Welcome to “The Naturally Healthy Pet” blog.

This is the interactive part of this site where I will be posting “tips and tricks” as well and valuable information to aid you in learning more about how to assist your pet in living a “Naturally Healthy Life”.

Wishing You and Your Animals True
Health – from Within

Alison

I wanted to share this great video of Liz Whiter healing camels in the Sinai Dessert – Enjoy!

Have you subscribed to the excellent Dr Andrew Jones and his Emails? Dr Jones is a fantastic Holistic Vet in Canada, who has been brave enough to publicise information about how to heal a pet at home. His E-courses are amazing, and give you information that you can start implementing with your pet at once.

Wishing You and Your Animals True Health – from Within

ALISON

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Is What is Actually Claimed Really True?

Here is a product which does what it says, and there are now nearly a thousand testimonials to back up the claims.

• Help for the Older Dog with Arthritis
• Decreasing the severity of Skin and Ear scratching for those dogs with Allergies and Ear Infections.
• A healthier Gut- potentially decreased incidence of vomiting and diarrhea PLUS a boosted Intestinal Immune System.

Go to http://bit.ly/cCNKhH> to buy Dr Andrew Jones’ dog supplement, or contact me (via the contact form on the bottom of the site) for further advice.

But many companies know that IF you stretch the truth, then you’re more likely to sell your product.

Here is an article which re-inforces my prevailing skepticism of the Pet Food Industry:  Wide Variation in Calorie Content Among ‘Low Calorie’ Pet Foods

P.S.  My advice is to BE a skeptic.

Question EVERYTHING that you hear by marketers, such as those fantastic claims of …Low Calorie and that the ‘Veterinary Approved’ Pet Food is better – OR those of Vaccine Manufacturers which tout the need to have yearly vaccines which are oh so safe.

Here is a product that I endorse, and I encourage you to do your due diligence.

• Check the ingredients.
• Check that it is manufactured in a GMP facility with ‘Human Grade’ Ingredients.
• And that there is 3rd party testing- so that what is ON the label is really in the bottle.

and check out a few of the HUNDREDS of testimonials:

http://bit.ly/cCNKhH

Dr. Andrew Jones

This video explains why doctors such as myself have been so impressed by the USANA products & integrity.

See the NHP Store to see which of these products are beneficial to animals as well.

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Pharmacognosy is the study of chemicals from natural sources for medicinal uses.

Most of such chemicals are derived from plants, and there are plenty to choose from. There are now approximately 250,000 species of flowering plants in the world, and only a small percentage would have been studied for medicinal use.

It is noteworthy that many native cultures have made use of local plant material for promotion of health and treatment of ill-health for many thousands of years. It is important that such local knowledge is not lost.

Having good quality standards for herbal medicine production is crucial in maintaining the good name of herbal medicine, as well as in clinical governance. I always remember that it is paramount as a doctor to “first do no harm”.

As well as being something of interest to me as a doctor, pharmacognosy is extremely useful for helping animals. My good friend, Elizabeth Whiter, who developed and wrote the diploma in animal healing that I started in 2004, uses pharmacognosy to an extremely good effect for a variety of animals, including dogs, cats, horses, and pigs. It is fascinating to watch her at work. Take a look at her book, available in the NHP Store.

The variety of complementary therapies available to us never ceases to amaze me, and we are so lucky to be able to integrate the best of complementary therapies with the best of modern medicine and that they are medicines that are for our own and our animals’ health.

Wishing You and Your Animals True Health – from Within
Dr. Alison Grimston

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Hi,

I would love to share with you this video of the Ukrainian sand artist, Kseniya Simonova, as she portrays, in amazing moving and fluid art, a little of the experiences of people in the Ukraine during the second world war. Truly amazing!

Enjoy this!

Alison

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Hi there, Naturally Healthy Pet Owners!

I just wanted to share this video.

Inspiration can come from many avenues, many sources. I feel inspired many times in the week by the journeys I see my patients (animals and people) travel. I often have terminally ill patients, and they often find their journey difficult, inspiring, releasing, peaceful, or painful. It is different for each person.

Here we have an inspiring video from Lisa, a plucky lady who, haing had breast cancer over the last 8 years, has now been given a terminal prognosis. She has leukaemia, and only has 3 weeks or so to live. Her greatest wish is to run her beloved dog, Diva, in an agility competition one last time. Here they are, doing a spectacular job.

