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This article highlights the mistakes people make when executing an elimination diet. 5Strands recommends utilizing your test results by implementing an elimination plan for 6-8 weeks. Make sure you don't make any of these mistakes!
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This article explains what a food intolerance is, why this can occur in most pets and the best solution for their itchy paws and upset stomach.

Dog Food Intolerance

📄 DOG FOOD INTOLERANCE

What is the difference between an allergy and an intolerance for dogs? This article goes into detail about the myths and misconceptions about the two and whether or not your dog has a true allergy or if it's actually an intolerance.

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📄 PET INTOLERANCE

This article helps pet parents understand pet food intolerances. It also features a video from a holistic vet, Dr. Nick Thompson that explains how feeding your pet a raw diet may be beneficial.

📄 UNDERSTANDING FOODhttps://www.bellaandduke.com/learn/dog-health/intolerances-help-heal-hypoallergenic-diet-not-enough/

This article explains the difference between allergies and intolerances for dogs. It also goes over common intolerance symptoms and what to do once you have determined your dog's intolerance items.

HOW TO DEAL

📄 HOW TO DEAL

This article is for cat parents as it describes the symptoms, causes, and treatments of food intolerances for cats.

📄 FOOD INTOLERANCE

Food Intolerance In Cats: Symptoms, Causes, & Treatments

This article describes the difference between pet food allergies and pet food intolerances and is geared towards cat parents.

Food Intolerance in Cats

📄FOOD INTOLERANCE IN CATS

This article explains that your cat can be eating the same food for years and be fine, yet suddenly develop a food intolerance. Intolerances are not uncommon in cats, and a lot of times can be due to what they are eating.

How to Tell if Your Cat Has a Food Intolerance

📄3 WAYS TO TELL

This article describes food intolerances in detail for dogs and cats.
Food intolerance in dogs and cats

📄FOOD INTOLERANCE IN DOGS AND CATS

This article describes what an elimination diet for pets entail and why pet parents may not be seeing the results they want to. It also explains pet intolerance symptoms. An elimination diet is the gold standard, but this can take a long amount of time. Our test results take the guesswork out of what you should eliminate from your pet's diet.


ELIMINATION DIETS

📄ELIMINATION DIETS

This article is about the digestion system and how it breaks down and absorbs your food. It mentions issues with a leaky gut with a holistic approach.

📄DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

This article describes the differences between allergies and intolerances and the differences between the types of symptoms.

Food allergy or intolerance?

📄FOOD ALLERGY

This article explains that there is a difference between wheat and gluten. Many people think they are the exact same thing, but these words cannot be used interchangeably. It also describes the difference between having a gluten sensitivity versus Celiac's Disease.

Gluten-Free vs Wheat-Free: What’s The Difference?

📄WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?

This article explains how to do an elimination diet and shares things to expect from it. 5 Strands test helps shortcut which foods to eliminate.

HOW TO DO AN ELIMINATION DIET AND WHY EVERYONE SHOULD TRY ONE

📄HOW TO DO AN ELIMINATION DIET

This article explains the difference between food intolerances and allergies. It also lists some of the most common and possible symptoms.

The 8 Most Common Food Intolerances

📄 8 MOST COMMON FOODS

A local naturopathic doctor explains what triggers digestive discomforts and how to live with your sensitivities.

The Lowdown on Food Allergies and Intolerances

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DIY Pet Food

Do you know if your dog is getting the right amount of nutrients? This article goes into detail about the benefits of homemade dog food and the right amout of ingredients to fulfill the necessary protein, fiber and carbohydrate requirements for your dog to be happy and healthy.
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HOMEMADE DOG FOOD

If you don't know where to start with home cooked meals for your pet, here are a list of just a few quick and easy meals that will last you through the week.

