Dr. Poop Lady Returns: Hormones, Vaccines, and Why Your Pet Is Not Healing

About this episode

We spend a lot of time on this show talking about root cause medicine for people. In this episode we take that same lens and point it at the members of the family who cannot tell us where it hurts. Dr. Odette Suter is back for part two, and this conversation goes places part one did not. It opens with a Swiss vet student trimming hooves against the wishes of the old boys' club, moves through the Pottinger cat experiments and what four generations of poor food did to those animals, and lands on an uncomfortable piece of arithmetic: run those same four generations forward from the 1950s in America, and we arrive exactly where we are standing today. From there the three of them get into the gut, because that is where Dr. Odette starts and where Dr. Jason starts. You will hear her explain how she assesses a pet's microbiome and why she goes straight to fecal transplant rather than reaching for a probiotic. You will hear Dr. Jason lay out his weed, seed, and feed approach and admit what he had to unlearn after years of carpet bombing the gut with antibiotics. James brings the conversation back to the cost of all of it, in dollars and in years, and then asks the question he had been h