298. Dr. Judy Morgan: What Kibble Does to Your Dog's Liver

0:00Over 50% of the pets in this country are overweight or obese.

0:05Cats that live inside, over 80% of them are highly stressed.

0:09Cancer incidence in dogs is 1.6 out of every two.

0:13We have messed up what we're feeding our animals.

0:16Looking at the framing of what has happened to healthcare in America, I never actually thought about superimposing that to our pets.

0:25The veterinary field is highly influenced by big pharma and big pet food.

0:30And they make ultra-processed food, and the waste products of all that ultra-processed food go to our pets.

0:36And the same way that we started the war on saturated fat and protein in favor of high glycemic carbohydrates in humans, we probably did the same thing with our animals.

0:44That's why food therapy to me is so cool, because we can keep things in balance.

0:49Where we get disease is where it gets out of balance.

0:52And so the same goes for our pets.

0:54If we were to distill this down where we've gone wrong in how we treat our pets, what would it distill down to?