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Leaky Gut Syndrome
Episode 7 • 16th February 2022 • Fangs & Fur • Fangs & Fur
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Dysbiosis, or bacterial imbalance, is a leading cause of leaky gut syndrome. It means an imbalance between helpful and harmful species of bacteria in your gastrointestinal tract. Poor diet, comprising proteins found in grains, sugar, and genetically-modified foods (GMO).

What are some causes of leaky gut?

  • highly processed foods (kibble)
  • medication and antibiotics
  • over-vaccinating
  • stress

Be sure to focus on your pet's diet to prevent and heal leaky gut. Also, limit medications, watch their diet, and exercise!!!


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It's not pretty, but the gut is a foundation of good health.

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Today we're talking leaky gut.

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Stay tuned until the end of the episode where Anthony

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answers the customer's question.

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Today I wanted to talk about leaky gut and allergies and

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that relationship the relationship between the two.

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There is a there is a hidden epidemic that's occurring

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right now that a lot of veterinarians and researchers are

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just kind of now grasping.

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But like I said, it is.

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It's called leaky gut and it's occurring in humans and it's

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also occurring in our canines.

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The important thing about leaky gut is it is and very well

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may be the underlying issue in a lot of inflammatory

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diseases and ailments, from joint pain to allergies to

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cancer. So it's a really, really important topic to talk

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about before we jump into exactly what leaky gut is.

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I want to talk about real quick.

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I just want to give you guys a snapshot of the dog's gut

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and how it kind of works.

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I think it'll help us understand leaky

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Gut a little better.

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So simply put, the dog eats food.

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Food goes down to the stomach where it runs through the

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cycles of hydraulic acid washes and mixes with other

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gastric juices.

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From that point, that mixture moves into the smaller

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intestine, where the pancreas is then responsible for

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creating the enzymes help break down the food even more,

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and then it kind of continues down the small intestine

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trickles down to small intestine.

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And this is where the bacteria actually begin to further

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break down and absorb the smaller nutrient particles

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through the mucus or the mucosal lining, which is really

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important something to remember because we're going to come

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back to that. And then whatever is left from that point is

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either absorbed or it's moved to the large intestine and

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excreted as a dog shit.

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That is a really quick

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Snapshot of your dog's gut in the digestive system there in

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a small intestine. There are a bunch of these finger like

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formations that cover the surface of the interior of the

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intestines, and this increases the surface area and

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therefore the area in which the food and the nutrients is

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absorbed. And these little fingers in the intestines are

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called villi or microvilli.

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These microvilli are covered in a very thin layer of

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Mukasey film that helps absorb nutrients that's called the

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mucosa. So kind of what we were talking about before.

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So what exactly is leaky gut and what is it and how is it

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affecting the gut? Leaky gut is often called a dysbiosis

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because it's essentially an imbalance of good and bad

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bacteria in the gut.

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And this imbalance creates inflammation.

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So I always tell people, think of it as the good bacteria.

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It's kind of like a battle that's happening in the gut, and

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the good bacteria are being overrun or taken over by the

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bad bacteria. And this whole world of bacteria and viruses

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and microbes. This is what we call the microbiome, which is

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a really popular word now.

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It's been talked about in the raw feeding world and the

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holistic world for a long time.

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But now, interesting enough, you're finding it on like even

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bags of dry dog food.

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They have this this sudden interest in the microbiome,

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which they should because it's it's, you know, it's called

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the there's another name for it.

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I think it's called the the lost organ or the undiscovered

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organ or something like that. But it's really, really

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Important this imbalance

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In the gut. It creates inflammation, which then forces the

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cells to spread in the gut lining.

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This is allowing or it's leaking toxins in bacteria and

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even larger food particles from the gut into the

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bloodstream. These particles are antigenic and allergenic,

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so they actually stimulate the immune system, which mounts

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in an attack or response, and they create antibodies

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against them. This process right here, what's happening

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right here is what brings on this slew of different

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ailments and diseases at this point.

