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There are dozens of products built to fix one thing in a dog. Nzymes was never one of them. This is the long version of why: a builder's view of what a foundation is, what "live nutrition" actually does inside a cell, and why the first question we ask any family is what's in the bowl.
Before becoming fully involved with Nzymes, I was fully involved in construction. I have built houses, schools, churches, universities, factories, laboratories, stadiums, convention centers, and I even had a stint at Fort Knox. That career took me into my early forties.
Meanwhile, across the country, my father and my uncle Stan were developing a nutritional "treat" that was bringing remarkable results to pets of all kinds. They had incorporated as Biopet Inc. and launched nzymes.com. I began using the Treats with my own dog and saw results with him too. Now I was intrigued. I could plainly see that the product worked, but how? Why? Being a nuts-and-bolts kind of guy, I had to have an answer. How could something so simple be so dynamic?
That's when I began to learn about the power of live nutrition. I had many long-distance conversations with Stan about it (remember those days?). He said:
"Pets are consuming mountains of dead food every day."Stan Stansbury
By dead, he meant depleted of all life by heat and processing, never mind the junk going into standard pet foods in America: preservatives, additives, by-products, artificial colors, glutens. Pet ailments were exploding on all fronts and no one was addressing that head-on. Stan wanted to make a difference. So he coined a slogan we used in those early days, and it's still true: pets need more than processed foods.
The Treats were designed to be packed with live-food enzymes: super-food nutrition for energy and life force. Beyond that, they spawn the body's production of antioxidant enzymes, which scour toxic build-up from the cells. The results families saw were better mobility, greater energy, improved digestion, better coats, less shedding. Those were the changes on the surface. The real work was going on under the surface, in the microscopic realm.
Cellular health. That was the root of what made Nzymes work, and now I had a connection I could build on. Cellular health is like the foundation of a building. Every project I ever worked on started with a strong foundation; without one, whatever you are building will eventually crumble. Most people get that about buildings. It is the same with our bodies, and with our pets'. The cells are the building blocks of health. When they are clean and healthy, better health flows out naturally. Fast forward to today and we have put that idea into our Core Foundation: the nutrition that helps the body help itself.
Providing live nutrition to the body is a foundational path to better health rather than a remedial one. Let me offer an example. There are a plethora of products on the market designed to deal with specific symptoms. Take joint health: how many products have you seen with the single purpose of supporting a dog's joints? Dozens. The better ones carry some combination of glucosamine and chondroitin, MSM, green-lipped mussel and turmeric. Bravo. Anything that can naturally help a pet do better is a win in our book.
But these products are limited in their scope. Their focus is remedial only. They are designed to solve one issue, and that is where they stop. They provide no support for the coat, for digestion, for energy, or for general recovery; it is simply not in their resume. They are limited because they treat the symptom and not the deeper cause.
This is where Nzymes differs from the rest. The way Nzymes works is at the root level, the foundation. Antioxidant enzymes cleanse cells; that is their design. They work with the body's own metabolism to bring about change at the cellular level, and they are not limited to "joint health" because cells are in every nook and cranny of the body. That is why adding something as simple as the Treats or Granules to the diet can have such a profound effect on a pet.
Our programs are foundationally focused too. Each one is built around a system the whole body depends on:
Skin RescueThe gutRestores a natural microbial balance to the GI tract.See the program →
Back to BalanceThe nervesSupports inter-cellular communication along the neuropathways.See the program →
Breathe EasyThe lungsSupports the respiratory passages.See the program →
Wart SupportImmunityFocused on immune health to defeat papilloma warts.See the program →The gut, the nervous system, the lungs, the immune system, each one a foundational element of health. This approach is holistic, root-level, and whole-animal.
Foundational health addresses a problem from the front end, not the back end, and the live-food enzymes in the Treats and Granules are the key to that. Life comes from life. We know this first-hand because we constantly hear back from families on how a pet has "come back to life" since starting on Nzymes, and that brings true joy to all of us here. A recent example is Bob, who got the Treats, the Granules, the Tracite Minerals, and a better diet. Which brings me to the subject that matters most.
The single-focus supplement companies never express an interest in what food you feed your pet. They are moving SKUs: buy their stuff and address the symptom. The same holds true at the vet. Whether it's an immune suppressant, an anti-inflammatory, a painkiller or an anticonvulsant, the instruction is take it and check back in thirty days. If a vet ever does suggest a food, it is one of the ones on his shelf, and not a top-tier one. By contrast, we make a big deal out of what food you are feeding every day.
Why? Because toxin-laden, poor-quality foods are the number-one cause of degraded pet health on every front we see. Your vet won't tell you this. The other product vendors won't tell you this. We do. Your pet's health is intertwined with the food he eats; it has the highest odds of moving his health in one direction or the other every single day. If it is loaded with empty carbohydrates, preservatives, additives and by-products, then your pet's health depends on his ability to fight through all of that. Think about it:
If your goal is to turn these issues around, you must address the food. Over many years I have spoken to thousands of people whose pets were beginning to have seizures, and one of the first places I go in the conversation is what food is being fed. In all that time I have yet to speak to anyone whose vet asked them what they were feeding. Why no interest? Why no concern? The connection is so plain to see.
Start here: our recommended foods guide. Diet is the first thing we go over on a consultation, and a consultation is free.
The Core FoundationSee the Core Foundation →Antioxidant Treats and Sprouted Granules together: live nutrition the body uses to clean its own cells.
The Core Foundation is the idea in this article made into a box: the same live-food formula in two forms, Antioxidant Treats by hand and Sprouted Granules in the bowl. It is where every dog starts with us, whatever brought the family to the phone. The proof behind it is on the 387-dog veterinary study page.
Not sure whether your dog needs a program or just the foundation? Tell us the breed, the age, what he eats, and what you're seeing. Book a free consultation →
"Pets need more than processed foods."
Still the whole idea.
A remedial product is built to solve one problem and stops there: a joint supplement supports joints and nothing else. A foundational approach works at the cellular level, which touches every system at once. Nzymes is foundational: the body uses the live nutrition in the Treats and Granules to make its own antioxidant enzymes, and clean cells show up as better mobility, coat, digestion, energy and recovery together.
Yes. Glucosamine, chondroitin, MSM, green-lipped mussel and turmeric are all natural ingredients and anything that helps a pet is a win in our book. Nzymes works underneath them, at the foundation, rather than competing with them.
Because food is the single biggest input into your pet every day, and poor-quality food is the leading cause of degraded health we see. Carbohydrates feed inflammation in a joint dog, carbs and preservatives feed yeast in a skin dog, and toxins, glutens and glyphosate residue add to episodes in a seizure dog. Diet is the first thing we go over on a consultation.
No, but we will ask what you are feeding. Start with our recommended foods guide and read the label on the kibble and the snacks. Many families see a change from the Treats or Granules alone and a bigger one once the bowl changes too.
Antioxidant Treats and Sprouted Granules together: the same live-food formula in two forms, one by hand and one in the bowl. It is where every dog starts with us, whatever the condition, because it feeds the cells everything else depends on.
Treats by hand, Granules in the bowl, and a hard look at the food. If you'd rather talk it through first, book a free consultation and tell us what you're seeing.
The consultation is a scheduled half hour with the people who have walked hundreds of families through this, so you get real time and real answers instead of a rushed phone call. It's free, and it always will be.
