What causes illness in pets?
What causes illness in pets?
Why would a patient that is happy and healthy on day one, suddenly be coughing or aching or limping or vomiting the next day?
Well, clearly there are thousands of “causes,” like genetic predisposition, or exposure to toxins, or infectious agents etc. Were those factors not present yesterday? Even if yesterday there was exposure to a new bacteria or virus like in a pound or kennel situation, why do not all the pets who were exposed to that get sick?
We believe that besides treating the obvious visible symptoms with the most effective but mildest medicine available, we need to dig a little deeper and find out which predisposing causes made OUR patient more susceptible.
Predisposing conditions like genetic traits and natural disasters, we can do nothing about. But most illness is caused by some process of OXIDATION or degeneration.
If this degeneration appears in the immune system we get diseases like allergies or hyper immune reactions. Or some pets have immune suppressive diseases that make their system less able to respond to attacks.
If the damage is done in the thyroid cells or the pancreas cells or the kidney cells etc.,
it results in diseases like hypothyroidism, diabetes mellitus or diabetes insipidus, or CKF (Chronic Kidney Failure). There are endless more examples.
Sure the patient needs appropriate modern medical techniques to get this under control,
but we think it is medical malpractice to not also address the underlying causative factors and institute a preventative program, so they don’t recur!
Currently we have three levels of preventative programs:
The Healthy Pet Longevity Program
The Degenerative Longevity Program
The Immunity Longevity program.
Hopefully healthy pets can start on the first program to keep them healthy and to prevent oxidation and degenerative damage before it occurs.
If however there is already damage done and symptoms present, we will suggest one of the other two, more advanced [programs to mitigate the damage and hopefully get back to complete health, so we can go back to program number 1.
For an initial consultation and to find out what you can do at home and which program might benefit your pet, click on GET STARTED right now!
What causes illness in pets?