I’m gearing up to write my next book, the purpose of which will be to install more common sense in health care for pet owners.
You guys are exposed to two things all the time. The first is the slick advertising on the web which causes you to purchase product after product in the hopes of improving the health of
your pets. Many of them are useless and some garbage.
Let’s take a brief look at probiotics. If you planted a seed pack in your garden every day for a month and nothing sprouted, would you continue on and on and on? If these ‘good’ bugs are supposed to reseed the gut and create a healthier balance, wouldn’t a week or a month be enough to get them established and growing. Why is this always recommended for life?
[better question: Why don't they help like they're supposed to? The answer is in my article The Gut Garden in the magazine section of my site. I also wrote a recent newsletter explaining this.]
The second thing you’re all exposed to is the production line of purchasing and purchasing more and even more created because the education process has been taken over by the pharmaceutical giants.
Sell, sell, Sell…
The more expensive the test the better.
Treatments must keep patients coming in.
Scripts have to be filled and then refilled and then refilled again
Medications for allergies work by suppressing the immune system and you
refill over and over again. This is the way pharmaceutical companies make the big bucks. Now, because the immune system has been ‘whack-a-moled’ by treating the allergies the patients now get even more serious problems. More bucks.
Seriously... don't think I'm exaggerating.
Follow this up with
loving owners going out and buying off the web
PRODUCT AFTER PRODUCT AFTER PRODUCT.
Winding up with desperate pet owners carrying thinner wallets while corporations get richer.
But, for new folks just joining my newsletter… well, they don’t know all this.
Honestly, I have no idea how to catch people up.
One person recently suggested I do a substack.
I am going to talk to someone about this.
I never read substacks. Do you?