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I also want to talk about food allergy tests because

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they're extremely, in my opinion.

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They're extremely inaccurate.

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And I also have a lot of I know a lot of veterinarians that

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believe the same. And it's because these these food

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particles

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Actually leaving the gut undigested,

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Going into the into the bloodstream and the immune system is

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attacking it and creating antibodies.

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And this it's actually showing up on allergy test.

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And so a lot of I have a lot of customers that come in and

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they have literally the list is is they're allergic to

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everything. Their dogs are allergic to every single protein

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there is. And that's it's for this reason.

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So a lot of times if you heal the gut, it's not really an

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allergy. It's just it's this leaky gut problem.

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The reason why your traditional vet will not talk about

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leaky gut is because there's there's such a variety of

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symptoms from leaky gut.

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You have gas, you have diarrhea, allergies, joint issues,

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ear and skin infections, digestive issues, cancer, gum

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disease, bad breath, autoimmune disorders, bladder

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inflammation, et cetera, et cetera.

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So it's easy for them to treat these symptoms.

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Treat the symptoms of leaky gut without actually treating

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the actual cause, which is, of course, the inflamed gut.

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And so I actually I was in the shop always kind of.

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I try to explain to some people and I kind of cross my

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fingers and show that, you know, this inflammation is what

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it's what it's doing is it's it's inflaming the gut lining

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and it's kind of separating the cells and the gut lining.

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There's there already.

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It's already a little perforated, but what happens when

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it's inflamed is those those holes get even bigger.

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Now these these bigger particles are going into the

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bloodstream, which they should not be there.

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That's kind of really simple level there, but it's kind of

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the best way to, I guess, imagine it, the cause is of this

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dysbiosis or this leaky gut.

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The real villains here are.

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Well, first and foremost, highly processed diets, and

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that's going to be our main focus, so we're going to go

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back to that one, but also it's worth mentioning that, you

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know, medications can can definitely destroy the gut.

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We talk about antibiotics.

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You know, antibiotics. There's definitely a time and a

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place for them. But you want to make sure if your dog or

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cat is being prescribed antibiotics that your vets are

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actually, you know, doing culture samples, making sure that

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they're prescribing the right antibiotic for the right

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pathogen. It's going to be a, well, let's try this one.

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Oh, this one doesn't work. Let's try this one or this one

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doesn't try this. Antibiotics don't discriminate, so

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they're destroying good and bad bacteria in the gut.

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So when you do these antibiotics over and over again, you're

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more and more prone to having this dysbiosis, right?

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Because you're killing the good bacteria as well.

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So antibiotics can definitely contribute steroids, NSAIDs

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or non-steroidal sorry non-steroidal anti-inflammatories.

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All these can contribute to leaky gut over vaccinating is

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another one, you know, so making sure that you're

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vaccinating intelligently, which we talked about in a

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previous podcast.

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Vaccines stimulate gut associated lymphoid tissue.

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It's important to titer.

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It's important to just make sure your dogs aren't already

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protected before vaccinating them again.

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And if you don't know what titer is and you want to find

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out more, like I said, you can go back to our previous

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episode with Dr.

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Carlson to learn more.

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But there we do it all the time for our dogs, and I will

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say that, you know, most dogs, when they get their core

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vaccines as puppies, they're they're pretty well protected

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past seven to 10 years of age.

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So I know we get these little mailers in the in the mail

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and it says, you know, time for your dog's next round.

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And that's just based on every three year, which is which

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was a compromise, not really based on science, but

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Do your titers make sure that we're

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Not over vaccinating them because that can definitely or

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contribute to

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The leaky gut. And then lastly, stress

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A lot of things can cause stress in our dogs, you know,

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moving from one place to another, new jobs, new people.

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So I'm not going to really touch on this too much, but just

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making sure you're paying attention to these things because

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they are affecting your dog.

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And I will say that physical

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Activity is not talked about

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Enough, but it is very important.

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You know, just getting outside for short walks can make a

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huge

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Difference, you know, making sure they're

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Moving, making sure they're, you know, they're staying

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stimulated and also, you know, just getting some fresh air.

