LifeWise BIOTIC Liver (and Kidney) Chicken with barley, oats and vegetables is a nutritional aid for dogs suffering chronic liver or kidney disorders.
A food specifically for dogs suffering liver or kidney problems such as Fatty Liver diseease, Cirrhosis or Steatohepatitis. Based on Australia chicken, this food also supports gut function and is designed to reverse the effects of leaky gut syndrome, a common cause of liver disease.
Key Features
Safety Information
Transitioning to LifeWise BIOTIC Liver should be achieved gradually and carefully to provide ongoing support during the recovery process.
This food should not be fed to pups, adolescent dogs, or pregnant or nursing bitches or to dogs that are suffering from hpyerlipidemia or those prone to pancreatitis.
Please consult your veterinary advisor prior to transitioning to this food.
Feeding Guide
Biotic Liver contains 403 kcal/100g
A dogs resting energy requirement (RER) is the number of calories your dog should be fed in order to maintain their ideal weight, calcuated as follows:
‘Ideal Weight in Kgs’ x 30 + 70 = kcal per day
e.g. 10kg Ideal Weight = 10 x 30 + 70 = 370 kcal per day.
Please note this is for your dogs ENTIRE daily food intake, including treats. If you feed a lot of treats, check the caloric content of the treats and reduce your dog’s food by about the amount of calories you are feeding him in treats.
Because dog foods are complete and balanced and treats are not, however, you shouldn’t replace too many of his food calories with treats.
A growing body of evidence suggests the close relationship between the liver and the gut plays a major role in the development of liver disease. Not only do they share hormones but each is able to influence the other. Where digestive health is reduced, leakage of food particles and microbial remnants from the gut into the bloodstream can overwhelm the liver’s natural immune tolerance which leads to immune response inflammation of the liver.
Inflammation is associated with fat deposits which leads to fatty liver disease, cirrhosis and steatohepatitis. It is estimated that up to 95% of obese animals suffer from the effects of fatty liver disease. In many cases gut dysbiosis also leads to bacterial translocation from the gut to the liver, further exacerbating damage to this vital organ. Additionally, the general increase in protein levels in manufactured pet foods is resulting in more and more dogs succumbing to impaired kidney function due to kidney damage from the excretion of the additional quantities of nitrogen that must be purged from the body via the urine.
The specific nutrient ratios in this food are designed to reduce the load on the kidneys, thus preserving what function remains. Unfortunately, there is no cure for kidney damage. After 50 years of ongoing research into the application and combination of specific ingredients, LifeWise has been able to develop a unique understanding of the role ingredient combinations play in promoting a healthy gut environment to reverse the state of dysbiosis which in turn protect organs such as the kidneys or liver.
Simply treating the liver itself is not sufficient to fully restore health and well-being to a challenged animal, and it is this two pronged approach that makes this food so effective as a nutritional aid to recuperation. Not only does the food contain ingredients that foster gut health, but specific nutrients to ease the burden and allow the liver to regenerate.
Chicken, barley, rice, sweet lupins, egg, oat groats, poultry oil stabilised with vitamin E and rosemary oil, alfalfa, sweet potato, carrot, spinach, parsley, kelp, yeast cell wall extract, vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, B12, C, D3, E, K, niacin, pantothenate, folic acid, biotin, and natural organic acids, minerals calcium, phosphorus, sodium, zinc and iodine. Also contains natural flavours and Yucca schidigera extract.
Manufactured and tested under ISO 17025 standards.
