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The Raw Dog Food Truth
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The Raw Dog Food Truth
Suppress an Acute, Create a Chronic: Why Band-Aids Don't Heal
DeDE Murcer Moffet and Neely Piazza dive deep into why raw feeding and homeopathy offer superior alternatives to conventional veterinary approaches and processed pet foods. They share personal insights about the dangers of conventional symptom suppression and how homeopathy works with the body's natural healing processes instead of against them.
• The problematic nature of veterinary education and how it creates practitioners who follow protocols rather than observe patients
• Why emergency veterinary situations can lead to over-treatment and unnecessary procedures
• The concept of "suppress an acute, create a chronic" and how medications like steroids and antibiotics create long-term health problems
• How homeopathy offers a safe, effective alternative that works with the body's healing strategies
• Benefits of species-appropriate raw diets including improved coat, digestion, behavior, and overall health
• Information about Neely's upcoming "Gateway to Homeopathy" courses starting in mid-June
• The value of community support when learning to treat pets naturally
Get your dog on a species-appropriate diet and check out Raw Dog Food and Company at rawdogfoodandcompany.com where your pet's health is our business. Learn more about homeopathy through Neely's courses at wholeanimalwellness.com. Remember, friends don't let friends feed kibble!
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Oh snap. Well, hello Raw Feeders. I'm Deedee Mercer-Muffet, ceo of a raw dog food and company. We are Pets, health is our business and we're friends, like my long-lost friend who's now in Missouri Uh, neely Piazza, she doesn't let friends feed kibble, even if you're out of dog food. Would you feed kibble?
Speaker 2:Oh, go to the grocery store, buy some hamburger, buy some chicken, gee whiz.
Speaker 1:You know I can't wait, niels, for the day I think you know, hopefully it's going to happen where the truth comes out about prescription diets, the truth comes out about raw diets, right, just like we saw the cardiomyopathy bullcrap, you know which people are still pushing, by the way, even though how many years ago has it been that the fda has said, oh sorry, there was nothing there and anyway, go ahead.
Speaker 2:Who's still pushing that? You still hear about it? Yeah, yeah, I, I. Uh, not too long ago, somebody told me that their cardiologist insisted that their dog had to be eating grain and I'm like, oh, my goodness, you need. And it seems like cardiologists are the worst. You know my stance on vets in general, but cardiologists, literally consistently, are the worst. I don't know what kind of tunnel vision they have, but man.
Speaker 1:Well, I told you about my experience at VCA just totally horrible. I told you about, you know, my experience at VCA just totally horrible. And and you know what, what makes it even worse, niels, is that I I don't know how you change that I think, um, you know, you've got your homeopathy classes. I think we need to have, um, how to counter the narrative, the, the, the, the crazy narrative once you're in there, because here's the problem You're dogs that go to a emergency clinic, like like Lazi, they need something right, and most of the time they're going to need fluids, right.
Speaker 1:That's the biggest thing, I think, is that they've got to have fluids going into their system. But they were guessing. They were guessing at everything oh, I think it's lepto, oh, I think it's pancreatitis, oh, I think it's Addison's, oh, I think it's Cushing's, oh, I think it's pyro. They had no idea and everything kept coming back negative. And I feel for pet parents that don't have the years of knowledge that that we have, or, um, because when you're in that situation with your pet man, is it hard? I mean, I, my bill still was eight thousand dollars who has $8,000 sitting around, right, yeah, and they wanted.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and look what, look what all else they wanted you to do.
Speaker 1:But well, dr jay-z had a good point and she said you know, they give you sort of this um up front. They give you like here's your, your, your your worst case. Yeah. And she's like because they they say, okay, you need to put a deposit down to $5,000. Well, they need to do everything to get that $5,000. Right, and so the other thing is too, you know, like I've said, would they treat your dog worse if they didn't like you as a customer?
Speaker 2:I'm sure some would. I wouldn't venture to say that everybody would but I mean, it's kind of human nature, but that stuff is so ingrained in them. But that stuff is so ingrained in them. It's just like you know, we talk about the universities being indoctrinating and having this, you know, complete slant, and kids coming out now that are like total morons and have no idea of what, know what reality and truth actually is. They and I think it's the same for for vets, and it's so ingrained in them.
