Holistic Pet Health: Food, Energy & Natural Healing | Dr. Jeff Feinman

I just want to touch on, because one of them with the, if they want to eat, let them eat, but the What if you have a dog that needs to be on a diet because he's eating too much? You know, like he's been eating the wrong food for so long.

He's getting too much weight.

It's not healthy for him to eat like that, even though he wants to, or she wants to.

Like, is there a, I guess, would that just be solved simply by just switching them over to the healthier food and then just letting it go or?

Yeah, it often is.

But the answer, I think, is to find the mindful middle.

In other words, to assess that dog that you mentioned, the overweight dog, not just say, oh, I'm going to feed him a lot of food, but fresh food.

may or may not still be overweight and have the same problems but rather to assess the overall lifestyle and maybe they need enrichment or food or those things but yes a fresh switching to fresh food alone often solve the problem dogs will lose weight given brush and raw food versus say kibble it's full of carbohydrates raw food isn't

now should you cook the dog's food because i've been back and forth on that one like some places they'll say like it's got to be only raw food and then i tried that for a while with my dog but like some days he would eat the chicken some days he wouldn't then if i cooked it he always eats it you know it was one of those like i'm not sure obviously fresh is still better than kibble but You know, if you look at animals in the wild, they always eat raw, but I'm not sure if just because they got domesticated, then maybe just raw isn't great for their stomach sometimes.

Yeah.

Going back to simplicity, I've tried to break it all down to vitality.

And that's why the two words on that post are being in vitality.

When we look at the vitality level of foods, we've got the hydrolyzed foods at the bottom that the body doesn't even recognize as foods.

They are raw food.

It's the top.

Mm-hmm.

Just build on vitality and the energy as we go upscale.

So hydrolyzed, dry, wet, canned, freeze-dried, air-dried.

So fresh is up there.

Whether you cook it, whether you give it raw, whether you pan sear it, it really depends on you and what would work for you, Jeremy.

There are a lot of families with young kids that really do not feel comfortable eating raw food.

I say just cook food.

Or get one of the many cooked foods on the market if you don't have time to even do

that.

There's a lot of them out there, a lot of freeze-dried foods.