OUR PRECIOUS PETS
OUR PRECIOUS PETS
Note: This subject has not been reported by Dr. Stanley W. Jacob, MD. But his report on human arthritis is an important guide to trust for the health of your pet.
If you have not already read the first six sections of this website, I suggest you do read them before reading this section.
If you have read this website’s first six sections, you already know that veterinarians just like everyone else have extraordinarily little knowledge about MSM. And if they do, their knowledge is extremely limited, and they have no incentive to increase their knowledge and use MSM in their practice which would reduce their lucrative income stream as you will see here.
I found on the internet a few veterinarians using MSM in their practice, but by what is reported on their websites, it shows they have a limited knowledge about MSM, which is normal.
Before reading what follows, if you have not read the ARTHRITIS section on this website, one may want to read it and come back here after.
Just like in humans, exercise is one of the most important factors to keep your pet healthy and living with you longer. Plus, by exercising your pet you often exercise. However, this exercise takes a tool on the health of your pet; your pet ends up losing his energy, and it triggers arthritis. One must understand that one year in a pet’s life is like an average of five to six years for humans.
As for humans, pets have a sulfur deficient diet and sulfur rich foods should be given to your pets to make sure they get enough sulfur. Raw meats with a lot of collagen and bones are the best, as the MSM and sulfur will not escape from the food by cooking as we already learned.
However, just as for humans, due to farming industrialization, the minerals in our foods are extremely reduced, so this is why you may want to give the MSM sulfur supplement to your pets in their water because MSM is also a constituent of their body.
As we all know, laboratory medical research is done first on animals, including some of the research results reported by Dr. Stanley W. Jacob, MD.
PETS ARTHRITIS
Pet arthritis is a common condition just like in humans.
Feline osteoarthritis is believed to affect 90% of cats over 10years old.
Canine osteoarthritis, is a condition believed to affect an estimated 80 percent of all dogs 8 years or older, and as many as 35 percent of dogs of all ages.
Since January 2022, US Veterinarians have been treating feline osteoarthritis by injection of the drug Solensia. The cat must be at least five pounds, be older than 1 year, not pregnant, not breeding, and not nursing cats.
Since October 2023, US veterinarians have been prescribing Librela, a dog osteoarthritis drug also given by injection for dogs eight years old or older. Before its use in the US the same drug had been prescribed in Europe for more than two years.
Both drugs by the same manufacturer Zoetis are remarkably similar and seem to have less impact than other drugs on the pet’s liver, kidneys, and GI tract. However, there are still a number of reported cases with these impacts after treatment.
In most cases, veterinarians take blood tests, X-rays and even MRIs before prescribing these drugs. It is recommended that pets receive a minimum of two doses 28 days apart to determine if it can help reduce their pain.
After the first two shots, once the results are assessed by the owner and the veterinarian, the injection is to be given once a month. It is recommended to keep the treatment for at least six months to ascertain of its benefits.
With the costs of the visits, the required tests, and the medication itself, the cost to keep your dog free of osteoarthritis will end up costing you thousands of dollars. And just like in all drugs, with the probability of bad reaction and side effects.
PETS CANCER
As we saw in “CANCER,” fifty percent of reported pets cause of death are from cancer. There are many published peer reviewed studies reporting on laboratory animals already on a MSM water diet showing protection from the onset of cancer, and induced cancer cells were replaced by normal cells faster when injected with MSM.
A 1986 animal study at the Oregon Health Sciences University’s Department of Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases involving mice prone to autoimmune proliferative diseases like leukemia and lymphoma in humans demonstrated that MSM, on average, doubled the lifespan of 80% of the animals taking water with MSM. And the MSM supplemented mice remained healthy and vigorous throughout their lives, observed researchers Jane Morton and Benjamin Siegel.
A subsequent study by the same researchers with a 3% MSM in water showed similar results on mice affected with anemia and kidney damage and lessened the degree of spleen enlargement.
Pets are also much more prone to getting parasites, from the infected ground and for cats from the sand and soil where they bury their waste.
