CBD, Mushrooms + More Natural Strategies to Fight Hemangiosarcoma in Dogs | Short

Hi, this is Rita Hogan and welcome to the Dogs Are Individuals podcast. I'm a clinical canine herbalist and I've been practicing for over 20 years. This podcast is all about your dog through an herbal lens. So let's get to it and dive right in.

Hey, I hope you guys are having a good week. This is one of our short shorty short shorts and a pretty interesting one. So I want to get to it. But first I want to thank my sponsor. Green juju. Went to Super Zoo this past. Oh, I got it was. I think it's over a week ago, but went to Super Zoo. Hung out at the Green juju booth. Kelly and Billy are awesome and I learned a lot about green juju while I was there. More than I thought thought was possible. So that was fun. Still didn't get my hands on some of that fermented mushroom probiotic. I really need to try that. I want to try it with my dog, Gertie. I also am excited about their frozen large dog boxes because I have large dogs and I would like to intermittently feed grain juju to them throughout the week. And as a supplemental food, I'm kind of excited about that too. So I will let you know how that goes. But check out green juju green juju.com and wherever you purchase your dog food, I carry freeze dried green juju because I have a small store and I can't ship frozen at this time. So I carry the treats and the greens and the freeze dried food. Okay, so let's get into this. So we are talking about hemangiosarcoma today, which we all know sucks balls. Okay. Hemangiosarcoma is a cancer of the blood vessels. And it can be on the skin, it can be subcutaneous, which is right under the skin, and it can also end up on organs like the spleen, which is very a very popular place for hemangiosarcoma. And I'm not gonna get into the specifics of hemangiosarcoma. You can totally google that, you know what it is, what your natural treatments are and stuff like that. But this is a short, so it's just gonna give you a little taste of what's possible with hemangiosarcoma. So I've worked with a lot of dogs that have have lived a long time with harmangiosarcoma, and there's a couple of things that are really good for it. One of those things is cbd. And CBD is definitely a part of most of my hermangiosarcoma protocols, you can use a. I would definitely use a high milligram cbd. So if you had an extra small dog, I would probably use like a 3 to 600 and work with the dose. Same goes for a small dog, a medium dog. I would Definitely use the 1200 one. 1100, 1200. I have CBD in my store. There is Earth Buddy and then there is CBD Dog Health. Those are three that do well. There's also source cbd, so check some of those out. I'm going to be bringing Earth Buddy CBD into the store in a month or so, so I'll let you know when that happens. I'm excited to work with Sean again. He was our sponsor for a long time, bringing some of some other stuff from his line into the store too. I got motivated at Super Zoo, so bringing some new fun, fun stuff into my wee Little store. So CBD, that's one thing. Then another thing is CoQ10 or Umbiquidol. So definitely would be giving your dog CoQ10 or Umbiquidol, one or the other to help protect the heart and the blood vessels. So remember it's a cancer of the blood vessels and so you want to support the lymphatic system, which is a different podcast, and support the blood vessels and there's so many ways you can do that. Now one of the popular medicines out there or herbal medicines that I have not used with hemangiosarcoma is something called Graveola and it's Annona mercada is its Latin name. It's known as soursop. It's like a tropical green fruit and it's very anti inflammatory, it helps with blood vessels, it. It lowers blood sugar and it's been known to kill cancer cells and definitely anti tumor. Sometimes it can cause digestive upset so you wanna work with the dosage there. But it is an option. You could check that out again. I'm not very familiar with it. I have not used it. So the things that I use for hemangiosarcoma I use yarrow. Yarrow helps with bleeding, internal bleeding, it definitely helps re. Like not reconfigure but strengthen the capillary bed, the blood vessel bed, it helps move blood, it helps regulate blood and it helps clean blood. So anything that helps clean the blood, filter the blood and help regulate the blood is going to be good. For hemangiosarcoma and yarrow herb is wonderful for that. I use a mixture of the tincture and the phytoembryonic and I carry Both in my store. I mean, I would say as maintenance, if you have an extra small dog, I would use probably two drops of each. And then for a small dog, I'd probably use four to five drops of each. And I would probably give that three to four times a week. And then for a medium dog, five to eight, large dog, like six to 10, and an extra large dog, maybe eight to 12 to 15 drops twice daily in the mouth, preferably before eating, mixed with a little water for taste. And yeah, so yarrow, lovely. Another thing. And that's definitely for treating hemangiosarcoma as well and helping your dog not bleed out. Now there is Yunnan Baiyao that a