How to Help Balance Your Pet’s Hormones
Diabetes, Cushing’s, Addison’s, hypo and hyper-thyroidism sound scary.
It helps to know that these names and diagnoses are merely descriptions of the symptoms. They are not problems to be overcome. A diagnosis does not dictate what you do.
You probably do not treat your friend “Susan” based solely on her name.
Like relationships, maintaining and optimizing hormones is a balancing act. They’re both delicate interactions that require constant feedback.
The glands of the endocrine system are sensitive in this way. Hormones produced by them fluctuate throughout the day.
Specific external and internal chemical factors provide constant feedback to glands. These can predispose to dis-eases.
You have 100% control over these factors.
For example, you can help improve hormone dis-eases by:
- avoiding highly processed carbohydrate-laden foods
- minimizing environmental exposure to toxins and hormone disruptors like glyphosate
- working with your pet’s symptoms and not quickly stopping them
What you do every day has a profound impact on the delicate balance of hormones.
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Is the Food you Feed Helping or Hurting Your Pets?
Food has been used as a safe and effective medicine for thousands of years.
Living food is vital and gives our pets the nutrients and energy they need to survive, thrive, and heal. The freshest foods promote wellness and speed this healing. 
Processed pet foods have most of their vitality removed.
The high heat and pressure used during manufacturing destroys most of their living parts and healing properties. These de-vitalized foods then need these essential nutrients added back to them.
Dry and wet dead foods can predispose your pets to nutritional, allergic and autoimmune dis- eases. Even fatal poisoning from toxins in the ingredients.
Most of our pets love food and live to eat. They have to eat whatever we give them and rely on us to feed them well and deserve better than this.
Fresh, living (vital) food is ideal and what their bodies crave. If you feed kibble or canned foods try mixing in some fresh food with their next meal and see what gets eaten first.
Real food is known to help resolve diabetes and obesity, mouth and dental dis-eases, skin and ear problems, inflammatory bowel and heart dis-eases etc.
The freshness of the food we feed our companion animals directly influences length and quality of their lives.
Help your pets today. Feed Fresh Food.
Here is the food vitality scale. Where does your pet food fall on it?
Practicing Proactive Prevention and Treatment to Best Help Our Pets (Brain Tumor Case)
Seemingly without warning, your beloved companion animal develops a life-threatening illness.
Sue and Bear’s story can help you decide what to do.
Bear is a playful eight year young Bulldog. All of a sudden he started having seizures.
His worried guardian brought him to a neurologist who ran diagnostic tests that showed a large brain tumor.
Why did this happen?
Sue had tried to do everything right. She fed local raw meats in variety, minimized vaccines and drugs, didn’t use any flea or tick poisons, etc.
Important Questions – HMDM Method
What happened and what can Sue do now?
Her HMDM (Holistic Medical Decision Making) STEP 1 goal is to get Bear as healthy, in any way, for him to have the best quality of life for as long as possible.
That brought Sue to HMDM STEP 2. Investigate the problem and learn all of the possible treatments.
Her neurologist laid out the current conventional options. These were steroids and other chemotherapy, surgery and Cyberknife (radiation). None of them would save Bear’s life, but they might buy him a few months.
This didn’t seem like much time. Especially considering all of the side-effects and quality of life lowering limitations of each.
So Sue quickly (she didn’t have much time to help Bear) moved on in her research. And learned more about everything from special diets, nutritional supplements, acupuncture, etc. that were claimed to help seriously ill dogs.
Bear had already tried some of these holistic treatments prior to skin tumors had been removed. None of them seemed suited to this dire situation.
A week went by and Bear was getting worse. It was time to move on to HMDM STEP 3.
The Answer and Holistic Action!
During Sue’s research, Bear’s guardian learned more about the holistic and homeopathic perspective. One that was not currently accepted conventionally, but which could help.
The brain tumor might have resulted from a subtle internal energetic imbalance.
The idea being that the imbalance first resulted in seemingly minor problems like his skin tumors. Even though they were removed, the underlying cause persisted.
It therefore made sense to address this underlying problem directly. Even if most US veterinarians said that it was not “real”. As Bear’s guardian learned, this was not the case elsewhere.
She therefore chose to find a veterinarian who could treat this way and work alongside her neurologist. Her veterinary team was complemented by holistic practitioners of massage, Reiki, flower essences and other gently supportive methods. Everything possible to give Bear the best possible life.
Fine-tuning the Vital Force
Sue was then introduced to the homeopathic concept of regaining health by listening very closely to Bear’s body. Apparently it had been “talking” to her all along. Through the externally visible and internally measurable symptoms.
They could then be used to treat him. Veterinary and MD homeopaths had hundreds of years of successful clinical outcomes. Even in critical cases and during otherwise fatal epidemics.