Amazing, aren’t they? The most important thing is that they were able to share one last run, and Diva shows the depth of their connection; she always knows exactly where to go.

Thank you to both Dr Andrew Jones & Dr Jon, the vets who brought this to my attention…

Love & light,

Alison

Hi naturally healthy people,

I received this Email from member Sue Bond early in March, and felt that it would be relevant for those of you who have not already seen it. I do not agree with all of its contents (eg that ADHD is fictitious, many of my patients have benefited from either the diagnosis or the medication), but the content is important.

Love & light

Alison x

Big Pharma has successfully completed its takeover of veterinary medicine in the
United States and other first- world nations. Knowing that massive profits could be generated through the bodies of pets, drug companies have spent two decades pursuing an aggressive campaign of rewriting vet school curricula, influencing veterinarians and brainwashing pet owners into thinking their dogs, cats and horses need drugs in order to be healthy. It was an easy sell: Most consumers already demonstrate a cult-like belief in pharmaceutical medicine thanks to a barrage of direct-to-consumer advertising funded by deep-pocketed drug companies, and it was only a minor shift to get them to believe animals need synthetic chemicals in their bodies, too.

So today, the majority of veterinarians in the United States now practice chemical-based medicine on pets.  At the first sign of any health symptom, they slap the animal with a prescription for expensive, patented pharmaceuticals.  Arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and even depression are now being treated with dangerous prescription medications. Earlier this year, the FDA gave approval for Prozac, a powerful mind-altering drug, to be prescribed to dogs, and many of the most common drugs for people are now routinely used in pets (including chemotherapy drugs for cancer treatment).

(What’s next, Ritalin for puppies? Ten years ago, it would have seemed absurd to diagnose a dog as suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, but today, it’s no more insane than the mass diagnosis of human children with this utterly fictitious disease designed to do one thing: Sell profitable amphetamine drugs to children…)

Pet health is now in rapid decline

The result of all this is that our dogs and cats are sicker than ever. Ask any vet who’s been practicing for more than ten years: They’ve never seen such an increase in the rate of liver disease, nervous system disorders, cancers and diabetes. Ever wonder why? It’s because pets are being routinely poisoned with pet food and pet medicine.

Popular anti-flea and anti-tick medications, all by themselves, are so toxic to the liver of any animal that if they were prescribed to humans, their side effects would make the Vioxx fiasco look like a harmless prank.

The idea of actually feeding your dog such high doses of poison that it ends up in the skin tissues where it kills ticks and fleas should be horrifying to any intelligent pet owner, yet most pet owners just buy what their vet tells them to buy, and they feed one chemical after another to their pets, oblivious to the fact that they’re actually poisoning them. (And then they wonder why their
animals die of cancer a few years later… gee, didn’t anybody connect the dots here?)

Thanks to Big Pharma influence, veterinary medicine today has become just as much of a joke as the conventional medical system used to treat humans. The goal is no longer to actually heal anyone, but rather to profits by treating and managing diseases without curing or preventing them. Many vets have figured this out, too: If they treat the animals with pharmaceuticals instead of actually curing them of disease (or preventing disease), they benefit from lucrative repeat business! And some of the fees charged by vets now — especially in emergency veterinary care — are just as outrageous as fees charged to sick humans in hospitals. I once spent more than $1,000 for a single day of treatment trying to rescue a sick dog, and half of those fees were for bags of saline solution dripped through an IV. $500 for saline solution? Give me a break. I got ripped off and taken advantage of by a pet care clinic that was exploiting pet emergencies for maximum profits. (There are crooks and dishonest practitioners in the pet care industry just
like in the people care industry.)

Holistic animal care practitioners

It is not all bad news, though. Fortunately, there are more holistic practitioners in veterinary medicine than in human medicine, and it’s fairly easy to find a holistic vet in any major city if you look around. The holistic veterinarians understand nutrition, herbs, homeopathy and other natural modalities. They prescribe solutions and treat animals in ways that are outlawed in human medicine (because they actually work). If you care at all about the health of your pets, I strongly urge you to seek out and work with a holistic pet care practitioner who avoids prescribing pharmaceuticals.