Speaker 2:I mean, think about vet school, think about what it's like to go through vet school. You don't even have time to look up and breathe, you just have to, like, memorize, just straight up, memorize everything they throw at you. And you know, that's why any holistic that you talk to has come to that realization on their own after multiple years of being in practice. And you know, a lot of these people are smart enough to realize, gosh, this isn't, this isn't working and this is not, this is not actually doing what they told me it would do and maybe I need to, you know and some people look into it there being such a shortage of vets because they, I I guess, are so um um, maybe it's because they know they have to take the rabies shot and they're like I ain't doing it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's that too. I I don't know. I I don't know why there's such a. There's a shortage of everything. At this point. I think the population is quite a bit smaller than what the number that floats around is. They're under all the corporate nonsense and they don't have, even if they want to. They don't have a choice. I mean, look way back in the day when Dr Rob ended up in the Senate hearings, because he was he dared to give a chihuahua half of a vaccine dose, as he gave a Great Dane, and they took his franchise away from him. They kicked him out. I don't know if he lost his license or not, but I mean, my goodness.
Speaker 1:They set the system up to say if you buck what we say, if you dare, then we're going to cause you great consequences.
Speaker 1:And, as I said at this VCA, they have all of these signs that basically say if you disagree with us, that's what they're saying If you buck us at all, we will totally deny you services.
Speaker 1:And the last thing that a pet parent wants when their dog is sick is to be denied services, right, when their dog is sick is to be denied services, right? So I, I, I often say they need to take a play out of Mayo's book, because Mayo doesn't treat anybody like that, right? And and yet they're dealing with some, some major issues, um, so it's a it's crazy. It's crazy, um, and I just I think that they have caused themselves this, this because we as a society don't really trust doctors anymore, because what we found out was that during COVID, they were being paid to skew diagnosis and to gain money. And then, when you understand that you're a lot of your healthcare providers, whether that be in pets or people, they're getting paid a commission on what they sell you, on what tests they do, right? So how could that not? I mean, we're not selling shoes, for Christ's sakes.
Speaker 2:Well, it's like pediatricians, you know. They get subsidies for having a certain percentage of their kids on the prescribed schedule vaccine. Play that game. Like you said, they can't they're. They're in that corporate structure where they either do what the higher-ups tell them or they're out on the street and they all have hundreds of thousands of dollars of student debt.
Speaker 1:You know, hey, what happens if you I mean you've had student debt? What happens if you don't pay? Huh, still, still, what happens if you just don't pay it?
Speaker 2:I don't know, I hadn't tried that yet, but it's on the list.
Speaker 1:I mean, I guess it goes against your credit and then you get deemed for everything else.
Speaker 2:But I'm like, yeah and it's, it's the one thing that you can't um claim in bankruptcy, because I ended up going through bankruptcy way back when too. You know, and that's the one thing that you can't, you can't bankrupt out of it. You're stuck with it the whole time.
Speaker 1:Um, but you know, I'm on the income-based repayment plan, so I yeah, it's uh, it's crazy, you know, um, when you look at how much money these institutions have and obviously we've been finding out about that as their funds being cut off, right being cut off and you're just like what is happening? Why? Why are kids graduating with this much debt? It's just insane.
Speaker 2:And no knowledge, or no, no, no wisdom no wisdom, wisdom, well, and maybe no knowledge.
Speaker 1:I mean, like what you're saying. It is a system that says um, regurgitate, remember what I say and don't question it, because you don't have time. And this is the system. And you know, one of the things that amanda, our daughter, had said was when, when you know, we were talking back and forth with you and Dr Jasek and Amanda, when Lazi was getting you know treated here, and her comment was can they not do anything outside of running a diagnostic, you know, in a fricking computer?
Speaker 2:look at the patient model. That's the model right.
Speaker 1:Look at the patient, what is is happening, and that's one thing that you know you're great at. Dr jacek is great. It's like all right. If there was a blockage, there would be this. This isn't this. If there was um, um, adezonian right, the addison's disease, you typically see that in a dog that's had lots of vaccines, lots of other things, right that that's not this dog. And then it came back where that wasn't even the case. So that's what they cannot do. They're not good at that. I mean, my God, niels, they would have started treating her for all this stuff she didn't have Right, which is why you want to be cut her open and not and not found anything, right, andasic?
