WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.789 --> 00:00:06.320 Welcome to the Soul Touched by Dogs Podcast, the show for dog lovers who 00:00:06.340 --> 00:00:12.000 see dogs not as toys or tools, but wise souls worth our respect and care. 00:00:12.580 --> 00:00:14.559 I'm an Herrmann, and I'm your host. 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:20.560 I talk to poor some humans, people who do great work for dogs and their people. 00:00:21.099 --> 00:00:23.360 So come and join us for today's conversation. 00:00:24.457 --> 00:00:25.717 Hello and welcome, Dr. 00:00:25.717 --> 00:00:26.227 Marlene. 00:00:26.257 --> 00:00:27.817 I'm very excited to have you here. 00:00:28.607 --> 00:00:32.157 Well, I am just thrilled to be here and to be able to share with your audience 00:00:32.167 --> 00:00:34.087 all the things that I am passionate about. 00:00:34.827 --> 00:00:36.467 Well, and we know there's a lot of it. 00:00:36.517 --> 00:00:38.597 So let's just get started. 00:00:38.607 --> 00:00:41.147 Let people know, where in this lovely world are you based? 00:00:41.327 --> 00:00:43.997 And, you know, what is all the stuff you're passionate about? 00:00:44.727 --> 00:00:50.327 Well, I physically have a practice in Tampa, Florida, but I do travel worldwide. 00:00:50.337 --> 00:00:54.557 I lecture worldwide and I do consultations for clients worldwide. 00:00:55.682 --> 00:00:59.502 Okay, so you're a holistic vet, like people like, you know, imagine 00:00:59.502 --> 00:01:00.792 people know nothing about you. 00:01:02.022 --> 00:01:06.092 So, you know, we talk about a holistic vet and a lot of people have a 00:01:06.102 --> 00:01:11.952 misconception that holistic means woo woo and kind of out there crazy. 00:01:12.142 --> 00:01:15.932 And what holistic actually means is that we look at the whole 00:01:15.942 --> 00:01:21.952 organism, body, mind, and spirit and all the parts work together. 00:01:22.167 --> 00:01:27.177 So holistic actually means that we're integrating the body as a whole 00:01:27.377 --> 00:01:29.557 and treating the body as a whole. 00:01:29.817 --> 00:01:34.017 We know we're trained in this western world that there's the eye doctor, 00:01:34.017 --> 00:01:37.217 there's the kidney doctor, there's the liver doctor, there's the skin doctor. 00:01:37.567 --> 00:01:40.087 And sadly, they don't talk to each other. 00:01:40.247 --> 00:01:43.677 It's almost like they think their world is just their little topic. 00:01:43.947 --> 00:01:46.487 And the rest of the body doesn't communicate with that. 00:01:46.487 --> 00:01:48.487 Well, we obviously know that's not the case. 00:01:48.837 --> 00:01:53.387 So I do what is more called bioregulatory medicine, which 00:01:53.387 --> 00:01:54.677 actually comes from Germany. 00:01:55.137 --> 00:01:59.517 And it's where we understand the biology of the body. 00:01:59.887 --> 00:02:01.177 We're a big machine. 00:02:01.177 --> 00:02:05.997 We're a big vat of chemistry and biological pathways that are going on. 00:02:06.382 --> 00:02:10.952 And we were designed to be able to function with certain support. 00:02:11.302 --> 00:02:17.132 And then there's things that will inhibit or damage the body from functioning. 00:02:17.302 --> 00:02:22.182 So what I do is I help identify what are the things that the body needs and 00:02:22.182 --> 00:02:24.252 how can we make sure that it's provided. 00:02:24.792 --> 00:02:27.662 And, and we're in a world of deficiency. 00:02:27.942 --> 00:02:30.552 So of course that's, you know, really, really big problem. 00:02:30.862 --> 00:02:34.202 And then the other side of that is the toxicities. 00:02:34.602 --> 00:02:38.872 We want to make sure that we're identifying all the toxins that this 00:02:38.932 --> 00:02:42.922 particular animal may be exposed to so that we can help mitigate the 00:02:42.922 --> 00:02:48.552 damage, remove it if it's possible, and help, help the owners be aware 00:02:48.582 --> 00:02:52.422 of how to avoid it, which would even be the best of the solutions. 00:02:52.712 --> 00:02:57.412 So all of that to said, to say that with bioregulatory medicine, we're 00:02:57.412 --> 00:03:01.477 literally understanding the biology of the body, Helping it to function 00:03:01.477 --> 00:03:07.547 in its highest and best way so that we have that health and longevity that 00:03:07.547 --> 00:03:09.497 we came to earth school to experience. 00:03:10.367 --> 00:03:10.707 I love that. 00:03:10.707 --> 00:03:11.887 I love that so much. 00:03:11.887 --> 00:03:16.627 And I think it's, you know, it feels to me, there's a bit of a wave towards 00:03:16.627 --> 00:03:18.237 that in human medicine as well. 00:03:18.567 --> 00:03:18.777 Right. 00:03:18.777 --> 00:03:23.327 So we've started to recognize, yeah, when all the different doctors don't talk to 00:03:23.327 --> 00:03:27.627 each other, we have a problem and things don't really get addressed at the book. 00:03:27.717 --> 00:03:30.027 So we're just huffing around on the surface. 