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I'm going to focus on diet because that's that's what I do.

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So. I also think that it's the most important thing when

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we're talking about preventing and also healing leaky

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Gut, so it's kind of why I chose

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To talk about leaky gut in the first place.

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Processed food, right?

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So I talked about that as being a one of the major players

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or the major culprits in leaky gut kibble is the problem is

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kibble is ultra processed pellets of mostly carbohydrates.

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Do you think

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That one could really thrive or even survive off these

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poets? Is kind of hard, hard to believe, but Cubana only

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contains extremely high amounts of inflammatory

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carbohydrates, which cause inflammation in the gut.

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But to compound that problem, they also contain genetically

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modified foods. So there is a study done that actually

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showed that 90 percent of dry pet foods on a market contain

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genetically modified food.

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And why this is a problem, particularly when we're talking

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about leaky gut, is because genetically modified foods are

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corn, wheat, soy peas, all these.

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All these different kind of grains and

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Legumes are genetically

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Modified to be resilient against Roundup or glyphosate,

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which is the active ingredient roundup,

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Which is a herbicide.

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So what glyphosate does is it actually it doesn't affect

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humans and animals like it does plants.

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But what it does is it it disrupts the what they call the

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mate pathway of plants.

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So the way they absorb nutrients, it doesn't

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Exactly affect

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Humans necessarily like it does.

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Like the plants, but it does impact the microbes in our

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gut. So because they have similar pathways, so these foods

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are, you know, genetically modified to be resilient against

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glyphosate. And so when they spray these crops with all

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this roundup, it kills everything but that particular crop

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that they're growing right?

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And so they don't have to worry about, you know, weeds and

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other crops popping up.

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So making sure that you're trying to avoid genetically

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modified food, which will be difficult if you're feeding,

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if you're feeding dry food.

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But what I'm really saying is that by eating these

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genetically modified foods that are, you know, obviously

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contaminated with glyphosate in areas, most of the foods

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will be have some level of glyphosate in them.

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You're directly killing the good bacteria, the beneficial

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bacteria in your dog's gut.

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So that obviously is creating the imbalance or a dysbiosis

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in the gut of the good and bad bacteria, which is then

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creating inflammation, which is then creating disease and

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allergies like staying away from processed food.

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Moving to raw food is, you know, or even just fresh food

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Is going to be incredibly

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Beneficial for. I mean, not only for a dog's guts, but also

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for us. It's also important to mention that the gut

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contains over 80 percent of the immune system.

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So by destroying the microbiome with with processed food,

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creating this leaky gut situation, you're actually creating

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fertile ground for chronic disease.

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So bcd, cancer, behavioral issues, you know, I think that's

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really important to talk about as well.

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I mean, 90 percent of of serotonin is created in the gut.

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Serotonin is defined as a key hormone that stabilizes mood,

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feelings of well-being and happiness.

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So, you know, the gut is is incredibly, incredibly

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important. And this is really just the tip of the iceberg.

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I mean, processed food kibble is what I'm specifically

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talking about. Often contain levels of aflatoxins mites,

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denatured proteins, high amounts of species, inappropriate

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foods like grain starches, carbohydrates and all these

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chemical stressors are adding to your pet's guts,

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inflammation and the dysbiosis that's going on there.

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So what can you do?

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What can you do as a pet owner to kind of either prevent or

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help if your dog already has or is affected by leaky gut

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feeding a fresh, whole food diet that's going to be low in

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carbohydrates ones that are using low glycemic

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carbohydrates like, you know, green leafy vegetables,

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spinach, kale, broccoli, things like that so that it's not

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inflaming the gut. And that is also Species Appropriate raw

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foods. They're highly digestible.

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They naturally contain beneficial bacteria and also enzymes

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that help break itself down and also help feed the gut

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microbiome to keep it strong.

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Keep it healthy, keep it diverse and strong.

