12/10/2026
I swear I have a rebuttal for almost every horse, dog, and human health post I see. And I am sure that pi**es a lot of people off but hold on a minute, it's not because I know everything, I am always learning and it's not because everything being said is wrong. A lot of it is partly right but that is actually what makes it interesting.
So some topics that make me cringe a little.....Yes, removing grass can reduce laminitis flare-ups. Removing certain foods can calm skin issues. Restricting calories can create weight loss. Changing feed can reduce coughing. Cutting something out can reduce ye**ty ears. A track can increase movement. A supplement can improve a lab value. A medication can make a symptom quieter.
But none of those things automatically mean the body healed.
Sometimes we simply removed the thing that was making the dysfunction visible. Holistic is not what many think it is and root-cause healing, well that's something missed 90% of the time of people actually getting too.
Here's the thing, modern management gets confused with biological design. Why? Because we have gotten very good at controlling inputs, restricting exposure, replacing nutrients, suppressing symptoms, chasing numbers, and creating systems that make the body easier to manage, but the body still has to function.
It still needs the right species biological food. The right movement. The right environment. The right nutrients. The right biological signals. The right support for the systems that are struggling underneath what we can see and that is why I look at so much of this differently.
So here are some facts....grass is not automatically the enemy because a horse became insulin resistant. A track is not automatically “natural” because the horse moves more on it. A salt block is not biologically identical to how horses naturally seek minerals. “Forage first” is not automatically species-appropriate if the rest of the program is a balancer plus ten powders. Kibble is not automatically a biological foundation because it is convenient and complete on paper and processed foods are not better because they claim to be. But the biggest misunderstanding is that removing a symptom is not the same thing as restoring function.
Restoring that function, whether in horses, dogs or people is something I take very seriously and from a very different approach that keeps me coming back to in a biology-first approach: what has the body lost the ability to do, why did it lose that ability, and what does it actually need in order to function better again?
That thinking is built into PIM™, because PIM is designed to help me observe, listen to, and interpret what the body is communicating rather than simply matching a symptom to a product or blood test. There is a lot more going on inside the body that is honestly ignored.
That thinking is also built into my master herbal formulations for the same reason. They are not created around a symptom word. They are created around systems, physiology, species, and the biological objective behind the formula.
For me, a root-cause approach should do more than make the symptom quieter, it should help us understand what the body is asking for — and then give it something biologically meaningful to work with.
Stop looking at your animals like everything they need has to come from a bag, bucket, tub, scoop, or bottle — and that goes for us too. Bodies, no matter the species, are far more complex than a quick fix, an isolated ingredient, or food that does not match their
biological design.
The goal should not be to keep adding more, the goal should be to understand what the body actually needs in order to function well again.
