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From the monthly archives:

February 2010

Allergies, What Causes the Effect? Part II

by dspangenburg on February 27, 2010

Are allergies just an inconvenience, or can they be lethal? A hormone antibody imbalance allergy can definitely worsen and possibly turn into a life threatening disease. How can you be completely sure that with stress, environmental toxins, genetic defects or other such factors, this will not further damage the body and turn into autoimmunity or cancer. You can’t!

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Allergies, What Causes the Effect?

by dspangenburg on February 24, 2010

Once these allergens are identified a specific serum is produced and given in subcutaneous injections on a strict time table. This is thought to create blocking antibodies within the patient which prevent an over reaction to those certain allergens.

If this works for you or your pet, great, however, don’t just stop there. How are you going to keep yours or their systems from developing sensitivities to other allergens when you are actually only treating the signs or symptoms (the effects) and not the actual cause of these over-reactions? You need to determine what causes the immune system to overreact in the first place.

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WHAT IS AUTO-IMMUNITY?

by dspangenburg on February 22, 2010

When this happens to the white blood cells this is called Systemic Lupus . If this problem is less serious, a butterfly lesion can appear on the nose or a sun burned like lesion that is referred to as “collie nose”. This is Discoid Lupus.

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DOES ELEVATED ESTROGEN PLAY APART IN CHRONIC DISEASES?

by dspangenburg on February 20, 2010

Yes, elevated total estrogen plays a huge roll with chronic, catastrophic diseases in people and animals. The human health care professionals realize this however our veterinary community is only beginning to realize this. If you are interested in more information why elevated total estrogen can be of great health concern, please go to healthypetnetwork.org. Yours [...]

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Healthy Pet Network’s Store… is OPEN!

by dspangenburg on February 18, 2010

I just got back from the Healthy Pet Network store. Had to pick up a few things for Skipper, Scout and Merle’n. Even though I home cook their food, They like me to switch off with dry crunchy food to give their teeth a task.

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