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Stan didn't set out to build a company. He set out to help his dog. How Biscut's second chance became Nzymes' first breakthrough, beginning in a shelter on the island of Oahu.
If you found this page because your dog had a seizure, this is the story of the first one we ever helped.
In the summer of 1992, Stan Stansbury walked into an animal shelter on Oahu and found a small white Japanese Spitz. She had been confined for four months under Hawaii's quarantine laws: depleted, stressed, about four years old, and due to be put down the next day. But when Stan approached, she stood up on her hind legs and danced for a treat: a dog biscuit he had brought with him.
He brought her home that day, and of course, he named her Biscut.
That first night, she suffered nine seizures. Stan stayed by her side through every one, holding her, comforting her, unwilling to accept that this was just how things were going to be. The shelter hadn't mentioned seizures. She had been vaccinated and spayed just before her release, on top of months of poor food and stress, and Stan believes that combination set off the first night.
The vet suggested seizure medication, and warned it could cause kidney and liver damage over the long run. Stan took Biscut home, determined to find another way. The smaller seizures kept coming, three to four a month.
If your dog is already on an anti-convulsant, don't stop or change it on your own. Food changes and the Treats can begin while your dog is still on medication, and many of the families we work with do both as they gradually step down. If that is where you are, book a free consultation and we will talk it through with you.
“I would hold her, stroke her neck during her fits, and talk to her to let her know she was safe with someone. I believe this helped her greatly; however, it always pained me to see her appearing so tired.”
In 1994 Stan's brother Tom moved back to California to run and reorganize a young health food company, and a year later asked Stan to join him. As Stan learned more about nutrition, he started thinking about the food he was feeding Biscut, and whether it might be contributing to her episodes. He studied every label, every ingredient. What he found was shocking: sugars, chemicals, dyes, even in the "good" stuff. Biscut was getting several problematic ingredients every day.
He threw it all out and changed her food right away. The fits became shorter and less frequent, and she had more energy and vitality as the months went on. The progress was significant, and it got his wheels turning: what else could he provide to help more?
Tom had recently acquired the rights to a live superfood protein formula, and the brothers began working on a healthy treat for pets built around it. They tested three versions with three local pet stores and a veterinarian. When they finalized the blend, Biscut was the first to try it.
She loved them and came running whenever she heard the cookies shaking in the bottle. One month went by, two months, then three full months without a single event. Her energy came back. She was shedding less, and her coat was beautiful. Biscut lived to nineteen and a half, and in her final eight years she had only one.
What Stan discovered wasn't a drug or a medical procedure. It was nutrition: real, live, enzyme-active nutrition that commercial pet food had been cooking out of existence for decades. Live superfood protein, antioxidant enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and defatted liver: the key ingredients missing from most brands of pet food.
He gave Biscut's body the tools it needed to thrive.
And her body did the rest.
Start with the Back to Balance Program; it walks you through the food changes Stan made, in order.
Stan didn't rush. He researched, tested, and refined for years before sharing what he'd found with the world.
Stan adopts a Japanese Spitz from a shelter on Oahu, the day before she was due to be put down. That night, she has nine seizures. The vet offers medication and warns of long-term kidney and liver damage. Stan takes her home, determined to find another way, and holds her through three to four fits a month.
Stan's brother Tom is hired to run and reorganize a young health food company in southern California. A year later he asks Stan to join him to build the company's marketing and website. Stan begins learning nutrition in earnest, and starts reading Biscut's food labels.
What he finds shocks him: by-products, corn syrup, wheat flour, dyes, menadione, ethoxyquin. Stan overhauls Biscut's diet right away. Her fits become shorter and rarer; her energy returns. The conviction forms: when the body has what it needs, it can do remarkable things.
Tom acquires the rights to a live superfood protein formula. The brothers build a treat around it, with antioxidant enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and defatted liver, and test three versions with three local pet stores and a veterinarian. Biscut is the first to try the final blend. One month, two months, three months: not a single event. Her shedding eases and her coat comes back.
Stan and Tom launch BioPet Inc. and Nzymes.com. The mission was simple: give other families what Biscut had found. Real, whole-food nutrition that supported the body the way it was designed to work.
Now in its third generation, Nzymes is still family-owned, still independent, and still rooted in what Stan discovered for one small white dog on Oahu in 1992.
In her final eight years, Biscut had one seizure. She remained active, alert, and mobile into her senior years, and passed away peacefully at nineteen and a half.
She became the proof and the purpose. The reason Stan picked up the phone for every family who called. The reason the company exists at all. And the reason, more than twenty-five years later, we still believe: when the body has what it needs, it can do remarkable things.
Stan, the man who stayed up all night with Biscut in 1992, is still here and still answering the phone, alongside Brenda, Kara and Mike. A free consultation is how we begin. Tell us what you've seen, how often, what your dog eats, and what the vet has said. Seizure calls are the ones Stan takes most personally.
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The treat Biscut tried first now comes paired with Tracite Minerals as the Back to Balance Bundle, with an interactive guide sent to your inbox after purchase that walks through the same kind of food changes Stan made. Dogs under 25 pounds get Tiny Treats.
See the Back to Balance Bundle →Every order comes with our 120-Day Worry-Free Guarantee, free customer care from the family Biscut started, and formulas built on over twenty-five years of work: support for your dog's own body, from the inside.
Biscut's story is one dog's experience, not a guaranteed result and not a substitute for veterinary care. Nzymes products are nutrition that supports your dog's own body, not a treatment for seizures, epilepsy, or any disease. Never stop or change a prescribed anti-convulsant without your vet. Every dog is different and individual results may vary.
