⚠️Caution: Prescription Pet Food for Allergies!?! Why You Should AVOID IT 

I’m absolutely disgusted & livid right now! Not only did I drop $1k at a vet visit, but I also dropped another $200 on Rx food & Rx that the vet said my Frenchie will need the rest of her life. I’m literally over it!!!! At this point I’m certain it’s the vet’s overzealous attitude of “she’s got to be on cytopoint & apaquel….blah, blah, blah” That caused this entire situation in the 1st place. I’m sick of it all 🤬 I should have stuck to my own advice & continue to stand my ground. • Thank you BOTH for this. I’ll be changing vets.

I had to chuckle when you mentioned Ken Berry- I have been listening to him, Dr Eric Berg, Dr Sten Ekberg, and a bunch of other keto and carnivore docs for several years-- low carb, whole 30, keto, and carnivore saved my life and these guys were the ones that educated me😊 you are a mirror image, but in the canine world! I'm a 30 year dog groomer, do all kinds of holistic, herbal, nutritional/natural things for myself and my dogs, and raised every domestic animal there is, and I was super happy to find you and hear you preaching the same things I do on a daily basis to my clients!😊❤❤❤

If you've never worked at a food service with fryer vats used, you don't realize how bad the oil can get before it's changed out and the occasions when the discarded oil or grill grease can be contaminated with cleaning chemicals. You don't realize the number of food safety violations that occur on a regular basis in food service, including serving sanitizer (killing your gut microbiome) because the dishes weren't allowed to properly air dry.

One of my cats is allergic to grains and probably preservatives and some thickeners. I was told by my vet that they wanted to put him on a rx diet, do many $$$ of testings along with meds . Yet were surprised when I said or we could save me alot of money and do an elimination diet and find out whats really going on other than the seasonal allergies. I even mentioned I'd learn how to make his food so he wouldn't get sicker. And the outrage that ensued was unbelievable and told how Id kill him not save him. Two yros later, after much reading, all kitties are fine on homemade and allergy kitty is only on the one he takes for seasonal allergies as needed.

German veterinarian technician here. 25 years ago we were sent to attend a nutrition weekend by Hills. The speaker there was a previous cigarette salesman and just teached from a script. Every statement we made that this or that won’t work or is actually not true because we see it on the animals daily was shut down. After the first half day my colleagues and I left and refunded the spent money back to our hospital boss🤣. The food industry problem was always there

The immune system has an important function. Why would we permanently shut it off? Treating symptoms never solves the problem. The answer I need is what is the source of the problem, or at the very least how can the condition be reduced. For instance, I might not ever know what caused my cancer, but I can know what cancer thrives on, and stop that. Cancer thrives on sugar.

My cat is allergic to peas and possibly cranberries. I did very extensive food trials for him and narrowed it down to these ingredients. I haven't fed him foods with these ingredients ever since, and his allergic sores never returned. He had frequent allergic skin sores for 6 years, the entire time I've cared for him, and I finally got rid of them by simply eliminating foods with peas and cranberries. It took me about 4 months of trials, meticulously recording all his symptoms and the ingredients in every food I gave him.

This channel gives me hope!! Keep going. You are both such amazing Angels for the animal kingdom.

Fabulous discussion… You are two of my heroes! I have a large cat and kitten rescue/sanctuary and I’m gradually trying to change your protocol to Natural and Holistic as much as possible. We have to go slowly, and be so careful, because some of our veterinarians will refuse to work with us!

Please don't forget about the Cats!

EXCELLENT presentation ! It was a sad joke however that the short video ads were by HILLS & PURINA!!! I'll be sharing this important information that you both provided.

Thank you for this conversation. My vet just told me I need to do this because my dog has allergies and dermatologists won't bother helping her until she does a food allergy trial. And then sent me a list of recommended kibble and wet foods from Royal Canin. She eats raw and gently cooked [already balanced for me] plus supplements like bone broth and raw goat milk/goat cheese. It doesn't make any sense to me, especially because my main concern is her chewing off her hair from paws and tail, which is acute. It seems way more likely to me she's having a reaction to an insect bite or maybe even stress. It's not every day all day so why would I willy nilly do a food trial on her before I even see a term. And why can't the term run diagnostics first? Why would I change such a massive thing as diet for 3+ months to maybe learn what the root cause is instead of doing food sensitivity tests or skin allergy tests first? That said I found you through Rachel Fusaro, who I watch religiously and in a video with Dr Hjlem, I learned that big brands are buying up vet practices...and long story short through some googling, I learned that mine is owned by petco. So thank you. For everything you do. I love your shop [pet plate is amazing, project sudz is amazing] and thanks for sharing your knowledge. I am looking for a new holistic or integrative vet who doesn't treat me like a bad parent when I ask about dangers of Simparico Trio [which they push on me hard even though I told them I'm worried about seizures since the box literally says can cause them in dogs with or WITHOUT a history] and dangers of non-essential vaccines and over vaccinating.

