Natural Care For Pets

posted by Linda on Jun 6

Linda Fortune

Author of Regal: An Intimate View of One Magnificent Feline

My personal experience with enzymes.

Welcome back to this important discussion regarding enzymes,

My first experience with enzymes came when I was working with my naturopath. I was very ill with the Epstein-Barr virus and had been for ten years. Much to my dismay, Western medicine has little to offer where viruses are concerned and my state of health continued to decline year by year. Finally, I was fortunate to hear of a naturopath who specialized in treating the Epstein-Barr. Among other things, she introduced me to digestive enzymes. After taking them for a month, I was amazed to experience a shift in my state of my health. For the first time in ten years. I observed that I was feeling significantly better and felt a renewed sense of hope. Under the supervision of my naturopath, I continued taking the enzymes for another five years.

In August of 1994, I had the intuitive awareness that the virus was gone. And, I am happy to report, it was true. I have not had a symptom since that time and I have totally returned to my physically active life of hiking, skiing, and walking. As I am sure you are aware, physical activity has to be greatly limited when one is ill with a virus. 

Having suffered for a total of 15 years, my healing was miraculous to me and I attribute it directly to the enzymes. Then, after some time and continuing to feel very good, I eventually stopped taking them. They got placed on the back burner so to speak. It seems that I did not totally understand the significance of enzymes in our overall health at that time even with having this healing experience. I hadn’t generalized their degree of importance to overall good health.

In the past few years, I have come to a renewed awareness about enzymes and their importance to our and our animal’s health and have resumed taking them on a daily basis. When I think of enzymes, I have the image of Packman going around gobbling up virus and cancer cells, other waste material, and aiding digestion. I have become acutely aware of the part they play in our state of health and, of course, what is true for us is also true for our animals. We all need enzyme rich foods.

Next entry: Tip 16 and How I have applied what I know to my animals.

Blessings, Linda

posted by Linda on May 12

Linda Fortune

Author of Regal: An Intimate View of One Magnificent feline

Tip 15: Enzymes are vital to health.

Welcome,

With enzymes being so important for animals and humans alike, you may be wondering how we can get more enzymes into our bodies, especially as we age.

Think of it this way. When we are born, we have a ‘bank account’ full of enzymes naturally in our bodies and our bodies continue to produce them into our late 20’s. At that point our body production starts to diminish.

We can continue to add to our ‘enzyme bank account’ by eating living raw vegetables and fruits which are naturally loaded with enzymes. On the other side of the spectrum, as we eat processed foods, our enzymes are used up in the process of digesting these foods and our enzyme level decreases. Thus, we need to replenish our enzymes and that is very important.

Simply put: high enzyme levels contribute to maintaining good health and the lack of enzymes opens the door to illness.

We can also increase our level on enzymes by taking supplemental digestive enzymes. Our animals can take them too. A naturopath can give guidance on enzymes for human consumption and naturopathic veterinarians know about this for animals. Natural pet food stores also carry a variety of plant enzyme supplements for animals.

Next entry: My personal experience with enzymes.

Blessings, Linda

posted by Linda on Apr 27

Linda Fortune

Author of Regal: An Intimate View of One Magnificent Feline

Supplemental digestive enzymes.

Tip 14: Get your enzymes through fresh fruits and vegetables with additional support from supplemental enzymes.

Welcome,

Just to let you know, I will continue to place Regal’s touching video at the top of each blog entry. That way, it is easily accessible. Now, back to my discussion of enzymes.

To support human and animal bodies alike, digestive enzyme supplements have now been developed for our intake. My first introduction and experience with digestive enzymes came when working with a naturopath. I had been very ill with the Epstein-Barr Virus for ten years and had found no medical help despite years of searching. Lucky for me, I finally heard of a particular naturopath who specialized in helping people with the EBV. Western medicine, as you may be aware, has little to offer in the area of helping people with viruses.

Upon starting with my enzyme therapy, I felt a significant shift in my state of feeling better within the first month. Considering that I had suffered for the prior ten years, it was an amazing and most welcomed shift. Then, after taking my enzymes religiously for an additonal five more years, the virus was completely out of my system. About three years ago, I resumed taking supplemental enzymes when I was again reminded of how important they are to one’s health and to their support in the prevention of disease. I take WobenzymN on a daily basis and feel enriched by these enzymes.

Then, knowing what I know now and making the decision to bring a 14 year old cat, Tux, into my home, I decided to apply all that I knew. I gradually tried to introduce her to the raw food diet which is nature’s avenue of helping felines get their enzymes. However, having been conditioned to cooked foods, she was not interested in any raw foods that I brought to her. So, I got her some digestive enzymes at the natural pet food store. Needless to say, she too gets her daily enzyme supplement added to her food every day.

Just a bit of feedback regarding Tux. A friend had seen Tux shortly after I had gotten her. After four months of eating the highest quality of canned and dry foods and having her daily enzymes, my friend visited again. Her comment was “Boy, Tux looks good. Her coat is so shiny!” To say the least, this was wonderful and fortifying feedback that affirmed that I was on the right track.

This whole issue of enzymes is very interesting and worth investigating. If we want to stay healthy and keep our animals healthy, we need to keep our bodies and theirs filled with enzymes. Because this is so important, I will continue to share more of what I have learned about enzymes.

Next entry: Tip 15 and Foods filled with living enzymes are vital to both animal and human health.

Blessings, Linda

posted by on Aug 2

August 1, 2008

Linda Fortune
Author of Regal: An Intimate View of One Magnificent Feline

Welcome and purpose

Tip 1: What we feed our animal friends either contributes to their good health or fosters illness.

Welcome!

While writing my Regal Cat’s wonderful story, I became aware of a couple of issues which stimulated my exploration into natural health care for animals. Learning some important things, I decided that I wanted to share what I learned and make a contribution to the better care of animals. Thus, I have created this!
blog as a means to share. May you tune in, benefit, and share your knowledge also.

My first entries will focus on the quality of the foods we feed our animal friends. Sadly, I have become aware that I did not feed Regal the best of foods even though I thought I had done so at the time. I have since learned more about feline nutrition and some of the problems facing us regarding processed foods. Having come to the realization that processed foods probably contributed to Regal’s health problem, I am determined to feed my next felines in better ways. And so, I needed to learn a few things.

As a culture, we are growing in the awareness of those nutritional principles that, when followed, enhance and contribute to a good state of human health. It seems that there is also growing awareness of animal nutritional needs and desire to feed animals in more natural healthy ways. I have found that people prepared homemade foods for their animals up until about sixy years ago. This potentially healthier way of feeding pets with fresher ingre
dients gave way to the advent of industrial processed animal foods which then became easily available in the supermarkets. A major shift took place. We are realizing now that this trend toward processed foods has had its costs in both animal and human health.

Next entry: Tip 2 and Guess what triggered my quest to investigate the quality of animal foods.

With blessings, Linda