INTRODUCING CANINE NUTRTION
The gut is the centre of your dog’s immune system. Like humans it makes up for around 70% of the immune system, so it’s vital to treat it correctly so your dog can naturally keep itself healthy. The level of bacteria or the balance of the microbiota in the gut will determine a likelihood of illness. When that becomes imbalanced due to improper or unnatural diets, the bad bacteria take hold, and your dog will get sick. A healthy diet is feeding your dog the building blocks and energy components that allow them to grow, develop to their potential, maintain a healthy body weight, support the immune system, reduce the risk of chronic disease, support healthy aging and to stay active throughout their life. We want our dogs to achieve optimal overall health and well-being.
There are many ways to feed your dog and hundreds of diets to choose from. Whether you buy your dog food, raw feeding or make it yourself, your dog needs a balanced diet to stay healthy. That includes a mix of:
Proteins
Carbohydrates
Fats
Vitamins
Minerals
Water
LET’S SIMPLIFY DOG NUTRITION
Food isn’t just food. The food your dog eat can be broken down into thousands of different nutrients that we often know as macro- and micronutrients, these includes fats, carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Nutrients are like tools for your dog’s body. Imagine their body as a fabric, and inside this fabric they have trillions of employees (cells). The employees have been assigned different work tasks to keep the body functioning optimal, but they depend on the tools (nutrients) they are given.
Like any other factory, your dog’s internal factory is dependent on deliveries of tools in order to produce what they are designed to produce. Take a car factory for example, to produce a fully functioning car the factory depends on a certain amount of steel, certain kinds of hoses and belts and pipes, and bolts, leather for the interior, etc. If three truckloads of pipes arrive but no steel, there’s a challenge, and even more so, if the hoses are all in the wrong sizes.
The same is true for your dog’s factory. They need deliveries of healthy foods of fats, carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants in a certain balance, at a certain time, to function optimally.
Your dog’s factory is making sure your dog is feeling energetic and happy, fights of any intruders like bacteria’s and viruses, healing wounds, stabilising hormones, cleaning their system and so on. It’s crucial that your dog’s cells get the appropriate tools to do their specific work task, and by having the right tools they can do their work thoroughly, at the right time, without facing any challenges.
This is why the food we give our dogs are so important and essential for good health. We want to feed the tiny cells the best tools so they can do their jobs in an optimal and effective way, to keep our dogs as healthy, energised, happy and vital as possible.
Just like other factories, if a cell factory has all the necessary supplies, tools and workers in place, production runs smoothly despite the occasional delivery of unwanted or unneeded materials. Unfortunately, highly processed, and refined foods abound in materials our cells can’t utilize, so finding the optimal food can sometimes be a challenge.