Antioxidants For Dogs And Their Value

The lifeblood of the gasoline engine is of course the fuel that makes it go. The engine would just be a mass of metal without gasoline exploding in the cylinders but the irony of the fuel is that it is essential to function and it is also a contributor to the wear and tear that occurs while the engine is engaged.

Oxygen works much the same way as it is essential to all lifeforms but in the body of animals, it is the metabolism of this vital element that can also cause cell damage as it is ignited and used to keep our engine going. In that action free radicals are released and this is what causes cell damage and shortens their life span.

Free radicals do a lot of their damage when tissue is injured or damaged in some way and it is antioxidants that neutralize that damage and extend the healthy function of those cells and thereby the life of same.

There are many forms of antioxidants, some very effective and some only marginally so but one of the types of antioxidants that is very effective is that way because of two characteristics, one they work very well and two, they are tremendously sturdy. They are heatand time resistant, as a matter of fact, they can take about any kind of severe environment and still work just as good as in their original state.

These antioxidants are called super oxide dismutase or SOD. They come in two main combinations, copper and zinc in one form and iron and manganese in the other. These are minerals and you can do anything you want to abuse and destroy but, you probably can't. But, they are not perfect.

In their usual form, they are mineral compounds fed in combinations and their only drawback is they are barely digestible because these compounds have to be broken down and basically separated in order to work. That is why effective SOD's are generally fed in the chelate form which incorporates raw elemental minerals bonded to certain amino acids.

These effective SOD's have raw minerals like copper and zinc, not mineral compounds like copper oxide or zinc sulfate that must be broken down before they can be digested. They are in their simplest form and, when combined with amino acids(the most basic form of protein) they are readily digested and metabolized at five to ten times the normal digestive rate.

This form of antioxidant will most likely never be found in a bag of dog food and in all truthfulness, rarely found in a supplement product but there are a few and there is one in particular that uses not only chelated minerals as an antioxidant source but also uses 100% stabilized rice bran as its base ingredient. That stabilized rice bran has approximately 100 sources of other antioxidants to compliment the SOD's. This product is called Triad Performance Supplement and it comes from BuildA Better Dog.

They have a tremendous history of curing health problems in dogs including hip and elbow dysplasia, improved condition, great coat quality, and much improved digestion.

Hip Dysplasia in Dogs Can Be Corrected By Chelated Minerals

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Canine Nutrition: Some Thoughts About The History Of Hip Dysplasia I...

Canine Nutrition: Some Thoughts About The History Of Hip Dysplasia I...: If you go back as far as the 1930's and earlier, you will not to be able to find any mention of hip or joint dysplasia or any simpler...

Some Thoughts About The History Of Hip Dysplasia In Dogs

If you go back as far as the 1930's and earlier, you will not to be able to find any mention of hip or joint dysplasia or any simpler terms describing the type of problems dogs face today. There were plenty of vets evaluating canine health, universities doing research, and breed associations in the US and Europe,

all studying, evaluating, and compiling information and empirical data on dogs. No dysplasia, none.

By the mid 1950's there was a tremendous amount of concern and all those organizations named above were not only familiar with the problem but were already working on ways to cure the problem. There were some larger breeds in particular where the problem was present in 70 to 75 per cent of the dogs.

Now if you believe in some or all of things like science, breeding, genetics, and natural selection, you have got to wonder how did this happen. In less than two full decades, there had developed in almost every large breed of dogs, a skeletal problem, a genetic malady, that manifested in one principle symptom, joint deterioation and weakness. This trait mutated from numerous breeds of dogs from family trees so unrelated and so unparalleled but all ended up with the same symptom. How could genetics have converged to such an intersection from such a divergence of factors.

In addition, there are professional breeders who pore over blood lines, study traits, compare show per-

formance, and all the activities that are supposed to improve the lines. They have cross-bred, out-bred, and in-bred and to contrast even more, there are dog owners who breed without giving a flip about what they come up with. They might as well throw all the males and females into a tank and see what comes out. Eureka, the level of hip and elbow dysplasia stays about the same. Explain that to me if- you can.

There was in Germany a veterinarian named Marc Torrel and a scientific journalist studied in medicine, Klaus Dieter Kammner, who combined their research and study to produce a book that rocked the canine world. They believed they found the intersection, the crossroads if you will.

