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NGD Care — Scientific background to food supplements Digestive Enzymes: eight digestive enzymes, how they work and when you need them Digestive enzymes are not only relevant in EPI. Stress, old age, dry food, intestinal damage and chronic low-grade inflammation all cause enzymatic digestion to fall short. Sometimes temporarily, sometimes structurally. Digestive Enzymes provides the … Read more
NGD Care — Scientific background to food supplements Liposomal Curcumin: NF-kB, bioavailability and wide ignition modulation Why does curcumin have such a broad action profile, what makes its bioavailability so problematic, and how does liposomal encapsulation solve this? From NF-kB inhibition to blood-brain barrier and veterinary clinical data. For dogs, cats and humans. By Stefan … Read more
NGD Care — Scientific background to food supplements Liposomal Vitamin C: ascorbate, antioxidant network and immune function Why is vitamin C more than an immune vitamin? The role of ascorbate in the antioxidant network, collagen synthesis, detoxification, and immune function in dogs, cats, and humans. With the most recent literature on liposomal bioavailability. By Stefan … Read more
NGD Care: Scientific background Metabolic dysregulation in dogs and cats: from insulin resistance to mitochondrial exhaustion Why metabolic dysregulation starts long before the diagnosis of diabetes, how insulin resistance works at the cellular level, what role the gut microbiome plays and why the order of support is mechanistically. Substantiated with literature. By Stefan Veenstra DVM … Read more
NGD Care: Scientific background The endocrine system as an adaptation system: hormonal disorders in dogs and cats Why endocrine disorders are systemic diseases, how the HPA axis and HPT axis work, what diagnostics and pitfalls are per condition, and how phased system support in addition to medication promotes recovery. Substantiated with literature. By Stefan Veenstra … Read more
NGD Care, Scientific background Chronic kidney disease in dogs and cats: from oxidative stress and tubular damage to fibrosis Why kidney disease only becomes visible when 70% of its function is lost, how the gut-kidney axis accelerates fibrosis, how to diagnose early and why the order of support is mechanistically. Substantiated with literature. By Stefan … Read more
Aromatherapy & behavior Essential oils in dogs and cats: mechanisms of action, safety and which oil for which symptom Aromatherapy in animals is more than a pleasant smell. Smell is the shortest route to the limbic system, the part of the brain that controls fear, emotions and stress hormones. But how does that work exactly, … Read more
NGD Care — Scientific background Healthy aging in dogs and cats: hallmarks of aging, kidney jing weakness and the integrative protocol Aging is not an inevitable decay but a process that you can understand and support. From telomere shortening and mitochondrial depletion to inflammaging and microbiome dysbiosis. And how traditional Chinese medicine has described the … Read more
NGD Care — Scientific background Fireworks anxiety in dogs and cats: the HPA axis, gut-brain axis and why starting early makes all the difference Fear of fireworks is rarely a behavioral problem alone. Behind the panic lies a physiologically disturbed system: an overactive HPA axis, a disturbed neurotransmitter balance and sometimes a gut-brain axis that … Read more
NGD Care — Scientific background Intracellular infections in dogs and cats: spirochetes, persisters and the integrative approach Borrelia, Ehrlichia, Leishmania, Leptospira and related pathogens share one property: they escape the immune system via intracellular hiding, endothelial invasion or morphological metamorphosis. Why standard antibiotic treatment is inadequate, what makes spirochetes so special, what ozone therapy adds … Read more