Dr. Belfield Jan 7, 2012 PPR

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Visit lehmans.com or call us at 1-877-438-5346 for a free catalog. Or just stop by. We're located about an hour south of Cleveland. Yeah? Did you want to see me, sir? Well, I did, but now that I do, I'm not so sure. Sir? Johnson, I got a mission for you that could change your life. Oh, good, sir. It involves traveling halfway around the world without so much as half a clue of where you're going or what you're going to do when you get there. Is that mission normal, sir? Uh-huh. Well, I'll be leading this mission, Johnson, so I'll be telling you what to do. You, sir? That's right, Johnson, and I say first things first. Oh, good plan, sir. And what I say first is food. Always remember that, Johnson. Food is a big deal. Sir, my brother-in-law can give us a really good deal on some surplus MREs. Johnson, if you've got half a brain and that empty head of yours, you'll call the freeze-dry guy like I did. That food is better for you. It rehydrates faster, and it's good, Johnson, and it keeps for up to 30 years. Will we be gone that long, sir? Well, I hope not. Now get your supplies organized and meet me down at the pier at dawn on Sunday. We sail sunrise. Yes, sir. This adventure is brought to you by the freeze-dry guy. Call 866-404-3663 or visit freeze-dryguy.com. Pet Prep Radio with Sherry, the organic pet lady, is on the air. Tune in for a show loaded with information on preparedness for pets and their people, too. If you're an animal lover, then this is the show for you. And now, the host of Pet Prep Radio, Sherry, the organic pet lady. Well, good evening. It's great to be here. I'm Sherry, the organic pet lady, and it is January 7, 2012. And welcome to the Pet Prep Radio show. I am very excited to be here this evening, full moon and all, full moon weekend. And it has been a crazy couple of days. I'd like to welcome those that didn't catch our show last night. We had a show last night we didn't expect, and it went quite well, and we hope you'll check out the on-demand to listen to yesterday's show. I did a solo show regarding preparedness, and that worked out pretty well discussing a lot of interesting topics that you would probably find very helpful, mainly checklists, things to add to lists, goal setting, resolution for, you know, getting prepared for you and your animals, not just for pets, just, you know, for people, too. So I'd like to welcome everyone, friends, family, new friends, and everyone, Happy New Year to you. And we have a wonderful guest this evening, and I'm very honored to have Dr. Belfield with us. He is a veterinarian. He has developed orthomolecular medicine. He has some great insights on hip dysplasia. He is an author. He's a speaker. He's a veterinarian, and he has a background in pharmacy from his family, and I'd like to introduce him to you right now. Welcome, Dr. Belfield. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. It's wonderful to have you. I learned about you through a wonderful lady that I'm talking with right now, and she told me about a book that you had written. We had been discussing animal nutrition. And she asked me if I'd heard of you, and at that time, no, not yet. And I started learning about you, and I just had to get to know you better and have you on the show, and hopefully we'll have you on as a regular guest because you've got so much to say, and we could possibly cover everything in just an hour. So I think what I'd like to do is ask you to tell us how you got started, like the veterinarian thing, and your passion. Well, you mentioned my interest in nutrition. Well, it's not, you know, from the calories and carbohydrates and fats or anything like that. It's more or less how I attack diseases other than deficiency diseases with nutritional supplements. I got started, actually, when I was still in veterinary school. Dr. Mark Morris at the time had published a paper on how he was able to treat, prevent, and control kidney disease just by diet. And this intrigued me even until today. I'm so enthralled in his work that he did over 50 years ago. I have to credit his influence on me. Also, as much as I disliked meat inspection, I did that for a while before being called to active duty. This was during the Korean conflict. And my pharmacy training, that was a family business. And if you're wondering about my accent, it's from New Orleans. It was Bellfield's Pharmacy. My dad, sister, and brother were all pharmacists. And while as a meat inspector, I learned so much about what the pet food companies were doing. Everything that I condemned, the cancer, the TB, the pus, and I don't want to turn your audience off, but these are actual facts. And these things went into the pet foods. Well, Dr. Morris discovered that the quality of protein that was going into the pet foods at that time was a burden to