Arthrydex - Exceptional Product for Joint Health from Youngevity

ArthryDex is Fortified Food for Joint Mobility

ArthryDex is not just for animals with arthritic or hip problems. The vitamin content is good for overall general health, bones, teeth, skin and coat. It also supplies daily needed vitamins and over 70 trace elements as well.

This super joint health product does NOT contain wheat, corn, soy, salt, dairy products, artificial coloring or preservatives.

Dogs and cats love the taste!

Based on the animals weight, ArthryDex is easily mixed with daily food.

Simply put ARTHRYDEX is: "fortified food for joint mobility"

The amino acids found in Arthrydex are building blocks for all proteins and help support healthy liver function.

The Enzyme Activity provided by the ingredients in Arthrydex is especially good for all animals. Digestion-enzymes are lost as the animal ages and ArthryDex puts back the enzymes for optimum health.

Brewers Yeast is included. B vitamins are essential for all living creatures and may help repell fleas and ticks naturally.

Arthrydex contains beef gelatin collagen for joint health. Glucosamine sulfate helps lubricate joints. Collagen and glucosamine are very beneficial for pets with growing pains, joint challenges that come with age and arthritis or hip dysphasia challenges

ARTHRYDEX contains over 70 trace minerals and all 90 essential nutrients your pet's needs for a long healthy life.

Dr. Joel Wallach, a veterinary pathologist for 30 years has formulated vitamin and mineral supplements for all animals. He has worked closely with Marlin Perkins from Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom in zoos across America as well as around the world. He has completed extensive research in relation to nutritional deficiencies and disease.

Arthrydex is a Youngevity products and is manufactured under strict control to maintain the quality, purity and consistency of all ingredients. These procedures assure you the optimum in safety and reliability.

ArthryDex has been used to supplement the diets of not only dogs and cats but of all animals from tropical birds to horses and llamas.

Try Arthrydex for your dog or cat today.

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Vitamin and mineral supplementations do no require prescriptions because they are totally safe when used with common sense and are often as effective or more effective than some of the pharmaceutical drugs.  Vitamin and mineral supplements help support the body's own healing process.

Pet Nutrition and Natural remedies are not meant to replace qualified veterinary care for a seriously ill pet. Their primary purpose is to prevent diseases before their onset. Good nutrition, vitamins and minerals are the key to keeping your animal healthy and keeping small diseases from becoming serious ones. They may also help support veterinary care and greatly increase the pet's comfort and rate of recovery.

Take care of your pet's joint challenges now before something small turns into something big.

Healthy Skin Starts from the Inside Out

Tips for Better Skin Healthby Dr. Sarah from Lifes Abundance October 2010 Newsletter

While underappreciated or even unrecognized as an organ, skin has amazing properties. For starters, it’s the largest organ of the body. Both tough and pliable, skin has many functions, including regulating body temperature, helping to prevent dehydration and protecting against injury and disease. Without skin, our cats couldn’t have hair, and everything that was on the inside would be exposed, making snuggle sessions a little on the icky side!

Canine and feline skin shares many similarities with human skin, but there are significant differences. They do have three layers of their skin, with the same nerves and blood vessels running throughout. Even though the pigmented skin in dogs contains melanin, dogs do not have the ability to tan like humans do. Also, they have apocrine glands (similar to human sweat glands), however, dogs do not sweat like we do. Instead, dogs have eccrine glands in their paws, which secrete a watery substance like sweat, although this typically only occurs when they are nervous and under stress. Now you know how it is that they can sometimes leave little damp paw prints when exiting the veterinary office!

As the body’s first line of defense to environmental factors, the skin is subjected to all sorts of insults and injuries. Critters of all stripes, from fleas to ticks to parasites (like mange mites) bite and damage the skin. Additionally, skin is under repeated assault by foreign objects, nibbling teeth, scratching claws and constant licking, all of which can weaken and impair the skin’s protective barrier. Skin can also be affected from the inside out by infections, hormonal imbalances, allergies and immune disorders.

Young pets are particularly suspectible to skin problems because their skin is more sensitive and their immune systems are not fully developed. Kittens, for example, are prone to ringworm (fungal) infections and puppies are predisposed to demodectic mange. If your puppy or kitten develops a rash, loses hair, or has bumps or warts, consult with your veterinarian to determine if treatment is necessary.

