Dietary Recommendations to Help Your Dog Beat Cancer
If your dog is battling cancer, diet can be a powerful tool to support them. This short guide outlines the right and wrong foods to help your dog fight cancer.
Core Nutritional Principles
The first principle is to minimize toxins that could be harmful to your dog’s health. Conventional dog food, especially kibble, can contain genetically modified ingredients, toxic pesticides, and other contaminants. Kibble is also highly processed, stripping away vital nutrients and enzymes that support your dog’s health.
To avoid inflammation and fueling cancer growth, it’s important to avoid sugar and dairy. Instead, a primarily ketogenic diet is recommended – high in protein and fat, low in sugar – to create an environment that starves cancer and supports immune cells’ efforts to kill cancer cells.
Good Food
Natural protein sources, healthy fats, and vegetables make up the best nutrition for dogs with cancer. Beef, chicken, turkey, lamb, salmon, and eggs are excellent protein sources, while coconut oil, hemp seed oil, and avocado are healthy fat sources. Vegetables such as broccoli, squash, brussels sprouts, carrots, peas, bell peppers, cabbage, and green beans provide essential nutrients and enzymes that fight cancer. Gently cooking vegetables preserves enzymes.
Bad Food
Processed kibble is the worst food for dogs with cancer, as it is often filled with toxins and lacks essential nutrients and enzymes. Grains, which dogs did not evolve to eat, should also be avoided as they can promote inflammation and metabolize into sugar. Refined sugar itself is the worst and should be strictly avoided.
Packaged and processed foods should be minimized, but small amounts of high-quality packaged food can be given occasionally to deliver cannabis medicine or supplements. Consistent consumption of bad foods is the most problematic.
Summary
The ultimate goal is to feed your dog as much good food as possible and avoid bad food as much as possible. A healthy diet can improve your dog’s chances of beating cancer.