Antioxidants for Your Dog
Don’t look for or put your faith in a “silver bullet” antioxidant. It doesn’t exist. Rather, supplement your dog’s diet with a variety of foods that contain antioxidants, such as blueberries, herbs (basil is great) tomatoes, egg yolks, green tea or spinach.
Feed these foods especially in times of increased physical stress for your dog; for example, when it’s fighting cancer or after extreme physical exertion.
Don’t overfeed any one antioxidant. Balance and variety are always advised.
Claims for Health and Healing
Arthritis: Antioxidants, but particularly vitamin C, art vital to any arthritic therapeutic program. Vitamin C is involved in the building and healing of joint and bone structures, and it plays an active role in the immune response.
Anti-aging: as an animal’s body ages, it undergoes a gradual accumulation of tiny bits of damage to cell and tissue structures and also to enzymatic systems important in the production of antioxidants. With age, then , the animal’s cells and organ systems no longer have the vital capabilities they once did. The result is an inability to deal with free radicals efficiently. Antioxidants improve the efficiency of all animal’s aging systems, resulting in a healthier old animal.
Cancer prevention: Antioxidants protect the body from the damaging effects of free radicals, slow tumor growth, and/or help cellular DNA retain its normal configuration.
Heart disease: antioxidants protect the heart and circulatory system from oxidative stress from free radicals.
Vision and eyesight: The antioxidants leutine and zeonxanthin and particularly helpful in supporting good eye health.
Immune function: Antioxidants are known to enhance healthy lymphocyte production and offer protective factors for other components of the immune system.
Originally posted 2009-04-11 01:38:43. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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