like a bunch of extra heart, would not be as rich for them as, like liver, kidney or something. Yeah, can you imagine.
Speaker 1:So I have had people in the past where they think so it's called beef organ mix. It's literally just beef organs, guys, it's all organs. And people are like this beef gave my dog diarrhea and I'm like that's straight organs. So I'm just saying that sometimes, guys, we make these assumptions and they, they, they. We cause our dogs more harm by doing these. You know, knee jerk reactions.
Speaker 1:So I would say, just give it a, just give it a moment and open up your fridge and make sure you haven't done something that you don't realize you've done. You know, like the puppuccinos I go to this coffee shop and and Lazi can go in there with me, she goes in. And in the beginning they were like how about a puppuccino? And I was like, do you want my dog to be crapping all day? They're called crappuccinos. Crappuccinos they're just whipped cream, aren't they? And sugar, yeah, yeah, I'm like there's nothing in there. And Sugar, yeah, yeah, I'm like there's nothing in there. And you know it's so funny. Their faces are angry. They're like we like giving dogs these and I'm like, well, give it to them, but you're not going to give my dog, Right, Because Take your healthy treats in there and say, yeah, you want to give treats, give these to my dog, but don't give that crap.
Speaker 1:We found this place here that makes these meals that are super clean and you can taste the difference, and I'm talking about you know how, at Whole Foods or Sprouts or Natural Grocers they have meals that they have already prepared and you can just warm them up, okay, but if you look at their ingredients, they still have a bunch of junk in it. So we found this place it's called Eat Clean, eat Clean Phoenix, and they deliver, you can go and you can pick up their meals and they're very, very clean and they taste great. So I was in there and she said, oh yeah, we feed our dog raw. And I said, what, what kind do you feed? And she said, well, we cook for them. And I'm like that's not raw. Well, that's not raw.
Speaker 1:And it's really funny. People are like speak to the hand, you know, they just don't even want to hear what you have to say and they're in that business for people, but they don't make this correlation with animals. They're like, well, we cook and we put all this stuff in there, like you know, veggies and this and that, and I'm like, well, but you don't need to cook it. Well, what do you mean Raw?
Speaker 2:Raw is raw, and all that meat and veggies is not good for dogs either. We have so many people that want to make their pets food and like, okay, but here's what we recommend. Good luck finding spleen and kidney and even liver sometimes. And all these. Now some people will do it Like they know a rancher or they raise their own meat or they're big hunters. And you tell them, okay, this is what you got to put together and they'll do it, but that's extremely rare. Most people think, well, I can just, you know, cook some meat and veggies and call it good, maybe throw in a multivitamin. Isn't that good enough? Like, no, it's, it's not. And and sometimes, you know, a lot of times we tell people this is what we recommend. I mean people.
Speaker 2:One of the common things is people leave out the bone. You can't leave out the bone. Eggshell is not a substitute for having animal bone. You've got to get that animal bone in there. And you know people that want to do this think, well, oh, bone broth, can I just add bone broth? Well, bone broth's great, but it's still not a substitute for for the bone in the diet. And so I it's. In my experience, it's rare, I'd say almost unheard of that.
Speaker 2:We have somebody come in that's cooking, preparing their own meals for the pet. That's doing it well, doing it like the way we recommend meat, bones and organs, cause they think, well, just meat, veggies, man, little rice or something for fiber, you know, because they need that Um, that was a just kidding guys rice, um, but that's what we hear a lot. But that's not balanced and it's it's hard for it's. It's hard for people to realize that the balanced diet for a dog or for a cat is meat, bone, organ. They don't, they don't need the produce, maybe a little I think a little can help feed the microbiome, but they don't need a lot, you know, and people don't understand that and so pets get into problems and then it's because they're dying.
Speaker 2:They're not doing it right and I do it right. They're not. You know, you got a dog with itchy skin. You want to quit itching while I switched to raw. But if you're not balancing it right or enhancing it with things like like I add an extra organ, so I buy your organ. Only blends. Except the majority of Rex's meal is the 80, 10, 10, but I add in a little extra organ.