00:03:30.702 --> 00:03:37.252 So you mentioned the parts that the body needs and often doesn't get, and 00:03:37.252 --> 00:03:42.082 then there's the things that the body does get and shouldn't, so can you 00:03:42.612 --> 00:03:46.622 mention a few examples on each category? 00:03:47.102 --> 00:03:48.032 Absolutely. 00:03:48.042 --> 00:03:51.482 So when we were kids, I don't know if they had it in Germany, but we had 00:03:51.482 --> 00:03:53.602 Flintstone vitamins here in the U. 00:03:53.602 --> 00:03:53.782 S. 00:03:56.842 --> 00:04:00.302 Candies, you know, and your, your mom gave you your Flintstone vitamins. 00:04:00.312 --> 00:04:02.142 So you had your vitamins for the day. 00:04:02.622 --> 00:04:05.652 And we really didn't know, what do vitamins do? 00:04:05.652 --> 00:04:09.922 Well, vitamins and minerals are the cofactors that actually 00:04:09.922 --> 00:04:11.662 run our metabolic pathway. 00:04:11.662 --> 00:04:13.332 So they are quite important. 00:04:13.682 --> 00:04:16.702 Take vitamin D as an example, that's D like in dog. 00:04:17.022 --> 00:04:22.492 Vitamin D in humans can be synthesized either from our diet, 00:04:22.742 --> 00:04:26.212 the meat that we eat, or it can be synthesized from the sun. 00:04:26.997 --> 00:04:31.717 Herbivores, like the cows and deer and the animals that are grazing on 00:04:31.717 --> 00:04:37.237 grasses, they can only synthesize vitamin D from their outside environment. 00:04:37.247 --> 00:04:38.487 So they get it from the sun. 00:04:38.537 --> 00:04:42.767 If they're not in the sun, they can't synthesize vitamin D and 00:04:42.817 --> 00:04:44.587 incorporate that into their meat. 00:04:44.777 --> 00:04:49.647 Carnivores only get vitamin D from their protein source. 00:04:49.997 --> 00:04:54.927 So think about the fact that if that cow was in a feed light all of its 00:04:54.927 --> 00:04:58.807 life, was never really out in the sun, it was not grass fed, grass 00:04:58.927 --> 00:05:04.347 finished, then that animal is going to be deficient in vitamin D itself. 00:05:04.617 --> 00:05:10.087 Then whoever eats that animal is going to be vitamin D deficient if they're relying 00:05:10.087 --> 00:05:12.207 on that protein to provide the vitamin D. 00:05:12.397 --> 00:05:13.977 So that's just one example. 00:05:15.137 --> 00:05:16.687 Eighty five percent. 00:05:17.117 --> 00:05:21.837 of animals that were tested on a kibble diet through a university. 00:05:22.622 --> 00:05:25.662 were found to be vitamin D insufficient. 00:05:26.092 --> 00:05:30.112 Now why that's important is because vitamin D is one of the 00:05:30.112 --> 00:05:35.152 two critical nutrients necessary to run the innate immune system. 00:05:35.522 --> 00:05:39.302 That's the immune system portion that we don't have to think about. 00:05:39.302 --> 00:05:41.142 Our body does it automatically. 00:05:41.372 --> 00:05:45.072 So if you're deficient in vitamin D as a human or a dog or a cat, you are 00:05:45.072 --> 00:05:49.462 not going to be able to utilize the importance of your innate immune system. 00:05:49.832 --> 00:05:51.702 So that's just one example. 00:05:52.017 --> 00:05:54.727 And another one would be when we have imbalances. 00:05:54.757 --> 00:05:58.807 A lot of pet food companies that are making frankenfood, it's not 00:05:58.807 --> 00:06:03.587 real food, and they're selling this kibble loaded sugar rich 00:06:03.777 --> 00:06:07.347 enzymatically dead garbage to our pets. 00:06:07.717 --> 00:06:13.237 They're using synthetic vitamins in order to be able to meet the AFCO standards. 00:06:13.587 --> 00:06:18.197 That doesn't mean that it is bioavailable to the animal to utilize. 00:06:18.547 --> 00:06:23.047 And if they get the percentages wrong, Everything is affected 00:06:23.047 --> 00:06:24.037 on how it's absorbed. 00:06:24.337 --> 00:06:28.597 So if you have too much copper and not enough zinc, you're going to 00:06:28.597 --> 00:06:30.707 affect how each of them is absorbed. 00:06:31.047 --> 00:06:35.097 Calcium in proportion to phosphorus and also the other minerals. 00:06:35.437 --> 00:06:39.247 So it is really important that we eat real food. 00:06:39.687 --> 00:06:45.977 with real sources of natural vitamins and then minerals and fatty acids because our 00:06:45.987 --> 00:06:49.037 bodies require this in order to function. 00:06:49.457 --> 00:06:54.377 And I do want to mention on the fatty acid side, we are so conditioned 00:06:54.377 --> 00:06:57.482 now to be taught to eat Fish oils. 00:06:57.562 --> 00:07:00.332 Oh, we have to have the Omega 6 and Omega 3 fish oils. 00:07:00.642 --> 00:07:04.582 Well, what we aren't told is that that was a marketing craze 00:07:04.582 --> 00:07:05.952 that happened some years ago. 00:07:06.532 --> 00:07:13.102 And fish oils nowadays are extremely high in mercury and they go rancid 00:07:13.142 --> 00:07:17.422 extremely quickly when exposed to air and then they become toxic. 