In this video, i'll talk about the antioxidant foods for dogs health, the reasons why this is
a great idea, and the one health supplement that's got all the antioxidants your dogs need and more,
plus later, how diet plays an important role in reducing free radical damage and premature aging.
Hi i'm Dan Scott, canine nutrition and home remedy specialist, and if you're new here, hit
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comment or ask questions below. Whatever diet you feed your dog, adding in extra antioxidants boosts
health and longevity to slow the aging process. Antioxidants slow the aging process and boost
immunity to disease by deactivating free radicals. And free radicals get into your dog every time
they are given vaccines and medications, or from exposure to pesticides, pollution,
and processed dog food like kibbles. Free radicals cause oxidative stress and damage cells, protein,
and the DNA, and the antioxidants will mop up the free radicals keeping your dog's body healthier.
However problems begin when out of control numbers of free radicals flood the body and it can no
longer cope. Free radicals can quickly overwhelm the body's immune system, leading to chronic
health complaints such as arthritis, kidney heart and liver disease, mental decline, and cancer.
The introduction of free radicals can come from toxins in antibiotics, pesticides, kibble,
home cleaning products, or lawn care products, and pharmaceutical medications.
So over time, free radicals introduced by these toxins, they'll build up in the body
and you'll not be able to stop the damage, so it's important to avoid these toxins to save your
dog's long-term health and vitality. Reducing your dog's contact with pesticides, vaccines,
and other toxins is vital to their health, and introducing antioxidants into your dog's diet
helps fight oxidative damage. A balanced healthy diet contains lots of antioxidants
to help avoid free radical accumulation. Let's look at some powerful antioxidants that benefit
your dog's immunity as well as supporting joint health and the digestive system.
Vitamin C captures free radicals then deactivates them. Dogs normally manufacture vitamin C
naturally. Vitamin E breaks up free radical accumulation by integrating into cell membranes.
Plant-derived oils such as hemp seed oil contain large amounts of vitamin E and i'll leave a link
to this in the description below and at the link above. Polyphenols are another classic antioxidant
found mostly in dark berries and other fruits such as papaya. Flavonoids are particularly powerful
antioxidants found in many vegetables, fruits, and herbs, including large amounts in berries.
Green tea is also very high in flavonoids. My absolute favorite freeze-dried greens
food supplement is packed with antioxidants, probiotics, minerals, vitamins, flavonoids,
polyphenols, beta-glucans, and much more. This one health supplement covers all your dog's
antioxidant food needs and i'll leave a link to it in the description below and at the link above.
Just add a quarter scoop to meals for small dogs daily, a third scoop for medium dogs daily,
and a half scoop for large dogs daily. Feeding your dog a healthier diet increases protective
antioxidants. If you feed your dog a kibble diet, you may be aware of the problem with feeding
kibble and how the high heat processing of kibble kills all enzymes, vitamin, and mineral life, to
sterilize it. So this means that the food has to be fortified with synthetic vitamins and minerals
and gets no enzymes added back in and leaves your dog's liver the tough job of filtering out all the
extra preservatives, colors, stabilizers, that are added to the food. This means your dog puts
up with a lot of free radical damage from kibble and is in need of a solution to slow
premature aging and boost immunity to disease. You do have the option of feeding your dog a raw
food diet or home-cooked food but if that's not an option, feeding a healthier kibble diet should be
an absolute minimum if you want to do better for your dog and stop the long-term gut health issues.
If you want to know more about boosting your dog's kibble meals with antioxidant rich foods,
take a look at my ebook Feed Your Dog Better. The Healthier Kibble Diet is part of that book and
i'll leave a link in the description below and at the link above. If your dog's gut health is poor,
a boosted healthy kibble diet ensures your dog gets more of the vital nutrients missing
from a regular kibble diet and will give your dog powerful antioxidants to slow the aging process
and boost immunity to disease by deactivating free radicals. And if you found this video useful,
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