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My hope is this chapter of the Health and Longevity Course for Dogs will help you protect your dog from stomach bloat. Most veterinary textbooks state that GDV is a serious, life-threatening condition caused by fermentation of food, gas build-up and twist, or torsion, of the stomach, which causes severe distention and blood circulation collapse and shock. However, these books never mention two factors that, as I have discovered, play an important role in GDV occurrence... Continue ReadingYou aren't signed in.

If you are a dog lover, I have no doubt your main goal is to have your canine friend live the longest, healthiest life possible. I plan to teach you step-by-step what I've learned in almost 30 years of practicing veterinary medicine. All you need to understand are some simple principles of creating and maintaining health that can be used for a variety of diseases and health problems. In Chapter 1, I begin explaining the three steps in the Healing Cycle... Continue ReadingYou aren't signed in.

I often feel that the western medicine approach to organ disease is too ‘mechanical,’ as if the mind and body are not connected. In Chapters 8 through 11, I explained that spinal segments are responsible for blood, nerve and energy flow to different organs. The lung association point is along the thoracic vertebrae, just before the pericardium and the cardiac points. This is why any injury or tightness of the shoulders, forelegs and lower neck may affect both the lungs and... Continue ReadingYou aren't signed in.

For many years now, I've been observing the importance of the neck and cervical spine in health and medicine. The more I learn, the more focused I am on the neck when it comes to healing and disease prevention. In previous chapters, I mentioned energy, blood and nerve flow in the body. The neck is super important for flow to the head and the rest of the body. Imagine spokes of energy that radiate away from the neck to the... Continue ReadingYou aren't signed in.

In Chapter 7, we talked about energy flow in the body and how it can be compared to the watering system in a garden. When the hose gets pinched the carrots and tomatoes don't get water and wilt away. Similar to the water flow in a garden, nerve and blood flow is super important for your dog's body to thrive. If the flow slows down or stops in a particular spinal segment, the skin, muscles, and organs that come from this segment commonly become diseased. How do these energy blocks happen? Here are some of the most common reasons for 'flow' blockage... Continue ReadingYou aren't signed in.

In Chapter 5 and Chapter 6, I wrote about the essential building blocks of your dog's health and what led me to formulate my own line of natural minerals and vitamins for dogs. There is another key component to your canine friend's good health and long life, and that is energy, blood and nerve flow. When the flow is good, the skin, muscles and organs related to the segment are healthy. When the flow decreases, it will soon turn into a health problem... Continue ReadingYou aren't signed in.

In Chapter 5, I emphasized that providing your dog with all the building blocks is crucial to their good health. If you are like most dog lovers, you are looking for ways to keep your canine friend healthy and happy for many years to come. This article will answer questions many people ask such as: Is it important to give my dogs vitamins? If I'm already giving minerals or other supplements, is it necessary to give my dog vitamins? How do I know which supplements are good and which ones aren't?... Continue ReadingYou aren't signed in.

In Chapters 2 and 3 I touched on how to determine what toxins are in your dog's body and how to get rid of them. Today, I'd like to discuss the topic of pharmaceutical drugs one more time. While I'm not opposed to their use in some cases, my goal is to help you understand the effect of different pharmaceutical drugs on your dog and why I choose to avoid them whenever possible... Continue ReadingYou aren't signed in.

In Chapter 1 of the Health and Longevity Course for dogs, I mention that aligning healing and medicine with nature is the first condition of achieving deep and long lasting health. The logical first step is to eliminate potential causes of disease. This applies to almost any medical condition your dog has. Most often, diseases are caused by multiple factors. For example, if a dog suffers from kidney disease, the common factors can be, but are not limited to... Continue ReadingYou aren't signed in.