00:07:17.722 --> 00:07:20.772 So yes, we do need essential fatty acids. 00:07:21.072 --> 00:07:25.242 We need the ones that I call the parent essential fatty acids because they make 00:07:25.242 --> 00:07:28.127 up 40 to 60 percent of our cell membrane. 00:07:28.127 --> 00:07:32.557 So yes, we do have to have them, but I use them from plant based 00:07:32.557 --> 00:07:37.307 materials like Primrose oil and hemp oil and pumpkin seed. 00:07:37.307 --> 00:07:42.782 There's so many oils that will provide, Flax, will provide the fatty acids that 00:07:42.782 --> 00:07:44.972 we need, essentially need for our body. 00:07:45.242 --> 00:07:47.572 And then how miraculous is this? 00:07:47.592 --> 00:07:52.772 We have enzymes in our bodies that take those parent essential fats and 00:07:52.772 --> 00:07:57.712 will convert them into those other fatty acids that we need to have 00:07:58.072 --> 00:08:02.432 at the time that we need them and in the quantity that we need them. 00:08:02.432 --> 00:08:04.852 Oh, that's, that's fascinating. 00:08:04.852 --> 00:08:08.022 And it's shocking at the same time. 00:08:08.252 --> 00:08:11.592 You know, when you think about it, it's almost like a miracle that. 00:08:12.142 --> 00:08:16.042 You know, I think it feels to me like especially dogs that 00:08:17.062 --> 00:08:18.332 don't live as long these days. 00:08:19.197 --> 00:08:19.767 Oh, they don't. 00:08:19.947 --> 00:08:20.197 Conclusive. 00:08:20.887 --> 00:08:23.737 And so with what you've just explained, it's like it's a 00:08:23.837 --> 00:08:25.307 miracle to survive at all, right? 00:08:26.087 --> 00:08:26.927 Oh, absolutely. 00:08:26.947 --> 00:08:28.397 And so two points that you just made. 00:08:28.397 --> 00:08:33.527 Number one, the life expectancy of dogs right now is seven years 00:08:33.527 --> 00:08:35.637 shorter than it was 25 years ago. 00:08:35.737 --> 00:08:36.947 That is documented. 00:08:37.827 --> 00:08:41.867 And we're not understanding the why. 00:08:41.877 --> 00:08:46.852 We're just We're being taught to accept the fact that when we get old, we're 00:08:46.852 --> 00:08:50.352 going to fall apart and get crickety and need a whole basket full of medicine. 00:08:50.622 --> 00:08:52.252 No, that is not true. 00:08:52.492 --> 00:08:54.792 I am reaching 70 years of age. 00:08:54.812 --> 00:08:59.872 I feel 70 years young and I am vibrant and I have energy and I am more 00:08:59.872 --> 00:09:03.352 functional than I was in my twenties when I was in Beth's school and I was 00:09:03.412 --> 00:09:07.757 under so much stress and At that time, we didn't have genetically modified 00:09:07.767 --> 00:09:09.847 foods, but we had junk food, right? 00:09:09.847 --> 00:09:13.707 So people like junk food to just survive in college. 00:09:13.987 --> 00:09:15.887 So yeah, it's a really big deal. 00:09:15.897 --> 00:09:20.297 So, you know, we really need to be looking at why are we living shorter and then 00:09:20.297 --> 00:09:25.037 what is happening in our lifestyles that is creating this dysfunction because we 00:09:25.037 --> 00:09:27.957 are now, we are only in survival mode. 00:09:28.257 --> 00:09:30.607 There's a difference between survival and thriving. 00:09:31.047 --> 00:09:34.657 Our bodies, because we are regenerative machines and we were built to 00:09:34.677 --> 00:09:39.827 adapt and survive, that means when circumstances are not ideal, our 00:09:39.827 --> 00:09:41.807 bodies just don't stop running. 00:09:41.967 --> 00:09:42.907 They don't die. 00:09:43.047 --> 00:09:45.537 Like your car, if you didn't put in gasoline, that's an 00:09:45.537 --> 00:09:46.832 essential nutrient to a car. 00:09:46.832 --> 00:09:49.757 If you didn't put gasoline in the car, it just wouldn't run. 00:09:50.712 --> 00:09:54.912 But we, if we don't get the right nutrients in our body, we have all these 00:09:54.912 --> 00:09:58.702 adaptive mechanisms, and our pets do as well, obviously I'm talking to both, 00:09:59.362 --> 00:10:04.002 they have these adaptive mechanisms that will help the body to survive 00:10:04.022 --> 00:10:09.122 because it is assumed that once you get through the crisis, whatever that 00:10:09.442 --> 00:10:15.457 cataclysmic Problem is, it will pass and then you can go back to thriving 00:10:15.637 --> 00:10:17.637 because then your lifestyle will improve. 00:10:17.927 --> 00:10:23.267 And the way it worked for our ancestors is when they had blizzards and freezes 00:10:23.267 --> 00:10:27.512 and they didn't have enough resources to make it through the winter, they A lot of 00:10:27.522 --> 00:10:32.702 people and a lot of animals starved, but those that could survive once the spring 00:10:32.712 --> 00:10:37.062 came back and food was plentiful, then they stuffed themselves with food again. 00:10:37.292 --> 00:10:39.872 And they were then being able to go back to thriving. 