📄 HOMEMADE DOG RECIPES

BEST HOMEMADE DOG FOOD

This article provides a delicious recipe for your furry friend to indulge on throughout the week and also mentions why homemade meals are beneficial for dogs.
DOG MEATLOAF RECIPE

Feeding a raw food diet to a pet can be intimidating at first. This article covers the importance of including bones for calcium, vitamin-filled organs and a few other key factors to get you started on this raw food journey.
RAW FEEDING PRIMER

📄 RAW FEEDING PRIMER

Kibble is quick and easy but what if there is a healthier way to feed your pet? This article goes into detail about the nutritional benefits of two feeding methods you might not have considered before... raw and freeze-dried food.
RAW AND FREEZE DRIED FOOD

📄WHY FEED RAW

Home cooking & raw feeding information for your cat.

What Food is Best for Your Cat

Does Your Pet Really Need 'Biologically Appropriate' Food? This article covers what cats and dogs really need in their pet food, and it includes a homemade pet food recipe maker at the end.

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Here are some recipes you can feed you cat. Edit recipes as necessary!

Vet-Approved Homemade Cat Food Recipes

Take Control Of Your Dog’s Diet With Homemade Raw

5 Raw Dog Food Recipes

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Holistic Wellness

Do you have symptoms doctors can't explain? Maybe it's more than surface level imbalances. This article describes what the autonomic nervous system is and how it benefits the function of the human body.
📄 INTRODUCTION TO LIGHT AND THE HUMAN BIOFIELD

Learn about mistakes you may be making about pet vaccines, medicines, bathing, and what you're feeding your pet.

Top 10 Mistakes Dog Owners Make

📄 TOP 10 MISTAKES DOG OWNERS MAKE

This book excerpt shares a story of realizing how emotions can be tied to food and healing that relationship.
📄 EMOTIONAL EATING

Roots of bioresonance therapy go to the end of 19th century. This article describes the research done by many scientists on bioresonance.
History of the method "bioresonance therapy"
📄HISTORY OF THE METHOD

This article highlights areas in our lives that can create issues in our health. The article calls these issues "interferences." "Interference fields can be scars, focal infections, tonsils, silver fillings, and root canals as some primary examples."
📄THE ROLE OF INTERFERENCE

This article explains quick techniques that stressed individuals can work on to feel less stressed throughout the day which will benefit mental health.

2 Minutes to De-Stress

📄2 MINUTES TO DESTRESS

This article teaches the secrets to wisdom healing and how to achieve greater health and happiness.

📄SOUND HEALING TECH

This article highlights threats and therapeutic strategies to detoxify and regenerate your extracellular matrix.
📄HOW TO USE THE MATRIX

Autoimmune indicates a state of imbalance within the immune system, but could there be more to it? This article goes into detail on potential internal conflict that might help you better understand the "self".

📄ZACHARY FEDER

Dr Karen Becker interviews Dr. Anja Kordon, owner of the Animal Health Oasis, a holistic practice located in Naples, FL.  Dr. Kordon uses bioresonance machines to treat her pet patients.


Bioresonance: Addressing Energy Imbalances in the Body

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Digestion/Microbiome

This article is about resetting your metabolism, lowering whole body inflammation, and balancing your blood sugar. It gives helpful tips and tricks to overall health and vitality, starting with your food.

📄THE LYON PROTOCAL

📄THE LYON PROTOCAL

This article is about the digestion system and how it breaks down and absorbs your food. It mentions issues with a leaky gut with a holistic approach.

📄DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

This article expresses the differences between the compositions of cooked foods versus raw foods. The differences can create different symptoms within the body.
What is the impact of cooked vs. raw food on the gut?
📄COOKED VS RAW

This article highlights the elimination system of the body and how we can use the elimination system to treat chronic illnesses. It gives 4 steps on how to fix a leaky gut.

📄REBLANCING ASSIMILATION

This article describes the microbiome and ways that it is damaged. It states, "conventional medicine only looks at the dog’s skin and not the root cause." This article offers helpful information on how to heal your dog's leaky guy.

📄LEAKY GUT

What is the microbiome and how does it help your dog? This article explains exactly what it is, the benefits of it and why it is important for your dog to maintain a healthy level in their body.

Feed Your Dog’s Microbiome (Not Just Your Dog)


📄ARE YOU FEEDING YOUR DOGS?

