Mike are you aware of any commercial kibbles that don’t contain seed oils or polyunsaturated fatty acids? These agro-industrial byproducts have only been an additive in animal and human diets for about a century and a lot of evidence is coming out about negative health outcomes.
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It is probably difficult to find any without at least some traces of it, which is one of the reasons I emphasized certain things in the lecture. We could drive ourselves crazy, especially with clients analyzing their dog food. I think it is possible to find literature that will find any commercial food harmful.
Some of the influence behind the lecture:
I am such a technical person that I always like to see specific data. As far as I know there isn’t any that show significant issues with well-balanced dog foods, regardless of the sources, compared to other foods regarding things like life span regardless if it is true or not. This may change, and I am definitely interested if something like that comes out. I have been searching for years.
In my experience, I have found more irreversible issues with unbalanced diets of any quality (and science to back it up) vs balanced “bad” quality food. Bad quality food often shows immediate and obvious issues, which can easily be addressed.
Some of this might have to do with dogs having relatively short lifetimes compared to humans, who could eat mostly Mcdonalds, smoke cigarettes and die at 50 vs 80 from heart disease, while some other genetically predetermined issue gets to a dog first. Or does diet speed up genetic diseases, or is it calorie intake, or something else? I have always been interested in that type of data.
Therefore I have always focused on some of the obvious, such as allergies, behavior, stool quality, joint quality, etc..
So when I see dogs that are not living close to what is their normal lifespan for their breed/bloodline it almost always has to do with being kept overweight, poor joint health, early neuter status, teeth, poorly balanced food, ignoring allergies, etc.. and almost never do I see evidence that it was due to the choice of kibble (even with the highly marketed “bad ingredients”) vs raw vs home cooked or whatever.
There are obviously very poor kibble diets that seem to make no effort whatsoever to include quality ingredients and other companies that definitely try.
For instance, I am obviously an advocate for life’s abundance and a lot of that has to do with the formulator never having a problem calling me back and having thoughtful conversations about the ingredients when I was more paranoid and didn’t go through a couple of generations of dogs eating different diets to come to certain conclusions.
My disclaimer is that I have no advanced education on this subject and everything I teach is based on the basics of nutrition and my own research. The rest is my personal observations. I always took note of what every client’s dog was eating. The dog food industry is also very motivated to differentiate themselves in a competitive market. So, I have learned to take a deep breath with the fine details.
I do keep an open mind though, continue to take notes, and look out for hard evidence that shows significant improvement in quality of life or life span.
It is an important subject that is often overlooked by dog trainers.
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Mike are you aware of any commercial kibbles that don’t contain seed oils or polyunsaturated fatty acids? These agro-industrial byproducts have only been an additive in animal and human diets for about a century and a lot of evidence is coming out about negative health outcomes.
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It is probably difficult to find any without at least some traces of it, which is one of the reasons I emphasized certain things in the lecture. We could drive ourselves crazy, especially with clients analyzing their dog food. I think it is possible to find literature that will find any commercial food harmful.
Some of the influence behind the lecture:
I am such a technical person that I always like to see specific data. As far as I know there isn’t any that show significant issues with well-balanced dog foods, regardless of the sources, compared to other foods regarding things like life span regardless if it is true or not. This may change, and I am definitely interested if something like that comes out. I have been searching for years.
In my experience, I have found more irreversible issues with unbalanced diets of any quality (and science to back it up) vs balanced “bad” quality food. Bad quality food often shows immediate and obvious issues, which can easily be addressed.
Some of this might have to do with dogs having relatively short lifetimes compared to humans, who could eat mostly Mcdonalds, smoke cigarettes and die at 50 vs 80 from heart disease, while some other genetically predetermined issue gets to a dog first. Or does diet speed up genetic diseases, or is it calorie intake, or something else? I have always been interested in that type of data.
Therefore I have always focused on some of the obvious, such as allergies, behavior, stool quality, joint quality, etc..
So when I see dogs that are not living close to what is their normal lifespan for their breed/bloodline it almost always has to do with being kept overweight, poor joint health, early neuter status, teeth, poorly balanced food, ignoring allergies, etc.. and almost never do I see evidence that it was due to the choice of kibble (even with the highly marketed “bad ingredients”) vs raw vs home cooked or whatever.
There are obviously very poor kibble diets that seem to make no effort whatsoever to include quality ingredients and other companies that definitely try.
For instance, I am obviously an advocate for life’s abundance and a lot of that has to do with the formulator never having a problem calling me back and having thoughtful conversations about the ingredients when I was more paranoid and didn’t go through a couple of generations of dogs eating different diets to come to certain conclusions.
My disclaimer is that I have no advanced education on this subject and everything I teach is based on the basics of nutrition and my own research. The rest is my personal observations. I always took note of what every client’s dog was eating. The dog food industry is also very motivated to differentiate themselves in a competitive market. So, I have learned to take a deep breath with the fine details.
I do keep an open mind though, continue to take notes, and look out for hard evidence that shows significant improvement in quality of life or life span.
It is an important subject that is often overlooked by dog trainers.
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