Preventive nutrition recognizes and
compensates for deficiencies of key nutrients that can eventually lead to
multiple and possibly irreversible health problems. Correct and balanced
nutrition is the foundation for good health in your pet. For maximal
effectiveness, food management must allow for the biochemical individuality
of each animal. Dietary programs must include nutritional supplementation
for borderline deficiencies that may not be evident. The combination of
basic and preventive nutrition is a safe, effective approach that both
reduces potential health problems and optimizes the well-being of the animal
(C.A.V.M.).
Nutritional
Therapy is the practice of using food or food products such as vitamins,
minerals, oils, and amino acids in an attempt to alter the course of a
disease process. Foods may have properties such as hot, cold, moistening,
and drying (A.H.V.M.A.). These are Traditional Chinese Medicine concepts.
Understanding these concepts can help the veterinarian to modify a pet's
response to a disease process or a metabolic imbalance. Nutritional
Therapy represents the integration of the nutraceutical and natural
medicinal remedies into conventional medical practice (B.N.A.).
Nutraceutical medicine is the use of
micronutrients, macronutrients, and other nutritional supplements as
therapeutic agents (A.V.M.A.). The term nutraceutical comes from a
combination of nutrition and pharmaceutical. Nutraceuticals are often
highly refined chemically isolated individual compounds derived from natural
substances. They are not new chemical compounds like pharmaceuticals,
rather they are substances found in nature (A.H.V.M.A.).
Glandular Therapy. Glandular materials have
tissue-specific activity and contain physiologically active substances
capable of exerting significant biologic and therapeutic effects. Whole
glandulars may represent tomorrow's pharmaceutical advances - today.
Popular hormones such as insulin and thyroxine are commonly derived from
animal glands (usually hogs or cattle). Bionutrtional
Therapy uses whole
glandulars (containing cells, cell extracts, and antibodies), combined
with nutrients (containing vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and
nutriceuticals) to promote cellular and tissue regeneration (C.A.V.M.,
B.N.A.).
