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© 07/22/08
By Dahni
Pet Cookies – Certified Organic
Good day, here is your cookie for today, ‘Pet Health,’ “healthy help for our four legged friends.”
Many people have and are turning to vitamin and mineral supplements, which are truly just ‘super foods’ and ‘supply’ what may be lacking in our bodies, our food and the soil. Even more focus has been placed on antioxidants and are found nearly everywhere as in energy drinks, beverages and even cosmetics. All living creatures need these to live, long and healthful quality lives. So do our pets!
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My wife and I have been taking a specific product for well over a year and have experienced many benefits. More on this for tomorrow’s post. We decided to try a specific formula for our two cats.
Angie was the older of our two cats. She had become very lethargic, lacked energy and slept most of the time, I mean more than most cats.
Bandy the younger cat (more like a teenager), was a whirlwind of energy, constantly running through the house, clinking the piano keys (classical music of course). 
She regularly just tried to get Angie to run and play, but mostly just agitated her sister.
My wife and I having experienced great increase in our own energy levels with a similar product, so we decided to try this with Angie.
We mixed a little of the pink, beef flavored powder into her food. In a very short time, her energy levels went through the roof. How did I first know? I was awakened one early morning to what sounded like a freight train running through our house. At first I thought it was the younger cat, but in fact, it was Angie chasing her sister.
Over time we noticed other benefits like less shedding, fewer hairballs, softer and shinier hair. This led us to put Bandy on the product as well.
Bandy had matted and unhealthy looking hair. For a long time, we thought she might be blind in one eye. It had dark matter in the corner and would run constantly. It was smaller than the other eye. We also considered that she just might have severe allergies. Since a similar product helped my allergies, we decided to put Bandy on the formula as we had with Angie.
It was only a matter of a couple of weeks when we noticed great improvement with Bandy. I wished I had the foresight to have taken before and after pictures, because she looks like a different cat now. Her hair is the color of smoke and ultra soft. For lack of better way to explain this, she looks likes she has an ‘afro’. Her hair has just proofed out. She appears to be twice the size she was. We also saw great improvement in her eye.
We are blessed in that our vet actually comes to our home. When the product was mentioned to him, at first he seemed to think our ‘results’ could be explained as a ‘placebo effect’ or like taking a sugar pill thinking it was something else. Why this may work in humans, I don’t think our cats were thinking we were giving them sugar pills. Our vet read the label and concluded the ingredients were sound.
As far as Bandy eye symptoms, out vet diagnosed Horner’s Syndrome. This is a disorder of the nervous system which produces symptoms in the eyes. This disorder usually occurs after an injury to the sympathetic nerve leading to the eye. Such injury can be due to a trauma to the nerve, viral infection, a tumor or mass which puts pressure on the nerve, or an inflammation of the nerve. Since the nerve travels from the brain down the neck through the chest and then to the eye, trauma in the brain, chest or neck can lead to Horner’s Syndrome. Sometimes this occurs at birth. Our pet health greatly relieved many of her symptoms as one of its benefits is that it is an anti-inflammatory and promotes visual health and acuity.
OPC-3 with Glucosamine
Benefits
- Combats free radicals
- Helps maintain healthy cholesterol levels
- Helps maintain healthy circulation
- Helps maintain joint flexibility
- Helps promote/support cardiovascular health
- Helps support visual health/visual acuity
- Potent free radical scavenger
- Promotes/Supports healthy blood vessel dilation
- Promotes/Supports healthy nitric oxide levels
- Supports healthy blood glucose levels
- Supports healthy platelet activity
- Anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-aging poperties
Optimization by Blending
It has been suggested that several antioxidants blended together in moderate amounts may be more effective than high levels of one antioxidant. The blend of antioxidants in this formula powder includes grape seed extract, red wine extract, pine bark extract, bilberry extract and citrus bioflavonoids and glucosamine.
These antioxidants contain oligomeric proanthocyanidins, or OPCs. Oligomeric proanthocyanidins (OPCs) are bioflavonoids (complex organic plant compounds) found in fruits, vegetables and certain tree barks that provide exceptional nutritional benefits to your pet’s body. Studies have shown OPCs to be up to 20 times more powerful than vitamin C and 50 times more powerful than vitamin E in neutralizing free radicals.
The formula with Glucosamine offers a unique, great-tasting powder that is sprinkled over your pet’s regular food. It represents the latest technology available today in naturally based pet food supplements.
Much the same way antioxidants can help optimize a person’s health, they can also be beneficial to our dogs and cats. Antioxidants help fight the damage caused by free radicals. They can also help support immune responses and support normal vaccine recognition in dogs and cats. Young animals can benefit tremendously from antioxidants. Antioxidants can help maintain optimum health in your animal’s gastrointestinal and cardiovascular systems, liver, kidneys, eyes and immune system. Another important role of pet antioxidants is their ability to support immune-cell function for dogs and cats in their senior years.
What Makes This Product Unique?
A free radical is an atomic structure with an unpaired electron in its outermost shell. These unpaired electrons tend to be highly reactive, resulting in chemical reactions such as oxidation. Because they have one or more unpaired electrons, free radicals are highly unstable. They scavenge the body to grab or donate electrons, causing damage to cells, proteins and DNA. Free radicals are naturally occurring; however, air pollution, stress, cigarette smoke and heavy exercising all contribute to the creation of harmful free radicals. Free radicals can cause oxidative stress. Normally the animal’s body is able to protect itself from the damaging effects of free radicals, but if antioxidants are unavailable, or free radical production becomes excessive, oxidative stress can occur.
Antioxidants are natural cell protectors, neutralizing free radicals by pairing an electron to the outermost shell of radical oxygen molecules, rendering them harmless. Antioxidants are nutrients such as vitamins, minerals and enzymes that are capable of counteracting the damaging, but normal, effects of the physiological process of oxidation in bodily tissues. Antioxidants work in two ways, chain breaking and prevention. A chain-breaking antioxidant such as vitamins A, C and E, stabilize free radicals or cause them to decay into harmless atomic structures. A preventative antioxidant prevents the oxidation process by scavenging free radicals.
Pets face many of the same issues as humans. Many pet foods are over processed and have little nutritive value. Dogs and cats breathe in the same pollution as we do, inhaling harmful free radicals. Potent antioxidants like OPCs help to strengthen your pet’s free radical defenses. Antioxidants promote cardiovascular health, support healthy visual acuity, promote healthy blood vessel dilation and promote healthy platelet activity.
Your Pets and Joint Health
As pets become older, antioxidants become even more important in the fight against free radicals and their associated effects on cells in joints and other tissues. All animals are at risk for declining joint health. Many factors can affect joint health and the integrity of cartilage, including diet, genetic make-up and activity levels. The cold wintery months can also contribute to a decline in joint comfort. Each animal’s genetic code, for example, can influence the thickness and durability of its cartilage and its overall joint health. Proper nutrition, especially antioxidant supplementation, is critical in maintaining healthy joints. Glucosamine has been shown to promote the retention and normal regeneration of cartilage, support normal movement and flexibility of joints and promote joint comfort.
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Your cookie for this day, ‘Pet Health,’ “healthy help for our four legged friends.”
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