the kidneys because the kidneys had to eliminate this debris, really, is what it was. And it caused chronic interstitial nephritis, which is similar to cirrhosis of the liver with a lot of scar tissue, which will not function as kidney tissue will. So when I went into practice, I began to notice a lot of skin conditions, allergies, and so forth, which I could relate to what Dr. Morris had seen when he practiced. And I tried to explain this to the pet food representatives that would call on me to purchase their products. And, of course, they just said, no, they know what they're doing. These are people that are experts in nutrition, and it's not the food, and so forth. So finally I was approached to write the book, How to Have a Healthier Dog. And this was done by Doubleday, published by Doubleday. And I had to send in a sample, a couple of chapters, so they could approve or disapprove what I was offering. And so we signed the contract. So when they got the entire book and saw what I had written about pet foods, the chapter was entitled, What TV Commercials Don't Tell You About Dog Foods. And they wanted me to tone it down, which I refused to, but we had the contract sold. So it was put in the book. So everything that I saw on the product labels that was harmful to the pets is in the book and what it does to the pets. So that's basically how I got started. But my function has been in practice to use nutritional supplements to treat, prevent, and control diseases other than deficiency diseases. And for an example, feline leukemia in cats, we're able to prevent these animals from being put to sleep, because the general attitude toward the profession was, if your kitten is testing positive for leukemia, it's going to come down with the disease anyway, so put it to sleep. And I said, Bullhockey, we can change this. And so I was able to set up a regimen of vitamins and minerals that would actually turn the positive cat into negative. And they lived a perfectly normal life after that. And, of course, the same thing with hip dysplasia. This has been a thorn in my side for 50 years, because the condition is not hereditary. It has never been hereditary, nor will it ever become hereditary. These two wonderful veterinarians in Lowell, Indiana, Dr. Bordens and Hardwick, they were able to take a four-week-old puppy, palpate the hips, and they could determine whether that puppy would have hip dysplasia. And what they did as a control, the pectineus muscle, which is the real cause of the hip dysplasia, the atrophy of the muscle, they would actually surgically excise one side of the hip, with the pectineus muscle being severed. And when that puppy grew, they re-x-rayed it and the excised pectineus muscle, that hip was perfectly normal, whereas the other one that had not been excised surgically was subluxated and it was hip dysplasia. This was a paper that was written in 1968 that was totally ignored by the profession. And here we have our educators in the veterinary schools spoon-feeding these students that this is a hereditary condition. And this has been one of my plights to correct this, because there are so many beautiful animals that have been destroyed because of this erroneous concept. We have people who had to get out of the breeding business because they had this stigma of having these plastic dogs. So this is basically what I have been doing for the last, I guess, 50 years. I find what you're doing not only fascinating, but encouraging because of what you just stated regarding the dysplasia and the diseases that can be managed and even reversed because of nutritional supplementation. And I can tell you from my heart I'm truly grateful for all of your hard work, and I'm certain there are many listening out there in our audience that probably feel the same way. And what I'd like to do is open up the phone line to allow people to give us a call if they're so inclined to do so. We do have some things to talk about here, but Dr. Bellfield is a really cool guy, and he's very knowledgeable. Anyone that's interested in calling in to ask a question, you can call in by dialing 347-326-9604. And when you get the greeting for Blog Talk Radio, be sure to press 1 to talk to our producer, and they will find out your name and put you through, and you can chat with Dr. Bellfield right here on the program. Dr. Bellfield really has done so much, and it's hard to, like I say, fit you into just an hour program. But what I would like to talk about, because the fellow that Dr. Prepper, who has the PRN network here, he's talking about preparedness. And with supplementation and working with our animals, we have to be thinking about prevention of disease, maybe building the immune system. And I would love to hear your thoughts about what we can do to prepare now for a potential and future situation where we're going to have to not only get our dogs and