E355- Why Your Dog Is ALWAYS Itchy (And How To Stop It!) - Melissa Natanson CHPHC, CPCN
No Bad Dogs Podcast
Tom Davis
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 134 minutes
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Summary
Tom speaks with Melisa Natanson. Melissa Natanson is a Certified Holistic Pet Health Coach (HPHC) and a professional Canine Nutritionist at Legacy Biome. She is known for her expertise in gut health and her personal journey with her dog Darla, who suffered from severe health issues linked to gut dysbiosis. Melissa's approach to pet health involves using a holistic perspective, including herbs and food therapy, to support digestion and reduce inflammation. She emphasizes the importance of addressing the entire body as a system rather than just treating symptoms.
Here are the supplements Melissa recommends:
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1.Vital Nutrients- Digest Ease (Note this is a human supplement but safe for dogs!). This contains the licorice, marshmallow, L-Glutamine and Aloe Vera https://www.walmart.com/ip/Vital-Nutrients-Heartburn-Tx-Vegetarian-218-Grams/146598106?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=5442&sourceid=dsn_msft_fead0442-95ce-4933-b538-b3c77293bf8b&veh=dsn&wmlspartner=dsn_msft_fead0442-95ce-4933-b538-b3c77293bf8b&cn=00k9_fy27_mp_mp_lo_int_dis_mpmax&wl9=&wl11=Online&msclkid=34b65791727c122186323e54236bfd8f&sid=a44fa77b-4009-4458-b625-2bf56b392b96
Digest Ease Powder -contains nutrients to reduce inflammation in the intestines, and the raw materials to help healthy new enterocytes (cells of the intestine) grow and restore normal gut function. https://drruthroberts.com/hy5u8x
To support cats and dogs under 10 pounds, add 1/8 tsp to a meal one or 2 times a day
For Dogs up to 25 pounds, 1/4 tsp 2 times a day
25- 50 pounds 1/2 tsp 2 times a day
50-75 pounds 3/4 tsp 2 times a day
75 pounds and up 1 tsp 2 times a day
2.Standard Process Canine or Feline Enteric Support (following bottle dosing)
3. Gut Ion
4. L- Glutamine. RX Vitamins makes one called Glucamune.
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Melisa's Podcast! https://www.youtube.com/@LegacyBiome
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| 0:00.0 | So with Burley's report in particular, some of these short chain fatty acid producing bacteria |
| 0:07.0 | were really low. |
| 0:08.9 | And so inflammation in the gut, leaky gut, one of the first places we see it is the skin. |
| 0:16.2 | Why is that? |
| 0:17.3 | Because skin is our largest organ. |
| 0:19.8 | So whenever I see an itchy dog, I don't ever think |
| 0:22.9 | allergies. I think gut imbalance. Okay. Welcome to the No Bad Dogs podcast. And guys, if you're |
| 0:36.3 | joining us either audio or even video, Melissa and I are just talking about my dog Burley, which most of you guys know and are familiar with. |
| 0:47.2 | And it's led me down this deep, deep rabbit hole of wanting to know more. |
| 0:53.2 | And also just, you know, really getting into |
| 0:55.8 | why dog owners don't know more about their dogs gut biome and their skin and their diets |
| 1:04.3 | and their nutrition, which then could lead to behavioral things like gut microbiome and what they eat is now being linked with anxiety |
| 1:15.0 | and reactivity and aggression. And so I'm really excited to dive down this rabbit hole. And |
| 1:20.3 | Melissa and I were just talking before we started the record. And so that's why I just was |
| 1:24.4 | like, all right, let's just hit record so we can jump right into it. We're talking about Burley. But Burley is, well, why don't we just, why don't you introduce yourself first and then we'll get back into our conversation? Well, it's, it's so nice to like see you and hang out and that we get to have this chit chat on here. So pleasure to meet you. Thanks so much for having me because this is the rabbit hole. I always |
| 1:44.5 | like to go down. I can kind of tend to nerd out here when it comes to the micromyal. So I'm |
| 1:48.9 | going to try to keep it a little bit on the surface. But I'm Melissa Tansen. I am a certified |
| 1:53.2 | professional, Canada nutritionist and certified holistic health coach. I've got a lot of education, |
| 1:58.6 | but more importantly, my biggest education. Like you, |
| 2:01.9 | Tom, was my dog Darla. And she was 15 years of Ivy League type status. And I learned more about |
| 2:09.9 | the microbiome than I probably ever wanted to. But now, like you, my goal is to look at the microbiome, look what's going on, look what it's connected to, and digest the science and get it back out to parents in a way that they can understand. |
| 2:28.2 | Because like you said, I think so often pet parents don't always connect the microbiome to everything that's going on with the |
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