Are we poisoning our pets with Dr. Barbara Royal, DVM

Jeffrey talks with Dr. Barbara Royal, DVM, owner of Royal Treatment Veterinary Clinic - "Oprah's Vet" - talks about the serious state of Pet health and how food plays a major role.

Key Takeaways: 

[0:15] Jeffrey introduces today’s guest, Dr. Barbara Royal - Oprah’s vet!

[1:43] Dr. Barbara Royal explains why the most important decision you can make for your pet is
what you put in their food bowl.

[4:41] “I think what happened is we got less interested in the nutritional value of the real food we were putting in and more interested in - you know, the pet food industry got interested in just
plow and putting everything in there. It doesn't matter. It's not organic. It's not real food. It's got all kinds of chemicals in it. It's okay, it's pet food. We don't care.But the fact is we do care. A
short lifespan and very, very, active metabolic systems will show the problems right away and they did. To me, cancer has started to increase, allergies started to increase, immune system
problems started to increase, seizure problems. All of these things, they're not normal. They shouldn't be in the population at this high of numbers, it's crazy! When I take them away from
the animals and we put them on organic food and we say, "Don't do this anymore," and people pay attention, those problems go away. They go away.”

[7:17] Jeffrey uses the ancient Ayurvedic statement - with the wrong food, the medicine won’t work. With the right food, medicines aren’t needed - to explain why more medicine isn’t the
answer for our pets

[8:30] “So I really was taught it would take something like three months before you're going to see a significant change with any diet change. And I will tell you, I have people come back for
their three and four-week recheck and they're practically crying because they cannot believe the changes in their animals.”

[9:29] Jeffrey shares PetsandGMOs.com and the list of educational materials he’s compiled to help pet owners make the best decisions for their pets, including a list of non-GMO foods.

[12:43] In addition to the physical symptoms showing up in pets, behavioral issues are also on the rise. Anxiety has become a huge problem for pet owners, and it can be contributed to the
use of Roundup and excessive sugar in kibble.

[13:33] “What's going on with the biome in the skin? Is that related to allergies with the bacteria and is it being killed by these glyphosates? We don't even have a normal biome in the mouth
anymore, so we get dental disease. We don't have a normal biome in the skin, so we've got allergies. Are we killing and ruining our bacterial ability to keep our bodies healthy? I mean,
that's what's happening in these animals.”

[15:01] Dog’s urine has levels of glyphosate 40 times higher than that of human urine because they lack variety in their diet!

[16:56] “If I were designing an experiment to make cancer, I would do exactly what's happened…. We're also feeding them tons of sugar, which everyone knows that's what cancer loves to eat. It's going to be sugar. The first thing they tell you to cut down if you have cancer is sugar.”

[19:31] Dr. Royal talks about support supplements she has created with Now, in order to help pets be healthier.

[21:54] Jeffrey makes the connection between digestion problems presenting in humans and animals & Dr. Royal explains how IBD & IBS are really the same.

[26:55] Jeffrey explains the astounding human results from switching to an all organic diet shown in his film, Secret Ingredients.

[29:31] Veterinarians suffer the highest suicide rate of any profession & Dr. Royal suggests this is because they aren’t given the right tools to heal the patients that they love so much.

[31:20] “They said their animals were happier…. It's a term we're not allowed to use in medicine. Which by the way, why not? Because I do want that. It's a good word. I hear that every day. I'll
have people when they come back for their second appointment and they've changed the food, they'll be like - there's just, they'll say happier, brighter, more energetic.”

[36:45] Dr. Royal dispels the myth that dogs shouldn’t have veggies.

[38:29] “The lifespan has changed dramatically for the worse. This is not just like me guessing.  AKC lifespans for Goldens used to be something like 17 to 18 years and right now is somewhere between 10 and 12 years and that's because they all get lymphoma and other cancers. That is not okay, and that's not what I see in my practice. My practice has a higher level of nice healthy geriatric animals than I see out in the population of this country.”

[39:49] Dr. Royal talks about the time she performed acupuncture on a zebra, who was really sick because of hamburger buns

[43:07] “Half of Americans are trying to avoid GMOs for themselves. They don't even think about it for their own animals. They're facing a thousand decisions in their life in a year to try and be non-GMO. It's basically one or two decisions for an animal to be non-GMO and organic for the lifetime of the animal, and that's going to make a huge difference. “