109: Dr. Karen Becker - Ultimate Pet Health: The Best Diet For Your Dog Or Cat • Alternatives To Traditional Spaying And Neutering (Part 1 of 2)
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2016
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Karen Becker is a proactive and integrative wellness veterinarian. Her approach seeks to save you and your pet from unnecessary stress and suffering by identifying and removing health obstacles before disease occurs. Karen works with Dr. Mercola, providing cutting edge holistic pet information over on his website, Healthy Pets.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The best diet for dogs and cats
- How to easily reduce your dogs risk of cancer by 90%
- Aim for optimal nutrition for your pets, not the minimum
- It's good to rotate animal proteins
- How to make your own raw pet food at home
- Foods to never feed your dog or cat
- Every bite of dry kibble contains carcinogens
- Pathogens in raw food vs. dehydrated raw food
- How to slow down pets that gulp their food
- Can cats and dogs thrive on a vegan or vegetarian diet?
- The health issues related to early spaying and neutering
- Consider the ovary sparing technique or a vasectomy instead of traditional spaying and neutering
Related links:
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Follow Dr. Karen Becker on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Healthy Pets with Dr. Karen Becker on Mercola.com
Dr. Karen Becker - Dr. Becker's Real Food for Healthy Dogs and Cats (book)
Natural Pet Productions - no longer available
Mercola.com Parsemus Foundation
Related episodes:
110: Dr. Karen Becker – Ultimate Pet Health: Vaccines, Supplements, & Oral Care (Part 2 of 2)
082: Natasha Knutson – Next Level Pet Health | Superfoods For Super Dogs | Pets Aging Gracefully
187: Focus Friday – Ultimate Dog Health
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and is Dr. Karen Becker a proactive and integrative wellness vet. |
| 0:24.4 | Her approach seeks to save you and your pet from unnecessary stress and suffering |
| 0:29.0 | by identifying and removing health obstacles even before disease occurs. |
| 0:33.7 | Karen works with Dr. Mercola providing cutting-edge holistic pet |
| 0:37.8 | information over on his website Healthy Pets. |
| 0:41.7 | So if you have a pet or you're thinking of getting a pet, maybe you have a friend or family |
| 0:46.0 | member that has a dog or cat or they're thinking of getting one, this interview is for you. |
| 0:52.0 | Dr. Karen Becker Becker with all the research |
| 0:54.1 | Marnie and I have done when we got our little dog Goji. |
| 0:57.6 | She is the best of the best when it comes |
| 0:59.8 | to holistic pet care, and you guys are in |
| 1:02.2 | for a really great interview. |
| 1:04.0 | So before we get into things with Dr. Karen Becker, I'm going to give a shout out to our show |
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| 1:18.0 | sweating a lot, we're thirsty, and we need to build back up our minerals. |
| 1:22.4 | So all you need to do back up our minerals. |
| 1:22.9 | So all you need to do is put a capful of minerals |
| 1:26.0 | into your water. |
| 1:27.2 | It's a great way to hydrate, |
| 1:28.6 | especially if you're drinking filtered water like RO |
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