This Golden Paste Recipe Just Got Better

our updated recipe of the golden paste and have five ingredients. 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. Dr. Doug English, he's an Australian veterinarian. He developed this recipe a number of years ago and it has been used literally by thousands and thousands of pet parents, not only their dogs, even on themselves. And it's incorporating things that are already in your kitchen and primarily focusing on the big benefit of the anti-inflammatory found in this kitchen spice turmeric and the potent active ingredient is 95% curcumin and it is a well well studied potent natural anti-inflammatory, a painkiller. You know it's got anti-cancer properties being both preventive in some cases even used to help treat some of the cancers. We've seen it be beneficial say for instance for ear disease, skin disease and allergies. Eye disease are animals that get dry eye. You've seen 95% curcumin and that be beneficial in that instance. Helpful in some cases for inflammatory bowel disease. Discussed as a serious treatment for cognitive dysfunction and there literally are hundreds and hundreds of studies. But there's a couple of sort of tweaks that have been made to this recipe. I'm going to show you those. Also some specific suggestions by Dr. Ingalls as far as how to make it correctly and how to make it most beneficial for your dog. So for today's updated version of the golden paste we have five ingredients. First and foremost we have turmeric. This came from our co-op and this could be the standard turmeric that you're going to use as a spice for any of your curries etc. Beware of if you're getting one, some people are now buying what they call raw turmeric that hasn't been cooked in any way. And if that's the case it can still be used but it needs to be cooked longer. But just standard turmeric you're going to get from any grocery store. Number two, the fluid that you're going to cook it in. For most of the recipes they're starting with water but in our instance we're using something different. We're going to use this green tea. Dr. Karen Becker has talked about using green tea in the golden paste modified recipe. Green tea has ingredients EGCG making it a potent anti-inflammatory and it's been shown to be beneficial for degenerative joint disease to help to be a natural painkiller. So because of that I'm going to incorporate that in the recipe. The one caution with the green tea is it won't last as long. So typically it's going to last approximately seven to ten days in the fridge but we're going to make smaller batches and you can freeze it so then it can even last longer. But yes we're going to be using green tea. Some pet parents are concerned about green tea and the amount of caffeine. Turns out the amount of caffeine is actually relatively small in green tea and it's 100% safe when it's to be given at the dose that I'm suggesting in this recipe. Third ingredient we're using is olive oil. Some of the original recipe called for coconut oil but olive oil suggested even by Dr. English as a substitute. The big benefit here is we're going to get some of the anti-inflammatory essential fatty acids. So oil is important as far as allowing much better absorption of the turmeric but secondarily we're going to get EFA benefit right so also more anti-inflammatory benefit. So because of that we're going to be using olive oil. The fourth ingredient and this comes from one of our subscribers. We're going to be using ginger. Watch all of us have ginger in our kitchen. This came out of my spice cupboard. Ginger it's a well documented natural anti-inflammatory containing the active ingredient gingerol and it's safe once again when given in appropriate doses and I've seen many of our dogs benefit from it. So this is going to also be a portion of our modified golden paste and this is the regular ground ginger once again from the grocery store and then our fifth ingredient last but not least black pepper. Pepper is also key because what it does is it markedly increases the absorption of the turmeric. The important thing with the pepper is we're going to be using a ground pepper. If you take pre-ground pepper it's been crushed ages ago exposed to oxygen it's been oxidized it markedly loses its ability to be as effective to absorb the turmeric meaning we're going to be grinding the pepper. First our turmeric one quarter of a cup going into the bowl. Next our green tea one half a cup. Here's our quarter cup of turmeric half a cup of green tea then turn it on to medium heat. We're going to simmer this on the stove. I wanted to turn this into fairly thick paste. So seven to ten minutes here we go. It's been about seven minutes and as you can see now there's this relatively thick paste. Remember how watery it started out as? We now have to let this sit and cool for about 10 minutes before we add our next ingredient the ground black pepper. Now I am grinding the black pepper one and a half teaspoons. It's been 10 minutes it's well cooled down now adding in our one and a half teaspoons of freshly ground pepper the other half a teaspoon. Next our ground ginger I'm going to be adding in one and a half teaspoons the same amount of the ground black pepper right and it just really further makes this a much more potent anti-inflammatory. Then last but not least the olive oil with the anti-inflammatory essential fatty acids three tablespoons. Here is our finished recipe. This can then be stored in the fridge in the last about two weeks that'd be the maximum because we've used the green tea. If you have a small dog just portion it out and you can freeze it last over three months just leaving a small amount unfrozen take it out as you need it. Typical doses about a quarter of a teaspoon per 20 pounds of body weight. I want you to start with that as a once daily dose just give it for three to five days ensure they're okay with that amount then you can potentially double that amount so a quarter of a teaspoon per 20 pounds of body weight twice daily. Your 40 or 50 pound dog can get about half a teaspoon twice a day and this is something which can safely be given long term and many many dog parents are finding it really helpful. It's just helping their sort of senior dog helping them with inflammation helping them with arthritis potentially even helping them with cognitive function. So there it is the Modified Golden Paste for Dogs including green tea and ginger. Thanks so much for watching this edition of Veterinary Secrets of the Modified Golden Paste for Dogs. Click up there to subscribe hit the bell to sign up for notifications then when you click that link directly in the box below I can send you a copy of my free book.