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Table of contents:

• symptoms
• causes (video)
• Experience report from practice
• Functions of the pancreas in detail (video)
• Pancreas — a special organ
• conclusion

How pancreatic problems (BSD) manifest themselves and what you can do about them

If your animal has more and more of the following symptoms, then there could be a pancreatic problem behind it:

Your dog has (regularly recurring) diarrhea, stomach pain, or cramps. He therefore often adopts a position of relief for the abdominal organs, such as the position of prayer. He refuses food or is generally a malevolent eater. The faeces smell remarkably unpleasant and sometimes has an unnatural color. The incomplete use of food results in a lack of nutrients, which can result in general weakness, weight loss, dull coat and vulnerability to all infections and parasite infestations.

Where do the problems come from? A first explanation:

BSD has 2 main tasks:
1. The production of enzymes necessary for the proper digestion of food.
2. The production of hormones, which are also essential for regulating blood sugar levels during digestion.

As you can see, BSD thus has an outstanding function for digestion. Pancreatic damage therefore results in (serious) impairment of the gastrointestinal tract, which then leads to the symptoms described above. Pancreatic disorders and diseases are now becoming increasingly common in dogs. This problem often develops unnoticed and appears barely or not at all to the outside world for a long time.

What the whole thing looks like in practice — an experience report:

Pancreatitis is perceived by the owner as follows:

Your dog has to put down poop 4-6 times a day (even at night), can sometimes no longer hold it and brings it into your apartment... He is very reluctant to eat/a little until he finally completely refuses to eat. Depending on how long this has been going on, at some point you will have a pain-ridden, weak animal with a drooping head and sad eyes, which can barely be touched because of the painful stomach...

The presentation to the vet and the changed blood values then often confirm the assumption and the diagnosis of “pancreatitis” is made.

Ok And now what? You might hear something like the following:

“Unfortunately, I'm not giving them false hopes here. This disease/diagnosis is no joke, we are experiencing it more and more frequently. 95% of our patients get recurring pancreatic infections and become permanent patients. ”

Or even worse, because not only devastating but also factually wrong:

“We can't do more than give antibiotics and/or pain relievers and give them a special diet dry food for the pancreas. ”

After this type of “therapy,” you become “disillusioned” relatively quickly because the recovery usually doesn't progress at all. So back to the vet clinic. What often follows is a vet marathon, an odyssey through everything that veterinary medicine has to offer within a radius of 100-200 km. However, it is not that much at all, or it is the same everywhere. Antibiotics, painkillers, cortisone and special food primarily...

Your dog is getting worse and losing weight!

Other expensive treatments are used — X-rays and ultrasound — faecal tests and another (completely new) special dry/wet food. More days and weeks pass and there is still no improvement. You're wondering how long your dog will keep up with this...

Back at the vet clinic, your pet is completely powerless and the vets are baffled. Veterinarians stand in front of you and shrug their shoulders. Great disillusionment is spreading...

The regularly measured blood values go up and down, but never within normal ranges. In the meantime, huge weight loss with prominent bones is obvious... visible ribs, sunken eyes and a visibly exhausted animal. Weeks or even months can go by without really helping the animal, even though the solution is so obvious...

Ok stop.

It shouldn't even come to that in the first place. In order to prevent this scenario, you first have to fundamentally look at how this organ works and understand how BSD works naturally.

Where the problems come from — the functions of the pancreas in detail

The pancreas is an essential digestive organ, more precisely a gland attached to the intestine. On the one hand, it produces enzymes that break down fats and carbohydrates from food (and thus make them usable by the body) and, on the other hand, hormones that regulate blood sugar levels. Fats are broken down by the pancreatic enzyme lipase and can then be further processed by the body. Similarly, the pancreatic enzyme amylase has the task of breaking down the long-chain starch from food into individual sugar molecules.

This sugar then passes from the intestines into the blood, causing blood sugar levels to rise. The pancreas then releases the hormone insulin in order to be able to absorb this sugar into the body's cells — this supplies the body's cells with energy and reduces blood sugar levels again. So far so good.

Sugar is the problem!

With a natural diet without starch/sugar, it is not particularly difficult for the pancreas to regulate blood sugar. However, if large amounts of starch are fed regularly, then the pancreas must produce large amounts of amylase and therefore also insulin. (This is always the case if your animal is fed with starchy industrial finished food or dry food — more on that later.)