Speaker 1:was. She was like you know, if they cut her open, more likely they're going to want to biopsy this organ, that organ, that organ. And she was like and she'll never be the same. So, thank god that wasn't the case. And I, you know, I, I was like no, we're not doing that unless you can definitively tell me that there was a block there, oh, it might be gas. No, no, no, not happening. We're going to take her home and feed her and see if she can pass it, which she did. Um, this is why homeopathy is so important.
Speaker 2:Right, because there are things that you can do to keep your dog healthy, to not put things in them that they can't clear so one of the one of the big advantages that if, even if you just have a small amount of knowledge, you know you're, most generally, your dog's going to present with some sort of an acute issue, right, they, um, they got stung by a bee, they tore themselves open, they're throwing up or they have diarrhea or something that's rather common and acute like that. Homeopathy is fantastic about helping with those situations and once you are relatively comfortable, have a little bit of knowledge, you will always have something at hand to go to. Right off, right. And then the way my study groups are set up. The way my study groups are set up, you have a group of people that you know. When it's you and you're in the middle of it, your brain turns to mush. I'm the same way. But you have a group of people that you can reach out to and be like, hey, this is happening, I'm a little freaked out, somebody remind me what to do and everybody chimes in and then you kind of regain your senses and you, you know, you keep going and that's kind of how that works and it's a, it's a, it's a great supportive system to go on that way and it and but the biggest thing is. It keeps you out of the vet's office. It keeps you out of the emergency room until you're 100% sure that you need to go there, because you go there with any minor little thing.
Speaker 2:You know they feel like they need to treat you so and they're all about suppressing symptoms and pushing all that stuff back down. And you know what's the first thing they do. If you go in with a dog with diarrhea, they give you metronidazole, right, which totally decimates the gut, and you know it's just like oh, here, do this. You know, yeah, it'll stop the diarrhea, but the dog's never the same. It takes forever to recover from something like that and it wasn't needed, right. But either that's their protocol or they feel like they have to do something.
Speaker 2:Suppress an acute, create a chronic. That's what happens. You stuff that stuff down further, goes deeper into the system. Your body has to figure out a different way to deal with it, so it pushes it out in a different way, right? So you end up with all kinds of side effects. You end up with your itchy skin, your allergies, your runny eyes, your recurrent ear infections, ear infections, your UTIs, all those things that you see so so commonly with um. You know routine vaccines, or you know, of course, the steroids, or um an antibiotic or something to treat something that was, you know, might've been scary, but in the grand scheme of things, was minor, and so you go home with a huge problem right, I love that.
Speaker 1:So you said suppress an acute Create a chronic. Create a chronic.
Speaker 2:Yeah, anytime you suppress a symptom, or suppress an acute symptom like that, it's going to come out later as a chronic.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:And the other problem is homeopathy is incredibly powerful in a lot of really major issues. Powerful and a lot of really major issues. However, if you have gone the allopathic route first, like, say, you say you have allergies and you go, you have steroids or apoquil or cytopoint or some combination or all of the above of those things which which is typical, right, we see that all the time Right it may you're suppressing that and then, particularly with steroids, you come off of that and and you have to wean off gradually. You have to do that under super, under medical supervision, because it's not something you can just stop doing, but you'll have a rebound, you'll have a steroid rebound and so the condition will be multiple times worse than it was before you did the steroid, whereas if you go to homeopathy first instead of last, you can get to the bottom of it a whole lot faster and a whole lot easier. I'm not going to say it's going to happen overnight, but if you have those other interventions first, it makes it a lot more difficult to get through it. And you will also find that those allopathic interventions, they may work once, they may work twice, they may work for a couple of years, but they will stop working. And when they do stop working, that's not even counting the side effects.