This video is a guide on finding the best probiotic for your dog to help aid their digestive system.

Choose The Right Probiotic For Your Dog

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Detox Information

This article tells you about the top metals that many people are overexposed to that can cause issues after prolonged exposure. It also shares several foods you can eat that will help your body naturally detox.

How to Reduce Your Exposure

📄HEAVY METALS

In this article, you'll learn some negative effects on Heartworm medicine and a few vets opinions
Why I Don’t Give My Dogs Heartworm Medicine

📄WHY DONT I GIVE MY DOG HEARTWORM

In this article, you'll learn about the potential impact on your pet's body from Frontline flea & tick medicine.
Is Frontline Harmful To Your Dog?

📄IS FRONTLINE PLUS FOR DOGS HARMFUL?

This article shares the toxins that can be in flea and tick medications. These toxins can stay with your dog or cat for years. It highlights helpful foods you can feed your pet that help them naturally detox of these potentially harmful toxins.

Toxic Pesticides: Reversing The Damage

📄TOXIC PESTICIDES

Vaccinations can be helpful for your furry friend but they might contain a few harmful ingredients. This article goes into detail about these ingredients and provides natural ways to detox your dog.

Dog Dog Vaccinations

📄DOG 📄DOG VACCINATIONS

Vaccinations, kibble, flea and tick pesticides... they start to add up and so do the toxins found within them. Here are some helpful tips on how to detoxify your dog to they are happy and healthy.

5 Tips To Help Your Dog Detox Life’s Daily Toxins

📄5 TIPS FOR DETOXING YOUR 📄5 TIPS FOR DETOXING YOUR DOG

Heavy metals surround our pet every where from the air they breathe to the foods they consume. This article describes 11 ways to detoxify your dog's heavy metal levels by healing their body in various areas.
Heavy Metal Detox For Dogs: Why It’s Important!

📄HEAVY METAL 📄HEAVY METAL DETOX

This article goes over toxins your dog is exposed to on a daily basis through their food, air, and water and how to detox them.

How To Detox Your Dog
📄HOW TO DETOX YOUR 📄HOW TO DETOX YOUR DOG

This is a 90 day menu plan to detox and jumpstart your healthy lifestyle.
📄DETOX EBOOK

This article outlines the dangers of being exposed to heavy metals and how to detox from them.
Dangers of Heavy Metals

📄DANGERS OF HEAVY METALS

This website allows you to search the tap water in your area to see what kind of pollutants are found in it.
EWG's Tap Water Database

This article explains how BPA in plastic accumilates in the body. It shares issues it can cause in the body such as diabetes and childhood obesity.
📄BPA

This article explains how toxins and heavy metals are everywhere. It shares symptoms that you may be having if you have a toxin overload in your body. At the end of the article, it shares natural ways to help your body detox on its own.

10 Innocent Signs That Your Body
📄10 INNOCENT SIGNS

We can be in contact with heavy metals in many ways that you may not realize. This article shares 7 whole foods that you can eat to help your body naturally detox.

7 Foods That Help

📄7 FOODS THAT HELP YOU DETOX

In this article, the FDA stated that flea and tick meds are causing neurologic issues in pets. The symptoms most often reported include muscle tremors, ataxia and seizures.

📄NEW FDA WARNING

New FDA Warning

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Dietary Discussions

This article explains how food is medicine. It gives helpful tips on keeping meals balanced and overall healthy.
📄DR APPROVED


Kibble is quick and easy but what if there is a healthier way to feed your pet? This article goes into detail about the nutritional benefits of two feeding methods you might not have considered before... raw and freeze-dried food.

Why Feed Raw?

📄WHY RAW FOOD

Feeding a raw food diet to a pet can be intimidating at first. This article covers the importance of including bones for calcium, vitamin-filled organs and a few other key factors to get you started on this raw food journey.

Raw Dog Food Primer

📄RAW FEEDING PRIMER

This article is highlighting the benefits of adding fresh human food to your dog's meals. There are many nutritional benefits for our dogs to eat a rotated and healthy diet that does not only consist of kibble.