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So feeding a fresh, whole food diet is obviously going to

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be really, really beneficial in preventing and also healing

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leaky gut. Now we'll say with a with a pet that already has

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leaky gut, it's best to do this slowly because things can

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get worse if you're going to change their diet up.

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So we always kind of do a slow approach if we know that

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this is if the dog is definitely struggling with some gut

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issues. Pre and probiotics are really I could probably do a

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whole nother podcast on this.

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They're really important. I mean, obviously we're talking

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about dysbiosis, an imbalance in the gut of good and bad

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bacteria. So adding some some beneficial bacteria can be

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really, really helpful.

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You know, at the shop we sell adored beast premium.

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Probiotics, in my opinion, are the best.

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There are about 30 billion cups, which are it's a lot of

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colony forming units.

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I would say if you're looking at probiotics, they should at

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least be over 10 10 billion.

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There's some out there That are way, way less so.

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It's important to look at durables also, they also use 14

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different strands of canine Derived probiotics,

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So obviously really beneficial for the canine specifically

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and also helps keep their gut diverse using, you know, 14

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different strands, which is awesome.

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And then they use prebiotics to help feed the probiotics

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once they're in the gut, keep them there, keep them strong.

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Keep them healthy. Besides transitioning to a more fresh

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food whole food diet, we kind of touched on these a little

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bit before. But, you know, limiting medications if

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possible. You know, this is obviously something you want to

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do. You know, working with your vet but limiting

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medications, you know, maybe putting a pin in some

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medications that aren't necessarily necessary at the moment

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as we're trying to heal, the gut can obviously be

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beneficial. Feeding a fresh raw food diet, obviously going

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to help avoiding vaccines for a period of time or

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tightening. Like I said, we did a previous episode about

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this, but vaccines vaccines can definitely disrupt the the

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gut microbiome. So it's important to at least when we're

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trying to heal the gut to kind of put a pin in those for

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the time being and then exercise.

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I mean, you'd be surprised how far that that can go.

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Diet and exercise, we preach this a lot, but I think it's,

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you know, they're both inexpensive and, you know, pretty

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easy to to accomplish.

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We talk about this or I say this a lot in shop, but

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investing in diets or in their diet now is a proactive

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investment that will help you save a lot of money in the

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long run by keeping them strong and healthy.

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I take Mozzie to the vet.

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He's 10 years old. I take him to the vet twice a year, and

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I really only do that because I get him tested for

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microflora twice a year.

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So, you know, if it wasn't for that, he probably wouldn't.

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I guess he'd go and once a year for a blood panel just to

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make sure everything's good. But you know, I do my best to

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to give him the best food there is and keep him, keep him

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strong, keep him healthy. My emphasis for his health is is

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going to be on his gut. So I feed, you know, obviously I

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feed a fresh food diet.

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I feed raw food. They do a lot of fermented raw food that

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has a lot of good probiotics in there.

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And then I'll add a lot of, like I said, I had a lot of the

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adored Beast products.

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They have different lines of different probiotics, healthy

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gut, gut soothe love bugs.

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So I keep it really diverse and making sure that he's

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getting some really good, good, beneficial bacteria in his

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gut because I know it's, you know, it's obviously an

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upfront cost, but I know it's it's good for him and it

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makes him feel better. And I know it's going to save a lot

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of money for me in the long run, just by keeping him

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healthy, keeping his gut strong.

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And I think that's where everyone's emphasis should be.

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As far as just the general health of your of your pet is is

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making sure you're focusing on the gut because that is that

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is the foundation of health.

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I mean, a lot of times we see this in a shop a lot.

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Once we heal the gut, everything seems to kind of fall in

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place. And if it doesn't, you know, it really helps build a

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cell, a solid foundation of health that you can build on

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and that, you know, allow the body to heal itself and other

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places. So I hope this helped.

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I know there's a lot of pet parents out there struggling to

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find out what's what's going on with your, what's going on

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with your pet and all these ailments.

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And they kind of are starting to compound and you're trying

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to figure it all out.

