Supplements

Question:
1. Is it okay to give Contifin with Carvasol...as well as with Cardiril?

2. Since I panicked, and brought Adam to the vet, he is now on Ananapril and Lasix and has a prescription for Pimobendan (but, did not get....no pharmacy here carries it). Can I give Carvasol, Contifin and Cardril while on these drugs...or take him off the drugs eventually, and then use these?

Answer:
Thank you for your letter.

All the Wysong supplements are designed so they can be taken concurrently without creating toxicities--see the Optimal Health Program (http://wysong.net/wohp/).

As for what can happen when prescription meds are taken, that is anybody's guess. They usually have so many contraindications and dangers that it is impossible to predict how they will react in any given body.

If your veterinarian cannot advise you, the best you can do is by monitoring results and adjusting from there.

Question:

1. Is it okay to give Contifin with Carvasol...as well as with Cardiril?

2. Since I panicked, and brought Adam to the vet, he is now on Ananapril and Lasix and has a prescription for Pimobendan (but, did not get....no pharmacy here carries it). Can I give Carvasol, Contifin and Cardril while on these drugs...or take him off the drugs eventually, and then use these?

Answer:
All the Wysong supplements are designed so they can be taken concurrently without creating toxicities--see the Optimal Health Program (http://wysong.net/wohp/).

As for what can happen when prescription meds are taken, that is anybody's guess. They usually have so many contraindications and dangers that it is impossible to predict how they will react in any given body.

If your veterinarian cannot advise you, the best you can do is monitor results and adjust from there.

Question:
I have read on the Nature's Logic site that the vitamins and minerals in pet foods are toxic. Why do you add them to your food.

Answer:
This claim is marketing to try to set themselves apart from others. There is no evidence that the millions of doses of supplements consumed by humans and animals every day cause harm. There is, on the other hand, tens of thousands of scientific and clinical papers and research proving the exact opposite. If such fortification was harmful or unnecessary, why would the entire pet food industry, other than this one marketing company, do it?

Please note this quote from one of Dr. Wysong's books, "You can find articles about how this or that vitamin is toxic or worthless. However, all such reports, upon analysis, are based upon poor science and manipulation of data. This bias in the popular media against supplements is fostered by the medical and pharmacological Industries that wish the public to be dependent upon them. They see self care and supplementation as a threat to their economic success. The media, supported by huge advertising dollars from Big Pharma, omits the very real fact that modern health care is the number one killer. At the same time, there is not one indisputable death caused by the consumption of supplements taken at appropriate levels in either humans or animals."

There are over sixty billion doses of vitamins taken by people every year, yet not one fatality. There are about 160 million pets (dogs, cats, horses, birds) in the US eating vitamin and mineral fortified foods about twice per day, not including the supplements given to animals in addition to their fortified foods, the doses to animals would be over 112 trillion every year. Yet not one fatality as a result!

The ability of any company to market products based upon the opposite to these facts speaks to the power of mythology.