Keys to Health and Longevity

Introduction to Pet Longevity 0:00

Welcome everyone. I am Doctor Marlene Siegel, and I'm honored to share with you the keys to health and longevity for our fur family. It is my intention to help you understand how to give your fur baby the longest, healthiest life possible. I am a traditionally trained veterinarian. I graduated from the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine in 1985, but approximately 20 years into my career, I had a life altering experience which forever changed the course of my veterinary practice and my personal life.

And it was all for the better. But I'll share that story shortly. So despite the fact that we have a pill for every ill and a diet for every disease, I'm going to share some statistics about the pet health industry that may shock you. It is no longer an option or a luxury to include alternative medicine into the care of our fur family, because they are getting cancer at a rate of dogs ready for this one at a 1.65. That's almost 100% of dogs getting cancer. Cats are not a lot better. They're one out of three statistically, but I think that is highly underreported.

And then if you include obesity, autoimmune disease, arthritis, allergies, and gastrointestinal disease, we're seeing nearly 100% of the animals getting some form of chronic disease. But what's worse than that is that their life expected NC is down by seven years compared to 20 years ago. So I want to help shine some light on things that we can do. In this presentation, I'm going to share with you my six steps to help keep these animals healthy or to help them to heal.

Pet Health Crisis and Integrative Medicine 1:51

This includes supplying them with the essential nutrients that they need for their body, removing excess toxins, and how to do mitochondrial repair. But I think it's important to understand how we got into this health mess and this loss and lie too, but that the pet health industry, just like the human health industry, is driven by economics. And we have been sold on fast, cheap and convenient, which doesn't usually relate to health and longevity. But we need to get our head out of the sand and draw a line in the sand.

With the proper knowledge and a better toolkit, we can take back our power, our health, our pets health, and the health of our planet. But the first thing we have to do is stop pointing the blame finger and not taking responsibility. We can't make any more excuses because when you point your finger, there are four fingers pointing back at you. So it's us that needs to change our behavior. We need to quit buying the fast, cheap and convenient. And when we do that, the companies that are supplying these materials will see that they can't sell it to us, and they'll start to meet consumer demand and provide better products.

Well, it is a lot to figure out, and I know that pet owners come to me knowing that they need to make a change, but they don't know what to do. So with the internet and Doctor Google and of course everybody sharing their opinion on Facebook, how do you make good decisions? Well, it starts with understanding our belief systems. And the belief system is simply a thought you keep repeating. Where do they come from? Well, they come from what we were taught. So our school education, our parents, what the media is sending us.

And maybe that belief system needs to change. So imagine this guy on the left, he's our western allopathic trained doctor and the lady on the right, she's our eastern alternative medicine. And they're both looking at the same thing, but from their perspective, they see something different that doesn't make one right or one wrong. It just means that they can only see things from their own lens. But what if we are able to shift that and we are able to do the integrative world, which is an and not an Or so?

This is how I practice. How do you, the pet parent, fit into this? Well, like the picture shows, it's a team effort to get to the finish line. So you as the pet parent are part of the health team for your fur kids. You need to become knowledgeable because you're their advocate. And when you understand what integrative medicine is, it's a collaborative effort between Eastern and Western medicine. It means a bigger, better toolkit that is more effective. So this is the traditional toolkit on the left.

Most veterinarians will do a full blood workup. They'll take a CBC chemistry. They'll do a thyroid panel check electrolytes. Heartworm is checked for both cats and dogs. Kitty cats. We do feline leukemia and feline Aids, a urinalysis, digital X-rays in my practice, at least, and ultrasound and echoes of the heart. When we get into the toolkit. There's a saying that if everything if you only have a hammer,

Belief Systems and the Integrative Toolkit 5:21

then everything looks like a nail. And I think that's the problem that we've run across, is that the toolkit just isn't big enough in the Western world. In the integrative world, we do everything that the traditional world does and more. We do thermography. We check for cancer markers, inflammatory markers. We check the innate immune system by checking vitamin D, B12, and magnesium levels. We look for heavy metals. We do live blood analysis to evaluate the fourth phase or structured water in the body.

We do bio energetic testing because we need to see what is happening energetically along with what's happening physically. We use our intuition and that's super important. In the Western world. Our therapies are typically the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory steroids, antibiotics, surgery, chemo and radiation. And then everything else looks like a nail in the integrative toolkit in the alternative world. Look at the size of this kit. We do photo bio modulation, which is a light therapy. We use ozone lymphatic therapy, acupuncture, pulse electromagnetic frequencies with peak.