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I think starting with a gut is is key.

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It's really, really important.

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You can't say it enough.

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Create a solid foundation of health by by healing the gut,

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and that will give you the ability to heal other ailments

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from there.

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And. All right,

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Anthony, this week we have a customer's question, what is

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the difference between feeding out of a bull versus a lick

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mat?

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The great question, we get this a lot.

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We sell, we sell.

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This isn't an advertisement for my pet platter, but it is

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one of my favorite products we have in the shop.

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Just because I've seen a difference, it's made it for a lot

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of different dogs. Sometimes we focus a lot on on what

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we're feeding the dogs, and we're not focusing enough on

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how they're eating it.

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And I've kind of learned this, you know, just having just

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being in the shop and discovering it with some other dogs.

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But the mind pip pet platter is really cool.

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So the bull, the bull again.

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So the bull was developed just like kibble was out of

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convenience for us.

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So, you know, scoop paw feed.

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Super simple problem with the bull is, is that there's a

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lot of problems with the bull, but one is that the dog

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actually uses their bottom jaw to scoop food up against the

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side of the bull, which creates them a kind of forces them

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to gulp the food down, along with a whole bunch of air so

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it can cause some indigestion and bloat and some other

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issues. So that's, you know, one of the problems.

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Another one is that it cuts off their peripheral.

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So once their head is down in the bull, like you don't

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believe me, stick your head down in a bowl.

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Hey, cuts off all your peripheral vision so you don't know

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what's coming at you. And for a dog, that's really

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important. They have no.

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Three six, you have no view of what's happening.

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It just blinds them.

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So this can cause aggression.

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You know, food aggression, resource gardening, things like

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that. And then the bull also can be really loud.

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I mean, the dog's teeth hitting the the bull or their

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collar hitting the bull.

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You know, dogs have really sensitive hearing, so it can

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cause a lot of anxiety and stress on them when they're

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eating up a bull for that reason as well.

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So or maybe all three so feeding off of a platter is really

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cool because it I mean, it does a lot of things, but it it

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has a moat around the the edge of it, which really helps.

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Like if you pour goat milk on on top of the food like it,

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you know, dogs can look up around the edge.

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It really helps entice those, those instincts that they

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have to kind of forage and search and use their sense of

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smell, and it's really stimulating for them.

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But it also slows them down quite a bit because you're kind

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of, you know, putting the food on a flat surface, you know,

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and so they're looking they're using their their tongue in

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their incisors, which actually when they when they lick

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things, it helps release endorphins and their brain to calm

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them down. It's just the natural way for them to eat.

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You know, you think about dogs in the wild like they're not

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or wild canines is like they're not eating out of bulls,

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right? They're just eating off of a flat surface.

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And it's also their posture is something that's really

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important to their posture.

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When they're eating off of a platter is much more natural

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than it is when they're eating out of a bowl, which can

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really help you know, when they when it's eating, when

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they're eating out off the platter.

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It's a more natural posture which helps them digest their

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food better. I've also seen a lot of these, like slow

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feeders that can have some really like protruding things

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On them, like

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These little tentacles and stuff like that.

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The problem with that is that dogs actually have really

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sensitive noses.

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It's like the most sensitive part of their body.

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So with these things, I've seen dogs walk away from those

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because it hurts.

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It hurts to eat. So why would they do that?

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But the pet platter, it doesn't have that.

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It's just there's like little divots and then the moat that

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goes around the edge. So it's it's just really stimulating.

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It's really it's been life changing for a lot of our

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customers dogs, so I can't recommend that enough.

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It's also made here in the U.S.

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It's not toxic.

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It's made out of cellulose,

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Which is a natural plant fiber.

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And it's not porous.

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It's dishwasher safe.

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It's just really easy to clean.

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We've been using ours for both.

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Our dogs are probably three years now, maybe longer.

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Four years. Yeah, they're super

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Hardy like they.

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I just I feel like they're going to last a super

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Long time, but they're great.

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Dogs love them. We love them.

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It's super easy.

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