Gary Brecka discusses why pets are getting sicker: over half are overweight or obese, 80% of indoor cats experience high stress, and dog cancer rates are 1.6 cases per two dogs. Pets live shorter lives than they did in the 1970s. Modern veterinary care excels at crisis management but misses prevention, and some interventions may actually cause chronic inflammation.
We are literally going backwards in longevity. Over 50% of the pets in this country are overweight or obese. Cats that live inside, over 80% of them are highly stressed. The cancer incidence in dogs is 1.6 out of every 2. If we look at our animals in the 1970s, they were living longer.
It reminds me of what's going on in our modern healthcare system. I mean, diagnostic CT scans, Scans, MRIs, full-body MRIs. We've made leaps and bounds in diagnostic capabilities, and I would argue that we're probably the best at crisis management, right? Yes. If you have a catastrophic event—
Yes.
We're extraordinarily good at saving your life.
And now we have better diagnostic capabilities, supposedly better treatment capabilities, except many of those are actually causing a lot of harm. Literally just chronic inflammation in our pets. We're doing everything wrong, and we need to start making changes.
