Flagyl - Metronidazole | Short

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Hello everyone. Welcome to another edition of our beloved shorts. So these are just little biteable episodes that you can share with your family and friends, dog loving friends, that is, and you know, possibly cat loving friends. I'm not sure. We are going to answer one question today and then I'm going to have a little rant about flagyl and antibiotics just to put, you know, just to give you a little hint of what today's episode's going to be about, I want to thank our sponsor of our shorts, Earth Buddy. So their website is earthbuddypet.com they are a family owned hemp CBD business that is delighting us with their sponsorship. So check their website out, earthbuddypet.com. remember, my sponsors are the reason why I'm here. So go see their website, check out their stuff. They have a lovely 20% off discount for my listeners. And it's herbal buddy 20, herbal buddy two zero, all lowercase altogether. Herbal buddy 20. 20% off their products. 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Just saying everything that you put in your body, you put in your dog's body affects your body. So potassium sorbate. Super not excited about that. But is it horrible? No, it's not. Now, sorbet vine comes from, I believe, Mexico or South America, and I am not familiar with that. It's not in my repertoire of herbs. Then there's Plantanus, and there's many species of Plantanus. So it doesn't say this like, it doesn't say, like, if it's oriental. Plane tree. Plantanus is Latin for plane plane tree. So I'm not sure what plane tree it is. Like, I have actually personally used plane tree, so I would need to know kind of what species of plane that is. But it's 1,000 milligrams of each. You know, see if it works for your dog. Again, not too excited about the inert ingredients. But if your dog doesn't have any, like, food issues or sensitivities, and you know, you've started this chew, nothing's going on. You could give it a try. You know, you could give it a try. I would try to get at the. I would look at the root cause of the anxiety of your dog. Okay? And remember, we always want to check ourselves because our dogs feed off our energy, and when we're stressed, they're stressed. So just kind of look at, okay, why is my dog stressed in the first place? And try to deal with it systemically and work with your dog's organ systems to calm everything down, including their nervous system. So that's my feedback on that, Lily. I Can't give you too much information. I would ask what species that Plantanus bark is, and then you could. You could write in again and let me know. Okay. Thanks for writing into the podcast. So I was doing a reread of the Forever Dog by Rodney Habib and Dr. Karen Shaw Becker. Great book. I would buy a copy for almost any dog owner that you know. Actually, everyone. It would be a good book for. It's actually, it should be on the shelf. So one of the things that I think is the most important in this book and relevant to today's dogs, with all the gut problems and all of the itching and scratching and dealing with dysbiosis, which is basically saying that your dog's microbiome is not balanced and it's more leaning towards the negative side. And they do point out in here that it happens silently and with no outward symptoms until there is a systemic immunologic reaction. So true. But what I want to point out is I want to read you a part of this book that I need everyone to get because it's so important. On page 170 of the Forever Dog, they mention glyphosate residues and mycotoxins and things like that. And those are another conversation because this is a short. I want to. We have to make it short. So today, this is what I want you to get. So there is a antibiotic called metronidazole. Some people call it Metrodazinol, and you can call it by its short name, Flagyl. I'm just gonna call it Flagyl. This is a prescription that gets kind of handed out like candy. And your dog can have a little bit of loose stool or diarrhea. You can bring it into your vet's office or a vet's office, maybe not your vet's office. And the vet is going to prescribe as a standard of care, Flagyl. Okay, Metronidazole. Anyways, here's the thing about it. It messes up the gut immensely and it messes up your dog's ability to process and digest protein. To quote the Forever Dog, flagyl kills fusel bacteria, the bacteria dogs need to digest protein. And opportunistic pathogens are allowed to take hold. I'm going to repeat that. Opportunistic pathogens are allowed to take hold. I have been preaching this about Flagyl for the last decade because Flagyl, although it saved my life, it caused a ton of inflammation, food sensitivities, and affected basically my thyroid, my liver. I'm grateful that it saved my life. Don't get me wrong. And for me, like I've said before, don't give antibiotics unless your dog is going to die, unless they're gonna save your life. And then you have to work hard at cleaning up the mess. And a lot of people don't realize just how hard you have to work. Rodney and Karen, Dr. Becker point out that it creates irritable bowel syndrome. And again, it drops the levels of fusobacteria in the gut, which are responsible for dealing with proteins. And this basically increases filamentous bacteria, which are also described as fb. And this whole process can trigger the epigenetic expression of interleukin C6 and other. Wait for it. Inflammatory pathways that create systemic inflammation in the body. Going to say it again. This can trigger the epigenetic expression of interleukin 6 and the other inflammatory pathways that create systemic inflammation in the body. It turns on the genetic expression of. Of inflammation markers, genetic markers in the body. It can also trigger the epigenetic upregulation of the TH17 gene, folks. This is the gene that turns on dermatitis, atopic dermatitis, and other inflammatory skin conditions. I find this so fascinating. And I, you know, having experienced myself, wow, I can't tell you in clinic how many people come to me and their dog has gotten so many rounds of flagyl and other antibiotics. Even like, you know, well, my dog got that three years ago. It doesn't matter. You have to work hard at clearing that up. We have to turn off those genetic expressions, those epigenetic expressions for inflammation. And that involves detoxification and cleaning the genes with diet and supplements and increasing IgA in the gut and glycocalyx. Without IgA and glycocalyx, good levels. Commensal bacteria, which are good bacteria, cannot adhere to the gut wall. And what does flagyl do? It plummets the levels of glycocalyx and IgA in the gut. So this is what I want you to know on this short, okay? If your dog has had Flagyl or other antibiotics, but we're talking about Flagyl, you have to repair the gut, okay? And you can look at my website, canineherbalist.com, go under shop, you'll see digital downloads. There's an antibiotic recovery document there that I think it's like $10, and you can check that out and get on. On the way of repairing the gut. It's so important to the overall health of your dog. And we want good protein breakdown because if undigested proteins are allowed to proliferate. That causes an immune system response and an immune system cascade which can lead to leaky gut and food sensitivities and allergens. I hope you enjoyed this short A little rant, a little rave, a little question answering and I'm gonna be back next week or on the next episode of this podcast, Dogs Are Individuals. So write in and ask your questions. Visit our sponsors earthbuddypet.com thanks for listening to this episode of Dogs Are Individuals. 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