Yeast + Enzymes | 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.

Hi, everyone, this is Rita Hogan, and we are doing another short. So I had someone write into the podcast and ask about feeding dogs with yeast. Okay. It is a big subject, and Mary, who wrote into the podcast, said that there's a lot of conflicting opinions about yeast and what to do. I can only give you my opinion. You know, do your research, see what feels good for you. You know, I think results are kind of where it's at with yeast. And for me, this, like, I'm going to speak to raw diets first. I am a raw feeder. I feed raw meat to my dogs and my cats. I feel pretty good about that. And I myself don't eat a lot of meat. It depends on, like, where I'm at with my life and what I need to do with my body and how I'm healing or recovering or maintaining. But for my dogs and any dogs that I work with that have yeast, I'm going to most likely recommend that they remove carbohydrate out of their dog's diet, especially starch. You know, yes, greens are carbohydrate as well, and some greens have a little protein in them. That's not what I'm looking at. We want to remove the sugars out of the body. So I don't mind, like, phytoplankton, chlorella, spirulina, things like that. But when we're dealing with yeast, I do a meat, bone, and organ diet and make sure the supplements don't have starch. And I remove all sugars from the diet for a short period of time for between eight and 12 weeks. And then while we're doing that, we heal up the gut from yeast. And there are a lot of things to do for yeast. So that might be a good kind of go to long podcast as well, as I have a section on my website called Digital Downloads, and they are in the, I believe, the shop section at the bottom. And I'm going to be expanding this. I will also be coming out with a yeast course for people so that they can systematically deal with yeast and have kind of everything in one area for yeast. But that won't be for a while. So. But. But I am gonna put out a digital download to get people started. I'll have that up in the next like two to three months. That will help. I'm trying to use the podcast and the kind of the feedback I'm getting from the podcast to develop things that people need. So to answer your question, Mary, I like to do meat, bone and organ for raw fed dogs. Same thing for cooked food dogs, but I use a organ powder and usually a calcium powder. And you can do that for raw pet fed dogs too. I like the ones from Four Leaf Rover. I also have another brand that I use or ancestral supplements is also good. To my knowledge for kibble fed dogs you want to do like a minimal ingredient diet. You want to make sure you're giving digestive enzymes. I give enzymes with all yeasty dogs but a kibble fed diet, you want to make sure it's meat. As much meat as possible. Really low sugar, you can try at low starch. You can try to get rid of the yeast on some different kibbles. I know there's a company called Go that has a kibble that's that people have had success with getting rid of yeast. If you don't have success with it, you need to move to a cooked diet to get rid of the yeast. If you can't figure that out, that is the answer to the question, Mary. That's all I really have without going into a long list of how to get rid of yeast. There are two regimens out there that I'm familiar with. There's other like individual plants which we'll go over at another time. But there's the adored beast yeasty beasty regimen. I sell that in my store. And there's also the Four Leaf Rover yeast free Fido. I also sell that in my store. Both of them work really well. I think that you should try one and then possibly the other if the one doesn't work and then you know, you can start forging out on your own and try individual yeast remedies. But that's pretty much all I have right now. Another question that came into the podcast was from Kim Thomas and she's asking about digestive enzymes. She said, just discovered your podcast and the digestive enzyme episode. Heard about Dr. Goodpet but already had ordered this one called Optogest by Enclover. I prefer basic enzymes to experiment without a lot of extra ingredients. My mini schnauzer is cool so any warming ingredient should be okay. Yes Kim, that is true. But again dogs are individuals so you know, test it out. Do you know this brand? Yes, I do. In clover is a good brand of digestive enzymes. If she does Well, I wonder if rotating enzymes is a good idea instead of just one brand. I don't think you need to rotate the enzymes. It depends on how long you want to be on them. There are like pancreatic enzymes and then different type of digestive enzymes. But if they're just plant plain enzymes without a not, not a lot of stuff in them, I don't think that, you know, besides enzymes, I don't think you really need to rotate. How long is it safe to give them if the dog just does not have enough digestive fire? In general, we feed gently, lightly cooked, fresh frozen food, no kibble. I would use the digestive enzymes for about six months and I would probably work on your dog's gut and getting them to produce more digestive enzymes. If you're feeding lightly cooked food though, you want to give enzymes no matter what. So you can rotate if you want. Your dog's cool. So bromelain is fine, but if you're cooking your food, you need enzymes. It kills enzymes. Okay. So that your dog produces some enzymes. But we also, they also depend on the enzymes from their food and if there is none, then we need to add. So you can give them indefinitely if you're feeding cooked food unless your dog develops some type of issue. So rewinding, you could rotate, you know, do pancreatic enzymes, regular enzymes. But I don't, I don't necessarily know if there's a need the in clover brand, just kind of looking at it with we're going to see the ingredients. We got inulin. So if your dog had sibo, which is small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, you'd want to avoid this enzyme. Okay. Because it has added inulin, amylase, cellulase, which is good for yeast given on an empty stomach, protease and lipase. So if it didn't have inulin, it would be fine for anything. But if, I mean the inulin's fine, just not for small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. So if your dog were to get worse on it, then you would want to stop. Okay. They're using the inulin as a prebiotic and I totally get that. Just saying that that type of prebiotic will mess with sibo. The in clover product is non gmo. That's really important. I think it optogest seems just fine for a digestive aid. Okay. And with all digestive enzymes, we start out slow and work our way up. That's what I always do for people. And suggesting digestive enzymes with almost anything really just start at a lower dose and then Just work your way up and go slow. See how your dog, you know, see how your dog, how it sits in your dog's body basically. So you know what's going on so you know what's affecting them. Thank you so much for listening to the short Remember, you can write into the podcast. Just go to k9herbalist.com and click contact through the podcast on the dropdown menu and write in. Let me know your questions and I'll answer them here on the podcast if I am able.

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