At Tesla arranged frequencies we use sound frequency therapeutic lasers, chiropractic, molecular hydrogen light therapy, salt booth, hyperbaric oxygen photo activators, platelet rich plasma parallel therapy, infrared full spectrum saunas. Herbs, oils, Homa. Toxicology. Energy and emotions. But our kit always starts with the proper species appropriate food, clean structured water and essential nutrients. And then last but not least is detoxification of all six organs of elimination. It's also important to identify the root cause of disease.

So here's a tip for you. Don't stop with looking at the symptom. All disease starts with either a deficiency of an essential nutrient that the body needs to do its job, or there's an overload of toxicity inhibiting the body from operating and functioning properly. And in most cases, it's a combination. We have deficiency and access happening at the same time, which leads to inflammation. Inflammation leads to leaky gut. And I know everybody has heard this term leaky gut. Well, what it means is that the barrier that keeps things from coming into your body becomes compromised.

So you're looking at the gut lining and the cells that line the gut. And on the right hand side, you can see that the cells start to become separated. There becomes a gap that is larger than what was supposed to be there. And when that happens, then toxins can come in through those openings. They go right into the bloodstream and then they're carried to the liver. It's the liver's job to mount the inflammatory response to get rid of these invaders. And the liver does a fantastic job. The problem is, in today's modern society, that the invaders never stop coming in.

So the liver never stops producing the inflammation. The kiss principle. We've all heard the kiss principle. Keep it simple, stupid. Well, here's a tip. And I want you to write this down. Nature does not do anything that is stupid. Nature only does what is sustainable because what is sustainable is successful. So from now on, I want to plant the seed for you to think critically. If you have a question about what is the right thing to do. Look at nature and ask, how does nature solve this problem?

So this is biomimicry. And biomimicry is the new biology that scientists study the patterns

Root Causes: Deficiency, Toxicity, and Leaky Gut 9:15

and strategies that nature uses not just to survive, but to thrive. So biomimicry is using nature's principles. It's using this safe element on the periodic chart. Man uses biotechnology. Biotechnology uses everything on the periodic chart, even the things that are toxic. Well, it's time to get back to that life transforming event that took me from playing relatively small to playing full out. And the result of my transformation came from my dedicated promise that I was never going to say to a pet parent, I am sorry, there is nothing more that I can do for you.

That was not acceptable. My story, of course, starts with the horse. This is Demi, my youngest daughter, and Lily look through our show horse. Demi was ten years old at the time and Lily was seven. And this dynamic duo was almost undefeated at the local, regional and national levels. They weren't just horse and rider, they were best friends. But Lily was extra special because this amazing athlete could safely carry my precious ten year old around the arena, and she could be shown by our trainer in open divisions.

Lily was a U.S. and Canadian National champion in three divisions country, English show, hack and Costume. But her most important job was carrying my ten year old safely around the arena. And then there was the event where something went very wrong. Lily had spooked, we thought, a couple times in the class, very uncharacteristic for her, and when she came in to line up, the trainers, go and stand in front of their horses and their riders, and something started to happen to Lily's neck. It looked like she was being attacked by something.

And the trainer reached her hand up to fix whatever the problem was. And that's when the unthinkable happened, and Lily reared into the air the number one cause of a rider's death. When a horse rears is falling over on their rider and crushing them. I had a 10 pound child and a 2,000 pound horse. This could have been a disaster. Well, no one had taught my daughter. If your horse rears bail off. So she was literally dangling from Lily's reins, and she was literally pulling her over backwards. Somehow, in this second of unfolding.

Lily had the presence of mind to feel where her rider was falling. And with all the strength that she could, Lily's tried to push herself in the opposite direction of my daughter. When Lily hit the ground, the reverberation was deafening, and nobody could see space between Lily and my daughter. As I was jumping over the fence and running towards my daughter. Lily struggled to her feet and my daughter was still on the ground, not moving. When I got to my daughter, I

Nature, Biomimicry, and the Turning Point Story 12:24

truly did not know what I was going to find, and I was relieved to see that the only thing that she had hurt was her pride. But back at home, that wasn't the end of the story. Lily had a few more episodes where something was going wrong with her head and her neck. We had equine veterinarians come out and look at her and they said, Doctor Siegel, we really don't know what's wrong with Lily, but here's what you can do. You can retire her to a pasture because she's not safe to ride, and she will never be shown again.

