New Dog Anxiety Remedy Vets Are Talking About

Do you know that well over 50% of all dogs, my own dog included, have fear or anxiety issues? There's a new-age treatment for anxiety. It's really effective. You should know about it. Are you looking to learn more about natural pet health and wellness? You've come to the right place. Click the link to subscribe to Veterinary Secrets. I really encourage you to sign up for our brand new free webinar, Dog Sedation, Dog Anxiety, Diseases Related to Stress. What are the most common causes of anxiety in our dogs? The most common causes of dog anxiety, and most importantly, what you can do about it. Why is it so important to manage and treat your dog's anxiety? It's so much more than them just being uncomfortable. The most common diseases affecting our dogs related to anxiety? Cancer, heart disease, obesity, diabetes. These are my top holistic solutions. The webinar is free. It's happening Tuesday, November 4th at 5 p.m. Pacific. Click the link in the box below to sign up. There is a fairly recent study involving over 13,000 dogs specifically looking in anxiety. Over 50% of all dogs, that's right, one in two dogs, they have some level of clinical anxiety. Holy cow, 50%. By far and away, the most common anxiety documented in the study, it is noise anxiety, fear of loud noises. Second most common anxiety, fear of strangers, like strange people. The third most common anxiety of which Tula has, fear of other dogs. Tula has an anxiety which isn't on that list. She also is not super crazy about being up here on the exam table, which I think affects a ton of dogs. Just go to a vet clinic. She used to be okay with that, but it's being on the exam table, having me pull out the video camera, and then occasionally do things to her. Tula has been this awesome little patient dog who's been on hundreds of YouTube videos, but she's kind of lost her jam for it. She's not so crazy when I do things to her. So we're going to make this a positive video, but she's a classic example of a dog with anxiety, right? Her little heart rate goes up. Her breathing rate goes up. You may or may not be able to see her tremble. I have given her some calming chews. I've given her a little bit of CBD. She would rather not be here, and Tula, it's going to be over soon. One of Tula's fears is being separated from me, aka the great Dr. Jones. It's just Tula has developed this really strong bond with me. I'm the one who's in the house 99% of the time. If I'm somewhere, Tula's with me. So if we're separated, she's not super crazed on that. And that, like, it's just such a big common problem amongst so many of her dogs today. And if you've ever experienced stress or anxiety yourself, you know, it's really uncomfortable. Much the same thing could be happening to your dog. So yes, because of that, it's important that we do whatever we can to help her dog. But even more on a bigger picture, it has direct health and disease implications. Stress or anxiety and gastrointestinal health. There is this well-established gut brain axis. And what can happen with anxiety or stress, you get this bad feedback loop where the brain has anxiety or stress. It's sending signals to the intestines. The intestines are dysregulated. You're seeing vomiting, vomiting, diarrhea, amongst many other things. More intestinal distress, sending signals back to the brain. And you get this feedback loop where you're getting these signals coming from the brain, which then result in intestinal distress, which is sending more signals back to the brain, sending more signals back to the intestines. And that can result in ongoing GI problems. Many of us are now suspecting that for some of the chronic ongoing diseases, such as IBD, stress can be the underlying cause. It's well-documented with urinary tract disease, number one in our cats with recurrent urinary tract disease, but also in our dogs. So these dogs that have ongoing stress or anxiety, much more likely to have recurring urinary tract infections, more likely to be incontinent. Our dogs with ongoing stress and anxiety, they can have two big issues relating to weight. Number one, some can be reluctant to eat just because they don't feel comfortable. Say you leave separation anxiety, but in other cases, we see our animals, they overcompensate and they're eat too much. The normal body mechanisms and the normal hormones that would trigger a dog and go to the brain and say, either one, eat because you're hungry or stop eating because you're filled up. Those are overridden when you've got these secondary issues of stress and anxiety. An example for little Tula right now is even if I put a tasty treat on here, like here, do you want this in my mouth? She doesn't want to eat it. She doesn't want to eat it because of that anxiety. Stress anxiety has been linked to atopy. Well, number one, we see some of this particular changes in an animal that has an allergy in terms of itching, scratching, pacing, ongoing hair loss. And most of us think it's just our dog is reacting to something in their food. They're reacting to something in the environment. And yes, that is happening most of the time, but in some cases, anxiety or stress can be the underlying trigger. An example would be a dog that chronically licks his or her front paws. This dog can have this condition called acral lick dermatitis or a lick granuloma. The number one cause of that, there's an animal that's left alone in the house, separation anxiety. How do they cope with those unhelpful, those anxious feelings? They start licking their leg. And of all those diseases, probably the biggest one that, you know, takes up the biggest space in my mind is that link with stress and anxiety and cancer. And there's just been a ton of research on this. I mean, there's one particular paper I'm going to put a link in the description box is called chronic stress induced immune dysregulation and cancer implications for initiation, progression, metastases and treatment options. And the first statement coming from the abstract psychological stress, it is a well accepted risk factor for cancer, anxiety or stress. It has