Speaker 2:We all, you know, we all know that abaquil causes cancer and totally dysregulates everything. And side of point, I, the last several people that I've talked to that did side of point, it didn't even work, you know so. It was just a, just a throwaway, toxic throwaway. But the more that you do um, the harder it is to get back on track. And it's it's not. It's not a cure. It's not a cure, it's a band-aid, it's just a it's, it's like. It's like, um, putting icing on a mud pie and calling it a cake. Right yeah.
Speaker 1:So I want to kind of clarify that for folks a little bit. When you say how would someone understand this better? Not a cure, it is a Band-Aid. So when you're looking at something, give us an example of not a cure, it's is a band-aid. So when you're looking at something, give us an example of not a cure, it's a band-aid so a cure would be you have, you have a um, a condition.
Speaker 2:You do something to um, address that condition and it's gone and it never comes back. That would be a cure, right.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:So not a cure would be. You have a condition. You address that condition with something. The symptoms go away, but when you stop intervening with that, whatever it was you were using, it comes back, usually worse, and it may not be with steroids. Typically it comes back with a vengeance and fast, with something like the metronidazole and diarrhea and all that. It won't always come back right away, but you're you're setting your dog's system up to um be much more susceptible to that happening again, whereas if you let, let the body do its, do its thing and and go through its strategy of its healing strategy, and supported it and helped it go to completion with homeopathy, you wouldn't be doing that. You most likely I'm not going to say your dog's never going to have diarrhea again, because who knows what they get into right but it's not going to be to the same degree. It's going to be much easier to deal with and it's not going to be something that is dramatic like it would be the other way.
Speaker 1:Does that help? Yeah, it does help, I think so. I heard somebody say and I'm not sure if it was Tom Cowan or who, but somebody said your body doesn't have a deficiency of ibuprofen.
Speaker 2:Right, right.
Speaker 1:So why are we getting a headache? You know, and most people like never even look at that. They're like why have a headache? Am I dehydrated? Am I low on blood sugar? You know all the different reasons that you might have a headache. Who knows, do I have something pulled in my neck, did I? You know? But the way that we address it is the bandaid approach. Right, I'm going to, I'm going to stop the headache right now. I have no earthly idea. And most people, niels, when it comes to themselves, they're like I don't really give a rip unless it keeps coming back. Right, and you keep having headaches and keep having headaches and your body's like hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. You can't just keep taking ibuprofen forever and you've got to figure out what is the problem. So this is what, what marketing has helped us. Do not look at what the root cause is right, because we have an instantaneous fix. So, and it's, it's all about the.
Speaker 2:The idea is get rid of the symptoms. Get rid of the symptoms. No, the symptoms are a gift. The symptoms are what guide you to the, to your healing path. Right, so you never suppress a symptom. That's the body strategy. That's it's yell for help, saying yo, this is happening, we need to do something, and this is what I've chosen to do. Are you coming with me or not? And you stuff that down and they're like, and body's like well crap. Now I've chosen to do are you coming with me or not? And you stuff that down and they're like, and body's like well crap. Now I got to do something different so that you know that's how eczema turns into asthma.
Speaker 2:You know that whole, that whole thing and what you were talking about. You know way back when Tylenol and Advil used to be considered. You know they're over the counter, they're safe, it's not a big deal, right? Well, I know somebody who ended up on dialysis because he just happened to mix Tylenol and Advil in the same day, right? So his kidneys blew up, he was on dialysis and he died probably 15, 20 years before he should have. And you know, there's a whole lot more evidence now coming out about how dangerous acetaminophen and ibuprofen really are. I mean, what is one of the main things that you take? Ibuprofen for, joint pain, nsaids, right, joint pain and arthritis. Well, one of the side effects of all those NSAIDs is damage to the cartilage and to the tendons. So the very thing, the very reason that you're taking it, is perpetuating more and more and more and more damage unreal not to mention the organ issues and all that you know.
Speaker 2:So homeopathy is not like that. There's no, you know, the worst side effect that you're going to get from homeopathy is you just have a um. You've chosen the wrong remedy and it won't act.
Speaker 1:It won't do anything. So I love what you said about your course is that even if you just have a little bit right, a little bit of knowledge, you can do a lot with that and then you can progress on. So what is your next course and when can people sign up for that? By the way, neely's website is whole w-h-o-l-e. Animal wellnesscom, whole animal wellnesscom, which you'll see in the show notes. What's your next course where people can get in and do that?
