Adding Probiotic to Lignans Enhances Bioavailability
If you are giving Flaxseed Lignans to your dog with Cushings disease, you may also want to consider giving your dog a probiotic at the same time. Flaxseed lignans involve a two-step digestive process and the SDG lignans found in flaxseed must be broken down in the digestive system before they can be absorbed. The probiotic will help with this breakdown and can increase the absorption rate of the flaxseed lignans.
Yogurt is a great probiotic if it has live active cultures. Activia is one brand of yogurt with live active cultures and dogs love the taste. In addition to increasing the benefits of the flaxseed lignans, the yogurt can make it easier to give the lignans to your dog. You may open a flaxseed lignan capsule and mix the lignan in with the yogurt. Large amounts of yogurt are not necessary; one tablespoon is usually sufficient to mix with the flaxseed lignans. Note: HMR lignans do not require a probiotic; HMR lignans can be absorbed into the body in a one-step digestive process. Lignans can take up to 4 months before improving symptoms in dogs with Cushings disease, but on average, most dogs (about 85%) respond in two months and have at least one symptom improve during that time.
Yes, the recommended dosage of flax lignans is 1-2 mg per pound of body weight. We recommend www.lignans.net for lignan products.
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Why do you not recommend ground flaxseed for cushing’s? You say it doesn’t have enough lignans in it, but I have read it has 85 mg of lignans per 1 oz. which is a lot. https://lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/dietary-factors/phytochemicals/lignans
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Wow that’s so comforting to read , so loving for your dog ,I’m just waiting blood n urine results so could be our start of the battle, will try my very best!
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I really appreciate the information on this site for alternative treatments of Cushing’s symptoms. Most veterinarians are wonderful at keeping our pets healthy, but I have become aware that Cushing’s is not well managed with traditional medicine. The symptoms of most cases of Cushing’s are fairly obvious just by examination; that’s how traditional vets pick up on it. But then the outrageously expensive path to a scientific diagnosis is traumatic for a dog who’s already over producing stress hormones, as well as the trauma to the typical household/pet owner budget. Veterinarians of traditional medicine are basically chemists, just like our typical medical doctors. Excessive testing, chemical treatments, and more testing only seems to make clinics healthier financially. YOU have to decide how much you want to put your already stressed dog through. Typical vets will naturally lead you to what they know, very rarely informing you there are alternatives that don’t necessarily involve all that frightening testing (my dog totally freaks out at the vet anyway), while eventually making the dog much more comfortable in it’s own environment. It takes patience on your part! Keep in mind there is no cure for Cushing’s even after the traditional, repetitive testing and medicinal adjustments because it’s all very trial and error. In my opinion, that is an awful lot of suffering to add to my dog’s already overproduction of stress hormone, which is what Cushing’s is! I have yet to find a traditional vet who will even hint at a natural, un-invasive approach. Nothing against traditional veterinarians! They do what they know best, but they don’t usually recommend other alternatives because that is not their knowledge base or practice. The problem I personally have with the medical approach is that the dog comes out with a condition that is not going to heal either way, so the best you can hope for is to get the dog as comfortable as possible without adding all the additional stress of the testing, retesting, and guesswork since testing more than likely puts poor Fido through hell. I’ve been through this and I felt like I was compounding my poor dog’s suffering, and in reality I was! The only way I would ever put a dog through that again was if I had a young one with the type of tumor where a veterinarian gave me an 80% success rate of recovery from surgically removing that tumor. To my understanding even that has risks, not to mention without really good pet insurance you will be transferring hefty funds towards that whole process. That is the only approach that claims curing a particular type of Cushing’s and if it’s a breed genetically prone, the dog can always develop another tumor. I’m only suggesting you fully look at both approaches, before you decide which makes the most sense to you. My medical doctor laughs at me when I tell him I feel better on vitamins. He is a chemist and treats symptoms with chemicals. Most times that approach works, but they never acknowledge there are potentially natural alternatives