6/22/2023 0 Comments Taurine deficiency![]() ![]() I haven’t formulated a diet without additional taurine in at least 13 years, but I’ve corrected taurine responsive DCM for at least that many years. Joshua Stern in which case he wants you to not supplement until after the dog’s blood has been drawn for testing). It’s inexpensive and excess is excreted in urine.ĭo I think we should all be supplementing? YES! (unless your dog is going to be part of the taurine study being done by Dr. The bottom line is that unless we’re going to ask the vet to test taurine levels in all dogs, I use a supplement proactively. None of us should be risking our dogs, and I know that some people are certain they’re not risking them because they’ve been feeding this way, or that way for 20 years, etc. The dogs that are indeed responsive to supplemental taurine should have never needed to become a medical emergency. There’s a difference between the genetic issues with those dogs, and what’s happening now. It used to be that certain breeds were known to come down with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), but were they responsive to taurine? Not usually. This would suggest that a fresh food diet loaded with meats produces no problem whatsoever, but that’s not the case 100% of the time either. BP may contribute to a decrease taurine status in dogs by increasing excretion of fecal BA (bile acids) and decreasing protein digestibility, thus decreasing the bioavailability of sulfur amino acids, the precursors of taurine. In dogs fed low protein diet – (Ko and Fascetti Journal of Animal Science and Technology (2016) 58:29 DOI 10.1186/s4078-6)states ” …. In addition, a paper – Dietary beet pulp decreases taurine status It’s not about rice being, or not being, in the diet. In fact, diets that are loaded with peas, lentils, or whatever else should not be an issue if there’s enough methionine + cysteine – but again, that’s on paper. Meat based diets should have no problem meeting this requirement – on paper. The body requires two amino acids (methionine and cysteine ) to make taurine. Yet others say that the lack of grain in the kibble is causing a taurine deficiency, and the theories are getting bigger and louder by the week. Some say that diets with novel proteins/ingredients are the problem. That may be a bigger issue than in the past (when grains were being used) because these legumes have properties that lessen nutrient availability to the body. So, when we see a meat source listed, there’s really no way to know how much of the protein is coming from that source, and how much from the peas, etc. Peas, beans and lentils add protein to the diet, so the amount of protein shown on the nutrition panel on a bag of kibble reflects it. It comes a bit late since the investigation started quite a while ago. That makes some sense, and the FDA has put out a warning. Others say that kibble containing peas and lentils are causing the problem. I’m here to tell you that I’ve worked with dogs that were. You may have heard that raw fed dogs, especially those eating animal hearts can’t be deficient. IMHO this needs to be about the dogs’ realities rather than our preferred feeding methods. I hope you’ll join me in this endeavour by Sharing this post because when all is said and done it’s our dogs that are at risk. ![]() Taurine deficiency in dogs has been seen in raw fed, kibble fed and home-cooked fed dogs, and not accepting this fact is dangerous, so I want to try and be a part of the solution rather than divisive.
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