THE FORMULA
Milk thistle. Turmeric. Wild salmon oil. Every active named.
Most dog supplements put a big word on the front and a proprietary blend on the back, inside a chew made mostly of starch. Here is what’s in ours, and what each one is doing there.
The formula
| In the bottle | What it does |
|---|---|
| Milk thistle extract (silymarin) | Shields the liver |
| Turmeric extract (curcumin) | Calms inflammation |
| Wild salmon oil | Skin + coat |
| Omega-3 EPA + DHA | Joints, heart + brain |
| Glutathione support | Detoxifies |
60 ml / 2 fl oz liquid dropper. Salmon flavour. No fillers, starches or sugars.
Milk thistle (silymarin)
The liver shield. In the death-cap mushroom study, one in three untreated dogs died of liver failure, and every dog given silibinin lived (Vogel, 1984). Dogs with liver disease given silybin had lower ALT within 20 days. In a UC Davis randomised trial, dogs on chemo given silybin had smaller liver-enzyme spikes and were more likely to finish treatment (Skorupski, 2011).
Glutathione support
Glutathione is the liver’s master antioxidant, the thing it spends to neutralise toxins. Silymarin raises it in the liver, stomach and gut, and in dogs with liver disease, silybin with glutathione refilled the tank in two weeks.
Turmeric (curcumin)
In a double-blind trial of 61 arthritic dogs, vets rated the turmeric dogs significantly better than placebo after eight weeks (Innes, 2003). Curcumin quieted inflammation genes in arthritic dogs as much as a prescription anti-inflammatory (Colitti, 2012) and turns down COX-2, the pain pathway joint drugs target.
Wild salmon oil (omega-3 EPA + DHA)
In a double-blind crossover trial, fish oil cut itching, hair loss and coat damage in allergic dogs within six weeks, including dogs with flea allergy (Logas, 1994). In 127 dogs across 18 clinics, owners saw arthritic dogs rise and play more easily within six weeks (Roush, 2010). In Boxers, six weeks of fish oil cut irregular heartbeats by more than half (Smith, 2007).
Why they’re together
Turmeric powder on its own barely reaches the blood. Dissolved in fish oil, curcumin was absorbed 2.8 times better than standard extract (Kanae, 2022). The salmon oil is an active and the delivery system at the same time.
What it is not
It isn’t a chew full of starch, and it isn’t one more pill to hide in cheese. It’s a salmon-flavoured liquid you squeeze on breakfast that works on his liver, skin, gut and joints every day he takes it.