lot of people use for bleeds. And I can't really speak to it. I'm not a TCM herbalist, but I have used it. I've worked with practitioners in the past and vets that have used it and they find it very effective. But you can find a lot of information online about Jung and baiyao. Another really effective herbal remedy for hemangiosarcoma and preventing hemangiosarcoma is turkey tail mushroom. And that's Coriolis versicolor. Wonderful anti tumor remedy. It's really good at preventing tumor based cancers. You want to give it in a little higher dosages than normal. Extra small dog, maybe 500 milligrams twice a day. Small dog, one gram twice a day. Medium dog, two grams twice a day. Large dogs, three grams twice a day. And extra large dog, four to six grams twice a day. And you know, you can cut those in half, those dosages in half for prevention. But if your dog has hemangiosarcoma, you wanna give what's called a material dose. Okay, a material dose. I kind of sound like I've been smoking. I'm not sure what that's all about, but yeah, I have it. I have it. So another mushroom with the same dosages is tiger mushroom. Tiger milk mushroom. That's another really good mushroom. I tend to get mine at a company called Nootropics. Nu N O O T R O P I C S But be very careful. Don't buy this mushro on Amazon. It's an eastern mushroom, so it's a little more difficult to get. I don't know of it being cultivated in the United States. Yes, but yet. But it's a very good mushroom for prevention and during treatment of hemangiosarcoma, especially with the cardiac and the lungs component. And then like heart related. Another good mushroom, same dosages is maitake. It's a very good heart based hemangiosarcoma remedy. It's a good adjunct. It's cooling. Turkey tail's pretty neutral. And then for dogs that are cool, reishi and shiitake mixed together, lovely can be added with turkey tail. So those are some mushrooms from hemangiosarcoma. And definitely you can cycle those mushrooms throughout your dog's diet. For the prevention of Herman's earsarcoma, one of the things that you need to do is reduce inflammation in your dog's body, okay? And there's this little pathway called the NRF2. And you really want to activate that pathway. And some of the ways that you can do that is one, is ozone therapy definitely good. If your dog is prone to a hemangiosarcoma or has hemangiosarcoma, I definitely would recommend ozone therapy. And then in the prevention space and the treatment space, broccoli sprouts are a really good source of what's called sulforane. And I always. I'm sure I didn't pronounce that right. So you know, again, apologies but S U L F O R A P H A N E And it really helps with cell damage. So which, you know, can. It also can cause cancer cell death. It helps stop the blood vessels in tumors from forming, which is really important. It helps inhibit metastasis, which is spreading. Okay, so that's really good. The carniferous vegetables in general, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, you know, cycle those in and out of the diet. I wouldn't feed them daily, but I definitely would use different sources daily. Another remedy that I really like is mistletoe. Okay. It's a phytoembryonic therapy. It helps prevent metasis, it helps cancer cell death. I use a phytoembryonic again, mistletoe viscum album. It really helps stabilize the blood vessel bed. It reduces the blood supply to the tumors. So that's a really good one. And I'm going to have an elongated hemangiosarcoma episode. So don't freak out. This is just a little one in case you're dealing with it right now. Another one is tamarisk phytoembryonic therapy. It is awesome because it has a ton of amino acids in it, essential and non essential, lots of macro minerals and trace minerals. And those are very important, important. It's an anti inflammatory, it's an antioxidant, it purifies the blood, it modulates the immune system. And I like to mix it with burdock root as a blood purifier and also with a little sweet chestnut for the lymphatic component. So tamarisk phytoembryonic therapy. I carry that in my store mixed with burdock and sweet chestnut phytoembryonic therapy. And then I really love milk thistle phytoembryonic therapy. It's different than regular milk thistle, but it really helps with a high toxic level, which is a case for all cancers. It helps with inflammation, liver weakness, liver toxicity definitely supports the pancreas and the kidneys and weakness in the digestive tract. So I love the milk thistle phyto phytoembryonic therapy. And then, you know, feeding raw goat's milk or cow's milk is great for nutrition when there's hemangiosarcoma. And that, you know, is our little tiny, short, short pieces of advice for hemangiosarcoma. But if I had to pick one of those, I would pick yarrow phytoembryonic therapy. I also would definitely feed a ketogenic diet and help keep my dog's stress down. Hemangiosarcoma is a bitch. It's. It's a rough one. And definitely finding new and innovative ways to help elongate the longevity of these dogs that are prone to it and also that have hemangiosarcoma.

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