Or you can put her down. And it was those words that triggered something inside of me that said, no, that is not acceptable. This horse literally saved my daughter's life, and I wasn't going to stop until I could fix this horse. So that took me into a five month journey looking for integrative solutions for, for Lily. And I will tell you that five months later, this amazing duo went on to win the United States Reserve National Championship, which is the most prestigious youth show in the entire United States.

So I love the story is never let somebody else define what is possible for you or your family members. I'd like to now share tip number four. This is my six steps to health and healing, and I do this on my healthy animals to prevent disease. I do this on my challenged animals to help them to heal. Step number one. And guys, I can't make this any easier. You got to stop doing the things that are causing the problem. So we have to stop polluting the body. We have to supply the essential nutrients that the body needs to do its job.

We have to heal the leaky gut. We have to detoxify the organs of elimination. They are the kidney, the colon, the lungs, the liver, the skin and the lymphatics. And we have to support the mitochondria so that we can have more energy and better communication throughout the body. And last, but certainly not least, is clearing the trapped emotions, because we now know that all disease has trapped emotions associated with it. So let's dive into a couple of these a little bit deeper. When we talk about stopping the pollution of the body, we're referring to the species appropriate food that we need to feed structured clean water, the environment and the ants that live in our brains.

And the ants are the automatic negative thoughts that come when we're under stress or we're experiencing fear. Well, when we experience that, we're creating neurochemicals that are turning on the signals in our cells that we don't want. And they're also in training these energies to our pets. I do think it's important to define what a species appropriate diet is, and it's as simple as saying, look at nature. And what does a carnivore eat in nature? So for me, a species appropriate diet is the diet that that animal would eat if man did not intervene.

So a carnivore in the wild will kill another animal, and they will eat it in the state that they killed it in. If nature intended for them to eat kibble food, they would have created a chemical process or out in nature, or if they wanted them to calm their food and save it for the winter time, they would have created some kind of preservation and canning department. But nature didn't do that. Cats are obligate carnivores. That means they have no dietary requirement for carbohydrates. The ideal diet for a cat is the composition of a mouse.

Water is a next thing that I really want to spend a couple of minutes on, because it is so critically important. Studies have shown that tap water in today's day and age has more than 60,000 toxic chemicals in it, many of them being carcinogens. They are not filtered out by the refrigerator filter and they're not taken out by your county municipalities. So here is what I would recommend. If you're looking for a water system for your drinking in your cooking water, that number one has to be highly filtering.

It has to remove the heavy metals, the insecticides, the pesticides, the fluoride, glyphosate, all of these things need to be out. It needs to structure the water. And I could spend another entire lecture talking about structured water. It needs to re mineralized the water because we need these minerals as cofactors for our biological processes in our body. Molecular hydrogen acts as an antioxidant.

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Very, very important. There are two types of systems out there. One does electrolysis, which means it needs electricity in order to be able to split the water molecule. The other is a reaction of magnesium with water. This is a wet type of technology and it does not require electricity. The company that you choose look into their scientific testing. Make sure that they can show you their certifications, that their claims are backed up, and then they should have great customer service and company integrity.

The second area that we want to focus on are the essential nutrients, and very simply, the foods that we're eating today, even if they're organic, they are nutrient depleted because the soils that these foods are grown on are nutrient depleted. Farming practices have not been sustainable, so there's no way around this. We have to do proper supplementation, healing the gut. When we talk about a healthy gut, nice tight junctions and replenishing this healthy microbiome in the wild, as animals killed another animal and ate their meal, they would actually chew through the intestinal tract, getting some of the intestinal contents into their mouth.

That's how they inoculated themselves in the wild. Well, we're not expecting to do that. However, we do need to restore that microbiome by supplying fermented foods. Detoxification, I think, is critical. I see so many animals that their organs of elimination are just bogged down and they're not able to do their job. In my opinion, the liver and the lymphatics are the two most important organs of elimination because they have to do the most heavy lifting. And so we focus on helping them to detoxify the mitochondria many different ways that we can support the mitochondria from ozone using pulsed electromagnetic frequencies, hyperbaric oxygen, infrared therapy, sound and light frequencies, nutraceuticals, coffee enemas are fantastic, but please consult a holistic veterinarian before you do this at home on your pets.