that yes, take longer, but can be just as successful and less chemically invasive. Your vet will most likely pickup on Cushing’s symptoms unless you are tuned into your dog enough to see the excessive drinking of water with excessive peeing, a flabby pot belly, decrease in interest in activities, or muscle loss. What you won’t see is that the dog feels like it’s starving from another typical symptom of excess cortisol production , just like humans do when on Prednisone. You may think your dog is a glutton, constantly begging for treats or always hungry, never satisfied. If you give in to all that begging, you will end up with an overweight pooch who is already too weak to carry those extra pounds. If you are confused, you get the picture. This time I am taking the natural approach and doing the flaxseed lignans and melatonin, and giving those time to help tamp down some of that overproduction of cortisol. That has proven to be more successful with zero invasive treatment than all the testing and medication experimentation. I won’t put her through all the rigors of what is called holistic either. That can get too involved for my girl and she won’t tolerate it anyway. The lignans and melatonin are certainly a part of the holistic approach but I’m taking a middle line approach knowing what my girl can handle at age 15. She still has a love of life and I want the time she has left to be comfortable, getting that cortisol down as much as possible, watching her diet (meat, vegetables with a little oatmeal), a heart support vitamin, melatonin and flaxseed lignans. I hope I see results, but I believe this approach is all she needs to be faced with for now. I will not put her through the rigors of testing, experimentation with meds, drugs for the rest of her life and end up with no guarantee of better results. Never take their water away! Their body demands it and to have it taken away creates even more stress. They feel thirsty beyond your imagination and we humans know how it feels to be very thirsty and not have water! Avoid giving in to the begging for extra food and treats as that compounds things. I give my girl dried turkey tendons and the chewing and low fat turkey satisfies her. I give her bits of chicken jerky to satisfy some of her driving appetite. I feed her half of her day’s food in the morning and the other half for dinner. She gets as much water as she wants and I have pee pads down just in case I can’t get her outside every time she needs to go. She gets me up 2 to 3 times a night to go outside because she won’t pee in the house because she was trained not to. My huge advantage is that I am retired, which admittedly makes it much, much more manageable for me. I truly feel for those of you who work and have little ones at home to care for on top of dealing with a dog with Cushing’s! I hate this disease and wish there was an affordable, less intrusive medical cure, but there simply isn’t. It’s a common problem in older dogs and they have to live with it a rather long time being uncomfortable and feeling like crap. So my approach makes the most sense to me. Put a lot of thought into which path you take your dog down, do not expect miracles, but give your dog all the love you can, knowing she hasn’t become a water guzzling, food scarfing, peeing machine without a reason totally beyond control. She hasn’t become disobedient, no longer caring where she pees. When nature calls so fast and so strong, she is helpless to hold it too long. Please, I beg you not to add to her stress by punishing her! Figure out what you can live with for her or his sake. We owe that to them for the unconditional love they have always given us.
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My 11 Year Old Jack Russell was diagnised with Cushings this week. She can’t stop drinking water and I feel mean witholding water from her. She is peeing all over my house and if I don’t give her water she shakes and barks at me. My vet has not been very helpful with treatments. THey want be to do digital imaging and more expensive tests which I just don’t have the money for. I want to help my dog and give her the best quality of life but the excessive drinking is causing her to bloat herself and pee constnatly, I don’t know what t do?
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Yes, the recommended dosage of flax lignans is 1-2 mg per pound of body weight. We recommend www.lignans.net for lignan products.
Good on you for sharing.
Sharing this with my friends.
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Informative.
Why do you not recommend ground flaxseed for cushing’s? You say it doesn’t have enough lignans in it, but I have read it has 85 mg of lignans per 1 oz. which is a lot. https://lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/dietary-factors/phytochemicals/lignans
Wow that’s so comforting to read , so loving for your dog ,I’m just waiting blood n urine results so could be our start of the battle, will try my very best!