Why Adding “Human Food” To Your Dog’s Diet Is So Important

📄WHY ADDING HUMAN FOOD TO YOUR DOGS DIET IS SO GOOD

This article provides good insight on the nutritional values of commercial dog foods and shows you what to look out for when deciding on the right one.

Principles of Dog Nutrition

📄PRINCIPLES OF DOG NUTRITION

Peanut butter is a quick and easy snack to give a dog but how healthy is it? There could be more in the jar than we really know and it might do more harm than good.

Is Peanut Butter Toxic For Your Dog?

📄CAN DOGS EAT PEANUT BUTTER?

Don't just feed your dog any type of bone. This article explains which size bone is best for your pup and what type would be best for them.

How To Choose The Best Recreational Bones For Your Dog
📄RECREATIONAL BONES

This article discuses how fruits can have a positive impact on your dogs health and suggests which ones can be benificial.
Fruits For Dogs:

📄FRUITS FOR DOGS

This article goes into detail about the negative affects kibble can have on your dog

Kibble: Why It’s Not A Good Option For Your Dog
📄KIBBLE

Learn the differences between homemade versus store bought dog food.

Raw Dog Food
📄RAW DOG FOOD

Tips on transitioning your dog to a raw food diet.
6 Sneaky Tricks To Help Your Dog

📄6 SNEAKY TRICKS

This article discuses how people eat to fast and the possible health implications in doing so.

Slow Down, You Eat Too Fast
📄SLOW DOWN

This article highlights the benefits of consuming meat. There are nutrients in meat more readily bioavailable that other sources of protein. It gives an example of an individual's experience with eliminating meat and how they felt throughout the process.

I Eat a Lot of Red Meat 

📄WHY RED MEAT

Feeding Your Cat: Know the Basics of Feline Nutrition

CAT INFO

Why Your Pet Absolutely Needs Fresh Vegetables - It was once thought that feeding vegetables to your pet could be harmful, but now we know they are essential for not only a healthy body, but also to encourage detoxification, stimulate natural antioxidant protection and suppress tumors. Here are nine of the best veggies to feed your cat or dog.

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Bark & Whisker's NEW Rankings of 13 Pet Foods - Analysis by Dr. Karen Shaw Becker

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Dog health statistics are alarming. About half of all dogs are obese. 50% of dogs over 10 die of cancer. Heart disease, kidney and liver disease are epidemic. Like people, dogs are what they eat. So, you need to have the true facts about your dog’s food.

Dog Food: Ten Scary Truths

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Skin Information

This article explains the sensitivities that can come from being exposed to perfumes, cleaning product chemicals, and more. It lists symptoms you can experience if you have an intolerance to these items, and it explains how to prevent exposure to fragrances you have an intolerance or sensitivity to.

Fragrance Sensitivity: What You Need to Know

This article lists several foods that are beneficial for your skin. It also states foods that are detrimental to the skin. Remember, you may not see the benefits you want to if you are eating these foods when you are intolerant to them.

📄23 FOODS THAT ARE GOOD FRO YOUR SKIN

This article lists chemicals in cleaning products that people are commonly exposed to. People can be intolerant or allergic to a number of these items. This article also shares ways of exposure to the chemicals. It shares alternatives to harsh chemicals.

Chemicals and their function in cleaning products

📄INDOOR AIR

This article shares certain fabrics that can be causing skin irritation and what the symptoms are.

Am I Allergic to My Clothes?

📄TEXTILE DERMATITS

This article shares that dogs in fact CAN have an intolerance to other dogs. It shares ways to reduce symptoms that your pet may have if they have an intolerance to other dog's dander, urine, etc.

Can Dogs Be Allergic to Other Dogs?

📄CAN DOGS BE ALLERGIC TO OTHER DOGS

This article explains the symptoms your dog may be experiencing if they are having sensitivities to certain grasses. It also mentions the onset of these sensitivities can be sudden and are not always life-long. While this article mentions "allergies" to grasses, it is still applicable for if your pet is having an "intolerance" to grasses.

