I have a dog named Mugs. Mugs is a refugee from a family members house. It turns out that Mugs is a good dog save for his propensity to try and snatch low-hanging food from small hands. Mugs, who always believes he is starving, is a bit too indiscriminate about this.
So I acquired him about 5 or 6 years ago to save him from an otherwise uncertain fate.
Mugs also had some health problems - a peculiar itching affliction, rotten bowels (Mugs could easily clear a large room by passing gas), and various associated skin issues.
Over the last several years we have worked out many of Mugs's problems.
The bowl problems were cleared up by "rebooting" his digestive system. Mugs had been to the doctor many times before we had him for rounds of "penicillin and steroids" to clear up his itching and skin problems. As I have written here before antibiotics are a scourge on humanity and, as it turns out, pets as well.
In the case of Mugs the antibiotics had done in all his digestive bacteria leaving him in a bad way. The solution was twofold: first give him probiotics to reinfest his innards with good bacteria. This took about six months but it worked.
His digestive system slowly returned to normal and now Mugs no longer has an odor problem.
Mugs also suffered from years of ear infections. These were caused, I believe, by allergic reactions to things in his environment. While the steroids and antibiotics helped for short periods of time they were never a good long term solution.
We worked to reduce his ear infections through cleaning and using a "cone" when his allergies would break out.
So by about a year ago or so we were down to only the allergic problems - which seemed to be seasonal. He still broke out several times per year - each time with itching, smelly skin, itchy ears which he would scratch bloody, clumps of fur would come out, and he would get crusty scabs all over which would persist after the breakout.
The vet I was using was not interested in anything but extensive traditional allergy tests (living on a farm this would unlikely whittle it down much), blood work ups, sending poor Mugs to the giant vet hospital for specialist treatment, prescribing steroids that would shorten his poor little life and so on.
But about six months ago my daughter reported on a "holistic vet" who had worked wonders for a coworkers dog. Being interested in this sort of solution I followed up.
This new vet prescribed something called "Dr. Dan's Water" - 1/2 oz added to one gallon of spring water which was given to Mugs 5 oz per day. He also prescribed a few days of antibiotics with probiotics to kill off a ear skin infection.
Within about a month Mugs was up to 100% - something I had never seen - no itchy crust, no redness, smooth luxurious coat. I wondered what this "water" was but was too busy to do further research.
Mugs did have his usual summer breakout in mid-July but it was significantly attenuated. Still itching and fur coming out - less ear problems (only one ear scratching incident) - overall, better. Not 100%, but measurably better.
So on a return visit we discussed "Dr. Dan's" in more detail and he gave me some info to Google (see this and this).
It turns out that Dr. Dan is a nuclear physicist who became interested in the structure and behavior of water at the atomic level - apparently something not done by the medical community. (He makes some interesting comments on this point and compares, in one video, the accuracy of Quantum Mechanics as a predictive model to the results of modern medicine (some estimates indicating that various "mistakes" kill up to almost a quarter million a year - link or Google "annual deaths from medical mistakes").
Most people think of water as simply water - H2O. But because its also a molecule it has a variety of interesting behaviors. There are a number of Dr. Dan videos where he discusses this in more detail. (I have not yet been able to watch them all yet.)
At any rate the upshot of this is that Dr. Dan finds structure in water. Water molecules have a magnetic orientation which causes them to "clump" and the clumps interact with your bodies cells differently than "monatomic" (single molecule) water.
Quite interesting stuff - and even more interesting that, at least according to Dr. Dan - no one in the medical community has thought about the structure of water and how it works with cell boundaries at the atomic level.
I will write more about Dr. Dan as I learn more.
But the bottom line is that this has significantly helped Mugs.
The vet himself says he takes the Dr. Dan's water as well - he is close to 70 and still in good shape.
So Mugs will be getting more water to see if further improvement is available.
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