As in humans, MSM’s antiparasitic action protects your pet against parasites. In an animal study, mice with pin worms given commercial food and drinking water with 2% MSM were free of worms and eggs after a few days.
Outside cats have an average life span of seven years compared to thirteen to seventeen years for inside cats, which shows the risks of giving your cat outside roaming leisure.
For dogs, the average lifespan for small dogs under twenty pounds is ten to fifteen years with some breeds living as long as twenty years. For larger dogs, their lifespan is closer to seven years with some breeds living as long as eleven years.
As a summary, clinical research has demonstrated that a diet supplemented with MSM may protect your pet from many diseases and parasites, provide your pet with more energy, and prolong their life up to twice the average life span.
For pets, some veterinarians with MSM knowledge suggest a dosage of 50 to 100 mg per ten pounds of weight. And just as for humans, toxicity should not be a concern; when you see that your pet does not behave as usual, has difficulty walking, climbing stairs, or exercising, if you feel like it may help your pet, you can increase the dosage until you can see a change in the pet’s behaviors as your pet ages. Just make sure you increase the dosage slowly one week at a time just like in the case of humans.
Once their pets were diagnosed with cancer, I know some people who have spent $3,000 to $10,000 in veterinarian treatments to end up keeping their pets two to three months longer.
CAT OWNERS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), schizophrenia affects approximately 1 percent of Americans. It is also believed that 4 to 8% of the people affected by this disease are children.
The relation between cat owners and schizophrenia in humans has been reported in more than one hundred studies worldwide in the last forty years.
On December 2, 2023, a group of psychiatrists from the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, in Australia, published the result of their analysis of seventeen of these studies and concluded that there is a high probability that it is related to the parasite Toxoplasma gondii transmitted from cat to human. According to this study, they concluded that being a cat owner can double the risk of developing schizophrenia if you are under age twenty-five. But more research is needed.
Because MSM antiparasitic properties are well documented by Dr. Jacob’s clinical research, one is well advised to give the MSM sulfur nutritional supplement to their cats to help rid them from the parasite Toxoplasma gondii.
Doing so may prevent schizophrenia to be transmitted from cats to humans.
Sulfur as an important nutrient to help mental diseases has been well observed by other health practitioners even before Dr. Jacob’s reported MSM’s mental health benefits as shown in the two following publications:
1.- In his book Mental and Elemental Nutrients “A Physician’s Guide to Nutrition and Health”, published in 1976, Carl Pfeiffer, Ph.D., M.D., mentioned two particularly important statements along with others:
a.- Sulfur is the forgotten essential element.
b.- It is too bad that the use of supplements for mental health has not been supported by mainstream medicine.
One must remember that these two statements were given a few years before Dr. Jacob, M.D., the first physician who experimented with MSM, started to treat patients for many health disorders with the MSM sulfur nutritional supplement. And it is only after many years of medical experimentation that Dr. Jacob realized all the possible therapeutic benefits of MSM as a sulfur nutritional supplement.
2. In a 1995 analysis of nutritional and metabolic data by Jon B. Pangborn, Ph.D., a well-known nutritional biochemist found that the metabolism of methionine was the "most frequently impaired or disordered amino acid" among 1,500 individuals with food and chemical intolerances, degenerative diseases, neuromuscular dysfunction, and mental diseases. Note: MSM is partly metabolized into methionine in the body.
SUMMARY
As a summary, as soon as you decide to have a pet, don’t you believe like me that it is advisable to give your pet the MSM supplement in his water? You will see that your pet will also drink more because pets like the MSM supplement. MSM is a metabolite of DMSO and the health benefits of DMSO were first discovered after the observation of wild animals being drawn to eat a natural source of DMSO.
Is it not worth spending $0.50 - $0.75 a day on MSM nutritional supplement to protect your pets from some of their worst diseases, give them higher energy, a better life, and for you to enjoy your healthy pets company much longer?
All this for less than $250 a year in a fully nontoxic natural process without any of the medications side effects and their excessive cost.
Please remember that MSM should not help every health condition that may affect your pet and if you find out that you pet has some health condition, make sure to see a veterinarian.
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