Thank you for this video. My GSD has been on Apoquel and Cytapoint with no true relief. I am going to treat my boy like I have treated myself with a better diet. You are a GOD send. I knew changing my diet got rid of a lot of the issues I was having and I am going to try the same for my baby boy. I wish I had caught this sooner. He is not even 2 yrs old and having all of these issues. I have also started adding real food to his kibble and by month end he will be completely off of it. (He initially did not want to eat what he did not recognize, but I have been decreasing the kibble and he is 3/4 lightly cooked food now).

I once asked my vet which is the best dogfood.. she answered...."it's all shit"

Why arent consumers fighting back? Class action lawsuit anyone?

Thank you so much for doing this. I refused to feed this food despite the dermatologist specialist instructions.

After trying multiple different brands and proteins that did not agree with our dog's GI tract (beef, chicken, and fish), we put her on Royal Canin Hydrolyzed Protein (HP). This DID almost immediately resolve her issues and has maintained her for over 1 year so far. That said, I still don't like the highly processed nature of the kibble and am in the process of trying to change her over to a quality lamb-based raw food diet. I want to see if she really has protein issues, or if it's more related to the extreme processing and additives. It's too soon to tell if this will work, but I did want to share an alternative real-life experience. By the way, I do not work for any pet food company, nor am I related to anyone who does. I just wanted to share my dog's story for those who may be in a similar situation.

Thank you for the research and information sharing you do Dr. Judy. There is a journey ahead of us to pinpoint her allergies by trial and error rather than to follow the impossible standards her allergy results gave us. I had such a bad feeling about the HA food and am so glad I came across your videos so I can avoid even getting started. It will be difficult, but I would do anything for her. Thank you again.

Outstanding video! LOVE Dr C Brady, took a raw master class of his that's outstanding. Love you too, Dr J Morgan, hope you both collaborate again on more topics. Thank you

Thank you exactly…great show!

This was a great conversation.

Almost all cats nowadays have kidney issues but the issue is their carnivores. Hello! They need meat and taurine!it's the dry food giving them kidney disease! Crystals in their urine! Horrible thing to do to our dogs and cats

Excellent information! Thank you both!

THANK you! Information that is so necessary for pet parents to know! Sharing🐕💖

As I have suggested on your most recent video(about a lawsuit), instead of having a guest on who agrees with you, why not have Dr. Rae, and Glenn, the Petfood Puzzle Guy, come on your channel or you go on theirs, and the 3 of you talk all of this out?? You have your subscribers, and they have theirs. No sense in just continuing to "preach to the choir", yes? We The People would LOVE for you guys to do something like that.

Excellent video blowing the myths of crap kibble!👍❤️

Your channel is just amazing now, Dr Judy. Credit where it was due!!

I healed my gut issues going carnivore. Dogs are doing well on raw carnivore with a few bites of fruit/veggies. Cats too!

Sooo many of our clients have food allergies with their dogs now and none have had clear success on hydrolyzed diet. Our dog got extremely worse on it as well. Raw diet has been the most successful. Unfortunately owners trust their vets recommendations too much without listening to what the dogs body is telling them…

I appreciate you all sharing your knowledge. I’m grateful, this only makes me be a better advocate for my better half Bailey Bo.

Makes sense

Excellent, I enjoyed this chat very much! We have livestock guardian dogs. How can I find a whole food diet that I can afford to feed?

I recently discovered my elderly dog has a bad reaction to lamb. It was the first time he's had it. Loose stool and obvious cramping with grunting when he pooped. He had a sensitivity testing a few years ago and lamb was indicated as a problem. I forgot about the result, but it was obviously on point, even though I understand this kind of test is not very accurate. Cod and goat were also indicated, with a mild reaction to pork. All other meats were okay. Corn, vinegar, tomatoes, and applies also. Just about every ready made food contains vinegar, so I guess I'm making his food at home now.