Treating and monitoring Bear using this approach required commitment on Sue’s part. She started keeping a daily journal of symptoms and responses to treatment.
In order to best use this seemingly unrelated information she touched base with her veterinary homeopath every few days.
That way, she was best able to help. By frequently evaluating symptom changes, both the underlying energetic balance and any side-effects from conventional treatments could be reduced.
At this time, Bear’s story is not finished, but he continues to be a happy boy.
You can also learn to help your pets as Sue did. The free resources on this site will get you started. If you’d like to go even further, Holistic Actions! Academy is here to help.
Size of the Medication Dose Matters. A lot!
In the mid-1990s, I was called out to see Justin, an Irish Wolfhound who was unable to get up.
This was a big problem because he weighed 180 pounds.
Examination and history strongly suggested Lyme Disease.
At that time, anti-biotics were the only Lyme treatment that I knew. When Eva saw the recommended whopping dose for Justin’s size, her face flushed and she gasped.
She said the there was no way that he could tolerate such a “high” dose of medication. She thought that they definitely would make him sicker than he already was.
I prescribed the low end of the (supposedly) effective dose and left.
Eva called a few days later with an update. Justin was almost back to normal. But as she predicted, he had also developed abdominal pain, violent diarrhea and vomiting after the first high doses of drug.
She had then taken matters into her own hands and only given a fraction of the dose from then on.
After the dosage reduction Justin started walking around more normally, eating and holding it down, and his stools firmed up.
I hung up the phone and tried to understand why this happen. Weren’t anti-biotics safe? After all, they were often prescribed “just in case”.
Drug doses were supposed to be used to maintain therapeutic levels of the medications. Yet Justin responded dramatically to a much lower dose. This didn’t make sense.
The Science of Hormesis and Dose
A few years later I came across publications referring to the Arndt Schutz rule. It explains what happened with Justin and other patients who had responded to very low doses of medications.
In a nutshell, it says that low doses can stimulate the body to do its’ job, but higher therapeutic doses can be toxic.
Low doses lead to healing. High doses lead to toxicity.
I thought that this was interesting research, but not applicable to most patients. Boy was I wrong!
Homeopathic Doses
Other problems with conventional drug doses and the scientific literature on hormesis led me to researching homeopathy.
I had never heard about this area of medical science. Even after decades of scientific inquiry including working with researchers in biochemistry and molecular biology labs.
What an eye opener! I learned that the very, very low doses of homeopathic medicines were highly effective at stimulating the immune system. In fact, before anti-biotics were discovered, most of the homeopathic MDs were able to save their patients in the midst of otherwise fatal epidemics.
The survival statistics were compelling!
Many of the top, conventionally (“scientifically”)-trained, MDs flocked to homeopathy because of these successes. These men, and back then most were men, were open-minded. They saw these amazing treatment outcomes and wanted their patients to have the best.
The AMA was started soon thereafter partially to stop this migration .
Size Matters
Fast forward to present day. Modern medicine has made amazing strides in understanding how the physiologic process of the body function. Sometimes even at the genetic and molecular levels.
Nowadays the best medicine, both for people and pets, is always individualized. We’re learning that one size does not fit all.
Some pets can not tolerate higher doses of specific drugs like Ivermectin.
Most pets react to high doses of most drugs.
All pets die from treatment with poisons like arsenic and strychnine.
Yet these same poisons are commonly used at very low doses in homeopathy to save many lives. The tiny doses of nanotechnology are being actively researched and adopted into modern medicine
The size of the dose matters.
Why Routine Diagnostic Tests are so Important
Your nine year young pup or kitty seems fine. But she’s not.
The veterinarian just called with the blood test results from her wellness check up: thyroid, liver and kidney markers were abnormal. On top of that, the vet said she has an infection because her white count is very high.
Uh oh! What should you do?
Don’t panic!
Diagnostic test results like these are internal and otherwise hidden symptoms. Not much different than the external and readily apparent symptoms of vomiting or diarrhea. Just not as obvious.
You wouldn’t have even known that there was a problem were it not for the “routine” testing that was done.
All symptoms are only indicators of an internal imbalance. Both internal symptoms like liver test abnormalities and external symptoms like vomiting are clues to the physiologic functioning of the body. Invaluable clues. Clues to be cherished and embraced.
The abnormalities can often be fully corrected. The amount of improvement depends on the progression of the underlying dis-ease. This can be measured.
Adding together all symptoms tells you what to do next
For example, if everything seems fine but one of the results is still abnormal, you know that continued care and monitoring is needed.
Non-invasive diagnostic testing is therefore very, very helpful.
However, how these tests are interpreted and acted upon can make the difference between life and death.