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Healthy Canine Vitamins

Advanced clinical veterinary formulation for up-to-date, balanced nutrition for your dog. No other product like it available.

Enzymes

Enzymes are vital to your dog’s health. Without them your dog would not be able to survive.

Enzymes are required to break down food into components that can be used for energy. They are also needed to enhance absorption of essential nutrients. Enzymes are normally present in raw foods, but can be destroyed by heat and processing.

Enzymes do not survive the high heats required to process commercial pet foods.

A diet of commercial pet foods puts excess strain on a dog’s digestive system. Temperatures as low as 118 degrees F will deactivate most enzymes, requiring the dog’s body to produce the extra enzymes it needs for digestion.

Adding enzymes to your dog’s diet helps it process the food faster, thus decreasing the strain on its body.

Think about how dogs eat in the wild. When a dog kills a mouse, it eats the whole mouse. The intestines, stomach, pancreas of the mouse are rich in digestive enzymes. The dog gets the benefit of these external enzymes in helping to digest the meal it has just consumed. This produces far less stain on the dog’s digestive system. Studies have shown that animals in the wild are healthier than their domestidoged counterparts. Much of this is attributed to eating a raw food source.

Enzymes have another important function: They increase the transit time of food through the gastrointestinal tract, moving food through the intestines faster. Why is this an advantage?

When food is slowed in the intestines, it putrefies, releasing toxins into the body. Slowed transit time also caused the food to ferment, creating gaseous by-products that cause unpleasant and unhealthful flatulence (gas).

Enzymes increase the nutrient availability of foods and also decrease the toxic byproducts that result from impaired digestion.

Benefits of Enzyme Supplementation

Increases the bioavailabilty of nutrients by helping to convert food into fuel the body can use for energy.
Increases transit time of food through the gastrointestinal tract, thus decreasing toxic byproducts.
Helps decrease the odor of feces.
Helps dogs that tend to vomit after eating.
Improves skin and hair coat.
Assists in recovery from surgery, illness or injury.

Many veterinarians have found enzyme supplementation to be beneficial in immune and digestive disorders, cancer prevention, joint disorders, poor skin and hair coat, excessive shedding, allergies and lethargy (low energy levels).

Daily supplementation with Healthy Canine Vitamins provides excellent enzyme supplementation to help your dog thrive.

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