Speaker 2:I know to be careful on the turkey hearts now too, but I added a little extra organ and sardine and we've got tons of eggs. I rotate in some eggs, you know, I rotate all these enhancers in, but it's all whole food. I do do some algae because I think it's a good enhancer, but it's also whole food and that's what he gets. But I think a lot of people just just miss that or they get stuck on one protein. If you're not rotating, you know at least three different proteins, you're not optimizing nutrition. I mean, can your pet live on that? Sure, but if you've got a pet with some chronic inflammatory condition and you're only feeding one protein and you're not adding in these other enhancers, yeah they could survive on it, but they're not going to have optimal nutrition yeah, it's.
Speaker 1:uh, it's amazing how many people feed one protein, because I see it right, right, obviously I see the orders that go through and I'm just like you know, our team gets pretty used to what somebody orders, right, and Brian, it just makes Brian crazy, right, because he does the consults. He's like, ah, turkey, pmr again. They're just like this person, you know. And there's a lot of times when people are like there's something wrong with this blend because they're just not eating it and I'm like, well, after two years, they're sick of it. They're sick of it. Do you want to eat the?
Speaker 2:same thing over and over and over again. I don't.
Speaker 1:But I think that people think if I switch proteins they're going to have digestive problems. And they're not. And even if they did like laws for a night or two, big deal. But I don't see that. I really don't. Now I could see where you, you know, go from a bone to a boneless blend, or maybe you go from. You've never fed the blends with veggies in them before they have a little looser poop, but um, yeah, but you can add them in.
Speaker 2:you can add them in gradually too, right, like I tell people that are hesitant, like, just so you're feeding turkey, just do like a meal, that's like 25 of the beef blend or whatever else you want to try. You don't have to do a whole meal, though I think most dogs, once they're used to eating raw, you can switch, or I switch proteins around all the time. Sometimes I mix them. You know I do all kinds of different stuff, but you can do just a little bit and just just test it. I think it's like you know, people get ideas in their head about a certain type of protein and also the cooling and warming. You know that's another one I hear a lot and I think that is a valid Chinese medicine principle.
Speaker 2:But I think I've talked to some people that get just so hooked on that that they'll only feed proteins on the coolest, and I think you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater because okay, yes, a pet's inflamed cooler proteins could have some benefit, but then if you're not getting enough rotation, then you're not supporting their overall nutrition.
Speaker 2:So I don't think you're necessarily doing any favors. Maybe don't feed them something like lamb, that's really, really hot, but and or you could just do smaller amounts of, like beef or something like that, like you don't have to necessarily rotate all the proteins equally, where you could add some in so they get the nutritional benefit. But I think it's, I think it, it. It ends up really limiting their nutrition when people stick to just one concept like that or something shows up on an allergy test. Well, I can never feed my dog beef again because it showed up on an allergy test. Or you know, my dog needs. Somebody told me my dog needs cooling protein. So they're just eating rabbit and fish, you know, well, that's not going to be complete for them.
Speaker 1:All right, here's a question that I've never had before, but I just saw it come in. The question was would you recommend feeding my female dog bison testicles due to the testosterone?
Speaker 2:Okay, that's an interesting one.
Speaker 1:It is an interesting one, so I have to ask this question Would there still be testosterone in the bison testicles after they're harvested? I mean they're not attached to a body anymore.
Speaker 2:I mean that's a really good question. I honestly I don't know exactly. I would think it would start to break down over time, especially if they've been frozen Right. I've heard the same thing about feeding like the neck and where the thyroid is. Like if they don't feed tracheas because there could, could be some thyroid there and then they get too much of the of the thyroid hormones. So I would think over time that it would break down. But then also it's going into the digestive tract. So I would think that acid in the stomach is probably going to break down those, those hormones.
Speaker 2:You know like if you're supplementing with testosterone, you give an injection. You know like if, if you're supplementing with testosterone, you give an injection, you know it goes right in the bloodstream, you don't give it. Or maybe there's some you know supplements out there but you're not going to get a big change in blood level unless you're actually injecting it. So I would think once it goes into the digestive tract, the stomach acid is going to break it down. So I don't think it would be a problem. I mean, you know, don't feed 10 testicles a day or you should probably have diarrhea.
