Vitamin C is perhaps the best known and best-loved vitamin. Everyone knows it’s found plentifully in citrus fruits, red and green peppers, strawberries, and, for example, kiwi fruit.
Most people don’t know that pasture and regeneratively raised meats also have a significant vitamin C content. Vitamin C, as an antioxidant, also helps protect cognitive functions such as thinking and memory and is critical to maintaining skin and immune health.
B vitamins 1, 2, 6, 9 and 12 (thiamine, riboflavin, pyridoxine , folate and cobalamin) are significant on the antioxidant scene. Like most antioxidant vitamins, they are involved in energy, red blood cell, brain, DNA, neurotransmitter, and hormone production. Deficiency leads to anaemia and mouth sores and has been associated with breast cancer in women (thiamine). Riboflavin has reversed liver cancer in animal models.[3]
B vitamins are unique among antioxidant vitamins because they are water-soluble. This is protective because giving our dogs an excess of B vitamins is virtually impossible as any excess is eliminated in urine. B vitamins are plentiful in fresh fish, poultry, meat, eggs, dairy products, brewer’s yeast and superfoods such a chlorella. There are also significant quantities in leafy green vegetables, which I always add to raw dog food recipes.,
Dog gut health is critical to overall health and happiness. Most of the canine microbiome is found in the gut, especially the large intestine. It does many things for the canine body, including producing fatty acids and breaking down nutrient molecules. The most interesting contribution of those gut bugs is in the production of B vitamins, especially B9 and B12.
Vitamin D is usually associated with strong and healthy bones. It is also critical as an antioxidant, helping muscle movement, nerve connections, and immune health against, for example, coronaviruses. It’s found in salmon, mackerel, sardines, herrings, egg yolks, red meat, and liver.
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