Author: dthomas

What causes illness?  This should be the primary question that all health care is based on.  So, let’s make this really simple.  Illness is caused by toxins.  What is a toxin?  Anything that is not good for the individual. Everything that you or your pet is exposed to is either good for you or not…

Have you ever watched a small child playing with its toy, trying to put a round peg in a square hole?  There is usually a display of interest, then frustration and maybe anger.  In time, the child, due to frustration, quits. I see this tendency often in conventional pet health care.  The doctors try everyday…

As a holistic vet, most of the people that I consult with are stuck in the middle of making a decision.  Imagine this situation, one that I see and hear a lot.  You have a sick pet and you take it to the vet.  The vet does her thing and comes up with a tentative…

I was consulting with a lady whose vet had given her dog an injection of ProHeart 12. This is an injectable parasiticide for preventing heartworms. Shortly after the injection was given, the dog started having nervous ticks and twitching and later developed grand-mal seizures. I did a little research on the drug and found that…

I Think, Therefore I Am “Ego cogito, ergo sum” … Rene Descartes Most of us have heard the statement, “I think, therefore I am,” by Rene Descartes, the French scientist and philosopher.  The time was the 1600s and it was a great time for thinking and understanding.  What made this philosophical quote one for the…

If you have been researching pet food recently, you will know that feeding dogs and cats is a hot topic.  I would go so far as to say there is a war going on between the naturalists and the pet food industry and unfortunately, the pet caretaker is caught in the crossfire.  Let’s take a…

Soon after I started vet school, a scientific report was released that that said if you drink more than two cups of coffee a day, you would get pancreatic cancer.  This meant that I was going to have to spend about 14 hours a day, studying, going to class, taking early exams and doing clinic…

In the last two blogs, I discussed the meaning of holistic health care, why conventional veterinary medicine is a conditioned perspective dealing with an imbalanced mindset and why it is imperative that a new paradigm occurs if we are to truly move into a holistic health care for our pets and ourselves.  Only then will…

In the last blog, I discussed the meaning of the word, holistic, and how it is been applied to health care.  I defined a holistic health care approach as one that comes from a balanced brain/mind.  Conventional veterinary (and human) medicine is steeped heavily in left brain (rational, intellectual) thinking and has created a conditioned…

Here in the US, we are really into trends.  All you have to do is look around, watch the television ads and peruse FaceBook to see what is the latest trend.  In health care, the trend is holistic health care, also known as functional and natural medicine.  There is nothing wrong with this trend as…