Speaker 1:Well look, I mean, wouldn't they just prescribe for men if they were on low T just to eat a bunch of bison?
Speaker 2:balls and you're fine. Come on Rocking out in oysters, or something fine.
Speaker 1:I mean, if I need a little testosterone, do I just eat bison balls and I'm okay? Dr Jasek, I mean I'm not certain that that's the way it works.
Speaker 2:They don't tell menopausal women to just grind up some ovaries and uterus and eat that little uterus.
Speaker 1:Well, dr Jason, the reason that they don't tell menopausal women to eat testicles is because they're afraid that they're going to cut their husbands, you know testicles because they're so menopausal right, they're like my doctor said. You know, oh gosh, you know I will ask our bison supplier about the testosterone levels in the Rocky Mountain oysters, but I just can't imagine that once they're detached.
Speaker 1:detached and, like you said, testosterone therapy typically is going to be injected. I mean, there are some pharmaceuticals that you can take sublingually in a pill right under your tongue and get that testosterone level. So don't think that there's not that, folks.
Speaker 2:But that's still going right in the bloodstream. That's not going into the stomach, right, or the stomach acid could break it down, right.
Speaker 1:I just don't. Yeah, I really doubt that that would be a problem. I don't think so, I don't think so, I don't think so, but we will get back to you guys on that, okay. One thing that we want to touch on today, though, is this raw milk and avian flu, this raw milk and the bird flu. You know, come on, let's just take all the stuff out in life that is good for you. Let's build fear around it, let's demonize it, okay, but you know. So, you, what do you think about this? I, you know.
Speaker 1:I do want to touch on Christine Massey's work. Dr Jasey, christine Massey, who has done an inordinate amount of work on getting these FOIA requests right so, sending in the FOIA request to the US Department of Agriculture and on every virus, on all of this stuff right. So she has one article that came out gosh in August that said the US Department of Agriculture were still. This is what the US Department of Agriculture has said in response to her request for actual evidence that these viruses, like the avian flu virus, the H1N1 thing, actually exists, okay, and their response is we're still hunting for scientific evidence of avian influenza virus. So you know, she's asked for all of this information and they have said you know we apologize for the delay as we work to find the appropriate office to search and collect records for your request in an effort to identify and obtain the documents of interest to you, but they can't provide them. Now, dr Jasek, if we have something that's so contagious and a virus that's so deadly, why do we have to search for the documentation they think?
Speaker 2:they'd have it right there. That they know. You know that they can prove it exists, but we know that there's no proof that any virus exists. It's all poisoning. They're just. They're just going to be using toxicity and the pandemic of the test, I think. I think all they need is a reason to start testing and then they start getting positive tests. And then what's so scary about this? Like you said, they're going to start wiping out the food supply, especially things like raw milk, because they want to get that. You know they, they, they don't want people drinking raw milk and being healthy. You know. So how do they get rid of that? Well, they just go in and say, well, tested positive for bird flu. And so we got to, you know, shut down this company. Or you know, chickens, test positive, get rid of, get rid of the chickens. They're just going to start taking out the natural and they're probably going to go after the smaller farmers, not the big guys.
Speaker 1:You know I was looking at, so I get all of Christine Massey. You guys, if you want to subscribe to Christine Massey, it's Christine C-H-R-I-S-T-I-N-E, Massey, M-A-S-S-E-Y, and you could probably just do a search for that. And they are her FOIA. Okay, Freedom of Information Acts Freedom of Information. And she's constantly talking to Department of Agriculture, the CDC, the FDA, all of these different agencies, and it is the same response, time after time after time. We're going to get back to you. We can't find this documentation, we don't have any real scientific information to give to you and I think that's bothersome, Dr Jasek. I mean, they say this about SARS-CoV-2. They say it about all of these different viruses that are out there. They cannot give her the information. Why would that be? Why?
Speaker 2:would that be Because it doesn't exist? It's not there. They're just trying to put it off. They don't want to say, no, we're making this all up. They say, oh, we're still looking. Yeah, it's a bunch of just a bunch of BS.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's really, really amazing. And yet people will stop feeding chicken.