Franken food, we call it in the human Proper Human Diet circle

My 17 year old cat was prescribed Hill's Prescription Diet z/d Skin/Food Sensitivities Original Flavor Dry Cat Food. The vet told me I also had to use a good probiotic.I am currently using Vital Planet Flora Cat Daily Probiotic Powder. The problem is that he always likes new food and does good for a while then he's back to having diarrhea and throwing up. he also likes for me to mix in a little wet food so I bought the same cat food in the wet form. I always mix a little dry and a little wet food with a little water and the probiotic to make a gravy like consistency. He won't eat the dry food otherwise. I worry now that you guys said about dry food being bad for the gut so I will switch him over to the wet for now then move him off. I know he's an old guy but he still has life in him. When he's feeling good he goes out into the wild (we live in the mountains), he plays and hunts. I haven't seen him eat any critters in a while but he loves to hunt pocket gophers. He leaves them for the birds to eat. The one thing I have noticed is, He used to always have eye boogers that I had to clean off of him now his eyes are clean and he's grooming himself better. I just want him to feel good now in his old age and at the same time not break my pocket book. one 8.5lb bag is $75 lasts a little over a month 5 cans was $35 last a little over a month one container of probiotic is $30 last 1 month $135 monthly

My cat has been on it for over 10 years. She gets.terrible allergies if I feed her anything else. .

& those are expensive too

Do you have the list of foods that you discuss here? I do nutrition consults with pet parents and these foods come up a lot when I ask what they're currently feeding.

What are your thoughts on Sundays dog food? Im trying it out

Exactly! My dermatologist said she need the royal canin HP I was desperate as my Newfie was literally furless BUT I suspect it’s the apoquel that’s helping NOT the crap! She had pork and sweet potatoes today Have to work on stopping the apoquel Btw this doc is 1000% against raw feeding 😑 How do I heal her gut from this I could list the products I used on My raw fed dog.. she was raw fed when she blew up for two years 😮

I just got into this today with the vet for our cat and urinary diets.......ugh!!! hahaha and DrConor, that look at the nutrients was her argument!!! LOL I said, but look at the food!!!! or lack there of. Sad really.

Can you please share the name of the article you mention around 4:16?

Is there any article I can learn about food trial? My cat has this problem of excessive salivation very randomly and after a year of treatment, one day she had seizure and the vet tried phenobarbital. It is doing fine but recently occasionally she would crash, excessive salivation, messy CBC test results and all. So we try a different diagnosis of food allergy, because every time she salivates, her jaw is inflamed too so we start her on the antibiotic and hydrolyzed food. I cant find wet hydrolyzed food so only kibbles, which I deeply don’t believe it is a long term solution. So I really want to help my cat restore her immune system properly. Any resources I can learn about rehabilitation of cat immune system/gut health or something?

Question: my Brussels is super allergic to everything. I’m trying raw rabbit this time, added “Ultra Laurin” and “pet ultimates probiotics, 22 species” how do I take the apoquel and steroids out. When I cut back his whole belly is bright red….. please help🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Dr Ken Berry is THE BEST! he's coined the term: Proper Human Diet. If love to know what you both eat and feed your human families

The vet tells you they have to be on the prescription food for life…

This is an example of sincere bias blindness. They can say all this, most of it misleading, but can they explain why traditional (real) veterinarians see such great results? By the thousands? It’s pretty sad.

Hi guys any recommendations what to do when you heave an extreme picky eater who only wants kibble (if it doesn't cromch it's not worth eating....)? I've tried it all to get her off it and I'm adding real foods to her diet where I can but maybe there is something I can do for her gut health to help her crave real foods over puppy McDonalds? Thanks in advance!

Wait.. is there a time when cooked is better??

I have 2 Shih Tzu very picky eating with severe allergy. They allergy to chicken, turkey, and beef. Please help me with what kind of food could I give them. They hate Medicate food.

So we need to Heal the Gut first

What do you recommend for treats?

Just started watching the two of you. Dr Conor's video: Canine Allergy: Recurring Skin (including itch), Ear & Gut Conditions with Dr. Conor Brady; described us totally! My only problem, I have tried to introduce chicken, beef, and now pork. Each separately and he seems to itch more. He actually lost hair with chicken. I feel desperate... He is on hills z/d canned food with 1/2 pill steroid , Zyrtec and sprinkles of proviable daily. Do we have hope to change this?

What is DCF?

Hello omg. What in the world these vets what is wrong with them…

Sorry but my Bernese is doing Great on Hill's GI Biome. I fell for all the boutique marketing thinking that stuff was Superior. It was making my girl so sick. She had real health issues and my conventional vet saved her life. I lost respect for you because you sold out to make $$$. You know that there are some animals that need these foods to live.

Iuv the video content but wish you guys can get to the points sooner.