anatess
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- Jul 26, 2011
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I actually Love my vet. She loves Vegas...she has his magazine and several of his cards. She emails him (uh...ME) and often calls checking on him. She knows her stuff too. I asked her about coconut oil....she told me she always gets asked about it and she doesn't recommend it. She said...it's an oil and it's solid at room temperature. Guess what happens when you soften it up and feed it to your dog? It hardens up...IN their arteries. (I had already bought a huge thing from Costco!!) She HATES Trifexis. And...if something is wrong with Vegas or O that I can diagnose....she will call a Rx into my pharmacy. If I can't answer her questions (like this last ear infection) she asks to see him and gives me what I need.
OOOOH!!!! I WANT THAT COCONUT OIL! I don't have a Cosco membership. Coconut oil is expensive at the grocery.
It is silly to think that because coconut oil hardens that it would be sitting in your or your dog's arteries... There's such a thing called DIGESTION. Fats don't just pass right through the stomach and into the arteries without a chemical change happening. Bile liquifies the fat and pancreatic juices further breaks it down into fatty acids and cholesterol. It's not your can of coconut oil anymore once it hits your arteries!
I use coconut oil to cook with. Yes, coconut oil is high in saturated fat more so than, say vegetable oil. But, the human body can metabolize coconut oil much more efficiently than vegetable oil because vegetable oil goes through an unnatural chemicalized process for extraction. Coconut oil, like olive oil, is extracted by pressing. But, the amount of sugar/carbs intake the human body gets messes with its proper metabolization of fat because the human body metabolizes the carbs for energy first before using fats, so with the amount of sugar/carbs found in today's average American diet, even coconut oil can be hazardous to your health. Proper balance is key.
Dogs can't metabolize plants, including coconuts, efficiently at all, so fats from plant matter is not good. But, fats from an animal - just fine. (If you notice, animal fat is not liquid. When you cook animal fat, it liquifies then it hardens when it cools. Doesn't matter at all.) Dogs can metabolize animal fat very efficiently. Salmon fat is only necessary because the animals we buy from groceries (or the ones raised with human consumption quality and put into dog food) are not eating natural food. This makes them have skewed omega 3 to 6 ratios. Salmon is naturally opposite in omega 3 to 6 ratio as farm raised land animals so it balances that out. If you find grass-fed beef and free-range chickens (eating a mixture of grains and worms/insects), salmon oil wouldn't be needed.