Any veterinarian who thinks Fido is depressed and needs antidepressant drugs should frankly have their licensed stripped away and be banished to some distant, isolated South Pacific island overpopulated with sexually aggressive baboons.

The future looks dim for mainstream pet health

When you look at the outrageous toxicity of mainstream pet food, and you combine that with the chemical burden of pharmaceutical medicine, the future of health for pets in America looks rather dim. The pet food being sold at stores — even the so-called “scientific” brands — are mostly crap. Only specialty pet food companies offer genuine food. (My favorites are Azmira and The Honest Kitchen..

The way pets are being treated today by many mainstream veterinarians amounts to nothing less than the chemical abuse of dogs and cats by an industry that has, sadly, exchanged ethics for profits and no longer sees its primary mission as helping improve the quality of life of our animal friends. Personally, I’m outraged by the practice of drugging dogs, cats and other animals with
synthetic chemicals to treat degenerative health conditions, and I think those who promote or follow such practices are engaged in extremely unethical, cruel behaviors that should be criminalized. Just like in the human health care system, nutrition has been thrown out the window and is now replaced with a system of chemical invasion that can only lead to a worsening of the long-term health of the animals exposed to such dangerous treatments.

The proper use of pharmaceuticals

Some chemical medicines do have a limited role in quality veterinary care, however. Painkillers have a useful but narrow role. Antibiotics, although they are widely abused, can be helpful in certain limited situations. But treating dogs with antidepressants, chemotherapy, diabetes drugs, statin drugs, osteoporosis drugs and other such chemical agents is patently absurd. Most pet health conditions can be easily prevented or cured with good nutrition, and more challenging health problems can be cheaply and safely solved with herbal therapies and other naturopathic modalities. There is no scientifically justifiable role in veterinary medicine for the majority of the pharmaceuticals now being pushed onto vets, vet techs, and pet owners.

Even the pet shelters are being influenced by Big Pharma. When I rescued my pet from a local animal shelter, I was given a DVD sponsored by a drug company. It offered to teach me about pet behavior while brainwashing me into thinking I needed to give my dog toxic pills for preventing ticks and fleas. As this simple example demonstrates, even the animal shelters are now in bed with Big Pharma. There’s almost no organization in pet health today that hasn’t been taken over (or strongly influenced) by Big Pharma.

It’s not enough to drug all the sick people in the world, you see. Big Pharma has to invent diseases and drug all the healthy people, too. And then, they have to drug all the children and infants to make sure those little beings are set up for future organ failure, which is even more lucrative for the drug companies later on. And just to drive yet more profits home, they’ve got to drug all the animals. Now the cats, dogs, horses, birds, lizards and other animals are no longer safe from the reach of Big Pharma. Drugs are posing a serious chemical threat to the health of pets.

There is almost no living creature left on this planet that hasn’t been considered a potential revenue source by Big Pharma, and if they could make money drugging all the fish in the ocean, you can bet they’d come up with a fictitious fish disease and find a way to drop little fish pills into the oceans of the world. Profit is the purpose. Health is irrelevant. And your precious pet is only seen as a vehicle for generating profits by an industry that has zero compassion for living beings (human, canine, feline or otherwise). There is no effort to protect life. It is only an effort to protect
(and expand) profits.

What you can do right now

If you’re a pet owner, I urge you to do two things right now:

1) Switch to a healthy, natural, holistic pet food. Read the report, Pet Food Ingredients Revealed to learn the truth about pet food ingredients. And make fresh meals from scratch whenever possible. Pets should not be raised to live on processed foods.

2) Fire your drug-pushing vet and switch to a holistic or naturopathic animal care expert, even if they don’t have the same licensing credentials as the drug-pushing vet. State authorities, you see, are trying to de-license naturopathic vets, and there’s a big effort now to push naturopathic vets out of the industry. Sometimes you have to seek them out yourself and ignore state licensing boards (which are totally owned by Big Pharma, by the way). I’ve found that licensing credentials are essentially useless, and the more credentials some vet has, the more deeply they’re brainwashed into a pharmaceutical approach to veterinary medicine.

If you want a healthy pet, you’ve got to get back to basics: Nutrition, exercise, disease prevention and natural remedies. There is absolutely no rationale that justifies the routine chemical treatment of pets with patented, high-profit pharmaceuticals. Mainstream veterinary medicine, as practiced today, is a cruel, exploitive industry that ultimate causes significant harm to the very animals we should be trying to save.

