Natural Health is Also Good for Your Pets

Posted by natural health guru | Friday, May 22, 2009

How many pets do you have at home? Do you enjoy caring for them? If you're a pet lover, ensuring your pet's good health and longevity is probably one of your priorities.

Responsible pet ownership includes providing your pet with proper shelter and a suitable diet. Pets should also be able to freely exhibit normal behavior patterns and protected from pain, suffering, injury and disease.

But taking care of pets is no mean feat. You may think that you know everything there is to know about caring for animals, like what to feed them and what to do when they get sick, but what you may not know is that what you're doing with the animals under your care may be doing them more harm than good.

Let's face it, these are some of the harsh realities:

  • Toxic pet food has claimed the lives of countless cats and dogs
  • Seemingly innocuous household items pose serious dangers to household animals
  • Routine vaccination triggers all sorts of diseases, from allergies to vaccinosis and cancer
It also doesn't help that most veterinarians adhere to the "reactive approach" in their practice of veterinary medicine, meaning they wait for symptoms of disease to occur rather than address the root cause.

Animals and humans are very different yet very alike in many different ways. But one important similarity is that what's healthy and not healthy for you goes the same with your pet.

You will be doing your pets a great favor if you follow the principles of natural health and holistic medicine while caring for them. However, finding reliable information about natural and holistic pet care is easier said than done. Finding natural health information for yourself is hard enough.

Dr. Joseph Mercola, founder of Mercola.com, the world's leading natural health website, knows how difficult it is to find a holistic veterinarian. That is why he called on Dr. Karen Becker, one of the leading holistic veterinarians in the United States, and joined hands to launch MercolaHealthyPets.com.

Mercola Healthy Pets is a dedicated towards providing information and solutions to pet owners that will allow their pets to live longer and healthier lives, including the latest news and tips on holistic pet care, nutrition, exercise, behavior, grooming and more.

Dr. Becker has over a decade of experience as a veterinarian and describes her practice as "lifestyle medicine" for pets, as she combines the proactive, integrative and wellness approach in veterinary medicine.

She explains that as a proactive integrative wellness vet, her job is to identify and remove the lifestyle and health obstacles that pets face before disease occurs and recognize that there are multiple ways to unlock the healing potential of pets.

Dr. Becker adds that wellness medicine is a new concept in veterinary medicine which advocates intentional lifestyle choices that transforms your pet from a "surviving" pet into a thriving and vibrant pet.

Under Dr. Mercola and Dr. Becker, MercolaHealthyPets.com aims to become a one-stop resource for natural and holistic pet healthcare. Become part of this new community of pet lovers and guide your pet to a longer and healthier life!




1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dog Remedy
Re: Psychosomatic Behavior
Symptom: Dog chopping at flies or bugs that are not there. Very anxious and upset.
Would like to share with you a remedy that work for my dog.
My dog is a 70lb mixed breed (maybe American bull & Lab).
He was throwing his head back and up chopping at something but nothing was there. As if a fly or a bee was buzzing around his head. He was also shaking his head. He was clearly bothered and started to shout one bark out in frustration.
To cut to the short story;
The vet said there was only a minute amount of crust and or wax in his ears.
I put a couple drops of chamomile oil in each ear. That was it. Must have cleared / drained away some particles and now he's fine. Not chopping at flies anymore :) !

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