a direct effect on the immune system. You have this immune dysregulation. It can attack those abnormal cells that are growing. We know so much of the immune system. It's located within the intestinal tract. You have ongoing anxiety. You're going to alter the gut microbiome. You're going to have a far less efficient immune function than this ongoing stress and anxiety that can alter key hormones in the body that offer a protective effect and then ongoing anxiety and stress. It has a direct epigenetic effect in terms of that anxiety and stress. It can impact what genes are turned off and on in your dog's body. And if the wrong genes are turned on, the wrong ones aren't turned off, then your dog is much more likely to get serious diseases, in particular cancer. Okay. So I think I've pretty much built the case there for why it's really important to manage and help our dogs that have anxiety and stress. And there are many, many options in terms of number one, you know, adequate exercise, seeing a professional trainer. If your dog has separation anxiety, being able to adequately manage that. Try and not have your dog exposed to so many loud noises. Think about playing, you know, calm classical music. If your dog's going to be left alone. Use of things like the Thunder shirt, right? Where your dog is swaddled in this firm shirt. And what it's doing, it's touching on key acupressure points, right? All over your dog's body. These dogs experience less anxiety. Even things such as dog TV, they've actually got studies showing that that can help lower cortisol level. So measure lower levels of cortisol in your dog's blood. They're calmer just watching dog TV. One of the supplements that works really well for Tula, and probably one of the biggest reasons why it's used period CBD, chamomile. I'd give her about five drops, which is about 15 milligrams of our supplement in about 20 minutes. She is far calmer, but believe it or not, there are specific ingredients in this. What is this? This white kind of milky looking substance. It's actually milk. So in this milk, there's an amino acid called tryptophan tryptophan. It's a precursor to the very common neurotransmitter serotonin that can help decrease your dog's anxiety. But there are other milk ingredients that have been well studied, and there is a new one. It's called alpha-casopepsin. It's a type of peptide. So a type of milk ingredient, which is in here. And that is shown to be really helpful for many of our animals. Many of our dogs that have anxiety. This is what I'm talking about here. The brand is called Lactium. The actual ingredient itself is called alpha-casopepsin. Lactium is the brand. So it's called a hydrolyzed milk protein. So they've taken the protein out of the milk. They've broken down some of the sub-ingredients and they found some of these key ingredients offer great therapeutic properties. This is coming from cow's milk. And interestingly, when they were doing their initial studies, they focused on trying to figure out what is the key ingredient in milk that calms babies down. They had a crying baby. You give them milk with a few important key ingredients in it. And it's not just that, they're hungry, they're less hungry. It also had a direct calming effect in the brain, right? Lower brain activity, less signs of anxiety, lower cortisol levels. So I got it. There's something else in there. And this is what it is. Most of this research, it was done in France at the University of Nancy. And what they found is the specific ingredient, alpha-casopepsin. It had anti-anxiety qualities similar to some of the benzodiazepines. So what it's doing is binding specific receptors in the brain, the GABA receptors. And guess what? All of a sudden there's lower brain activity. Your dog isn't as anxious as he once was. He's a whole lot happier. Based on Tula's anxiety, I am going to give you one of these. I'm not going to eat it. This is good for you. Also in today's video, how to quickly give a pill. Wrap your left hand around the top of your dog's muzzle, pulling his lips around his teeth. Pull the lower jaw down, the middle finger of your right hand. Pop that pill into the back of his throat. Push your finger in really quickly. Hold his mouth, blow on his nose. You swallow, and there it is, down the hatch. Since it's university research, there has been a number of different studies specifically done with lactium, alpha-casopepsin. And they found in all those cases, there's a marked decrease in measurable levels of cortisol, right? And that's the key stress hormone that gets released in anxiety. So after giving the alpha-casopepsin, you're seeing lower cortisol, right? You're seeing your dog is shaking less, they're panting less, their heart rate's lower. They have less anxiety. A couple of key points. Yes, it's a milk product, has virtually no lactose. You're not going to see any GI upset. Secondarily, although it does act similar to the other benzodiazepines, i.e. Valium, it's not a benzodiazepine. It doesn't interact with other drugs. So you're not going to see side effects. So if you have a dog that has anxiety, such as I, maybe you've tried some of the other ingredients. If you've yet to try alpha-casopepsin, aka lactium, I encourage you to try it. Thanks so much for watching this edition of NRE Secrets of alpha-casopepsin, this milk peptide for anxiety in dogs. Then last but not least, don't forget to sign up to our brand new webinar. It's called Natural Dog Sedation, Dog Anxiety, and Diseases Related to Stress. Why you really need to treat your dog's anxiety, the most common diseases related to stress, and my top natural remedies to help you with those diseases. Should you use conventional anti-anxiety medication? My top natural remedies for anxiety in our dogs. These are ones which I've tried in my own dog. And these are ones which work. The webinar is free. It's happening Tuesday, November 4th, at 5 p.m. Pacific. Click the link in the box below to sign up. Click up there to subscribe, hit the bell to sign up for notifications. And when you click that link directly in the box below, I can send you a copy of my free book.