Speaker 1:People will stop feeding turkey. You know? How do you know? How do you know that they don't have the bird flu? And here's the other thing, dr jacek. It's sort of like this bison testicle thing. After you kill the animal, right, you cut its head off. There's no blood supply, it's drained of its blood. You freeze it, you do all the stuff before you feed it to your animal. Does that thing, that scary virus thing, still hang out in that animal? Have they ever proven that? Has that ever been the case? No, you know well.
Speaker 2:Well, no, they've never proven it, but there's positive tests. And that's the scary thing. I mean, god help us if they start making home test kits for bird flu, like they did with COVID. So then you know they're trying to create the fear. This has nothing to do with a virus or anything contagious. They want people to get vaccinated. They want to scare people into getting vaccinated.
Speaker 2:And watch out, guys. I bet they're going to be coming up with vaccines for pets. They didn't quite go there with COVID, though there was talk of it, but because this bird flu is already, they're talking about it. It's in the animal industry, it's in the livestock industry and I think they've already supposedly tested a couple of cats positive. So they're going to be coming out with vaccines. And I don't know if you guys have ever followed Karen Kingston, who looks at lots of documents from Pfizer. She used to work for Pfizer, she used to do like research and stuff and it was her job to review all this documentation. So she can go through pages and pages of documentation from these companies and how they do their testing from these companies and how they do their testing, and she has predicted that the bird flu vaccine is going to have a 50% fatality rate.
Speaker 2:Well, the narrative is that bird flu is going to have 50% fatality rate in people. However, she's saying it's not that, it's the fact that they're going to scare people into getting vaccinated and it's going to be the vaccine that actually kills people, and that humans that have had other vaccines, like the COVID vaccine, that might be a little more compromised, are going to be more susceptible to, or more likely to get sick from it. So it's really scary, what, what might be coming up. But don't I mean just don't fall for the propaganda, don't fall for the testing, don't fall for the you know vaccinating. For God's sake, don't go get run out and get your pets vaccinated.
Speaker 2:Another thing she said was that they they've actually said this is in the vaccine company documentation the safety data is going to come after it's released. So, in other words, they're going to release it into the population and then see how many people die or get sick. That's their experiment. The general population is their experiment. They don't care how many die. It's it's really. It's really a sick industry. But I think you know what's really scary is you know it? It could really take out the food supply.
Speaker 1:Right that that that you know it's, it's just, it's you and I were talking earlier. It's so easy to fall back into what you've previously known my sweet mom. She was very good at not falling for the narrative. She didn't let her doctors bully her, she didn't take the shots, she was great. And yet I talked to her the other day and my stepdad has this terrible cold, right, terrible cold that you and I would call detox.
Speaker 1:My stepdad has this terrible cold, right, terrible cold that you and I would call detox, right, coughing, hacking, sneezing, and she's like I'm making him wear a mask in the house and I'm sleeping on the couch and I don't want to. You know, I don't want to get, I don't want him to give it to me and I don't want to go over to Christmas because I don't want anybody to catch our cold. And I don't even bother to say anything, right, because she's really, really into that and she just kind of fell back into it. And yet when I look at it, it's easy, right, it's as easy as me looking at Lossie and saying, oh, that duck poop made you have the squirts. It's easy because people in different pockets will have these things we called colds.
Speaker 1:You know, our son has a great cold, but does his wife? No, she's perfectly fine. If it was so darn contagious, dr Jason, it would be major. You know, like my mom definitely would have it, or Nick's wife. But in order to cover, we have to say well, no, we just have a better immune system, right?
Speaker 2:We have to say well no, we just have a better immune system, right? Not? What are they? What could they be detoxing from that? They've got all this snot and drainage and and all of that.
Speaker 1:Right, right, right. So it's just, it's just so easy. And the reason I say that is because, when you look at the FOIA request from Christine Massey, from Jamie, from Peggy Hall, all these people that have asked these agencies, these health agencies, that if they're dealing with the public, they have to give us that information, and they can't give us that information. The only reason that they aren't giving us that information is because they don't have it.
Speaker 1:Because, if they had it, they would say shut your pie hole. You know, you ignoramus person, shut your pie hole. Here's our evidence, right here. We are the authorities and we know, but they can't do it Right Because it doesn't exist. So why does our human mind say I can make sense of this nonsensical stuff? We're just trained to be nonsensical.