00:10:39.872 --> 00:10:44.702 So these mechanisms, we call them hormetic stressors, that our bodies 00:10:44.702 --> 00:10:47.202 were actually designed to adapt to. 00:10:47.732 --> 00:10:53.242 For our purpose of surviving and then thriving in the next era that 00:10:53.242 --> 00:10:56.992 was coming forward, you know, so it was basically all the time, right? 00:10:57.302 --> 00:10:57.972 Exactly. 00:10:57.992 --> 00:11:02.402 You have to go from that surviving phase into thriving. 00:11:02.432 --> 00:11:06.542 And then you made these genetic adaptations so that you are now more 00:11:06.542 --> 00:11:11.552 prepared to function well and pass on a better gene pool for the next generation. 00:11:12.367 --> 00:11:17.937 But what's happening now is we're staying in survival mode and getting more and more 00:11:17.937 --> 00:11:22.237 chronic degenerative diseases to where the body goes, I got to, I'm going to 00:11:22.237 --> 00:11:24.837 give up because nothing's getting better. 00:11:25.117 --> 00:11:28.057 And now pathogens take over because they're going, the 00:11:28.057 --> 00:11:32.517 motherships, it's crashing, it's burning, it's not coming back. 00:11:32.717 --> 00:11:35.677 So let's become pathogenic and try to at least send 00:11:35.677 --> 00:11:38.317 something that may survive this. 00:11:39.287 --> 00:11:42.407 It's such a, it's such a vicious cycle as well, right? 00:11:42.407 --> 00:11:46.137 So, so with what you explained at the beginning with the vitamin D, 00:11:46.187 --> 00:11:48.767 so now we mess up our immune system. 00:11:48.777 --> 00:11:55.477 So we have less to fight with against all the other toxins that we are exposed to. 00:11:55.477 --> 00:12:02.047 So if I'm now determined to say, well, okay, at least for my own body and for 00:12:02.047 --> 00:12:05.247 my dogs, I want to do the best I can. 00:12:05.667 --> 00:12:06.717 What do you recommend? 00:12:06.777 --> 00:12:08.117 Like, okay, where do I start? 00:12:09.217 --> 00:12:10.407 That's a great question. 00:12:10.467 --> 00:12:12.477 Um, and we start with education. 00:12:12.737 --> 00:12:16.367 So I'm going to plug my Empowered Pet Parent course because it 00:12:16.367 --> 00:12:20.817 is so critically important for people to start with knowledge. 00:12:20.977 --> 00:12:26.177 You know, we have the internet, which is an amazing source, this amazing web. 00:12:26.407 --> 00:12:31.347 However, not all the information that you get is good information, right? 00:12:31.662 --> 00:12:35.992 And so we have to learn how to cut through the noise, how to cut 00:12:35.992 --> 00:12:40.282 through the marketing, and the BS, which I call belief systems. 00:12:40.682 --> 00:12:42.752 So, is it a belief system? 00:12:42.752 --> 00:12:44.382 Is it BS that's supporting you? 00:12:44.562 --> 00:12:47.452 Or is it BS that needs to be changed? 00:12:47.682 --> 00:12:53.187 Because If you don't keep up with the changing times, then you're living 00:12:53.187 --> 00:12:56.227 in the past and you're thinking about things in the past and you can't 00:12:56.227 --> 00:12:58.047 adapt to what's happening in the now. 00:12:58.327 --> 00:13:01.157 So it's extremely important to start with education. 00:13:01.837 --> 00:13:07.657 Once we educate our pet parents, we teach them how to identify through testing. 00:13:07.667 --> 00:13:08.927 We, we test, don't guess. 00:13:09.342 --> 00:13:10.992 What are those deficiencies? 00:13:11.042 --> 00:13:12.832 What are those toxicities? 00:13:13.112 --> 00:13:16.552 And now we can very target what we need to do. 00:13:16.552 --> 00:13:18.592 We know exactly what we need to supplement. 00:13:18.802 --> 00:13:22.602 We know exactly what we need to detoxify from, and we detoxify 00:13:22.922 --> 00:13:25.032 all six organs of elimination. 00:13:25.662 --> 00:13:33.237 We have a kidney, colon, lungs, liver, skin, and lymphatics slash fascia. 00:13:33.407 --> 00:13:36.357 We, I always include fascia now in my discussion of lymphatics. 00:13:36.707 --> 00:13:42.157 So these are organs that were built into our pets bodies and our bodies, 00:13:42.237 --> 00:13:46.737 and they were designed to get rid of the toxins that we were exposed to, because 00:13:46.737 --> 00:13:48.307 there's always been toxins around. 00:13:48.687 --> 00:13:54.217 The problem is that since World War II, 1942, there have been over a hundred 00:13:55.147 --> 00:14:02.172 synthetic toxins developed, released into our food, water, our environment. 00:14:02.592 --> 00:14:06.552 And so we just have this overwhelming amount of toxicity. 00:14:06.842 --> 00:14:11.662 And then our lifestyles have dramatically changed to where we're so sedentary. 00:14:12.392 --> 00:14:14.712 We're not out in the sun, we're not sweating, we're not 00:14:14.712 --> 00:14:16.242 exercising, we're not moving. 00:14:16.582 --> 00:14:21.267 And Now our organs of elimination aren't able to function, let alone 00:14:21.297 --> 00:14:25.477 keep up with the level of toxicity that they're inundated with. 00:14:25.717 --> 00:14:29.647 So it, when you say it that way, you go, wow, that makes a lot of sense. 