Canine Nutrition

Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI) is one of the few canine conditions where diet is not merely supportive — it is part of the treatment itself. A dog with EPI cannot digest food without direct dietary and supplemental intervention. Understanding the EPI dog diet is therefore the most important step any owner can take after diagnosis. This article focuses exclusively on the practical dietary management journey: enzyme incubation protocol, macro targets, cobalamin supplementation, and how to troubleshoot when the standard protocol isn’t working. ...

Hypothyroidism is one of the most common endocrine disorders in dogs — and one of the most under-recognised by owners. If your dog is gaining weight despite normal food intake, seems chronically lethargic, keeps getting skin or coat problems, or feels cold all the time, an underactive thyroid may be the cause. Diet won’t cure hypothyroidism, but it plays a meaningful supporting role alongside the medication that will. What is hypothyroidism? The thyroid gland, a small structure in the neck, produces two hormones — thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3) — that regulate the metabolic rate of virtually every cell in the body. When the thyroid underproduces these hormones, metabolism slows across the board. ...