our cats and our horses fit and healthy, but how we can maintain that when there may not be a veterinarian as readily available, how we could manage to keep our animals fit and healthy and us too. Well, I have found you have to begin at the beginning with the young. And if the pregnant female goes through a very good pregnancy, she's been on a good diet, she's able to produce good antibodies and transfer these antibodies to her offsprings. And most often there are signs when you can tell the immune system is not functioning properly, such as intestinal problems, maybe some vomiting or diarrhea from time to time, ear infections, and even seizures are due to immune deficiencies, which purports itself as an allergy. So ocular discharges, runny eyes, especially in the poodles, these little white poodles, you'll see the dark spots under the eyes. So these are things that you can look for. And when this occurs, then there are supplements that you can put the animal on that will help boost the immune response and perhaps eliminate these problems. What do you recommend for, you know, we know that because of the nutrition that is commercially available and pushed and preached and talked about and recommended by other veterinarians, and I'm not anti-veterinarian, I'm just concerned as an animal pet professional myself, dealing with people who come to me very concerned about what they're feeding, the condition of the animals that they're reacting to, what may be in these commercial foods and even some of the top shelf foods that are on the market. And, you know, these things are a concern. Yeah. Well, I would begin, and of course I was criticized for this many years ago, but not as much now, but I've done quite a bit of work with vitamin C, and it is the only vitamin that if it's not present in the body, you're dead in three months. It's the only vitamin that will cause death if it's absent from the body. But then you say, well, okay, vitamin C, but there are so many different types. The natural form, of course, is ascorbic acid, which has a pH of 2.0. Well, this can burn the enamel on your teeth. It can cause acidosis, which will in turn cause kidney damage. So the scientists have been able to buffer the ascorbic acid to give it a pH of 7.4, which is the same pH of the body. And that way the animal can tolerate it. Some animals are producing more than others. Those that are producing minimally, all right, so it will prevent scurvy, which you don't find very often in dogs or cats. But then when you have an animal that is showing side effects from foods, you know, with the scratching and whatnot, then you can go ahead and use the sodium or calcium ascorbate, which has the pH of 7.4. The thing about vitamins, I think most people tend to trivialize vitamin therapies and the like, that they can run to the nearest drugstore or grocery store and pick up something and it's going to do the job. There are so many variables. In other words, how it's been extracted from the raw materials, what's the quality of it, is it in pill form, is it liquid or a gel capsule, and all these things will play a role in how it will affect the animal or even ourselves for that matter. So I would definitely say you are at the mercy of the manufacturer because the manufacturer is the only one who knows the qualities that he's using in a product. So it's a kind of a trial and error thing. I mean, if you get some sodium ascorbate or calcium ascorbate and you're getting the positive results, great, you found a good manufacturer. So this is basically all that can be done because there are no basic government controls that demand that in pet vitamins that you must disclose the qualities of the products. I wasn't aware of that. That's very interesting. So say, for instance, I'll use myself as an example just for the sake of argument. I'd like to be a breeder, and I'd like to breed a healthy litter of puppies, and I spend a lot of time looking at genetics and characteristics, temperament, and structure. And I decide to breed the female, and what kind of a regimen would you say would be a wise supplemental regimen for a pregnant bitch? Well, for example, and I discuss this in my book also. Look, it's an old book. I did that in 1981. It's still apropos to the present times. I have always advocated vitamin E for pregnant bitches. It helps strengthen the uterus, and it does help give a good pregnancy. I had a girl working for me. Oh, now we're going back many years now, and she's even a retired schoolteacher now. But when she was working for me, she was married, and she became pregnant, and I was telling her about the vitamin E, how it's good for pregnancy and whatnot. So to make a long story short, she barely made it to the hospital, and it was an excellent pregnancy. And taking it a little further, I know you asked me about pregnancy and breeding and whatnot, but I'm