Don’t be suckered by the “miracle pill” sales pitch. Dogs, cats and horses don’t need meds. What they need is great nutrition and medicine from nature.

Just like people.

3. Take matters into your own hands. Whether or not you use a holistic Vet- question their advice. Then be aware of all of the treatment options.

4. Get yourself educated on Natural Pet Health Care.

5. Vary your pet’s diet- some Raw, some Home-Made and Kibble. Add in a quality supplement.

6. Spend time being with your Dog and Cat. We all too often forget the more important mental aspect of health.

7. The Vaccine thing again.. as little as infrequently as possible!!

Mike Adams of www.naturalnews.com

Hi Everyone!

It is with great regret that I write to announce the
death of the spectacular UK Healer, Bill Harrison, on
21st April 2008.  The following is an Email that I
received from his family.

Love & light
Alison x

A funeral service for Bill Harrison will be held on Thursday May 1st 2008 at 11:30am at the Weston-Super-Mare crematorium. Followed by refreshments at the Hand Stadium
in Clevedon. The family have asked for family flowers  only and donations to Bill’s favourite charities.

Remembrance Ceremony: The family are planning a memorial service to be held in Bill’s Gardens on the 13th July 2008 (times to be arranged). This will be a celebration of Bill’s life and many achievements.

Sean, Steve, Donna, Gemma, William, Connor and Charlie would like to say that they really appreciate all the messages that have been sent via Bill’s website.

When more information is available on the remembrance ceremony, details will be posted at
http://www.billharrisonshealingweekend.co.uk

You are what you eat and in the case of many North Americans it’s not a pretty picture… In days gone by, dogs and cats survived on prey that they hunted. Cats seldom drank water as most moisture came from the dead bird or mouse. Dogs chewed on bones and in the process kept their teeth clean. Pets have moved from the wilderness to the living room. They now wait (or demand) that we humans feed them. They feast on ready to eat packaged foods, and in some cases this may be harming your pet.

Some symptoms of less than natural diets include: bad breath, itchy skin, dull dry coats, and intestinal gas. A common disease that can be attributed to diet is diabetes in cats. Commercial pet food does not always provide all of the nutrients that some dogs and cats need to be healthy at different times in their lives. This food also contains things that your pet doesn’t need, such as chemical additives and preservatives. An example of a preservative that is commonly found is propylene glycol. It is used to keep moist pet foods fresh. It has been linked to anemia and bloat.

One of the single most important things you can do for your pet’s health is to feed a more natural diet. I have seen natural diets improve allergies, arthritis, diabetes, chronic vomiting and diarrhea.

If you are to use a commercial food, here are some tips to check for quality:

1. Ingredients are listed in descending order. The first ingredient should be an animal based protein.

2. The entire protein should be listed first. Avoid foods that list by-products. Avoid those that list the food fractions – i.e. wheat middlings or corn gluten instead of the whole grain. These ingredients are leftovers from the human food processing and don’t provide the best nutrition.

3. Look for natural preservatives. These include Vitamin C( ascorbic acid) Vitamin E and mixed tocopherols. Avoid ethoxyquin, BHA, BHT and propylene glycol.

4. Avoid foods with artificial flavor enhancers, such as phosphoric acid.

5. Avoid artificial colors. These include azo, azo dyes, and sodium nitrite.

6. Essential fatty acids must be added – of utmost importance for allergies, arthritis and cancer prevention.

7. Additional antioxidants, such as Vit E, Vit C and flavanoids.

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Dr. Andrew Jones has over one thousand at-home remedies in his book and Home Study Course. There are no other comparable Veterinary books or Veterinary Courses out there. Veterinary Secrets Revealed will provide all the information you need to keep your pet healthy or to improve the health of a sick pet.

And, Veterinary Secrets Revealed does it without medical jargon, without complicated procedures, and without an eye on the pharmaceutical companies’ bottom line (yes, we Vets face the same pressures as human doctors.)

Veterinary Secrets Revealed will help your pet.

One of Dr. Jones’ BONUSES is called: Healing Your Pet with Food, he gives you a number of at-home recipes. To order, go to: http://www.thenaturallyhealthypet.com/categories/20080112_1