Can Dogs Be Allergic to Grass?

📄CAN DOGS BE ALERGIC TO GRASS?

This article is very useful for pet parents that had their pet register intolerant to dust mites. It shares many ways to reduce your cat or dog's exposure to household dust mites.

Dust Mites: Minimizing Exposure in Dogs and Cats

📄DUST MITES

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Vitamin & Minerals Information

This chart shows the vitamin and mineral loss from different pet food prepartions compared to the raw form.


📄PET FOOD NUTRIENTS

This chart shows vitamins and minerals, signs of deficiency and toxicity, and dietary sources for your pet.

📄PET FOOD NUTRITION VITAMIN CHART

This link showcases AAFCO's requirements for the average dog and cat. AAFCO gives a guide on the vitamins, minerals and any necessary nutrients a pet needs to consume in their diet.
📄PET FOOD NUTRITION MODULE

In this video Dana will breakdown 5 reason on why she thinks you should ditch fish oil for your pet.

5 Reasons To Ditch Fish Oil

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Fish Oil For Dogs

📄FISH OIL

This article relates immunity to nutrition and how "specific nutrients can influence gene expression to modulate the defense process and keep it in balance".

📄IMMUNITY

There are many reasons women can lose hair, but micronutrient deficiencies is one many people do not think of. Many nutrients that we test for can be the cause of your hair loss if you are lacking them.

Causes of Hair Loss in Women and Potential Treatments

📄CASUES OF HAIR LOSS

This article gives 9 reasons on why nutrition research is so confusing. There are many discrepancies on current nutrition research. Every body is different, so it is hard to know which study or what information can apply to each individual. When it comes to nutrition, there is much more to it than you may think.
📄WHY NUTRITION SCIENCE IS CONFUSING

📄WHY NUTRITION SCIENCE IS SO CONFUSING

This podcast highlights the many issues that can root from nutritional deficiencies. It puts a focus on fatigue being caused by nutritional deficiencies and how to combat this.

How nutrient deficiencies cause fatigue
📄HOW NUTRIENT DIFICIENCES CASUE FATIGUE

This chart shows the minimum required nutrient recommendation for dogs younger than 14 weeks, older than 14 weeks, and as adults.

📄CANINE MINIMUM NUTRIENT REQUIREMENT

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Horse Health

There are 6 main classes of nutrients that horses need to perform at their optimal health. This article describes the importance of each class, digestive limitations, ideal grains and supplements as well as feeding guidelines that could be beneficial for the average horse.
The Basics of Equine Nutrition

📄THE BASICS

Equine nutrition doesn't have to be a mystery. Fiber, protein and carbohydrates are key ingredients in a horse's diet and this article covers the basics on food sources, benefits and symptoms of the deficiency of such ingredients.

Nutrition 101

📄NUTRITION 101



There isn't just one key... this article covers 9 important factors to maintain a healthy horse. The importance of basic forage, supplementation, the difference between digestibility versus bioavailability and information of ration balancing are just a few keys that are mentioned and described in this article.
The Key to Unlocking Your Horse's Health

📄THE KEY TO UNLOCKING

We've all heard about them before but did you know they are beneficial for horses? This non toxic, eco-friendly tool can affect the body at a cellular level when applied topically, aromatically or internally. Specific essential oils promotes cellular regeneration and helps with the immune system. The Horse Hippie goes into detail on a few oils that can be useful when trying to calm a stressed out horse.

Using Essentials Oils With Your Horse

📄USING ESSENTIAL OILS

If you think a human digestive system is the same as a horse, think again. This article goes into detail about each organ involved in the digestive process, how and where vitamins and minerals are absorbed and the most ideal way for horses to receive the proper amount of nutrients for the body.

The Equine Digestive System: A Food Factory

📄EQUINE DIGESTIVE

If you think a human digestive system is the same as a horse, think again. This article goes into detail about each organ involved in the digestive process, how and where vitamins and minerals are absorbed and the most ideal way for horses to receive the proper amount of nutrients for the body.

The Equine Digestive System: A Food Factory

📄EQUINE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

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