Natural Gut Health for Animals

13/11/2024

Researching the link between a wide microbiome and health, I found this interesting article worth a read. Geared more towards humans because there are limited studies on gut health with animals at the moment.

Genetic Science Learning Center

23/07/2024

I don't know how many of you are routinely worming your animals - bearing in mind there is no such thing as preventative worming; and are instead using either wormcount or feclab to check on internal parasites in your dog (or cats).
Pharma Co's and vets have persuaded owners that the only regular worming must be done to keep you and your pets safe from worms. It is not only unnecessary, it is very damaging for both them - destroying their gut flora, and the environment; please research - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/01/vets-pesticide-flea-treatments-river-pollution-pet-owners-toxic-insecticides-hands
https://www.facebook.com/Feclab/videos/5690057717778931
As an example, I worm counted Vesper before she had puppies, and although I have no idea how she doesn't have worms bearing in mind she eats hen, horse, sheep, cow, fox s**t at every opportunity, she was clear on both counts. This is from her current litter of puppies - no chemicals in sight :-)
I have introduced many friends and co-breeders to worm counting - it's simple and very cheap. Hope this helps to keep your dog healthy.

18/05/2024

Always good to have pre and post biotics at hand.

Just in case you didn't hear guys, there are a number of cryptosporidium cases in humans in Devon, UK. Crypto is a tiny little protozoan parasite that can get into the water (poo related). Once consumed, it resides in the intestinal tract and can make you very, very gut sick. Not nice.

Dogs can get it too with the same symptoms - bad diarrhoea. If you suspect your dog has it, the vet is around the corner. While the issue often passes without treatment in adults, it’s the pups that you need to worry about, they dehydrate quicker.

If in Devon, please give your dogs boiled-then-cooled water, that kills it.
If your dog goes down with it, keep him hydrated and energised by offering two types of water - the boiled-then-cooled water but also a bowl with a teaspoon of local honey (per 10kg of dog) dissolved in and a few pinches of good salt (anything but the refined stuff!). That’s his electrolytes.

Also provide a hot water bottle under a blanket, that can help with gut pain.

Don't worry about food for the few days of gut sickness. He’s not. Once ready to start eating again, broth is a nice introductory meal. Easy on the gut, feeds the good gut flora. Some kefir will help reset that gut flora,

Failing that, a multi-species probiotic will help reset that hammered gut flora. Best to deliver those in liquid as the gut doesn’t hold on to and thus process and annihilate the good guys. To do this, mix a tablespoon of full-fat yoghurt in a mug and 4-5 tablespoons of warm water. Add your probiotic to that. The liquid wakes them up, the yoghurt gives them something to eat. Leave the mix on the counter for an hour to ferment (which really means poo out their wonderful POSTbiotics into the liquid, the stuff that is needed now) and give him 1 or 2 of those a day outside of meal times. Stop probiotics after 3 or 4 days.

19/04/2024

Great article from ZOE on gut health - worth a read.... https://zoe.com/post/gut-bacteria-diversity #:~:text=A%20healthy%20microbiome%20is%20a%20diverse%20microbiome%E2%80%8D&text=Research%20suggests%20that%20having%20a,microbiome%20more%20capable%20and%20resilient.

07/04/2024

For all my horse friends - THIS!!!

“After four weeks we noticed a big difference in her health and coat. In fact she is like a new dog on Precision Microbes. ”

07/04/2024

If you think your horse is struggling with ulcers or other problems (everything is linked to the gut biome), but you are reluctant to scope them, don't keep on trying to fix them with acid buffs and balancers, get to the root of the problem with Precision Microbes Equine.
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“After four weeks we noticed a big difference in her health and coat. In fact she is like a new dog on Precision Microbes. ”

27/03/2024

How is everyone getting on with their product? Just ordering some more myself. I really despair at the number of people who don't give their animals (or themselves) probiotics / postbiotics especially after antibiotics. I was speaking to a lady who was telling me last week how her dog was constantly itchy and 'never right' since he had antibiotics. I could see her glazing over when I told her what the dog needed, that guts need help to heal themselves from an onslaught like that. I'm sure she'd have had me burned at the stake in medieval times - scary plant based medicine! 🤣

If you want to order more, or see how Precision Microbes can make a world of difference for your dog, horse or cat, have a look at Tommy's videos: https://tommythevet.ie/animal-health-tips-and-advice/ particularly the equine video - 4th video down and read equine and pet testimonials https://www.precisionmicrobes.com/sec.../animal-health/pets/
Precision Microbes Equine 5 litre RRP £95.00
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Precision Microbes Cats & Dogs 300ml - RRP £19.99
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Precision Microbes Cats & Dogs 1 litre - RRP £27.90
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🙂 and if you buy through me - placing an order on https://www.purelyanimalproducts.com/precisionprobiotics ,
using the codes above 👉 have a discount of 10% on me ☝️
*https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37190067/....
If you want to read more about Tommy's work, his blog is https://tommythevet.ie/blog/ - top fella!
Health from within 💚

Farm animal health blog - Tommy The Vet - working in the agri-industry with vets and farmers to keep animals healthy and improve herd and flock performance

27/02/2024

Did you know?
• 70% of your immune system is in your digestive tract!
• 90% of your serotonin is produced in your digestive tract!
• There are approximately 10x the number of microbial cells in the human gut as in the whole human body!

