Why our pets, or ourselves, for that matter, develop health problems can be a trickier question than it might appear. Say,...
Staying Healthy Articles
How to Listen to and Learn From Your Pet’s Symptoms to Take Effective Holistic Action
Learning to view your pet’s symptoms as trustable, intelligible communications that can provide clues to underlying...
Faced With Making a Medical Decision for Your Pet? Push “Paws” to Ensure a Fairy Tale Ending
Once upon a time, not so very long ago (in the last year, actually), there was a beautiful, golden-haired girl named Sam....
How to Use Clues From Your Animal Companions to Promote Optimal Health
Learning to use your pet’s symptoms* as valuable clues for understanding underlying imbalances and addressing them holistically is one of the most important things you can do. Though your pet’s symptoms can quite naturally cause you concern, they can help you crack...
Fluffy or Flabby? How to Prevent or Manage Pet Obesity and Optimize Your Dog or Cat’s Nutrition
Meet Susie On a glorious spring afternoon with temperatures nearing 70 degrees and not a cloud in the sky, Susie was finally getting to enjoy her favorite activity: hiking with her family! Susie happily sniffed the ground, dug in the dirt, and chased chipmunks and...
Do Pets Get Covid-19?
Can My Pet Get the SARS Virus and Develop the Covid-19 Dis-ease? Nowadays, veterinarians are often asked whether pets can get Covid-19. The short answer is yes, they can contract the SARS-CoV-2 virus. However, so far none have developed serious symptoms or died of...
Fatal Viruses and One Health
The information on this blog is primarily about using HA! for animals. However the same scientific data that is used here for animals can be applied to people.This is the essence of One Health (OH) as described in the prior blog. For example, did you know that there’s...
One Way to Re-Connect Nature and Veterinary Medicine
An increasing body of research is showing that pets, people and the planet are all interconnected. This interrelationship is called One Health and helps scientists “translate” vital new information from one field of study in another. Here’s a quote from the One...
Internal Balance and covid?
Have you ever had an intuitive sense that your pet is sick, but your vet says that your pet is fine because the exam and tests are all normal. Regardless, you know that something's wrong. Pet parents know their companions better than anyone, and can sense the earliest...
mTor
Significance of Signs, Symptoms, mTor, and Quality of Life By Jeff Feinman, VMD Used with permission of the Journal of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association (JAHVMA) Article first appeared in Volume 56, Fall Issue, 2019Abbreviations BEAM - Behavior,...
Using the Vitality and Balance System in Holistic Veterinary Practice
Using the Vitality and Balance System in Holistic Veterinary Practice By Jeff Feinman, VMD Used with permission of the Journal of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association (JAHVMA)Article first appeared in Volume 54, Spring Issue, 2019 Abbreviations ASC -...
Longevity, Vital Capacity, Pranayama, and the Exposotype
By Jeff Feinman, VMD Used with permission of the Journal of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association (JAHVMA).Article first appeared in Volume 58, Spring Issue, 2020 Abbreviations ME/CFS - Myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome QOL...
Give Reiki A Chance?
How would you like to be able to help restore balance in your pets' bodies in a free and 100% safe way? That's what Reiki can do. It is a form of medicine that uses your own healing energy and intention guided by the unknown spirit of nature that is all around us....
Got a Case of the COVID Blues? Six Easy, Fun, and Meaningful Ways to Feel Better and Enhance Your Mental and Physical Health
A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM HOLISTIC ACTIONS! FACULTY: The HA! faculty sends our prayers and best wishes to everyone throughout the world that has been affected by this historic pandemic. Our hope is for a better balance of the world and greater empowerment for all as soon...
Cancer prevention – watch those symptoms
Focus on life, not cancer This post is a part of the ebook that accompanied a Cancer Series at our Holistic Actions! Academy. The ebook was written to help all pet parents, regardless of medical background, reduce the risk of cancer in pets. Basically - cancer...
Discovery of Vitality, Balance and Homeopathy
Graduating from the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine in 1980 at age 30, I was not thinking at all holistically. I had done a two-day animal acupuncture class with the original U.S. founders of IVAS (International Veterinary Acupuncture Society),...
How To Improve Your Dog’s Performance in Agility
Any pet may suffer an injury or develop a problematic symptom. Especially those canine athletes who do activities like agility, flyball, herding, etc. This article applies the Holistic Medical Decision Making (HMDM) protocol to two common scenarios in...
The Benefit of Vaccinating
This article has been adapted from the introduction to the Holistic Actions! vaccinosis webinar ebook. If you’d like to be notified the next time we have a webinar about vaccination or when the vaccinosis course is released, please sign up below. There's only one...
How to Select an Integrative Holistic Veterinarian
Your pet is ill and you want to treat holistically. You want to prevent illness, save money and have your companion live a long life. Who is an integrative veterinarian? She/he is a veterinarian, trained in using conventional drugs and diagnostics. She/he has been...
What To Do About Vaccinosis Prevention and Treatment
This article has been adapted from the introduction to the Holistic Actions! vaccinosis webinar ebook. If you’d like to be notified the next time we have a webinar about vaccination or when the vaccinosis course is released, please sign up below. Click here to read...
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...
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...
Can Nutritional Supplements Hurt Your Pets?
We live in a fast-paced society. We want quick results. Especially when our beloved pets develop scary symptoms. Drugs are designed to eliminate these symptoms. And in many cases, they do this quite effectively. At the same time, many of us have become more...