I have a beautiful daughter who has been married for about two years…nice fellow, smart. When the kids got married, I gave them a car. It was an old Oldsmobile that my daughter had been driving for years. I told them to take good care of it and it would serve them for many years.

Not long ago I got a call from my little girl. She said she was having trouble with the car. I asked her when she had it serviced last. Silence. Then, finally, “What does that mean?” I explained

all about oil changes, filter changes, fluid checks. “Umm, I don’t think we’ve ever done anything like that. We just put gas in it.”

Not good.

After an extended visit at the local “QuikieLube” joint, the car was doing much better. Go figure.

Our bodies, and the bodies of our animal friends, occasionally need a little service as well. Under natural conditions, eating the foods it was designed to eat and living the lifestyle it was designed to live, the bodies of dogs, cats (humans, aardvarks…) operate at a high level of health. Cancers, degenerative disorders, and metabolic diseases are practically unheard of.

The problem is our animal companions are not living the life they were designed to live. They have joined their human masters in living “high on the hog” in the affluent 21st century lifestyle. As a result, their bodies are bombarded with myriad chemicals, pesticides, food additives, preservatives, pharmaceuticals, pollutants and other un-natural substances. And what happens to all these chemicals and pollutants? They are detoxified or filtered out by the liver and kidneys. This takes resources from the body that would normally be used to maintain vibrant health.

One of the best things I have found for giving the over-worked liver and kidneys a little help is an occasional treatment with Silver Lining Herbs #27 Liver Support and #37 Kidney Support. These formulas contain herbs that help the liver and kidneys with their monumental and critical task of keeping the modern dog’s body, clean, detoxified and healthy.

I recommend folks do either a liver cleanse or a kidney cleanse on a regular schedule about as often as they changed the oil in their cars. Unless of course, you’re car is on the same oil-change schedule as my daughter’s in which case you might want to do it a bit more often.

Doc Jones