00:14:29.657 --> 00:14:32.887 So we start with, after you get your education, we start with 00:14:32.887 --> 00:14:36.597 identifying the deficiencies and toxicities, really simple test. 00:14:36.627 --> 00:14:39.907 I can actually mail a kit to people so they can even do 00:14:39.907 --> 00:14:41.897 it themselves for their pets. 00:14:42.352 --> 00:14:44.762 Uh, there, you will have to get somebody to draw some blood 00:14:44.762 --> 00:14:46.202 and put it into the test kit. 00:14:46.202 --> 00:14:47.152 But then you mail it off. 00:14:47.392 --> 00:14:49.762 And then I helped with the interpretation of the results. 00:14:50.712 --> 00:14:55.162 And then we start making sure we have all the essential nutrients that are provided. 00:14:55.742 --> 00:15:02.472 So this magnificent machine that we call home in our bodies, it relies on a few 00:15:02.482 --> 00:15:04.872 critical things that it has to have. 00:15:05.102 --> 00:15:07.022 And those are essential vitamins. 00:15:07.527 --> 00:15:10.707 minerals, fatty acids, and amino acids. 00:15:11.087 --> 00:15:14.267 And these are the ones that the body cannot manufacture in 00:15:14.267 --> 00:15:16.657 sufficient quantities on its own. 00:15:17.047 --> 00:15:21.057 You have to get them in your food, or you have to get them as a supplement. 00:15:21.367 --> 00:15:25.857 Well, everybody recognizes that the foods that we're eating today are 00:15:25.857 --> 00:15:29.697 loaded with chemicals, pesticides, genetically modified ingredients, 00:15:29.727 --> 00:15:34.917 glyphosate, and our foods are being grown on nutrient depleted soils. 00:15:35.247 --> 00:15:39.747 So if you If that plant doesn't have the nutrients in the soil to 00:15:39.747 --> 00:15:42.957 absorb, then when you eat that plant, you still don't have the nutrient. 00:15:43.247 --> 00:15:48.187 So I think in today's modern age, it is critical that we are able 00:15:48.187 --> 00:15:51.967 to supplement what we now know are those essential nutrients. 00:15:52.257 --> 00:15:53.127 So that's what I did. 00:15:53.127 --> 00:15:58.417 I created a supplement line so that I know my patients, no matter what their 00:15:58.417 --> 00:16:03.617 deficiencies are, I can make sure that they have those essentials in their diet. 00:16:04.012 --> 00:16:07.302 Now the metabolism has the ability to function. 00:16:07.902 --> 00:16:13.682 Then number three is we heal the leaky gut and we know glyphosate being the number 00:16:13.692 --> 00:16:17.582 one thing that damages the gut lining. 00:16:17.612 --> 00:16:21.982 So our gut lining looks like a piece of cheesecloth and all those fibers that 00:16:21.982 --> 00:16:26.492 hold the cheesecloth together, those are called actin filaments in our gut. 00:16:27.162 --> 00:16:29.492 Glyphosate literally melts that. 00:16:30.007 --> 00:16:34.037 So it'd be like taking and burning holes into that cheesecloth. 00:16:35.107 --> 00:16:37.637 Now, what's the cheesecloth going to do when you're trying 00:16:37.637 --> 00:16:38.827 to strain out your soup? 00:16:39.207 --> 00:16:42.247 All the pieces, your vegetables and your herbs and all, they're going 00:16:42.247 --> 00:16:43.397 to fall through into the soup. 00:16:43.677 --> 00:16:47.187 And if you only wanted the liquid, you got holes, you're going 00:16:47.187 --> 00:16:48.297 to get a lot of other stuff. 00:16:48.297 --> 00:16:49.737 And that's what happens in leaky gut. 00:16:50.057 --> 00:16:54.867 Things come in through that gut membrane that were not supposed to come in, travel 00:16:54.867 --> 00:16:58.697 by the bloodstream, go to the liver, and then the liver mounts an inflammatory 00:16:58.707 --> 00:17:01.387 response to get rid of the invaders. 00:17:01.467 --> 00:17:06.077 And that is the source of our dis ease, is inflammation. 00:17:07.047 --> 00:17:10.987 Inflammation will hit the weakest link in the body, or plural, weakest 00:17:10.997 --> 00:17:13.417 links, depending on the individual. 00:17:13.607 --> 00:17:17.707 And so for our dogs, our weakest link is typically the skin. 00:17:18.042 --> 00:17:23.212 So we see ear infections is number one because the ear canal is skin wrapped 00:17:23.212 --> 00:17:25.052 into a tube and stuck down a deep hole. 00:17:25.242 --> 00:17:29.902 So it's usually the first place that we'll see an issue and then once it moves 00:17:29.952 --> 00:17:34.202 out of the ear canal it moves into the skin of the body where now it becomes 00:17:34.212 --> 00:17:39.082 very visible and we have itching and scratching and seborrhea and hot spots 00:17:39.362 --> 00:17:44.422 and hair falling out and all the symptoms that people recognize in their pets. 00:17:44.912 --> 00:17:45.702 Sadly. 00:17:45.987 --> 00:17:48.567 Our industry treats the symptoms. 00:17:48.577 --> 00:17:50.407 It's literally symptom suppression. 00:17:50.717 --> 00:17:55.197 And so they get stronger and stronger immune suppressive medications to 00:17:55.417 --> 00:17:59.697 make the immune system stop when the immune system isn't the problem. 