The Canine Cleanse Cleansing Your Dog s System with Organic Food

Celery juice for dogs and cats

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Doing a dog liver detox or gentle liver cleanse is one of the most important things we can do for our pets health. I do this myself, with my dog, and did it with Max, a clients dog who always seems run hot even while in an air-conditioned home.

In this blog, I give you several options to help you gently detox your pets liver with liver detox drinks, liver cleansing foods, dog detox supplements, and liver detox herbs!

Maxs results after the green drink and detox smoothie were he did not pant as often. The few times he did, he would cool off faster. Also, he wanted to take longer walks, was a lot more playful overall and lots of silliness ensued as seen in this video.

As a side note, if youre interested in a pet bed that looks like Maxs dog bed you can buy a chemical free dog bed with bolster here.

Why do I need to do a dog liver detox or a cat liver detox?

Our liver protects us in many ways such as from everyday toxins. If your pets liver gets overloaded your pet can experience health issues like high blood pressure, skin conditions, fatigue, and weight gain.

Think of your liver like the air filter in your car. If it gets dirty, your car is not going to perform as well right? You may see things like a drop in gas mileage. Unlike your cars air filter which can be pulled out and replaced, our livers need to be cleaned up by the things we do or dont put into our bodies.

Whether youre a Medical Medium pet owner or follow a holistic vet, much of this information will sound familiar or align with holistic pet health recommendations.

Disclaimer. While the celery juice and the 2 powders in the green drink are considered safe for dogs and cats, I always suggest starting with 1 thing and a small dose. Also, check with your vet to see if they feel it is safe based on your pets current health

Celery juice for dogs and cats

Pet liver detox drink option 1

Instructions: Drink this on an empty stomach AND wait 15-30 minutes before serving your dog or cat any food.

How to make celery juice: you will need a masticating juicer or powerful blender. I bought this BPA-free blender with an 8-year warranty to make my celery juice and smoothies. FYI: you will also need a nut milk bag to strain the celery for celery juice.

Celery juice amount for dogs and cats: Start your cat or dog with a small amount and build their tolerance from there. Their health will play a factor! If your pet is struggling with its health you may want to start off really slow with one to several drops of celery juice.

Celery juice for dogs: To give you an idea I worked my 70 lb dog up to 2 ounces.

Celery juice for cats: I see people on Instagram doing this with their cats starting from 1/8 tsp and the person worked their cat up to 1 tsp, depending on the size/weight of the cat.

Tip: If your dog or cat wont drink celery juice voluntarily, you could try to give it to them with a pet syringe (needless syringe). I lean towards figuring out a way to get them to drink it on their own. **Although celery juice works best by itself, my clients dog refused it no matter how many times I offered it to him. In this video, you can see Max happily drinks celery juice once I mix in the 2 powders from the below green drink.

Finally, if all else fails, a Celery juice alternative is cucumber juice.

Greens drink for dogs and cats

Pet liver cleanse drink option #2

Instructions: Have your cat or dog drink this green detox drink for pets on an empty stomach, first thing in the morning, AND wait 15-30 minutes before serving your dog or cat any food.

Ingredients and directions: Mix algae and this green juice powder with a few ounces of water or coconut water. If you feel more comfortable getting a product specifically for dogs, you can purchase this blue-green algae for dogs.

Dosage: On each bottle. Please note, If you are using a human supplement that is safe for pets you will have to learn how tocalculate a proper dosage for dogs.This example gives you the formula along with an example calculation for you to practice.

Liver detox smoothie for you and your dog

Only part of this 12-ounce smoothie should be shared with your dog. For example, a 70 lb. dog could have a half cup of this smoothie and you drink the rest. I am not suggesting this for cats.

Instructions: 1) You can have this smoothie 15-30 minutes after one of the above detox drinks. 2) No animal protein for at least 1 hour after drinking this smoothie. Why? Fruit and animal protein do not mix well together.

Ingredients and directions: Put the following ingredients into a blender. 1 banana, 1/2 cup red dragon fruit (aka pitaya), 1 cup wild blueberries, and water for desired consistency. Blend for 45-60 seconds, depending on your blenders strength and speed.

Tip: If you cant find these fruits, you can try this dragon fruit powder, or for the wild blueberries you can try this wild blueberry powder. If you want a larger smoothie, double everything except the dragon fruit.

Liver detox breakfast for dogs

Instructions: You can serve this homemade breakfast for dogs 15-30 minutes after your detox drink or detox smoothie.

Why a meatless meal for dogs? Waiting to have meat, or any other source of fat from animals or plants, until later in the day will help continue the liver detox process.

Tip: If you only feed dinner but give your dog a morning snack, give your dog a meatless dog treat like this, or make your own 3-ingredient Vegan Dog Treat. If you feed breakfast and dinner then a meatless meal for breakfast is a good option.

One example of a meatless meal I made for my dog, seen in this photo, consisted of quinoa, steamed sweet potato, raw kale or spinach, and celery.

Liver detox foods for dogs

Celery can reduce lipomas.

Cucumbers have a cooling effect on the adrenals, liver, and kidneys! Cucumbers contain enzymes to help the bodys protein digestion process.

Red skinned apples increase digestive strength, help rid your body of bacteria, yeast, and mold, quench thirst, and are a great detoxifier.

Sweet potato is anti-cancerous, helps with stress, and helps remove heavy metals.

Spinach is the most beneficial raw not cooked. Spinach is a source of protein and helps the liver recover by removing waste from the liver.

Kale is rich in Omega 3s. Kale helps with arthritis, feeds beneficial bacteria in the digestive tract, stimulates the liver, and kills strep (which can be responsible for chronic ear infections).