If you want to help get your pet's digestive health back on track, click https://www.purelyanimalproducts.com/precisionprobiotics , to place an order:
Precision Microbes Cats & Dogs 300ml - RRP £19.99 JKPMPlus300
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Precision Microbes Equine 5ltr - RRP £95 JKE5
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At Purely Animal Products we understand the problems cats and dogs can have with digestive issues. That is why we carry the best probiotics for your pets health.

06/02/2024

A few people have mentioned they take probiotics themselves, and want to use Precision Microbes for their animals, and some ask 'why a liquid rather than a typical freeze dried probiotic?'

Bacteria have a log and a lag phase - in the Lag phase: bacteria initially adjust to the new environment, so they appear not able to replicate but the cells might grow in volume. In the Log phase, cells start dividing regularly by the process of binary fission.

The Lag time is defined as the initial period in the life of a bacterial population when cells are adjusting to a new environment before starting exponential growth.

Log Phase (logarithmic or exponential phase) - cell numbers increase exponentially; during each generation time, the number of cells in the population increases by a factor of two). The number of microbes in an exponentially increasing population increases slowly at first, then extremely rapidly.

Only in the active ‘logarithmic phase’ are they active. With liquid, as soon as they are administered they are awake and ready to work. This timing is critical to overcome and combat the damage done by the bad bacteria.

Hope that helps clarify. x
If you want to help get your pet's digestive health back on track, click https://www.purelyanimalproducts.com/precisionprobiotics , to place an order:

Precision Microbes Cats & Dogs 300ml - RRP £19.99 JKPMPlus300
Precision Microbes Cats & Dogs 1 litre - RRP £27.90 JKPMPlus1000
Precision Microbes Equine 5ltr - RRP £95 JKE5
Precision Microbes Equine 10ltr - RRP £170 JKE10
Use these codes above 👉 for a 10% discount ☝️

31/01/2024

The Symbiotic Relationship of Prebiotics, Probiotics, & Postbiotics:

ℙ𝕣𝕠𝕓𝕚𝕠𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕤 are good bacteria that live in your gut. 💪

ℙ𝕣𝕖𝕓𝕚𝕠𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕤 are the fibre/food for the beneficial bacteria in the gut 🥥

ℙ𝕠𝕤𝕥𝕓𝕚𝕠𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕤 are the helpful chemicals released from the bacteria that live in your gut when they feed on fibre molecules. 🍃

A healthy balanced diet is essential to provide good food to the probiotics ☯️

These three P’s work together to create a symbiotic relationship within the guts. Probiotics are fed by prebiotics, which are specific kinds of fibre found in certain plant foods including onions, garlic, leeks, soybeans, bananas, and honey amongst others. After the prebiotics (bits of fibre) are consumed, they remain undigested until they reach the gut where they begin to ferment. This process of fermentation produces short chain fatty acids that feed the beneficial bacteria populating the colon.
Prebiotics also inhibit the bad bacteria, making it easier for beneficial bacteria (probiotics) to flourish and release the helpful chemicals (postbiotics) that support positive physiological health.

29/01/2024

🙏 Thanks for your orders over the weekend everyone, and I hope to hear news on positive change back soon. As promised, more info (and more coming) on the effect the microbiome has on your pets.

The gut houses trillions of bacteria; collectively known as your gut flora. Whilst some of these bacteria are beneficial, others are not. The composition of your gut bacteria can greatly affect both physical and mental health.

Diet, stress, and medication; particularly antibiotic use, has a poor effect on the gut and can damage the cellular walls allowing particles of yeasts and undigested foods to enter the bloodstream.
The cell walls of your gut bacteria contain lipopolysaccharides (LPS); the large molecules also known as endotoxins and if these pass into the bloodstream along with dietary fat, they can cause an immune reaction.

Although their amounts may be too small to cause symptoms of an infection like fever, they’re high enough to stimulate chronic inflammation, causing long-term issues. This increased gut permeability (aka leaky gut) is one of the key reasons for diet-induced chronic inflammation.