The bottom line is, healthy skin is a vital part of pet health, and its condition is a reflection of a pet’s overall well-being. Vulnerable to attacks on all sides, it’s very important that pet parents regularly monitor their pet’s skin health. Skin normally does its job well as the body’s protector, but sometimes even skin needs an extra boost. In this episode of Pet Talk, Dr. Sarah reviews some common causes of skin and coat problems in dogs and cats, and reveals some safe and natural home remedies that promote overall skin health.






For more information about the Lifes Abundance Pet Food that Dr. Sarah is talking about in the above video, please visit:  Lifes Abundance Dog Food

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Vitamin E and Antioxidants

Behind every superior ingredient in Lifes Abundance Dog Foods, Supplements and Treats for companion animals, there’s a story. In the following post, Dr. Jane reveals why she includes vitamin E in many of her formulas and why she prefers its natural form.

Trust me, once you read this post, you'll know why this source of antioxidant is so important to your dog's long-term health.

Vitamin E and Antioxidants
by Dr. Jane Bicks

As a holistic veterinarian, I feel it is incredibly important to take the whole animal into consideration when it comes to nutrition. And, whenever practical, my preference is to provide nutrients, minerals and vitamins in their natural forms. In this post, I’d like to talk to you specifically about vitamin E, to review both the strengths and weaknesses of natural and synthetic forms.

Vitamin E is an incredibly complex and important nutrient that, among other things, functions as an antioxidant. Antioxidants are naturally occurring nutrients that promote health by slowing the destructive aging process of cells (a breakdown called “peroxidation”).

In peroxidation, damaged molecules known as free radicals steal pieces from other cells, like fat, protein or DNA. The damage can spread, damaging and killing entire groups of cells. While peroxidation can be useful to destroy old cells or germs and parasites, when left unchecked, free radicals produced by peroxidation also damages healthy cells. Antioxidants can help to stem the tide of peroxidation, thus stabilizing free radicals.

Antioxidants like vitamin E are crucial to the health of companion animals of any age. They can improve the quality of the immune response and the effectiveness of vaccines in young pets, and help maintain a vital immune system in seniors.

Vitamin E occurs in one of two forms, either natural or synthetic. Natural vitamin E is a collection of eight chemically unique compounds that are derived from plants, including four tocopherols and four tocotrienols. More commonly used and less expensive, synthetic vitamin E is one compound – alpha-tocopherol.

For me, the choice of using natural or synthetic vitamin E in my formulas couldn’t be clearer, and neither could the evidence. The synthetic form of vitamin E is not as active or easily absorbed as the natural form of vitamin E. The molecular structure of vitamin E determines how well the body can utilize it. In human trials, researchers found that proteins in the liver specifically select the natural form of vitamin E and largely ignore the synthetic form. In a Japanese study, scientists found that it took three times the amount of synthetic vitamin E to equal the blood levels of natural vitamin E. In the U.S., researchers found that body tissues and blood retained far higher levels of natural vitamin E versus synthetic. In addition, synthetic alpha-tocopherol vitamin E has only half the vitamin activity of the natural alpha-tocopherol vitamin E.

Why is there such a difference between synthetic and natural forms of vitamin E? The key to understanding how the body absorbs these two types differently lies on the molecular level. The cellular structure of mammals more easily recognizes natural forms of vitamins. And cellular proteins and blood plasma bind to natural forms more readily than their synthetic counterparts. Unfortunately, synthetic vitamins are cheaper and, therefore, are more prevalent in many products on the market today.

So, how can you determine if the products you are using contain the synthetic or natural form of vitamin E? Simply check out the ingredient labels! Natural vitamin E is listed as a-tocopherol acetate, d-alpha tocopherol, d-alpha tocopheryl acetate or d-alpha tocopheryl succinate. Alternately, synthetic forms of vitamin E are labeled with a “dl-“ prefix.