Speaker 2:Well, the contagion myth, as Dr Cohen calls it, has been around a long time. It's ingrained in people and people will still, you know, fall back on that. You know, we, my, my husband and I we were out of town last weekend and we stayed in this little cabin and came home and the first morning home, like I woke up and like, yeah, yeah, my throat's just a little sore, I'm a little congested, you know. And then my husband's, like same way, woke up with a sore throat and and, and I have trained myself to think like, hmm, I wonder what was maybe in that cabin. Maybe there was something. It was a old cabin, like made from wood, like handcrafted from wood. It was really kind of a cute little place. But maybe there was some cleaner that they use there that we're not used to.
Speaker 2:And and now my husband has more sinus. He said he's more susceptible to sinus stuff, his sinuses get irritated and and it lasts longer for him. So he had more of an ongoing thing. You know we could have said, well, we must've picked up a virus somewhere on our trip. You know we're exposed to something traveling. But I'm just like, nope, we must have been, you know, detoxing something that was in that cabin or something we were exposed to you know. So you do have to change the way you think.
Speaker 1:Well, let me tell you something Around this time of year, when everybody's putting up their fake Christmas trees and their fake garlands, the chemicals, even the cedar on real trees, right, it can cause these scratchy throats. It can cause or the dust I mean, we put this stuff up, we put it in the attic and we bring it down or the flocked trees, the fake flocked trees that we have, all of this kind of stuff, even scented candles, most scented candles, and stuff like that, all that you know smelly stuff.
Speaker 2:And then you're, you know, maybe not eating quite as healthy, maybe eat a little extra sugar, so your body's a little more inflamed. And then you know, you end up detoxing after the holidays and say, oh yeah, must have caught a cold from somebody at the family dinner.
Speaker 1:Right. So what's the easiest thing to do? One, you get people to think a certain way and then you make a test, like you were saying make a test that will validate the nonsensical stuff. And even today, I know some people that are like, oh, I'm still going to do a home COVID test and I'm like, with all of the proof that we have that this thing was so janky, I mean, come on. But you know, I think you just have to. If you're ready to open up and think a different way, then try it.
Speaker 1:Try taking this next year, 2025. In 2025, could you shift your mind over to? It is not a boogeyman that's flying through the air. Okay, that is out to get you. It may be pesticides. It may be things that are in the air that are toxins. All right, that's certainly a possibility.
Speaker 1:You live around a bunch of golf courses. Do you live in a homeowner's association where there's beautiful yards? This is a lot of pesticides. You're going to find out, I think, in this new administration, that there's a lot of things in our food and in our water that shouldn't be there, because you're going to see them trying to take it out. So could it be that? Could it be that that you're exposed to, and could your body be reacting in the best way possible, the way the body's designed to cough it out, to sneeze it out, to poop it out, to scratch it out? Oh, to scratch it, yeah, I mean to get it out. So think about it. If you're thinking about it in that direction, dr Jasek, that the body is designed to get it out, you're probably not likely that you're going to take something to hold it in to prevent it from doing its thing.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Same thing with the dogs right. So, um, you know a a thing. You know marshmallow root, that is not a pharmaceutical right. So if I gave. So that's what I did, you know, I gave lozzie the marshmallow root in a tincture, squirted in the mouth, and then I gave her a couple of the little nox vomica, nox vomica things. Homeopathic stuff's not gonna, it's not gonna be a problem, not gonna hurt anything. Support the body and she was perfectly fine, yeah yeah, and you gotta let it out too.
Speaker 2:You don't want to, you know, go in and, and you don't want to be necessarily taking like anti-diarrheals or things or antibiotics. You want to let the body do its thing. The body's trying to get rid of something. You got to let it get it out, because otherwise you just hold it in and then those toxins stay in there or you disrupt their natural microbiome with the antibiotics. And you know, if the body wants to get it out, you got to let it get it out. However it chooses to do that, now you can support it.
