290: Nourishing Pet Food
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Why does our dog have bad breath? Why do so many pets have digestive issues and even cancer? What's going on? Billy Hoekman, the Nutrition Science Director for Answers Pet Food, discusses the role that diet plays in pet health. Just as with people, animals could benefit from a dietary overhaul that leads back to what suits their constitution best.
Billy goes over the ingredients in most pet food, and explains how pet food labels don't tell the entire story. He covers why a raw diet is preferable over kibble. And he gives concrete tips for how to transition pets to a more suitable diet to cultivate good health and avoid disease.
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| 0:00.0 | When most kibbles are made, they're full of things called like chicken meal, right? |
| 0:04.3 | A lot of people think, like, well, that's just meat with the moisture removed. |
| 0:06.8 | Well, not really, that's meat that's cooked so much that it becomes a powder. |
| 0:11.1 | So imagine the high temperature processing |
| 0:13.2 | of those ingredients and now putting that into a dough |
| 0:15.9 | and processing them again at extremely high temperatures. |
| 0:19.7 | So by the end of the product, |
| 0:21.1 | you have so little nutrition that you have to spray it with synthetic |
| 0:24.0 | vitamins which don't work or even can aggravate the things like the kidney and |
| 0:28.8 | and elimination organs and so imagine only eating that and that's all you get for the rest of your life. |
| 0:35.0 | From the Westen A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast for Wise Traditions |
| 0:46.4 | in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts. |
| 0:49.2 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. |
| 0:54.0 | Hey, Hilda here. What do raw milk, kambuja, and fermented fish stock have in common? |
| 1:08.0 | Not only are these foods great for us, they are excellent for nourishing our pets as well. |
| 1:13.0 | This is episode 290 and our guest today is Billy Hookman, |
| 1:17.0 | the nutrition science director for Answers Pet Food. |
| 1:20.0 | He is involved in the formulation and research of pet nutrition. |
| 1:25.0 | He specializes in developing diets that pertain to specific disease conditions. |
| 1:30.0 | Today Billy speaks to us about the benefits of feeding our pets an ancestral diet. |
| 1:34.7 | He talks about why our pets are so sick these days, with issues ranging from bad breath to cancer. |
| 1:41.8 | He discusses the differences he's seen between dogs that are fed kibble |
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