References:

Kiyose C, et al. Biodiscrimination of alpha-tocopherol stereoisomers in humans after oral administration. Am J Clin Nutr 1997 (Mar); 65 (3): 785-9

Burton GW, et al. Human plasma and tissue alpha-tocopherol concentrations in response to supplementation with deuterated natural and synthetic vitamin E Am J Clin Nutr 1998; 67: 669-84

Traber MG, et al. Synthetic as compared with natural vitamin E is preferentially excreted as a-CEHC in human urine: studies using deuterated a-tocopheryl acetate FEBS Letters 1998 (Oct 16); 437: 145-8

Yu W, Jia L, Wang P, et al. In vitro and in vivo evaluation of anticancer actions of natural and synthetic vitamin E forms. Mol Nutr Food Res. 2008;52:447-456.

Blatt DH, Pryor WA, Mata JE, et al. Re-evaluation of the relative potency of synthetic and natural α-tocopherol: experimental and clinical observations. Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry. 2004;15:380-395.

Weiss WP, Hogan JS, and Wyatt DJ. Relative bioavailability of all-rac and RRR vitamin E based on neutrophil function and total α-tocopherol and isomer concentrations in periparturient dairy cows and their calves. J Dairy Sci. 2009;92:720-731.

Lauridsen C, Engel H, Jensen SK, et al. Lactating sows and suckling piglets preferentially incorporate RRR- over All-rac-α-tocopherol into milk, plasma and tissues. J Nutr. 2002;132:1258-1264.

Sen CK, Khanna S, and Roy S. Tocotrienols in health and disease: The other half of the natural vitamin E family. Molecular Aspects of Medicine. 2007;28-692-728.

Hayek MG, et al. Dietary vitamin E improves immune function in cats. In: Reinhart GA, Carey DP eds. Recent Advances in Canine and Feline Nutrition, Vol III: 2000 Iams Nutrition Symposium Proceedings. Wilmington, OH: Orange Frazer Press, 2000; 555-564.

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Should I Use a Supplement for My Dog?

Supplementing your dog’s diet can play a crucial role in maintaining overall health. We know that some dogs require additional nutritional intake to help them maintain a healthy body, due to age, breed, environment and other factors. Based on this premise, Dr. Jane Bicks, a holistic veterinarian has formulated a new supplement to enhance your dog’s daily diet.

The perfect complement to a healthy diet, Life’s Abundance Wellness Food Supplement for Dogs is formulated with a broad array of naturally nutritious ingredients from real food to help maintain overall health.

In this chewable tablet, Dr. Jane has included the following nutritious ingredients:

Poultry liver, rich in vitamin A and D, protein and selenium.

Natural vitamin E, an antioxidant.

Taurine, an essential amino acid.

Stabilized rice bran, a rich source of vitamins and minerals.

Cranberries, a rich source of vitamin C, dietary fiber and manganese.

Carrots, a rich source of beta-carotene (vitamin A), vitamins C, D, and E, riboflavin, niacin, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, sodium and iron.

Dried egg, one of nature's most nutrient-dense foods, plays an important role in a balanced diet. Eggs are considered a complete protein source, providing essential amino acids, vitamins and minerals (vitamins A, B, E, biotin, and sulfur). Eggs also provide healthy fats, such as omega-6 for healthy skin and a glossy coat.

Flaxseed meal is a rich plant source of antioxidant lignans and omega-3 fatty. Flaxseed meal also has a very high level of protein and essential amino acids. In addition, flaxseed meal contains significant amounts of fiber, vitamin E, folic acid, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B6 and is extremely rich in the minerals potassium, calcium and phosphorus.

Direct-fed microbials, ingredients similar to those found in supermarket yogurts.

Ester-C*, a unique and patented form of vitamin C (calcium ascorbate).

Tomato pomace, a good source of lycopene and vitamin C.

Alfalfa meal, which is a good source of protein, vitamin A, niacin and calcium, and a very good source of dietary fiber, vitamin C, thiamin, riboflavin, folate, pantothenic acid, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc, copper and manganese.

Pineapple, which is a good source of enzymes, vitamins, minerals and fiber.

Like all of Dr. Bick's superior-quality canine supplements, these delicious compressed tablets are scored in-half for easy splitting. And with a tantalizing liver flavor, your dog will be doing the happy dance when it comes time for his or her supplement!

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