going to bypass that a little bit. My son was born in 1955 in New York City at Columbia University Medical Center, and they were experimenting with vitamin C at that time in infants. And a social worker came and made certain that we were giving the vitamin C and whatnot. And he is 6'5", perfectly proportioned, and this was attributed to basically the vitamin C that he was put on. My manufacturer, my age, his son is my age. I'm sorry, is my son's age. And evidently I was not into vitamins at that time. I had just graduated from school and wasn't in practice. So he evidently was aware of some of this work that was being done in infants with vitamin C, and he's a little guy. His son is a big 6'4", well-proportioned young man. So it goes to show how nutrients can make a difference in a pregnancy and even in the offsprings. Yes, that is super, super cool. And back in the early 70s in the hippie movement, people were more open to healthy living, and that was like the first I remember. But, of course, I was born three weeks before Kennedy was assassinated. So I remember, and my mom was really into supplements, vitamins, and using papaya for tummy aches and just different things, vitamin C, vitamin D, dolomite, different supplements like this. And we weren't ever really sick. And there's been a resurgence in the interest of being healthy with all the obesity and so on. That's correct, yes. Right. We're going to, in just a couple minutes, they're going to give us a little tweet, and then we'll take a break. So I think, wow, just hearing about vitamin C and vitamin E, now I wanted to ask you, was the vitamin E water soluble? Because I know a lot of companies are using vitamin E tocopherols and tocotrienols, using those as a preservative to keep their things all natural. But you can overdose on vitamin E. That's correct. And, yeah, I have always advocated all water-soluble vitamins. Also, vitamin A is in a water-soluble form, and it's referred to as a palmitate. So if you're ever looking at vitamin A, look for the word palmitate, and that's the water-soluble form. I wasn't aware of that. Yeah. Yeah, because I was also told that you could overdose on vitamin A. Well, you can actually, you know, I hate to say what I'm about to say, but I had a very dear friend died overdosing on vitamin C. He was taking 10,000 milligrams a day, which would be fine if he had been ill, if he had a viral condition or something that would require that amount. But you have to be extremely careful. When you are taking megadoses of any vitamin, there must be a reason. And if there is no reason, you're courting danger. You could be taking your life if you're doing so. So I would caution your listeners to take heed. If somebody is telling you to take 10,000 milligrams of vitamin C and you are perfectly healthy, you are courting danger. Courting danger. That is great advice. And, you know, this is news you can use today, tomorrow, and whatever might come. We are going to obey the bird and take a potty break. I think we're going to have two or three commercials, and then we'll be back on the other side with Pet Prep Radio with Sharon, the organic pet lady, and my very special guest, Dr. Wendell Bellfield. See you on the other side. You're listening to the Preparedness Radio Network. We'll be back after a word from our sponsor. I'm Dr. Prepper, and I'm here today to tell you about the Wonder Mill. Their patented grain mills create the most luxurious and quality flowers from any hard grains or beans. They contract with the world's best suited factories to manufacture the Wonder Mill to the highest specifications in the industry that they plan and design, right up there in Pocatello, Idaho. 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We're back with Dr. Belfield, and we've been discussing on the first segment supplementation and hip dysplasia. And we've been talking about the importance of the quality of vitamin, well, the importance of and the quality of vitamin A, vitamin C, a lot about vitamin C and vitamin E, and how important they really, what an important role they play in the health of our animals and ourselves as human beings. And we've talked a little bit about nutrition, and we're probably going to talk about it some more, because I'd like to ask Dr. Belfield to share with us his views on something that seems to be kind of a popular idea right now. And in desperation, a lot of people are turning to this. And then I'd like to talk a little bit about horses, too, because we've been talking a lot about dogs and cats, which is awesome. We love our dogs and cats. But raw diets, you know, due to the problems with the commercial foods out there, people are desperate for a way to keep their animals alive and do the best for them and keep them as healthy as possible and eliminate a lot of these autoimmune diseases that seem to occur not only from the dog