Seaweeds and Kelp for Health for Your Pets

[Dr. Jeff]

Here are the first few paragraphs from the article by Bill Wolf regarding seaweeds and kelps for your pets.

This will be our topic for the 4/4/19 Empower Hour! webinar:

"Seaweeds have been an important component of mammalian diets throughout evolutionary history. They provided the one sure way for humans to avoid the goiter and cretinism caused by iodine deficiency – and they have proven useful for companion animal health as well. Knowing why, when and how to use quality seaweeds can you help best deliver the benefits of the powerful nutrients they contain.

“Seaweed” is a general term for marine macro-algae. Most of the earth’s oxygen comes from seaweeds.1 Phycologists, the scientists who study macro-algae, divide them into three groups: brown algae, red algae and green algae, which together comprise over 20,000 different seaweeds. Names for marine ocean macro-algae mentioned in recent IVC Journal articles include “sea vegetable”, “kelp”, “bladderwrack” and “fucus”. Most of the seaweed used in pet foods and supplements are brown algae from the Laminaria and Fucus families..."

The full article can be found in your HMDM research folder.

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[Dr. Christina]

In our last empower hour (April 1, 2019) we cautioned about using supplements on a long term basis as they may mask symptoms that are clues of underlying imbalance.

Seaweeds and other greens (microalgae, spirulena, etc) are foods that provide nutrients that may be missing from even a great raw meaty diet because of pollution and poor soils. They can safely be given continuously, though I would still recommend rotating among a few good sources.

Dr. Christina

 

[Dr. Jeff]

Click/tap here for a great article with over 100 references to specific health benefits of seaweeds.

 

[stephescott1]

do you need to additional kelp if using cornucopia supplements?

 

[Dr. Jeff]

Not really.

In fact, if your pup doesn't need the additional nutrients in Cornucopia, you can use the much less costly Thorvin kelp.

Fucopia seaweed is also awe-some!

The Science Behind Fucopia™

Fucoidan, The Active Ingredient in Fucopia™ The ingredient in holistic organic pet supplement Fucopia™, Fucus Vesiculosus, contains large amounts of fucoidan polysaccharides, alginates and beneficial nutrients such as selenium, lignans, L-tryptophans and iodine. In clinical studies fucoidan has...

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