And of course, creating hermetic stressors to help the mitochondria restore function. Last but not least is clearing these trapped emotions. And there are a variety of different things that can be done. Work with your health practitioner to find what works best for you and your fur baby. Now, I would be remiss if we didn't talk about the autonomic nervous system because it plays a critical role not only in gut health, but in the ability for the body to repair. So I presented this as a teeter totter because we have the sympathetic and the parasympathetic branches of the autonomic nervous system.

When one is on, the other is off, just like a teeter totter. The sympathetic side is your fight flight. It's what happens when danger presents itself and you need to run from the danger. And then the parasympathetic side is the rest or repair, digest, detoxify and reproduction side. Well, if there is this persistent danger in your life, like maybe from the sad day, which I call the standard American day, or maybe you're eating the sad diet, which is the standard American diet. And all of these things put your body in this constant sympathetic tone.

Well, when you're in a constant sympathetic tone,

Food, Water, Nutrients, and Gut Repair 20:30

you have turned off your parasympathetic nervous system and you can no longer repair, digest, detoxify, etc. so it is a critical factor in health care that you help your pet get into this parasympathetic state. First, and then everything else can follow behind it. This is the device that I use. It's a pulse electromagnetic frequency device that works in the Piqua Tesla Ranges. These are the very low frequency keys that our body in trains to. We use full spectrum infrared. The sun produces full spectrum infrared.

But we're not out in the sun all day long like our ancestors used to be. In fact, there is actually a disease now that we call secondary to light deficiency. So we are literally light deficient because we're spending all our time indoors. We're under artificial lighting and our pets are inside with us. So on the left we see the kitties laying on our full spectrum infrared card. And then this doggie in the center is laying in an infrared sauna. And then on the right we have the portable saunas, which are also wonderful to use.

We are very big on structuring the water in the body, and we do that through a variety of different means. But this is one of the things that we use this produces singlet oxygen. And then we take that oxygen and just put it out into the room. So as our pets are going through their therapy, they're inhaling the singlet oxygen and it's restructuring the water in their body. This is assisted lymphatic therapy. We use a special machine that has glass probes, and it's transmitting microcurrent and inert gases, and it's helping to open up the lymphatic drainage areas.

And then we decongest the entire body and help to flow the lymphatics into their drainage areas. We are able to do the deep lymphatics as well, because we have settings on the machine that allow us to go into the deep lymphatics. And as you can see, the animals really enjoy their therapies. This is our detoxification footbath on our large animals. We just put their front feet in. And for our little guys, they enjoy just doing the whole body dip. And so we can see that our little dogs and even our kitties tolerate it very well.

This is one of my favorite machines. It does a vibration and sound frequency, so it combines two technologies and we have four different cases here that are displayed sitting on the machine. But I wanted to show you a couple of snakes that we had come in, and the owner had just purchased these snakes. He didn't think they felt good. He was afraid they had colds. So we decided to treat them with the vibration and sound frequency, the black things that are sitting on top of their little cages are called silk spiders, and they concentrate the sound and the frequencies in one area.

So I put them over the top of the cages at each snake, and notice that both of them became very active and they chose to move directly underneath the cell exciter. So that told me that they were wanting to to sink in with those frequencies. And it was making them feel better. We use ozone in a variety of different ways.

Detoxification, Mitochondria, and Emotions 24:00

We do major autohemotherapy, which is where we take some blood from the patient. We ozone it, and then we put it back into the patient. We also do it rectally as an installation. We bubble it through oils and breathe it as ozone nights. We can give it subcutaneous as acupuncture and we do a topical lavage with it, though a lot of times people don't get to really experience or understand what ozone does. So I wanted to do a little live blood presentation for you, showing what happens when we give rectal ozone.

On the left is a dog that came in that wasn't feeling good, and the red blood cells are all clumped together. This is a condition called ruolo in this dog. I would actually call this aggregation because it was so severe and the cells are stuck together or they're not able to do their metabolic function, which is to pick up oxygen from the lungs, deliver it to the tissues, and then pick up waste material and deliver it out. The body on the right hand side is the same patient ten minutes after we gave rectal ozone.

So we can see now that that fourth phase of water has expanded. His allowed the cells to separate. And they're actually looking like normal red blood cells. They have beautiful architecture. They're moving well and they're able to do their metabolic function clinically. This animal felt dramatically better. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy on the left. I'm about to dive with two of my cancer patients. And then on the right, I wanted to show you how much space is in these chambers. So I'm laying down and I have another cancer patient with me, and it's very roomy and comfortable and extremely relaxing.