food but over vaccination, and I would love to have you address that. As far as the raw diets, as I often said to my clients, if the animal is doing well on it, don't fix anything that's not broken. But having been a meat inspector, and of course your audience, I'm sure they have heard about meats being cooked and people still getting food poisoning, and it's not an uncommon thing in humans. But as a federal meat inspector, when meats left the slaughterhouse, they were always denatured if it's not going to be used for human consumption. And this denaturing, usually some form of diesel oil or carbolic acid and the like so that it would not be used for human consumption. So these meats went into pet foods, dog and cat foods. Now I'm also told, well, a breeder that I know says, well, the raw meat that she's using comes from a human slaughterhouse. I said, yeah, that's great. But it was inspected there, but what happens to it once it leaves the slaughterhouse? And this is when you find the contamination with the salmonella organism. That usually occurs by handling. Very rarely will you get salmonella from a steak. But when it's being ground, it's put into utensils and whatnot that's contaminated, this is when you find the salmonella or listeria organism that causes the food poisoning. Also, and this is very critical, many of the veterinarians are missing the diagnosis of food poisoning. You take a dog or a cat to the veterinarian. They have diarrhea or maybe they're vomiting, so they treat the symptoms. But they are not questioning the owner. Are you feeding raw meat? If so, well, maybe we should culture the fecal matter to see if there is the salmonella or listeria organism. That's not being done. So a lot of these animals that are eating raw meat diets are showing some signs of food poisoning and it's just being treated as an individual symptom. Now, they say that raw meat diets are natural because in the wild this is what they eat. How many of them died? How many died from eating this stuff? Is this nature's way of separating the weak from the strong? So there are still questions to be asked and answered about raw meat diets. And I think I sent you a piece from one of the journals where this professor cautioned us practitioners about raw meat diets and how we should prepare the owner about feeding raw meat diets and what the pros and cons are. So as I said, if you feed a raw meat diet, your animal is doing fine, don't change. But if you are seeing this little diarrhea or this little vomiting periodically, you should have cultures taken. I received an e-mail from a lady in Dallas a couple of years ago and she wanted me to find an attorney that could handle her case because her dog had died because of a raw meat diet and they cultured the meat as well as the fecal matter and it was the same strain of salmonella. And so I said, well, you're in Dallas. You should be able to find a good attorney to handle your case. But there are a lot of instances where animals are being impacted by the raw meat but it's being missed by the veterinarian. That's interesting. I wasn't aware of that. And most of the veterinarians that I have spoken with, they are getting paid money from commercial dog food companies to promote their product. That's correct. And so when you realize that the growing amount of money that you really have to have in order to purchase equipment because veterinary medicine is becoming much like human medicine. Oh, definitely, yeah. So I emphasize with them that they've got to make their costs and they've got to buy equipment to stay competitive. That's true, yeah. So I truly understand that. But, you know, everybody is really coming, the people that come to me, and if I had a dollar for everyone that's asked me about a dog food, you know, I've been working on developing my own but I'm very picky and I'm getting there but I still need to raise quite a bit of money for equipment to do it and then it will be hands-on only, you know. Nonetheless, until I can put a food out there that I feel and several other of my colleagues feel is just really a good thing, what can we do to help our animals be as healthy as they can with food? Because food is going to become an issue. Say we have a long-term grid, you know, failure, okay. For whatever reason, whether it be a flood or an earthquake or, you know, somebody decides to nuke our country, God forbid, God forbid. But something like that might occur and people are concerned about food and, you know, my thoughts are can we share what we have with the dog? Oh, definitely, yeah. Okay, what we know about pet food comes from the pet food industry and they have set the standards. Now, coming from the south, many of these hunting dogs, bloodhounds, blue tick hounds and whatnot, they were fed a corn mush. They took cornmeal and put it with milk and they cooked it. And this is all the