Speaker 2:Like I had that scratchy throat, I got my ozone machine here. I was breathing in some ozone, you know, because that can help with that process. I'm not stopping that process, I'm just helping to oxygenate the tissues, which is actually helping to support the detoxification pathways. So you can do those things. Or, you know, sit in a hot towel like just sit in a hot bath with essential oils like eucalyptus and things like that. That can help kind of open up the airways and stuff, but you're not suppressing. You don't want to take a decongestant, you, you, you want your body to be able to do what it needs to do, or a cough suppressant because the body needs to cough something out. But you can certainly help those processes along and help yourself be more comfortable by soothing the tissues. Like marshmallow root it's, it's mucilaginous, it just breaks down and and forms this nice coating and the GI tract. So probably help Lossie feel a little bit better, but it's not stopping the process.
Speaker 1:It's like damn mom gave me all those turkeys. They're coming out my backside.
Speaker 2:That's right.
Speaker 1:Well, we certainly hope that this new year coming up, 2025, that you will be healthy, that you will persevere, that you will not be afraid. Right, there's a lot of fear in the world right now and I do think, dr Jacek, with fear whether that's in fear of your own health or your pet's health we don't make the best decisions when we're in fear, and I had someone tell me recently when you're gathering information, be as neutral as possible. I think we talked about this on the last podcast. Try to be neutral in that information so that you don't block other information that may be trying to come in. I always think that the more information you can get certainly work with people who have longevity in doing what they do, so like you're not a new vet walking out of vet school. You have been on both sides of the aisle, you're able to give people an opinion based on many, many years of what you've seen, and that's a really um, helpful person, somebody that has already walked the walk and and been in the trenches. So I would say, if you guys have a pet that's looking at surgeries, that's looking at certain diagnosis, or that has certainly received a certain diagnosis, or that's being put on a bunch of different pharmaceuticals.
Speaker 1:Is there a better way? Is there a better way? And that you would want to get over to ahavetcom? Ahavetcom and work with Dr Jasek and her team? Dr Jasek still has lots of great information on your multimedia page. You have lots of blogs. You have lots of information that you can read and then you can work with her on a personal basis. So I would really really encourage you to get over to ahavetcom and get your dog on a species appropriate diet. You know, if you've got skin issues, you got a dog that's a little overweight, bad breath, limping, joint problems. You know we can really help you here at Raw Dog Food and Company. We can help you make that transition. We have a quiz. We have free consults. Certainly, dr Jasek and I have tons of information on our Rumble page at Raw Dog Food and Company, rdf Co. On.
Speaker 2:Rumble. Do people have to pass the quiz before they can feed raw food? They do, no, they don't, that'd be scary, I gotta take a quiz to buy food from them?
Speaker 1:Oh no, no, we just had this quiz in regards to is it a puppy? You know, just to help you and it and it's going to give you a recommendation. So, are you trying to feed a puppy? You're trying to feed an adult? Um, and and I just think that people like you know to answer these questions to see what we're going to recommend. It's really super easy. We just recommend you get off of any processed foods no puppuccinos, no processed treats. People are so funny. They say to me all the time well, I don't even feed scraps and I'm thinking scraps would be far better than any kibble you could ever feed.
Speaker 2:Absolutely Probably the worst homemade diet. Now we talked about the importance of balancing a homemade diet, but Probably the worst homemade diet. Now we talked about the importance of balancing a homemade diet, but still probably the worst homemade diet is better than kibble in the short term, because at least you're getting rid of the stuff that's inflaming and poisoning the pet. Now you need to get them, to get them healthy. You got to balance out that diet, but getting off the kibble is just paramount importance and kibble, you guys, is prescription food.
Speaker 1:Kibble is any kind of food that has been baked, cooked, uh, heated right, even canned, even canned food.
Speaker 2:You know I mean canned foods, basically just like kibble with a bunch of water added and they put it in a can and the ingredients are not any better in canned food. So any like kibble line that has an associated canned food, those canned foods are just as bad.
Speaker 1:Right, right. So get your dog on a species appropriate diet here at Raw Dog Food and Company. Your pet's health is our business. And what, dr, dr jacek, friends don't look friends for you kill y'all. That's right. Have a merry christmas, everybody. Merry christmas see you next week bye.