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I really appreciate the information on this site for alternative treatments of Cushing’s symptoms. Most veterinarians are wonderful at keeping our pets healthy, but I have become aware that Cushing’s is not well managed with traditional medicine. The symptoms of most cases of Cushing’s are fairly obvious just by examination; that’s how traditional vets pick up on it. But then the outrageously expensive path to a scientific diagnosis is traumatic for a dog who’s already over producing stress hormones, as well as the trauma to the typical household/pet owner budget. Veterinarians of traditional medicine are basically chemists, just like our typical medical doctors. Excessive testing, chemical treatments, and more testing only seems to make clinics healthier financially. YOU have to decide how much you want to put your already stressed dog through. Typical vets will naturally lead you to what they know, very rarely informing you there are alternatives that don’t necessarily involve all that frightening testing (my dog totally freaks out at the vet anyway), while eventually making the dog much more comfortable in it’s own environment. It takes patience on your part! Keep in mind there is no cure for Cushing’s even after the traditional, repetitive testing and medicinal adjustments because it’s all very trial and error. In my opinion, that is an awful lot of suffering to add to my dog’s already overproduction of stress hormone, which is what Cushing’s is! I have yet to find a traditional vet who will even hint at a natural, un-invasive approach. Nothing against traditional veterinarians! They do what they know best, but they don’t usually recommend other alternatives because that is not their knowledge base or practice. The problem I personally have with the medical approach is that the dog comes out with a condition that is not going to heal either way, so the best you can hope for is to get the dog as comfortable as possible without adding all the additional stress of the testing, retesting, and guesswork since testing more than likely puts poor Fido through hell. I’ve been through this and I felt like I was compounding my poor dog’s suffering, and in reality I was! The only way I would ever put a dog through that again was if I had a young one with the type of tumor where a veterinarian gave me an 80% success rate of recovery from surgically removing that tumor. To my understanding even that has risks, not to mention without really good pet insurance you will be transferring hefty funds towards that whole process. That is the only approach that claims curing a particular type of Cushing’s and if it’s a breed genetically prone, the dog can always develop another tumor. I’m only suggesting you fully look at both approaches, before you decide which makes the most sense to you. My medical doctor laughs at me when I tell him I feel better on vitamins. He is a chemist and treats symptoms with chemicals. Most times that approach works, but they never acknowledge there are potentially natural alternatives that yes, take longer, but can be just as successful and less chemically invasive. Your vet will most likely pickup on Cushing’s symptoms unless you are tuned into your dog enough to see the excessive drinking of water with excessive peeing, a flabby pot belly, decrease in interest in activities, or muscle loss. What you won’t see is that the dog feels like it’s starving from another typical symptom of excess cortisol production , just like humans do when on Prednisone. You may think your dog is a glutton, constantly begging for treats or always hungry, never satisfied. If you give in to all that begging, you will end up with an overweight pooch who is already too weak to carry those extra pounds. If you are confused, you get the picture. This time I am taking the natural approach and doing the flaxseed lignans and melatonin, and giving those time to help tamp down some of that overproduction of cortisol. That has proven to be more successful with zero invasive treatment than all the testing and medication experimentation. I won’t put her through all the rigors of what is called holistic either. That can get too involved for my girl and she won’t tolerate it anyway. The lignans and melatonin are certainly a part of the holistic approach but I’m taking a middle line approach knowing what my girl can handle at age 15. She still has a love of life and I want the time she has left to be comfortable, getting that cortisol down as much as possible, watching her diet (meat, vegetables with a little oatmeal), a heart support vitamin, melatonin and flaxseed lignans. I hope I see results, but I believe this approach is all she needs to be faced with for now. I will not put her through the rigors of testing, experimentation with meds, drugs for the rest of her life and end up with no guarantee of better results. Never take their water away! Their body demands it and to have it taken away creates even more stress. They feel thirsty beyond your imagination and we humans know how it feels to be very thirsty and not have water! Avoid giving in to the begging for extra food and treats as that compounds things. I give my girl dried turkey tendons and the chewing and low fat turkey satisfies her. I give her bits of chicken jerky to satisfy some of her driving appetite. I feed her half of her day’s food in the morning and the other half for dinner. She gets as much water as she wants and I have pee pads down just in case I can’t get her outside every time she needs to go. She gets me up 2 to 3 times a night to go outside because she won’t pee in the house because she was trained not to. My huge advantage is that I am retired, which admittedly makes it much, much more manageable for me. I truly feel for those of you who work and have little ones at home to care for on top of dealing with a dog with Cushing’s! I hate this disease and wish there was an affordable, less intrusive medical cure, but there simply isn’t. It’s a common problem in older dogs and they have to live with it a rather long time being uncomfortable and feeling like crap. So my approach makes the most sense to me. Put a lot of thought into which path you take your dog down, do not expect miracles, but give your dog all the love you can, knowing she hasn’t become a water guzzling, food scarfing, peeing machine without a reason totally beyond control. She hasn’t become disobedient, no longer caring where she pees. When nature calls so fast and so strong, she is helpless to hold it too long. Please, I beg you not to add to her stress by punishing her! Figure out what you can live with for her or his sake. We owe that to them for the unconditional love they have always given us.
My 11 Year Old Jack Russell was diagnised with Cushings this week. She can’t stop drinking water and I feel mean witholding water from her. She is peeing all over my house and if I don’t give her water she shakes and barks at me. My vet has not been very helpful with treatments. THey want be to do digital imaging and more expensive tests which I just don’t have the money for. I want to help my dog and give her the best quality of life but the excessive drinking is causing her to bloat herself and pee constnatly, I don’t know what t do?