dog ever ate. Now, dogs are not true carnivores. Cats are. But dogs could eat anything. And I fed, I mean, I'm a Creole from Louisiana and I've fed my dog gumbo and shrimp Creole and eggplant and all these goodies that I grew up with. We never had any problems with the dogs. Now, cats, of course, are meat eaters and that may pose a problem in the event of a catastrophe of some kind. But dogs can survive on people food. Okay. So the kitties, you know, they're going to basically continue to manage rodents and moles and things like that. So they're very helpful. They'd be a great help in those situations, because mice are going to break into our food supply. That's correct, yeah. So, you know, yay for kitties. But for our horses and our horses, you know, managing, I think with the horse world, those that are competing, they're more conscientious about supplementation on a high level. I'm talking sport horses. But it seems that when you get to more of a pleasure or a trail level, unless you have, there are little pockets of folks that are really aware and into herbals for horses and supplementing that way and not feeding as much grain because the grains are genetically modified. Yeah. Most of them. That's the other problem with dog food. Yeah. But what kind of, would you also recommend, you know, supplementation for horses that will, let's face it, if there is a situation, you know, and your horse isn't in shape, there's really not a whole lot you can do unless you have things on hand. Well, I had a couple of young ladies that worked for me some years ago, and they were into horses. And they had them boarded out in someone's boarding facility. And they had put them on a good supplement, a supplement that I had called Mega-C Plus. And all the other horses in the area developed respiratory conditions but theirs. So evidently that must have helped their immune system. I'm not a horse person, so I'm just sort of guessing right now. But I thought that was quite interesting that having supplemented their horses, they didn't have the problems that the other boarded horses had. Right. Right. Well, we had a really huge breakout actually in the western states of strangles. Oh, yeah. Last year. And people were losing horses left and right. And this was, you know, the big western, at a big western show that it developed. And I don't know an awful lot about strangles, but I do know it's terrible and it's a respiratory thing. That's right. And I'll tell you something interesting that happened some years ago. This is off a little bit. In Australia, a veterinarian intravenously gave vitamin C to a racing horse, a thoroughbred, and he went out and ran away from everybody. And when he was testing the saliva, it was very heavily laden with cortisone. So they took the license away from the veterinarian as well as the trainer. Oh, no. So I received a correspondent from an attorney, and he said, well, you know, you know about vitamin C. What about this? So I explained to him that vitamin C increases the production of cortisone naturally in the body, and this is the reason why they had this high concentration in the saliva. So they got their licenses back. Wow. Yeah. So these are little things that, you know, you learn in time. Wow. Well, this is really cool information because I'll tell you, you know, everybody's looking for an edge competitively. Yeah. And, you know, I actually started making a product at one time. Everyone was asking me for a calming snack for horses. Yeah. And so I did some work and research and consulted my consulting holistic veterinarian who's been in endurance riding and so on and on Arabians and things like that. So he's treated large animals for years. So he had helped me develop things. And, you know, we looked into chamomile, so I made a chamomile snack. Well, I ended up breaking out from it because apparently this is how I learned that chamomile is in the ragweed family, and I'm very allergic to ragweed. Yeah. It was echinacea, so I can't take stuff. But so chamomile. So I made a calming snack with chamomile and was at a very prestigious dressage show, and the veterinarian that was drug testing the horses hit my table up. You know, we were talking, and he said, oh, by the way, he was looking at the ingredients in my products, and everything was fine. But then he hit the calm snack, and he said, by the way, they just added chamomile to the drug list. Is that right? Right. So I was kind of pleased because we got into the discussion, and he was the one that informed me that chamomile is in the goldenrod family, ragweed. And I said, really? You're kidding. I'm like over a sixth. I mean, I'm off the charts allergic to ragweed. And he said, well, yeah. And I said, well, you know, that's great. I won't make it anymore. Well, you know, there are those who are trying to put certain vitamins in that category also. And fortunately