Your Dog’s Liver
Importance Of Your Dog’s Liver
The liver is a vital organ in a dog's body that plays many essential roles, including:
Metabolizing and storing nutrients: The liver helps metabolize and store nutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins, and fats, which are essential for the body's proper functioning.
Detoxifying the body: The liver plays a critical role in removing toxins from the body, including drugs, NSAIDs, alcohol, and other harmful substances. Producing bile: The liver produces bile, which helps digest fats and absorb fat-soluble vitamins.
Regulating blood clotting: The liver produces clotting factors that are necessary for the blood to clot properly and prevent excessive bleeding. Supporting the immune system:
The liver plays a role in supporting the immune system by producing certain proteins that help fight infection and disease.
How happy is your dog’s Liver?
What we really mean is how healthy is your dog’s liver.
The liver is one of the most important organs in the body. It’s responsible for the detoxification of any external toxins as well as waste from the body, including the foods we eat. The liver is responsible to break down nutrients for the pancreas. If the liver can’t work effectively, the pancreas will struggle. It also stores nutrients, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and co-enzymes. And for things it may not be able to process effectively, it will store in cellular tissues / fat cells of the body. The liver is important to the metabolism of a variety of hormones.
It may be up to 70% damage before we see signs of liver problems.
The good news is it can rejuvenate itself with a little TLC.
We need to take care of the liver — for longevity.
One easy way to start supporting your dog’s liver is The Liver Tonic From Adored Beast. If Vaccines have been administered, we may need to do a vaccine detox. But an easy way to get started is with Rebalance from Adored Beast — a protocol you can do on your own. Then if we need to do deeper work, we can explore a Liver Cleanse Diet
5 Element Theory: Spring & Summer are the Season of Wood
March 21 - June 6
Organs are Liver & Gallbladder
Some of the conditions associated with Liver & Gallbladder are
Aggression, Irritability, Frustration, Anger, Red Hot Flair Ups (Anger lives in the liver)
Tremors in the legs, paralysis, lumps, swellings
Pains in the upper back and hernias
Vomiting Food
Brittle Nails
Lick Granulomas
Some forms of epilepsy
Headaches, pain the jaw or under the front legs, side of check and thighs
Problems with the back legs, including hip dysplasia
Greenish discharge from eyes or genitals
Liver Cleansing Diet For Aggression and Allergy Cases
This is one of the primary reasons, I introduce a liver cleansing diet and protocol for my behavior aggression cases. By doing this liver cleansing diet and detox protocol I have seen better results over all in behavior and well-being.
My clients receive access to this liver cleansing diet and protocol as part of their training package. I recommended it as we begin any aggression or allergy program. But I also use it on my own dogs and recommended at least 1-2 protocols each year at the beginning of spring and then as we enter fall as a way to help detox from all the seasonal summer chemicals that may be in neighboring yards, parks, etc.
I also implement a similar protocol for all my clients who have received vaccines or must continue to do so.
If you have been a long-term user of flea and tick products, NSAIDs, regular vaccines, recent surgical procedures, anesthesia, pain medications, antibiotics, allergy medications, exposure to any chemicals, etc — a liver cleanse could benefit your dog greatly.
Dogs That May Need A Liver Detox
chronic indigestion, relieved by antacids
inconsistent poops, irregular, pale, greasy, constipation, less than 1 poop per day.
foul smelling gas
chronic itching and allergies
Regular consumption of pain medications, NSAIDs, (Rimidyl or similar)
Regular (seasonally, monthly, yearly) exposure to chemical products (flea and tick meds, yard chemicals, vaccines, shampoos, medications)
history of compromised immune system
hair loss
Elevated triglycerides, high cholesterol
intolerance to fats in food
giardia, intestinal worms
Read More about 5 Element Theory and The Season of Wood
Resources: The Holistic Guide To A Healthy Dog, Wendy Volhard & Kerry Brown, DVM | Self Test Nutrition Guide, Dr Cass Igram.
Liver Cleanse Protocol is available at no cost to clients of The K9 Coach Training, Volhard Feeders & my oily team Members. Ask for the coupon code.