Tricks to get your dog to eat fruit or veggies

If your pet wont eat fruits or vegetables, try giving them a smaller piece!

Sometimes it is not that your dog doesnt like apples or celery but they dont like the size of it. Yes sometimes it is really that simple, watch my clients dog in this video. How I got a dog to eat an apple.

Liver cleansing herbs for pets

If you prefer to use pills thisdog liver detox supplement is a good option or this liver and kidney detox powder for dogs. Another option is a liquid herbal remedy like this one. It does not have as many ingredients as the pill but it would be a good start

Comment below to tell me what you tried and how it helped your pet!

Help Your Dog Shed Toxins

Even young dogs benefit from a cleanse because they get exposed to vaccines, anesthetics and medications. We recommend a first cleanse at 6 months of age and then repeat every spring and fall.GreenMin can be given at any age, including to pregnant and nursing mothers. Young and senior animals, in particular, can benefit because they are prone to deficiencies that can cause growth and developmental abnormalities and a shortened lifespan.GutSense is a whole food, raw formula that is good for all ages. We respect nature, where there is no difference between the diet of younger or senior mammals, with the exception of nursing animals.

How to detox your dog and your life

What toxic chemicals and toxic relationships have in common

This month, my work brought me to the topic of toxins in the body and toxic relationships.

Thirty-seven trillion chemical reactions happen in the body every second and the intrusion of toxic chemicals in the form of drugs, vaccines or environmental toxins can cause serious problems. Toxicity is one of the leading causes of chronic disease and cancer, so you need to know what toxins are in your dogs body.

Processed food, mercury, arsenic, radioactive pollution in fish, plastic, unnecessary vaccines and overuse of pharmaceutical drugs threatens the health of our dogs, but there are simple and effective ways to keep your dog safe.

What cana hair test tell me about my dog's health?

Many years back, I was looking for the best and least costly way of determining the levels of toxins in my patients. Blood tests are expensive and rather inaccurate because they represent only a snapshot from the time when the blood is collected. Your dog could be depleted, but the levels would appear normal because the body is using the last reserves from bones or storage.

Then I had a conversation with one of my colleagues, Dr. Eva Furnschussfrom Austria, who told me about hair testing. Hair testing is much better than blood testing when it comes to mineral and toxin levels because its inexpensive and provides us with a record of long-term exposure to toxic elements such as mercury, lead and arsenic.

(IMPORTANT NOTE: Pleasekeep in mind that blood testing is still the main diagnostic tool when it comes to complete blood cell count and the function of the internal organs and glands.)

Your dogs hair is a sort of time capsule. As the hair grows, it seals in blood that contains minerals and toxins. Hair tests quantify toxins in the body, tell you what healthy elements will push them out and give you accurate values of what minerals are missing and which ones are in excess.

Three-step detox:

Once you have this information, you can supplement plant-based minerals or adjust the dose as needed. A liver cleanse and balancing the gut with probiotics will also help push toxins and bad minerals out of the body. Asimple and gentle cleanse creates a positive domino effect.

A cleansing effect can also be achieved by adding healthy minerals into your dogs food to push out competing toxic minerals.

Just a few examples: Calcium pushes out lead, iron helps get rid of mercury and zinc is the key to eliminating cadmium.

Wondering why? Every chemical element has an oxidative number that allows it to bind to other elements. If the oxidative number of a toxic and non-toxic elements is the same, they can compete with each other. For example, Fe+3(iron) can be replaced with Hg+3 (mercury).

After taking these steps, you can recheck mineral levels in 6 months with another hair test to see how effective the process was and if there are any ongoing sources of toxicity in your dogs environment. This process is the key to finely tuning your dogs nutrition and ensuring good health.

How to deal with toxic relationships

Im quite certain everyone who is reading this letter has experienced challenging situations with difficult people, who are consciously or unconsciously toxic. In such cases, the first step is to ask if we couldve done something differently. Giving others the benefit of the doubt is a healthy self-check. I always like exploring the possibility I made a mistake or didnt communicate as clearly as I could have.

However, sometimes its not us who have done something wrong. We can come across someone who is just miserable, cranky and likes to take their anger and frustration out on others. Their effect is not unlike the effect of toxic minerals. These people disturb the flow of the day. Their life is in chaos and their energy makes them pull everything and everyone into a downward spiral. They poison our lives.

No matter how close of a friend, family member or a colleague this person is, you can use these 7 simple steps to detox your life from toxic people.

1. Make sure there are enough good people and friends in your life. Surrounding yourself with positive people makes it harder for toxic people to come into your life.
2. Set kind but clear boundaries with toxic people. Toxic peoples strategy is to draw you into their often self-inflicted suffering and drama, so they can get validation and blame others. There is a difference between empathy and compassion and allowing them to drag you into the black hole of their misery.
3. Keep your emotions in check and don't retaliate with anger or profanity, even if they are abusive and irrational. One must also consider the possibility that they are mentally ill.
4. Remove yourself from the situation if needed and tell them youll come back with a constructive and practical solution as soon as possible.
5. Stand your ground and dont let others intimidate you or blackmail you just because they hold a more influential position. Don't let anyone dampen your enthusiasm or lose your focus in life.
6. Forgive, but that does not mean you have to forget. You may need to cleanse your life of toxic people who repeatedly disrespect your boundaries, similar to the toxins disrespecting the boundaries of your dogs body.
7. Stand your ground gently and surely. If you have a history of being there for others, enough people will be there for you and support you in challenging times.

Wishing youand your dog a life free of harmful toxins and full of happy and kindpeople!

PS:

Here is the article on how to take your dog through a cleanse

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Dr. Peter Dobias, DVM