we have some people in Congress. We do have some congressmen that are really working, and they are fighting it. They do not want this to occur because that means that you would not be able to buy a certain quantity of a certain vitamin without a prescription or without a doctor's approval. You see, this is where I draw the line, because I haven't been having good experiences with most allopathic doctors. You know, there is an agenda for pharmaceutical, and I know the pharmaceutical industry has a very powerful lobby. Oh, definitely. And, you know, I want to have the choice to choose, and I don't believe that any plant should be illegal. I think if God made it, it's here for a reason. It has medicinal properties. It should be allowed, and I should have a choice not to have to take something that is synthetic and, you know, reorganized by a human being because the margin of error is great. Yes, definitely. Right. And a question I wanted to ask you because we're going to hear a harp pretty soon, and then I want to share all your information and mine too before we go. I wanted to ask you what would you recommend possibly as a vitamin supplement for helping animals that might be a little anxious to be more mellow? Do you have any thoughts on that, even, you know, dog, cat, horse, whatever? Well, I know melatonin has been used for many, many years as a quietening or softening effect in dogs. I don't know too much about using it in cats, but I know the young lady that works for me now, she has a greyhound. I think she has two now, and retired greyhounds, and she does fostering also for these greyhound people and for fireworks and whatnot. Yeah, the melatonin, which is very, very mild, and it's a very good substance that you can buy over the counter. So one thing I'm going to mention real quickly because I'm so pleased because there's a crossover into humans. Inflammatory bowel disease I have chalked up as an allergy due to the intestinal tract, and I have discovered that antioxidants will actually heal. There's no need for the use of cortisone or steroids or antidiarrheal medications or anything. Once the healing occurs, the animal can eat or do anything it wants to do as far as intake into the GI tract. My wife has a cousin, a retired schoolteacher in Cincinnati, that has had irritable bowel syndrome for 20 years, and I was telling her about it. She tried it. She doesn't have the problem anymore. In other words, it's crossing over now into humans. It eliminates the necessity for pharmaceuticals, and it's a healing process. It's not just preventing symptoms and the like. So that's my pharmacy background coming in now, putting these things together. Yes, and that's why I was very excited because we seem to be kindred spirits when it comes to the passion and caring for the animals as well as people. You have the background, and that was just so tickled that I was able to find you, and I will extend an invitation to you to be a regular guest on our program. There's so much to irritable bowel too because of pharmaceutical medications like metformin for folks that are diabetic. I was taking it for a while. I was having a lot of problems with irritable bowel, and I use chia seeds, and we sell chia seeds, but that is a really super stable plant source of omega-3 and 6, and it is a balanced ratio so you're not overdosing on either one, and it doesn't go rancid, not like flax. Is flax linseed? Is it truly linseed? Well, you have me there. Believe it or not, I'm not into herbs and the like. When I was in pharmacy in school, we had a course called pharmacognosity, the derivation of drugs from natural sources, and most of these things had toxic principles. Right. And I sort of shied away from these things. Well, we'll have to continue our conversation the next time, and I think irritable bowel, we could talk a whole program about irritable bowel. Definitely. And I think we should, and I really just extend my gratefulness to Dr. Bellfield for joining us. For more information, there's more on Blog Talk Radio right on the description. If you're listening on the Internet. But for those that might be calling in, please write down his website. It's Bellfield, B-E-L, and the word field, F-I-E-L-D.com, and his phone number is 877-692-0236. And, you know, I mean, check out what he's got. He's got books, and these are very valuable resources, folks. I encourage you to do some research. You know, don't take our word for it. Do the research. But Dr. Bellfield has been doing this a long time, and he is straight up. So I'd also like to share with you my website to learn a little bit more. I'll have Dr. Bellfield's information on my website if you couldn't catch it while we're talking. That is www.vtheorganicpet.net. And we'll see you next week. I'm not certain who my guest is yet. It could be me. 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