SUMMARY: During tonight’s Empower Hour! webinar, internal medicine specialist Dr. Marnin Forman scrutinized the health challenges of inflammatory bowel dis-ease (IBD). Like many other “abnormalities”, diarrheas and IBD are becoming more and more common in dogs and cats.
However, it can be good to remember that dis-eases and diagnoses are really just artificial categories. They are a way to lump a bunch of symptoms together so they can all be treated by one or another protocol.
Our goal here at Holistic Actions! is instead to share ways to help practice “4P” veterinary medicine. That is, Personalized, Predictive, Proactive, and Participatory care. The brief discussion about the vagus nerve and parasympathetic activation is a good example of 4P methods not yet used in conventional treatment of IBD.