#42 Dr. Janet Roark rightly calls herself the Essential Oil Vet.Newly graduated from vet school, she found herself in a deeply stressed state.Migraine headaches, classified by the allopaths as “ice pick migraines” (ouch!) forced her to take tim

Dr. Rob Silver: Medicinal Mushrooms

Apr 26th, 2023 39m 8s

#41 Dr. Rob Silver has worn many hats in his holistic career, most obviously as a practicing veterinarian of four decades, but also as an author, a CBD/cannabis expert, a supplement formulator, and lately, as a medicinal mushroom expert.Join us

Are Viruses Real or Not?

Mar 29th, 2022 16m 24s

#40: Against a backdrop of an admittedly wild couple of years with COVID-19, lockdowns, masking, vaccines rushed to market, and statistics that have been shown to be wildly manipulated, perhaps one of the most confusing things are self-proclaim

Behind the scenes at Vital Pet Health

Nov 9th, 2021 29m 20s

Vital Pet Health CEO, Jason Donas joins me to give us some big news in product development.It seems my friends in Vital Animal’s “sister company” have been busy reformulating to make your animal’s immune support and detox options really amazing

Fire Your Vet!

Oct 5th, 2021 20m 45s

#039 When your vet pushes you into procedures you don’t want that are more risk than benefit, it’s time to FIRE him!Join me as I share a real life story (one of far too many I have) about a woman being held hostage by her vet. She was being tol

Is Nosode Use Safe After Vaccines?

Jul 20th, 2021 19m 38s

#037 As a homeopathic vet, I’m always puzzled when people ask if it’s safe to use homeopathic remedies after their animal has been given drugs or, in this case, vaccines.I’m really not sure what’s going through their heads in this, as the reali

Blood Tests: All You Need to Know?

Jun 22nd, 2021 13m 12s

#036 Are regular blood tests on your animal giving you a false sense of security?Might there be better ways to suss out your animal’s health status?Tune in to hear how a homeopathic vet thinks about these tests and even better, suggests somethi

How to Get Your Vet Needs Met

Jun 8th, 2021 16m 15s

#035 I think it’s appropriate to say there is no more important place to be clear about what you want than in health care. If you allow yourself or your animal to just blindly take what ever a doctor recommends, trouble will ensue. I guarantee

Could YOU start a titer clinic?

Jun 2nd, 2021 32m 26s

#034 Titer clinic: Lisa Rosamino is ready to start one now that COVID-19 pressures are letting up for her pet food buying club.She learned about titers from Dr. John Robb and me but wanted to make it easier for her many pet food customers to ge

Skin! It's alive!

May 25th, 2021 1h

#033 The skin. Who knew your Sadie’s outer protective layer was intimately associated with her immune system?And when you shampoo her lovely skin, you are actually impairing Sadie’s immune system?Oh oh.We live in a world of “germophobia” (fear

Why Wondercide has 1 M Customers

May 18th, 2021 1h

#032 I first heard of Wondercide when CEO Stephanie Boone sat with me in my Austin clinic over a decade ago and explained her amazing cedar oil based products to me. Using cedar, a ubiquitous “pest species” tree all over Texas that was being cl

Talking Poop with Dr. Odette Suter

May 11th, 2021 43m 27s

#031 The more we learn about the microbiome, that vast collection of bacteria, yeast, viruses (and even small parasites) that make up our gut and that of our animals, the more important we see it is.It affects our brains and behavior. It affect

Dr. Robb: Vaccine dose MATTERS

May 4th, 2021 37m 29s

#030 We were taught in vet school that “one size fits all” when it comes to vaccination: a Great Dane and a Chihuahua both get a 1 cc dose of the vaccine. There was some vague explanation that the “antigenic load” was all the mattered, and big

When Prevention CAUSES Disease

Apr 13th, 2021 16m 51s

#029 Are you unknowingly causing illness in your animals in the name of prevention?This week’s episode was inspired by Sarah, who commented that her young Golden Doodle had just gotten sick for the second month in a row and she’s now wondering

Are You Making this Common Mistake?

Apr 6th, 2021 17m 3s

#028 Some things are time sensitive, but biology rarely follows the calendar, especially when we speak of immunity in you or your animals.Does immunity slowly “empty out,” like a gas tank, and need “refilling” at a year or three?Listen in as I

CBD: Wide potential to help all

Mar 2nd, 2021 50m 9s

#027 My guest is Zac Pilossoph, DVM, who’s wearing several hats these days but I asked him on to share his knowledge about cannabis and its application in pet health. His curiosity about this plant has lead him to take advantage of repeated edu

Leaky gut: what, why, and how to fix it

Feb 23rd, 2021 1h 11m

#026 My guest this week is Julie Anne Lee, homeopath and owner of the Adored Beast Apothecary.Her origin story itself is seriously inspiring. Julie felt the connection to animals from a very young age, and wanted to help them. After some years

Susan Thixton: Your pet food advocate

Feb 16th, 2021 42m 23s

#025 My guest this week is your best friend if you buy commercial pet food of any kind. Susan Thixton came to her calling as crusader for quality pet food many years ago when her vet told her her healthy dog died of bone cancer from a commonly

Symptoms: Wildly misunderstood by your vet

Feb 9th, 2021 23m 46s

#024 Most vets and “single species doctors” grossly misunderstand what symptoms are, how they are extremely valuable, and how cure is defined.That means that, unless you are smarter than your vet and choose carefully who gets to be your trusted

Your cats -- Actually canaries?

Feb 2nd, 2021 47m 57s

#023 I interviewed Dr. Andrea Tasi to learn more about how cats have been “talking” to all of us over the years.We explored how this amazing semi-wild species is perhaps the most sensitive one we see regularly, whether you are a veterinarian or

Don Hamilton, DVM - Do nosodes really work?

Jan 26th, 2021 43m 52s

#022 What are nosodes and do they deserve the bad rap some vets give them? I asked my old friend and homeopathic vet colleague Dr. Don Hamilton to answer this in light of a Jean Dodds blog post saying they clearly don’t work. Not enough “scienc

Lyme Disease: Why treatment is 100% unnecessary

Jan 19th, 2021 33m 17s

#021 Lyme is a strange disease, and I invited Dr. Todd Cooney to weigh in on it as he’s researched it carefully and, like me, has seen dogs with positive titers who are completely healthy and free of symptoms.All too often, conventional veterin

Taking homeopathic practice out of the black box

Jan 11th, 2021 28m 16s

#020 Have you ever considered using homeopathy to help your animals?Or, does it just seem too unbelievable or weird or just, well, unclear what it is exactly? And what does it look like if you embark on hiring a homeopathic vet to help you?This

Dealing With Vet Hazing

Jan 5th, 2021 21m 16s

#019 This week’s episode is in response to a plea from a dog owner on Facebook. She was finding the vets around her intent on selling her “drugs” (read: pesticides) and vaccines when she didn’t want either. She called it “literally PUSHING” he

Colostrum vs Transfer Factor: What's Wiser?

Dec 29th, 2020 20m 19s

#018: Have you sought to strengthen your animal’s immune system and been told colostrum is an amazing natural way to do that? How it’s specially made to help calves survive in the germ filled world they are born into, and so, it’s good for you