And one of our wonderful tools for helping detoxification, Halo therapy is also called dry salt therapy. It's where we use medical grade salt, and we aerosolized it so that the patient is breathing it in. It's phenomenal for the sinuses, for the trachea, for the bronchial tree, for the lungs. It's sort of like taking a toothbrush and cleaning the entire respiratory track. It's also wonderful for skin diseases. So when we have animals that come in either with sores or burns or have Siberia, the salt acts as a desiccant and it helps to be an antibacterial and an antiviral agent.

We see a lot of ancient animals these days. They're very anxious. They're hyperactive. For whatever reason. This is really becoming a big deal in our industry,

Autonomic Nervous System and Energy Therapies 26:30

and we don't want to manhandle these animals to try to treat them. So this little guy I want you to see had come in. He's six months old. He didn't feel good. We took X-rays and found that he was his back was out of alignment. So I wanted to do a chiropractic adjustment. But every time I barely touched this dog, he would blow up like this. And then we just we really couldn't manage him, so we decided to use our sound frequency. I don't like to use drugs. And here is three minutes into the music and he already is laid down.

Look at his eyes. They're just becoming so heavy and he's yawning. He's perking up. He's trying to be a little hyperactive, but he just can't resist it. Big yawn. Eyes are getting droopy. Literally four minutes and then as we observe, his head just goes down and he relaxes. But the big question is, can I now adjust him and watch this? I'm able to actually do his adjustment. Mama's petting him, but not really restraining him, and he's allowing us to do everything that we need to do. Acupuncture. I always wondered who was the first person that stuck a needle in either themselves or somebody else, and actually discovered a benefit?

Well, maybe it was this mammoth who was saying that. How odd that his neck is feeling better while the hunters are shooting arrows into his back end. This is electrical stim acupuncture. This is a little kitty cat that was paralyzed. And this is one of the technologies that we used to help get her walking again. Crystal fusion light therapy is where we take full spectrum light and then pass it through a variety of different kinds of gemstones. And the the different gemstones have different properties.

Some are stimulating, some are sedating, some are warming, some are cooling. So depending on the problem that we're dealing with, we can pick the right gemstone. This is photo bio modulation also called low level light therapy. We use photo activators which were our compounds that we can take intravenously like vitamin C and curcumin. And then we follow that with intravenous light therapy to activate those compounds and make them more powerful in the center picture. My daughter and I are in Mexico at our friend's cancer clinic, having a therapy ourselves, and on the left is an animal where I've injected the knees for a cruciate rupture.

We did parallel ozone therapy, and now we're doing the laser light behind it and on the right hand side is the same laser but used as a showerhead, and we're able to use it topically. So with low level light therapy, we have different wavelengths of light that we utilize from ultraviolet blue, green, yellow, red and infrared. But the problem with the low level lights like the ultraviolet,

Advanced Modalities and Practical Takeaways 29:30

the blue, the green and the yellow is that they don't penetrate intact skin. The melanocytes in the skin absorb the colors so they don't penetrate any deeper. But with this endo laser, we're able to bypass the skin and put the light right into the joints where we need it to work. Or we can inject it into tumors or into the abdomen or into the bloodstream. Oh my gosh, I can't believe we're almost out of time. It has been a wonderful journey with you, and I want to share with you a practical tip. I find that the two biggest reasons why people fail at anything is, number one, a lack of knowledge.

Well, we've given you a ton of knowledge today. And the second reason they fail is the inability to implement all that knowledge. You know, sometimes we learn so much that it becomes this overwhelming effort. And so we don't do anything because we don't know where to start. So here's how I want you to do. I want you to take a piece of paper and fold it in half. Column A is going to be the left hand top of the paper. Column B, the right hand top of the paper column are all the things that you should be doing, but you have not learned to do yet until today.

Column B are all the things that you should not be doing, but you still are because no one gave you an alternative or taught you any better. As you go back through these videos, I want you to make your list all the things that you should be doing down column, all the things you shouldn't be doing down column B, and then every week, pick one item from column to start, and pick one item from column B to stop. And before long, you're going to have made massive changes to your pet's health and it won't be over whelming.

It'll be sustainable, and it'll be a wonderful journey. My last thought that I want to share with you is to have the trust and faith that everything happens for your highest and best good. Even the ouchy things happen for your highest and best good. There's also no coincidence that you have a fur member in your family right now, with whatever challenge they may be having at this time in your life, everything has significant meaning. I look forward to connecting with you, and on the screen you can see all the different ways that we can stay connected.

Blessings to everyone. Who?