Aug 24, 2026 · 33 min · 11 segments
Are antibiotics creating a bigger problem for our pets? In this episode, we take a closer look at antibiotic resistance in dogs and cats through a holistic pet health perspective. Antibiotics can be…
Jessica LevyHost
Melissa WeidenhamerHostThe antibiotics aren't the ones that are actually ultimately doing the work.
It's your immune system that has to do the work once it gets kind of some of these bad bacteria out of the way.
And so when you realize that's this kind of cyclical thing where it's like, oh, so it's the immune system in the first place anyway.
I am Melissa Weidenhammer and I'm here with Dr. Jessica Levy and we want to discuss what happens when antibiotics don't work anymore.
This is becoming a bigger and bigger problem in the human world and the dog world for that matter, not even just the dog world or the veterinary world.
And what is happening is it's really kind of shooting everyone in the foot is what's happening with the use of antibiotics.
We want to break it down and really talk about and bring some awareness to the overuse and the problems that that causes with why is it that when people are of a more holistic mindset, do they really try not to use antibiotics? There's actually a few reasons for that.
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