Food has a massive effect on your dogs health, however, we rarely consider how it impacts their behavior.
Usually when selecting food for our dog we choose based upon age, breed, health, (allergies, weight), level of activity, and price, but rarely on behavior.
What you feed your dog directly and indirectly affects their physical mental and emotional health.
We have been programed to believing that anything other than commercial pet food is both dangerous and inadequate. Processed commercial dog food usually comes in a bag formed into brown pellets often called a kibble. However, common scene tells an educated pet parent that whole foods are more nutritious than processed food.
Based upon Harvard researchers both the brain and gut are linked via the Vagus Nerve, which sends information between the gut and the brain. They estimate around 90% of the body’s serotonin (contributes to happiness, wellbeing) is made in the gastrointestinal tract. So essentially, what affects the gut will also impact the brain and ultimately how your dog behaves.
Cooling foods help to bring yang excessive conditions into balance.
Yang dogs can suffer from excessive itching, rashes, hot spots, skin infections, ear infections, bladder infection and excessive thirst. Arthritis, GI Track, Allergy, Anger.
Use Cooling foods to balance Excessive Yang Dogs. Warm paws, hyperactivity, inability to focus, sensory overload, constipation, aggression, red tongue, red eyes. These dogs prefer to rest on tile floors, shaded area, may pant excessively, avoids heat and dislike warm weather.
Now neutral foods are those that do not have yin or yang properties, and so are perfect for all types of constitutions, such as:
A dog food having above 35 percent sugars from carbohydrates may affect the number of amino acids that block brain function which activate hyperactivity.
Overly processed dog foods contain high concentration of carbs, sugar, and additives these can be linked to behavioral issues.
Warming foods help to bring Yin deficient conditions into balance.
Use Warming foods to balance Deficient Yin conditions. Cold paws, lethargy, diarrhea, pale tongue and weakness.
Yin Conditions include Old age, chronic illness, heart failure, watery diarrhea. Kidney Failure
Dogs prefer to be near fireplace, heating vent, sunbath, be under covers. Dogs experience anxiety, fear, grief, tremble, are shy, timid, hide.
The spleen plays an important part in the body’s immune system and acts as a blood filter, removing old blood cells, bacteria, and impurities from the body.
Emotions: Excessive mental work such as worry, dwelling, or focusing too much on a particular topic
The lungs bring oxygen into the body and remove carbon dioxide. In TCM, Lung is associated to the emotion grief and the following conditions:
Digestion and the processing of nutrients are primary functions of this vital organ. The liver is associated with anger, depression, and the below physical symptoms:
The heart pumps blood throughout the body. In TCM, this organ is linked with joy but the imbalance of joy is expressed as either too much (agitation or restlessness) or too little (depression). Below, are the mental and physical ailments linked with the heart:
The kidneys remove waste and excess fluid to make urine. In TCM, the kidney is related to fear, which can manifest as chronic fear or anxiety when out of balance, as well as result in:
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