00:18:00.342 --> 00:18:05.802 The problem is toxins coming in through that leaky gut inciting the inflammatory 00:18:05.802 --> 00:18:07.572 reaction, which is doing its job. 00:18:07.982 --> 00:18:13.922 So wouldn't it be kind of novel if we maybe fix the reason why we have the 00:18:13.922 --> 00:18:19.072 leaky gut, stop doing the things that are causing it and then heal it and 00:18:19.072 --> 00:18:21.942 then let the body go back to doing what it innately knows how to do. 00:18:22.822 --> 00:18:23.112 Yeah. 00:18:23.132 --> 00:18:27.512 So, so let's take the, the skin, like, you know, I don't know, like, 00:18:28.567 --> 00:18:33.117 Example, a friend of mine, you know, her dog licks his paws the whole time. 00:18:33.117 --> 00:18:37.817 So she goes to the vet, they give her some cortisol kind of cream thingy. 00:18:39.047 --> 00:18:42.257 And it doesn't help, you know. 00:18:42.537 --> 00:18:43.827 What would you suggest? 00:18:44.337 --> 00:18:46.607 Like, is there, you know, where would she start? 00:18:47.007 --> 00:18:48.687 Or is there a lot of, you know? 00:18:49.557 --> 00:18:50.517 Yeah, she's going to start. 00:18:50.517 --> 00:18:53.207 Especially if she's in Europe, like, okay, you know. 00:18:53.207 --> 00:18:57.077 Even in Europe, actually, they have some really good raw food companies out there. 00:18:57.297 --> 00:19:01.647 So she starts with, once she understands what the problem is, stop doing the 00:19:01.657 --> 00:19:03.027 things that are causing the disease. 00:19:03.037 --> 00:19:04.487 Stop feeding processed foods. 00:19:04.507 --> 00:19:10.857 Stop Exposing our animals to toxins in the water and in the air and in 00:19:11.477 --> 00:19:13.357 products that you put on their skin. 00:19:13.657 --> 00:19:15.997 You know, our laundry soaps is a great example. 00:19:16.217 --> 00:19:17.837 They're loaded with xenoestrogens. 00:19:18.467 --> 00:19:22.987 These are estrogen mimicking compounds and they're disruptors to our hormones. 00:19:23.237 --> 00:19:29.397 So we're touching something 24 7 as humans and our animals are typically 00:19:29.417 --> 00:19:33.287 on our lap or they're laying next to us or they're in our beds so they're 00:19:33.287 --> 00:19:37.677 exposed to this stuff as well and with their body surface area they're probably 00:19:37.677 --> 00:19:41.557 absorbing more than we are because we know our skin is the largest organ of 00:19:41.557 --> 00:19:47.202 absorption and excretion so We have to stop doing the things that are causing it. 00:19:47.212 --> 00:19:50.112 You cannot keep taking a medication to suppress the 00:19:50.112 --> 00:19:52.252 symptom and expect it to go away. 00:19:52.682 --> 00:19:54.202 So she has to feed a better food. 00:19:54.202 --> 00:19:56.192 She has to make sure the water quality is good. 00:19:56.302 --> 00:19:59.472 She has to make sure that the essential vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, 00:19:59.472 --> 00:20:04.462 and amino acids are provided in the diet and then heal that leaky gut. 00:20:04.462 --> 00:20:09.712 And step number four is detoxification of the six organs of elimination. 00:20:10.122 --> 00:20:13.757 So I actually have a I have two courses on my website. 00:20:14.207 --> 00:20:18.457 One is for lymphatic therapy and the other one is fascia 00:20:18.457 --> 00:20:21.607 decompression for your fur baby. 00:20:21.857 --> 00:20:27.647 And these are things that we teach pet parents how to relieve fascia compression 00:20:28.557 --> 00:20:31.797 by using their hands and gravity. 00:20:31.797 --> 00:20:35.327 So you don't have to have any equipment whatsoever and you can 00:20:35.347 --> 00:20:40.827 improve the fascia network in your own pet's body in your own home. 00:20:41.472 --> 00:20:42.022 I love that. 00:20:42.072 --> 00:20:42.552 I love that. 00:20:42.912 --> 00:20:45.952 So where can people go and find out more? 00:20:45.962 --> 00:20:48.372 Because we obviously can't go and scratch the surface. 00:20:48.372 --> 00:20:51.752 It feels like, you know what I think is actually interesting? 00:20:52.352 --> 00:20:58.612 That if I look at everything you've shared through the lens of, okay, this is for 00:20:58.612 --> 00:21:01.892 my dogs, I'm like, yeah, you could have just as well talked about us, right? 00:21:02.712 --> 00:21:06.732 So it feels like it's the same for people and, and dogs. 00:21:06.732 --> 00:21:07.482 So maybe. 00:21:08.347 --> 00:21:12.167 The exact vitamins and minerals and proportions might be a 00:21:12.167 --> 00:21:16.737 different species, but the underlying principles are the same. 00:21:16.747 --> 00:21:21.587 So if we were to say, well, actually, let's kind of live a bit more consciously. 00:21:21.597 --> 00:21:24.932 And, you know, I think, Everybody wins. 00:21:24.937 --> 00:21:24.972 Wins. 00:21:24.972 --> 00:21:27.102 Including including our dogs, right? 00:21:27.402 --> 00:21:30.642 So where can people go and find out more about your work? 00:21:30.642 --> 00:21:33.462 Can get on your email list, can check out the courses. 