Gastric acid in both humans and dogs is made of extremely acidic Hydrochloric acid. Dogs' stomach acid is up to ten times more acidic than humans', and they produce much more of it, so most potentially harmful pathogen is nearly always killed. The acid can even digest most bones which is an evolved feature to support their scavenging lifestyle. Although this very acidic stomach kills a lot of the bacteria found in the 'less than fresh' foods your dog might pick up out on a walk, antibiotic use to control Infections such as Campylobacter and E-Coli can leave long-term damage to the gut. The only way to remedy this, is to feed the gut with live probiotics.

If your dog has ever had antibiotics, or struggles with diarrhoea, flatulence, general lack of energy, this could be just what Vet Tommy Heffernan developed this for.

More info coming tomorrow (didn't want to swamp everyone) on pre, pro and post biotics.

If you want to help get your pet's digestive health back on track, click https://www.purelyanimalproducts.com/precisionprobiotics , to place an order:

Precision Microbes Equine 5 litre RRP £95.00
Precision Microbes Cats & Dogs 300ml - RRP £19.99
Precision Microbes Cats & Dogs 1 litre - RRP £27.90
(code for equine microbes coming on Monday)

And... if you use these codes 👉 “JKPMPlus300 and JKPMPlus1000” you can have a discount of 10% ☝️

26/01/2024

𝗪𝗘𝗟𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗘!!
Having found what I consider to be the best animal probiotic on the market, I have seen such an improvement in my horse's and dogs' health, that I began selling 'Precision Microbes' to friends and family. 💚 Sold only through vets in Ireland, and imported to the UK, I am very fortunate to be selling this directly!

As Hippocrates supposedly said 'all disease starts in the gut', and an imbalance in the gut usually results in many disorders of the body, brain - and more recently discovered; the cardiovascular system*. 70% of immune function is based in the digestive system of our pets, so having a healthy microbiome with good bacteria is quite simply the foundation for good health.

Most of us know the damage done to the gut by medications such as antibiotics which significantly change the microbiome, killing both good and bad bacteria. This simply leaves the bad bacteria to re-populate.

When I got my new horse last year, I found his feet weren't particularly strong; his breed (part Appaloosa) are prone to sensitive skin. My previous farrier commented there 'isn't much to nail into' and discussing various supplements, he said "we can throw everything at it, but the biome determines everything. If that isn't right, nothing will really work". At the same time doing some marketing work for a new range of herbal pet products, I found a holistic (herbal and homeopathic) vet who mentioned she had been on a fascinating course with Irish vet Tommy Heffernan who had developed a unique complementary liquid probiotic. Timing is everything, so I tracked him down and the man's a genius! Pure Guinness Genius🍺😆

'Precision Microbes' was developed by the clever Irish vet Tommy Heffernan, and is one of the very few liquid probiotics on the market; certainly the only licensed one for cats and dogs!

Liquid probiotics work – and they work fast 🧌 It can take the body up to 30 minutes to break through the coating and caking agents in pills in order to absorb the nutrients inside. In contrast, liquid probiotics start to be absorbed by the body within minutes.

Unlike all current liquid probiotics on the pet market which tend to only be herb based, Precision Microbes is totally unique as a pro and postbiotic liquid. Utilizing the veterinary probiotic Enterococcus Faecum NCIMB 10415 (NB not in the equine product), Precision Microbes also uses a number of specialist herbs to maintain the digestive tract and increase overall support throughout the body -

ℍ𝕖𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕙𝕪 𝕘𝕦𝕥 = 𝕙𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕪 𝕡𝕖𝕥! 5 months on 'Bob's' hooves were super solid and a friend who has recently started PM on her poorly dog who had campylobacter, reports he is thriving' - big relief for her - no more poonami! 😷

Have a look at Tommy's videos: https://tommythevet.ie/animal-health-tips-and-advice/ particularly the equine video - 4th video down and read equine and pet testimonials https://www.precisionmicrobes.com/sectors/animal-health/pets/

Precision Microbes Equine 5 litre - RRP £85.00
Precision Microbes Equine 20ltr - RRP £260.00
Precision Microbes Cats & Dogs 300ml - RRP £19.99
Precision Microbes Cats & Dogs 1 litre - RRP £27.90 .........

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using the codes 👇👇👇 for a 𝟙𝟘% 𝔻𝕀𝕊ℂ𝕆𝕌ℕ𝕋!!!!

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JKE5 – Precision Microbes Equine 5 Ltr
JKE20 – Precision Microbes Equine 20ltr

To read more about Tommy's work, his blog is https://tommythevet.ie/blog/ - top fella!

Great Gut Health from within 💚