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  • Articles
  • Guides
    • Dog Skin and Itch Guide: Allergies, Yeast, and Traditional Chinese Medicine
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    • Kidney Disease Guide For Dogs: Custom Diets, Bloodwork & TCM
    • Traditional Chinese Medicine for Dogs: Patterns, Herbs & Vets
  • Raw
  • Home Cooked
    • Finding Your Own Path
    • Beyond the Bowl: The Fat Factor
    • Defrosting Meat Safely For Your Dog
    • Time-Saving Meal Prep Guide for Busy Dog Parents
  • Resources
    • Warming and Cooling Foods for Dogs: The TCM Food Energetics List
    • Calculators
    • Leaky Gut
    • BUN Level
    • Complete and Balanced AAFCO, NRC and FDIAF
    • Nutritionist
    • Dog Food Supplements: What to Add, and Why It Depends on the Recipe
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Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Dogs

Raw Food for Dogs with Kidney Disease: What Changes

Raw food for dogs with kidney disease: what bone, protein, and bacteria do to a kidney dog, the complications I

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September 23, 2026
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Dogs

Metabolic Acidosis in Dogs with Kidney Disease Explained

Metabolic acidosis in dog kidney disease: why TCO2 is often missing from bloodwork, what low bicarbonate costs in muscle, and

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September 21, 2026
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Dogs

Benazepril, Telmisartan, Calcitriol for Dog Kidney Disease

Benazepril, telmisartan, and calcitriol for dog kidney disease: what each drug does, why they raise potassium or calcium, and what

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September 18, 2026
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Dogs

Struvite Stones in Dogs: A Home-Cooked Case Study and the Research Behind It

A dog with struvite stones goes home-cooked. See the urine pH numbers, the mineral targets, and what six published dissolution

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September 16, 2026
The Approach

Can Dog Bloodwork Be Wrong? Why Medicine Is a Practice

Doubting your dog’s lab results? How much error is normal in any lab, why vets give a prognosis instead of

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September 14, 2026
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Dogs

Phosphorus Binders for Dogs: What They Do and When a Vet Uses Them

What a phosphorus binder actually does in the gut, the three types a vet might use, and why timing the

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September 11, 2026
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Dogs

Should You Restrict Protein for a Dog With Kidney Disease?

The studies behind low-protein kidney diets say, in their own words, not to overdo it. What the real dog research

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September 9, 2026
TCVM

TCM and Time: Why Healing Can’t Be Rushed

Four years into acupuncture school, here’s what changed in how I see healing and patterns, and what it means for

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September 7, 2026
TCVM

How Language Shapes Reality (and How You See Illness)

Russian has two blues. The Aymara keep the past in front of them. Lera Boroditsky’s research shows words decide what

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September 5, 2026
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