Speaker 2:so I'm probably going to start a round of gateway one and two, which is just like just like the name implies, the gateway to homeopathy, right? So it's kind of it's an introduction, um kind of kind of gives you a little bit of history, a little bit better understanding of what it actually is, um kind of how it works, what some of the remedies, some of the main remedies, are and how how to use them, how they're made, those types of things. Because there's a whole lot of um misconception about what it is. You know, people think that homeopathy is just like an umbrella word for home remedies and um herbs and um supplements and things like that. It's not, it's a full-on mode of medicine.
Speaker 2:So a remedy is, it's a medicine, right, just like any other medicine. Well, it's not just like any other medicine, but it's powerful like that. But it works in conjunction with the body's healing strategy, not against it. So allopathic medicine works against what the body is doing to stop that symptom and to suppress whatever is happening. Homeopathy works with the body's strategy to help navigate through whatever that condition is in the fastest and least traumatic way, which may mean that some symptoms will fall away, right, but they're not being suppressed, they're just being bypassed. So anyway, gateway 1 and then, as followed, by Gateway 2, I'll probably start a round of those in what is this middle of May, probably mid-June.
Speaker 1:Okay, so the best way how do people get? Do they get on an email list that you have? Can they get into your chat, leave their email and say, hey, contact me. How's that best way for them to get signed?
Speaker 2:up. Go to the website wwwwholeanimalwellnesscom. Go to the website and um, there should be a prompt to to sign up so you can leave your email information there. You can go through the contact me chat and let me know that you're interested in doing the next round of eight wiggies, and um, I'll put you on the list and when I, when I actually get it scheduled and on the you know in in the schedule, um, I'll let everybody know.
Speaker 1:And yeah, and guys, if it, if you're on my website at raw dog food and companycom, just go in the chat or um, leave us a message somewhere and I will make sure that Neely gets your email as well. Okay, so if it's easier just to leave it there. Either way, my website or Neely's, I will make sure that she gets your email, but go over and check Neely out. She's at wholeanimalwellnesscom. Make sure, you guys, that you get your dog on a species appropriate diet. If you're doing any type of kibble right now you're, you're going against the, the body's natural uh healing properties, right, because you're pumping sugar, chemical cakes and cookies, as we say, into their body. So how is that good for them? Uh, those are synthetic vitamins. Um, I don't care.
Speaker 1:I don't give a rip what a vet says about a raw diet. If they can actually show us the evidence, that is great. There is no evidence. We have so many dogs that are coming off the cakes, cookies and chemicals and the prescription diets. That are just gorgeous. Their body is gorgeous, their poops are great, their eyes are bright. Their their itching is down, if, if, non-existent.
Speaker 2:Personality changes too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, stable, calm, satiated, right. So get your dog on a species appropriate diet. I don't think that you would agree that processed food is good for you, and dogs have not evolved to eat processed foods. I don't know. I'd like for somebody to walk me through that. If you can tell me how a dog's digestive system, their teeth, everything has evolved in less than 100 years to eat, kibble it it it, tell me how it sent it to us. We'll talk about it here. I mean, if you, if you, we're always willing to look at information. Okay, so go ahead and send that right over here. Uh, you can go to my website at raw dog food and companycom.
Speaker 1:Don't forget we have Yappy Hour every Wednesday. We've got new treats coming in, so watch for that. Brian is there to help you pick a plan. And don't forget that Neely is there for the bigger issues, right, she's there If you guys can't figure something out. Your dog keeps itching. You want to get off of some of these medications. You want to get on homeopathy. Neely is your person at wholeanimalwellnesscom. All right, get over to rawdogfoodandcompanycom, where your pet's health is our business.
Speaker 2:And what my friend Neely Friends, don't let friends feed Kevill.
Speaker 1:Never. Okay, we'll see you soon, everybody. Bye-bye, bye. Oh Okay, we'll see you soon, everybody. Bye-bye, bye. Oh snap, find out how you can start your dog on the road to health and longevity. Go to rawdogfoodandcompanycom, where friends don't let friends feed kibble and where your pet's health is our business.
Speaker 2:Just snap.