Should the pancreas “overshoot”, i.e. produce virtually too much insulin, the blood sugar level goes down. However, when blood sugar levels fall, alarm bells are really ringing in the body because the brain depends on a constant supply of sugar from the blood. If the blood sugar level falls too far below normal, the antagonist of insulin is released: the hormone glucagon.

In addition to adrenaline and cortisol, this ensures that blood sugar levels can rise again. What follows is a true blood sugar rollercoaster based on the constant attempt to bring blood sugar levels back to normal. As you can imagine, this puts enormous strain on the pancreas in the long run.

It is important to understand that the blood sugar level in dogs fed with dry food fluctuates much more and much longer than would ever be the case with a natural diet!

Why is the pancreas affected so often today? Answer: Because it is simply not designed to digest the many starches in dried food! It is incomprehensible to me why veterinarians still prescribe starchy special food to dogs with pancreatic problems.

How it used to be in evolution — and how it is today

Evolutionarily speaking, the pancreas is designed to digest the natural energy supplier fat by producing lipase. Therefore, healthy dogs with high levels of fat in their diet have hardly any problems. Nowadays, however, most dogs are fed with processed industrial food.

This contains an enormous amount of starch, for example in the form of processed grains, (genetically modified) corn or (low-quality) soy. With such a diet, the organ must therefore fulfill a predominantly unnatural function — produce a lot of amylase to break down this starch and release a lot of insulin to constantly lower blood sugar levels.

Why is the pancreas affected so often?

Because the pancreas is the only organ in the body that can lower blood sugar with insulin! A task that she never actually had to fulfill in evolution, because sugar or energy was always in short supply during evolution. Oversupply has only existed for about 50 years — a joke compared to millions of years of evolution. Much more important for survival was the ability to raise blood sugar levels in order to have enough energy available in stressful situations such as fighting, fleeing or procreation.

That is why there is only one hormone that lowers blood sugar levels — insulin. He is faced with 3 hormones that cause blood sugar levels to rise — glucagon, cortisone and adrenaline. 3 against 1 — Mother Nature's priorities are therefore clear.

In other words: In the vast majority of cases, pancreatic problems are self-caused because the animals are fed and kept completely unnaturally. As a result, it is no wonder that this small organ is permanently overloaded in the “modern feeding with industrial finished feed”, is no longer able to perform its tasks and finally “gives up the ghost.”

This is when an underfunction occurs, the so-called BSD insufficiency. If aggravating factors such as stress, an infection, vaccinations or medication are added, serious inflammation can develop. The beginning of what was described clinically at the beginning of the text.

What is to be done

First, please watch the video of a participant whose dog has suffered from pancreatic problems for a long time and is in perfect health today.

In fact, with proper prevention, it is very possible to avoid these problems from the outset. However, if pancreatic inflammation is already present, the prognosis worsens and requires very rigorous feeding management. To prevent problems, pay particular attention to a natural, species-appropriate diet with low starch to give the pancreas the chance to fulfill its natural function. You should also avoid harmful factors, such as medications, spot-ons, worm tablets, giardia remedies and, of course, environmental toxins and pollutants, etc.

The pancreas flows into the intestine — everything that puts a strain on the intestines (dry food, medicines, worm tablets, giardia remedies, etc.) therefore always indirectly damages the pancreas. If the pancreas is already inflamed or if your animal may already have an insufficiency, a holistic treatment plan should be followed, which requires an individual diet plan first.

If you see a need for action with your animal, feel free to get in touch with me and my team by sending a Appointment made.

conclusion

Unfortunately, all the connections explained here are barely explained by conventional medically oriented veterinarians or even used as a basis for the journey back to health. Quite the contrary — many veterinarians unfortunately still sell dry food in their practice and treat animals with mainly chemical agents. Although this procedure is taught in this way at the university, it will increasingly need to be questioned in the future.

Until that happens, you will have to take responsibility yourself to give your pet a healthy and happy life by your side! If your dog is already affected or you want to know more about how you can eliminate the causes of many other illnesses in your dog, then feel free to contact me and my team.

If you need help, feel free to contact us and then we can go down the road together.

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