Back to the 1930's and before, there were no commercially produced dog foods. Pet owners fed their dogs table scraps and often went to the local butcher shop for bones and sometimes inexpensive meat products; tripe would be a good example. These satisfied most of the needs of their pets and kept their puppies growing slowly but solidly due to their moderate levels of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and fibers.

In the late thirties and fhrough the forties(even during WWII), commercially manufactured dog food came into its' own and more and more people began buying their dog food at the grocery store. These dog foods were grain based and had little if any meat in them and when they did, it was low quality meat by-products and the extrusion process that developed made it so the dogs could be sustained on grains and processing left overs.

The growth of grain based doog food was a superhighway to convenience and profits but it should have been recognized as four way stop for progress in the canine world.

These dog foods were very high carbohydrate and high protein causing the young dogs to grow much faster and larger. This was something that made the dog owners and breeders happy but there was a problem that was below the radar. The dogs were growing faster and larger but their bones and in particular their joints did not develop as they had in the past. The strength and the bone density suffered and then came the problems.

The most critical loss was the softening and weakening of the top of the femur and also of the acetabulum which is the three bones that form a cup for the upper leg ball to fit into. This is more often than not the site of the beginning of dysplasia because this is the joints that receive the most stress and are leveraged the most from daily activity.

In summation, genetics is always important but because of history, feed manufacturing habits and some other issues, hip dysplasia is a tremendous “man-made” problem but genetics alone cannot cure the problem because genetics alone was not the base cause of the condition.

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Some Really Bad Nutrition Info From Susan Thixton

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Check out this link about how vulnerable we are, scares me and I am sure you.

Mars Petcare Continues To Have Its' Problems

Mars Petcare is now being sued by 12 former employees at the Joplin MO. plant because of using dangerous insecticides to fumigate grains that went into pet food.

"Problems continue to mount for Mars Petcare as more people come forward alleging that Mars compromised their health by exposing them to a lethal pesticide used to fumigate grains and other pet food ingredients.
An attorney from Kansas City, Missouri says he’s already representing eight former workers of Mars Petcare. Another four people might soon be transferred to him from a Joplin attorney, bringing the total number of plaintiffs to twelve.
But there’s one other former employee who says he’s been forced to pursue legal action on his own. The news reports say that his lawsuit stems from the same plant for the same problems, but at the time he worked there it was owned by Doane Pet Care. Doane was purchased by Mars in 2006, shortly after the man stopped working there.
According to his family, his health rapidly began to deteriorate; symptoms his family believe were caused by exposure to aluminum phosphide, a dangerous pesticide used by Doane and Mars to fumigate grain. He’s since been diagnosed with several benign tumors, affecting his memory, cognitive skills, and his ability to walk.
His job at the former plant? Checking grain as it was unloaded; grain that had been treated with a deadly pesticide: aluminum phosphide.
After Doane was sold to Mars, exposure to aluminum phosphide continued. Eight (now possibly twelve) former employees claim they too were exposed to the same fumigant at the Mars plant in Joplin, Missouri.
Both lawsuits accuse the pet food manufacturers of exposing workers to a highly toxic pesticide used to fumigate grains and other commodities used in pet food manufacture. Government documents show pesticide chemicals used at the facility, like aluminum phosphide, have been linked to serious health issues."
-from Mollie Morrissette at poisonpetfoods.com

Raw Dog Food Misbeliefs

Build A Better Dog has been doing some online market research in some dog food chat rooms and some amazing ideas came out of that.  Amazing in the line of total fantasy.  Here are some of the statements:

1.  "Raw meat diets contain carbohydrates because cows eat grain and those carbs are stored in the meat."  (Not true, beef, poultry, and fish contain no carbohydrates unless you count what is in the digestive system which is discarded at slaughter.  Carbs are burned and are only stored after conversion to fat or meat and soft tissue.  It is no longer a carbohydrate and offers no benefits of carbohydrates.)

2.  "My dogs get plenty of fiber from their raw meat diet.  There is meat fiber in raw beef."  (Not true, fiber comes in three forms-cellulose, hemi-cellulose, and lignen, it is the parts of the cell wall in plants and has many digestive benefits for dogs in a diet[up to about 10%] but, there is none of this in any meat products.)

3.  "I don't give my dogs any vaccinations and their immune system has surged."  Way too crazy for the term "not true".  Remember polio and rabies.

Keep a look out on this blog site, there are many more to come.