927: Raising Healthy Pets in an Unhealthy World with Victoria Field

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.8 • 11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2018

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin speak with Victoria Field about the necessity of diet for raising healthy and healing sick animals.

Raising Healthy Pets in an Unhealthy World with Victoria Field

The fitness connection she shares with Mind Pump. (4:40)
What could she do to make a difference in her dog’s life? How she took what she learned from going through her fitness/health journey to her pets. (7:56)
How many dogs are in the facility? (11:29)
What are they finding through the research at Keto Pet? (13:21)
Was Keto Pet an established association before she linked up with them? (14:55)
What does a Keto diet for a dog look like? (17:22)
Are we seeing a rise in pet cancers? (20:57)
Are there common shady practices she sees in the pet food industry? (23:30)
Is she getting any veterinary support or push back? (25:00)
Are they using fasting with dogs? (27:00)
What kinds of antidote and feedback are they getting from people? (29:31)
What does the cost look like? (31:05)
Are they looking at alternative treatments besides Keto? (32:30)
The ground breaking brain cancer research they are finding through pilot studies (35:45)
What dog food brands does she recommend/stay away from? (38:45)
Is there are target number of ketones they are looking for with the dogs they are treating? (40:30)
How do people at home check their dog’s ketone levels? (42:12)
What negative effects do they see with animals who have levels over the limit? (43:50)
Why every dog’s threshold is different and the importance of testing. (45:17)
Do dogs get the ‘Keto flu’ as well? (47:36)
What types of services does Keto Pet supply? (48:58)
Any tips for people with cats? (50:53)
Have they helped enough dogs to see patterns in certain breeds? (51:54)
Do they recommend people feed their animal’s organic food? (55:27)
Are they finding that their dogs do not want to eat as much on the Keto diet? (56:06)
Any changes in mood/energy/anxiety? (57:51)
The focus on education and furthering research. (59:53)
How are they funded? (1:00:30)
Do they recommend an exercise protocol to go along with the Keto diet? (1:01:17)
The need to start the conversation around the Keto diet and its overall benefits. (1:01:57)
Are there situations where the Keto diet is not a good option for your dog? (1:05:12)
Has she changed the way she eats based on the research she has found? (1:07:02)
Have they researched dog’s lipid profiles? (1:13:14)
How are they spreading the message of Keto Pet and education on how food affects us metabolically? (1:16:10)
Her take on the ‘vegan pet movement’? (1:21:18)

Featured Guest/People Mentioned:

Victoria Adelus Field (@victoria_field_) Instagram
KetoPet (@ketopet) Instagram
Keto Pet - Human-Grade Cancer Therapy for Dogs
Keto Pet Non-Profit
Metabolic Health Summit

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Transcript

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0:00.0	If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.
0:06.0	Mite, op, mite, op with your hosts.
0:09.0	Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.
0:13.0	You know, a little while ago, we were having some conversations around pet health on the podcast.
0:19.0	It was like part of one of the intros of our, yeah, one of our Q&A episodes.
0:23.0	And we were speculating on like cancer rates and illness rates amongst pets and how we thought that they may be going up.
0:31.0	And so I went home and did a bunch of research.
0:34.0	And I was shocked at how little information there is on this.
0:38.0	Like I couldn't figure out.
0:39.0	There was nowhere where I could find cancer rates for dogs and how they've been training or changing.
0:44.0	Couldn't find much at all.
0:46.0	But I did find somebody who is a part of these studies working with pets where they're utilizing the ketogenic diet to treat cancers and manage cancers.
1:01.0	And so we have somebody coming on the show or somebody on the show that you're here is talking to who does this stuff.
1:07.0	Her name is Victoria Field. Great conversation.
1:09.0	What?
1:10.0	What a treat. I actually was not ready for that conversation.
1:15.0	And how neat was it that we didn't even know her affiliation with the IFBB and how she competed and that kind of led her down this path of diving into nutrition.
1:27.0	She has a lot of the same contacts as us, Tom, Bill, you and you know, question nutrition and Dom De Agostino.
1:35.0	So yes, she was a very sharp intelligent guess. It was great.
1:40.0	Yeah, so she was a part of the keto pet sanctuary, which was this where they saved some animals, about 40 of them.
1:48.0	And then they used the ketogenic diet to see how it would help these animals.
1:53.0	And they found that it did help quite a few of them.
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