In this video i'll talk about three dog dementia treatments for senior dogs
and later how feeding your dog a healthier kibble diet clears the
fog of dementia to live with greatly improved mental clarity and focus.
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. Maybe your dog's developing dementia or know someone's dog who is.
The signs to look out for include losing the ability to interact and take part in the kind
of activities they used to enjoy, sleeping longer throughout the day and less at night,
toilet accidents becoming more frequent, a more confused state of mind in the home environment
and rising intolerance and agitation, or the failure to recognize members of the family.
The symptoms usually begin around the age of eight or nine and while it's easy to spot physical
changes, mental stagnation can be tricky to interpret. You might notice your dog forgets
where to get their leash from having done it automatically for years and while this can be hard
to see and even harder to accept, the good news is that senior dog dementia can be greatly relieved,
even stopped altogether with the right approach. With this in mind here's three powerful ways
to boost your dog's cognitive abilities, clear the fog and get your dog back on form quickly.
Number one is exercise. Maybe your dog is more reluctant to take walks than they used to
or gets out of bed a bit slow and stiff. Exercise is crucial to keeping your dog's
joints moving and stimulating their senses.This can be a problem when your senior dog just wants
to rest their achy joints, but the opposite is needed to stop the joints from seizing up and
the mind from stagnating. Exercise increases the production of serotonin and dopamine in the brain,
making your dog feel happy, calm and balanced, while lowering stress throughout the body.
Of course it's important not to jar the joints with pounding exercise, but even slow walks make
a world of difference and swimming or walking on sand really helps older dogs that are maybe fat
or weak or suffering arthritic pain. It's really important to get your dog out of the house daily,
exercised according to their ability and they'll feel better for it once home again.
Number two is to feed your dog brain stimulating supplements. Coconut oil is one of the very best
superfood medicines you can give your dog. The MCT's or medium chain triglycerides
derived from coconut oil help improve brain function in senior dogs. Coconut oil combined
with an omega-3 supplement such as hemp seed oil increases the cognitive abilities of older dogs
and helps to slow the aging process and boost your dog's brain function to be sharper, more aware,
with greater perception, reasoning and judgment. Serve one teaspoon for every 10 to 15 pounds
of dog body weight daily and simply add to your dog's food and reduce the feeding size a little to
compensate the extra calories. CBD oil is another excellent choice for the senior dog suffering the
first signs of dementia. CBD protects the nervous system and slows neurodegenerative disease.
This means CBD is great for your senior dog, protecting them from cell death brought about
by free radicals, toxins and inadequate diet. CBD is also amazing for arthritis and from my
own research and practice over many years with cbd oil, I found it to be highly effective in the
treatment of advanced arthritis. Usually within a week, dogs that were previously stiff and in pain,
have been able to once more go for pain-free walks, hop into the car or on the couch unaided
and generally feel years younger in attitude and behavior. Get it in tincture form as you'll
know it's purity and it's easy to administer the correct dose. Just follow the directions
on the bottle. Always make sure it's been extracted using clean methods such as full
plant extraction by co2, so it contains full plant terpenoids, flavonoids, essential oils, vitamins,
trace minerals, phytochemicals and omega-3 and six oils. And i'll leave a link to my favorite organic
choice in the description below. Number three is diet, and the vital need to feed your dog better
nutrition in the senior years to increase cognitive abilities and head off dementia.
The very first thing that you can do to really help your dog is balance their gut floral levels
for healthier digestion. The bacteria that lives in your dog's gut forms 80% of their
immune system and it's the immune system that does the job of protecting your dog's body to disease
and cognitive dysfunction. One of the problems with kibble is that it's high in starches that
feed bad bacteria and if you've senior dogs been on kibble for a long time, their gut health will
be in poor shape. This leads to inflammatory health problems and a loss of perception,
reasoning and judgment and your dog's simply not getting enough brain food. As diet is responsible
for 9 out of 10 health issues in dogs, there are simple things you can do to help this underlying
cause of dementia, including allergies, diarrhea, yeast infections, ear infections,
skin and coat problems, hot spots, arthritis and poor digestion. I know many pet parents don't want
to change their dog's existing kibble diet and so I created the Healthier Kibble Diet to help
kibble feeding dog owners reclaim their dog's health from issues such as loss of cognition
that shows up much earlier than it should from the long-term feeding of kibble. It works wonders
for senior dogs very quickly as within days you'll notice positive improvements and you'll see a link
to a video in the description below explaining more about the Healthier Kibble Diet. As many
pet parents who come to me for help have found, kibble sustains their dog's life, but it doesn't
provide enough protection from the early onset of dementia. So boosting an established kibble diet
transforms senior dog's health and greatly slows down the signs of cognitive decline.
For an across-the-board whole body health boost, the Healthier Kibble Diet ensures your dog is
getting more of the vital nutrients missing from a regular kibble diet, to turn back the clock on
dog dementia and provide a timely opportunity to clean up some basic chronic health problems,
freeing your dog to feel fresh and excited over the years ahead. And if you found this
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