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Notsothoreau's avatar

I am on a FB group for dogs with seizures. A lot of dogs with this problem now, sometimes from vaccines or flea meds. The woman that started it lost one dog to seizures. For her other dog, she wound up using homeopathy. Dog was seizure free for two years (recently died from cancer). You would see people join the group asking for advice about the pills the vet gave that weren't helping or wantingto do an MRI. None of them seemed willing to try homeopathy. It's a shame because it is effective in many cases and certainly won't harm you.

ViaVeritasVita's avatar

I don't have pets; I don't spray anything on my lawn. Neighbors have dogs; neighbors spray their lawns for "weeds". Dogs walking with their "owners" like to come up onto my lawn: two neighbors within half an hour confessed this to me as I was witnessing it. I have wondered for years about a correlation between canine cancers and canine time-spent-on-lawns. Pads and fur.

Notsothoreau's avatar

It depends. Some of those chemicals degrade quickly. But if you give your pet a chemical that poisons their blood enough to kill fleas, it will likely cause health issues.

St. Mudphud's avatar

I can attest to the allure of money impacting the question. Just had a meeting with some colleagues where they were in real time reshaping the questions they wanted to pursue based on their prediction of what the funders would care most about.

The challenge is how do we fund the people who want to ask the questions we truly wanted asked? Substack revenue doesn’t seem to be enough; book sales might be if there are other revenue streams? Other ways of crowd funding? Could we have something like gofundme but for researchers?

Carolyn's avatar

People have to take responsibility for their health and their children's health. Stop bowing and kissing the medical/pharmaceutical ring.

David Snell's avatar

You could have added Calcifediol to your list of anti Covid agents

Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

As a pharmacist, once I realized drugs were petrochemicals, I changed my whole outlook on health.

True health is a responsibility that the individual MUST take on. If not, those four agencies will play a role in that decision