00:21:33.462 --> 00:21:34.182 Where are we gonna send them? 00:21:34.842 --> 00:21:35.922 Thank you Dr. 00:21:36.612 --> 00:21:40.512 Like in doctor marlene siegel.com made it super easy. 00:21:40.722 --> 00:21:43.362 That is the hub of everything me. 00:21:43.632 --> 00:21:46.062 So the hospital website is there. 00:21:46.212 --> 00:21:46.812 My. 00:21:46.882 --> 00:21:50.462 We have blogs, my courses, we have an online store. 00:21:50.812 --> 00:21:53.982 I don't, I think we can ship some things into Europe. 00:21:54.032 --> 00:21:57.452 I don't think we can ship everything, but even equipment things to 00:21:57.462 --> 00:22:01.112 be able to empower people to detoxify at home with their pets. 00:22:01.412 --> 00:22:07.777 I have created a It's a blueprint for people to follow so that 00:22:07.787 --> 00:22:10.237 you are truly empowered. 00:22:10.237 --> 00:22:12.807 That's why it's called the Empowered Pet Parent Course. 00:22:13.307 --> 00:22:17.317 But I also have a course for veterinarians because my other massive 00:22:17.317 --> 00:22:20.277 quest is transforming vet medicine. 00:22:21.017 --> 00:22:23.877 You know, we, we don't do a lot of work to do that. 00:22:25.177 --> 00:22:27.057 Here I am trunking along, right? 00:22:27.607 --> 00:22:31.717 But I still remember the vet when I first got my first dog, you know, and 00:22:31.717 --> 00:22:35.567 I asked the vet about like, okay, so I don't know, new dog parent here. 00:22:35.567 --> 00:22:36.497 What should I feed my dog? 00:22:36.667 --> 00:22:39.847 Oh, you've got to give him that kibble and never give him anything else. 00:22:39.847 --> 00:22:47.637 I do, but you know, here's where I know that there's hope because there is not 00:22:47.667 --> 00:22:50.237 a single veterinarian I have ever met. 00:22:50.797 --> 00:22:57.377 that intentionally, willfully, and consciously wants to harm an animal. 00:22:57.697 --> 00:23:01.517 We do not go into this industry because we want to do harm. 00:23:01.767 --> 00:23:03.997 We all want to do the very best. 00:23:03.997 --> 00:23:09.067 We want to be the heroes to our pet parents and the heroes to our patients. 00:23:09.387 --> 00:23:13.747 However, If you don't know better, you can't do better. 00:23:13.927 --> 00:23:17.287 And you only know what you know and you don't know what you don't know. 00:23:17.617 --> 00:23:23.687 And sadly, our education was influenced by the Rockefellers and the 00:23:23.707 --> 00:23:25.987 Carnegies through the Flexner Report. 00:23:25.987 --> 00:23:30.987 If somebody doesn't know what the Flexner Report is, you look up that report and you 00:23:31.047 --> 00:23:36.917 now know why all of these other modalities are no longer taught in the mainstream 00:23:37.207 --> 00:23:43.557 educational process because the whole idea was to get us hooked onto pharmaceuticals 00:23:43.787 --> 00:23:45.247 and a pharmaceutical company. 00:23:45.537 --> 00:23:49.527 model of health care, which is really a broke care model 00:23:49.837 --> 00:23:51.407 designed to be a cash cow. 00:23:51.667 --> 00:23:53.177 I can't say that any nicer. 00:23:53.397 --> 00:23:54.537 You know, that's what it is. 00:23:54.547 --> 00:24:00.522 And it's time for all of us to Wake up and take control because no 00:24:00.522 --> 00:24:01.832 one's out there going to save us. 00:24:02.022 --> 00:24:04.792 There is nobody coming down on a white steed who is going 00:24:04.792 --> 00:24:07.212 to say, look, I'm your savior. 00:24:07.392 --> 00:24:08.502 It isn't going to happen. 00:24:08.502 --> 00:24:12.722 There's not one government out there that is really going to protect us. 00:24:12.832 --> 00:24:18.032 We the people, we have to be responsible for our own health. 00:24:18.432 --> 00:24:23.352 We are the only ones that are going to be there for our pets and our 00:24:23.372 --> 00:24:26.272 pets rely on us We are it for them. 00:24:26.282 --> 00:24:29.082 They can't make choices for themselves because they don't have access 00:24:29.082 --> 00:24:30.512 to go out and hunt and forage. 00:24:30.922 --> 00:24:37.052 So we really have to start taking responsibility and owning their 00:24:37.052 --> 00:24:41.302 health, owning our health, and owning the health of our planet. 00:24:41.802 --> 00:24:46.832 So I, I'm going to go a little even broader because all those toxic decisions 00:24:46.832 --> 00:24:49.502 that we make affect Mother Earth. 00:24:50.592 --> 00:24:53.262 Everything we're talking about will be a mute issue if we don't 00:24:53.262 --> 00:24:55.002 have a planet that's alive. 00:24:55.372 --> 00:24:55.402 Right? 00:24:55.402 --> 00:24:59.072 I think the planet will kill us off before it'll kill itself. 00:24:59.392 --> 00:25:02.392 But If, uh, if you listen to Zach Bush, Dr. 00:25:02.392 --> 00:25:08.702 Zach Bush, who is world famous, he talks about we have 70 years left on this planet 00:25:08.952 --> 00:25:14.552 as a species before we go extinct because we have not lived a sustainable lifestyle. 00:25:15.012 --> 00:25:18.502 And it's not about, you know, climate warming and all that. 00:25:18.682 --> 00:25:20.202 It's about our lifestyle. 00:25:20.202 --> 00:25:24.402 It's about the things that we're doing that are killing ourselves, 00:25:24.442 --> 00:25:25.872 our pets, and our planet. 00:25:26.562 --> 00:25:29.902 And it can be turned around in one single thought. 00:25:30.937 --> 00:25:33.017 Stop doing the things that are harmful. 00:25:33.377 --> 00:25:34.707 Read the ingredients. 00:25:35.107 --> 00:25:39.127 Don't buy from companies that are making toxic products. 00:25:39.707 --> 00:25:40.957 This is not hard. 00:25:41.387 --> 00:25:45.137 This is really, I guess, especially with the awareness, right. 00:25:45.187 --> 00:25:47.957 And then knowing what the alternatives are. 00:25:47.977 --> 00:25:54.127 So, you know, there's a one thing, go, go, go check her out, you know, 00:25:54.747 --> 00:25:58.157 educated and, uh, let's turn this around. 00:25:58.557 --> 00:26:01.207 Yeah, there's a wonderful website for consumers. 00:26:01.207 --> 00:26:03.377 It's called ewg. 00:26:03.407 --> 00:26:03.787 org. 00:26:04.167 --> 00:26:07.007 It's the, you know, consumer awareness program. 00:26:07.027 --> 00:26:11.007 And so people can go online and look up products if they're not sure. 00:26:11.187 --> 00:26:14.547 For me, if I can't pronounce the name and I don't understand what that 00:26:14.657 --> 00:26:17.507 product is, I'm not going to use it. 00:26:17.507 --> 00:26:17.817 Right? 00:26:18.007 --> 00:26:21.167 If there's more than four ingredients, I'm probably not going to eat it. 00:26:22.372 --> 00:26:23.662 That didn't come from nature. 00:26:24.022 --> 00:26:25.332 I live in a food forest. 00:26:25.372 --> 00:26:27.222 I literally created a food forest. 00:26:27.222 --> 00:26:29.382 I grow food 360 degrees around my home. 00:26:29.792 --> 00:26:32.962 I use all organic products in. 00:26:33.012 --> 00:26:34.422 We're going to come to your place. 00:26:34.592 --> 00:26:34.862 Watch it. 00:26:34.862 --> 00:26:35.382 Yes. 00:26:35.382 --> 00:26:35.662 Yes. 00:26:36.132 --> 00:26:37.372 Come and learn how to grow food. 00:26:37.372 --> 00:26:38.502 It's, it's amazing. 00:26:39.062 --> 00:26:42.472 Um, you'll see every Friday I post food forest Friday. 00:26:42.742 --> 00:26:45.482 So I do things showing how food is our medicine. 00:26:45.482 --> 00:26:46.592 It really is. 00:26:46.932 --> 00:26:49.032 It's where medicine originally came from. 00:26:49.212 --> 00:26:53.532 They took compounds out of natural products and then made a patent with it. 00:26:53.892 --> 00:26:56.282 But they also took it out of its natural form. 00:26:56.282 --> 00:27:00.782 So now you don't have all of the other synergistic pieces that go along with it. 00:27:01.172 --> 00:27:08.262 So it's really, it's a symphony of things that help to keep us healthy. 00:27:08.652 --> 00:27:12.932 And when you take one element out and you say, Oh, that's the only element 00:27:12.932 --> 00:27:18.812 that's effective, you've lost all the other parts that add to that. 00:27:19.327 --> 00:27:26.687 Beautiful, cooperative, cohesive type of exposure that nature gives us. 00:27:27.697 --> 00:27:29.037 We just need to go back to nature. 00:27:29.037 --> 00:27:31.027 I think so. 00:27:31.027 --> 00:27:33.477 Who are we going to give our dollars to? 00:27:33.677 --> 00:27:36.307 We are voting with our dollars. 00:27:36.762 --> 00:27:41.362 Are you going to vote to keep companies out there killing us and killing 00:27:41.362 --> 00:27:45.682 our children and our pets or are we going to stop giving them the money 00:27:46.002 --> 00:27:49.792 and give it to companies that are really trying to do the right thing, 00:27:49.802 --> 00:27:53.322 sustainably, ethically, morally, etc. 00:27:54.612 --> 00:27:55.872 Thank you so much. 00:27:56.472 --> 00:28:00.612 I, I just hope people will literally just like flush to your website and, and check 00:28:00.612 --> 00:28:04.122 you out because it's like, it's kind of like you, you've got a movement going 00:28:04.152 --> 00:28:05.862 and I think we'll wanna be part of it. 00:28:05.862 --> 00:28:06.522 So thank you so much. 00:28:06.522 --> 00:28:07.137 I hope so. 00:28:07.682 --> 00:28:11.492 For coming and um, yeah, I can't wait to find out more. 00:28:11.492 --> 00:28:13.818 I'm gonna go and follow the , you know. 00:28:13.818 --> 00:28:13.922 Thank you. 00:28:13.922 --> 00:28:15.697 Food Friday, forest Friday. 00:28:15.907 --> 00:28:16.577 Thank you so much. 00:28:16.577 --> 00:28:17.177 Food Forest Friday. 00:28:17.487 --> 00:28:18.257 Food Forest Friday. 00:28:18.372 --> 00:28:18.942 That's it, right? 00:28:18.942 --> 00:28:19.212 That's it. 00:28:19.212 --> 00:28:20.442 Thank you so much. 00:28:20.922 --> 00:28:21.672 Bye everyone. 00:28:22.883 --> 00:28:24.113 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