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LOCATION
San Francisco
EMPLOYMENT TYPE
Permanent
About me
My name is Claire Lucie, and I am practicing Canine Nutritionist.
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I'm from Belgium and I work with dog parents from all over the world.
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In this photo, Blacky, my brother's dog who I grew up with, is the motivation and driving force behind my desire to change how dogs are fed and how our society manages their health.
My goal, vocation and purpose to which I'm dedicating my life, is to educate, empower, and help pet parents with feeding their dog(s) a fresh plant-based diet.
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My vision is to restore the health and longevity of dogs throughout the world, allowing them to live a joyous and long existence free of avoidable health issues and allergies.
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Over the last 20 years, the typical longevity of a dog has decreased from 18 and often more than 20 years to an average of 8 years, with 7-year-old canines now considered senior.
In the history of their domesticated existence, dogs have never been in worse health with cancers, allergies, diabetes, arthritis, and other inflammatory health conditions reaching epidemic proportions.
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Contributory factors include overvaccination and other excessive medicine usage, hazardous substances in their immediate environment, a lack of exercise and synthetic nutrients with poor bioavailability and an unbalanced or unadapted diet.
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While some published numbers show that 1 out of every 4, or 1 out of every 3 dogs, will die from cancer, or that the cancer risk is a little over 50% in "senior" dogs (over 8-10 years of age), the numbers of cancer incidences are very different from the inside. Working in the pet industry, we hear that 2.65 dogs out of every 3 will now develop cancer over their lives. The incidence of cancer in dogs 50 years ago was on average 1 out of every 100 000. I started a company in the pet industry, where we created patented innovative pet accessories out of plant material and were building a range of processed pet meals and snacks.
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I immersed myself in the pet industry, visited manufacturers, and worked really hard to develop our plant-based pet food range.
But the more I worked with pet food manufacturers and learned about the industry from the inside, the more it disgusted me; what I observed and learnt about the pet food industry is horrifying, shameful, and tragic.
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Despite the fact that the company that I started was becoming successful, and we were even named the innovation of the year for the pet industry award, an event where industry giants such as Pets at Home for the UK were named alongside us in other categories, I chose to stop.
What I observed and learned in the pet food industry taught me that the pet industry doesn't care about our dogs' health.
Regardless of whether the brands are small businesses or large companies, whether the processed food is vegan or meat-based, this ugly truth remains.
This dark side of the pet industry include overuse of synthetic nutrients, fear-based marketing, voluntary disinformation, fiber degradation, poor ingredient quality, numerous recognized cancer-causing processes and substances that are never discussed.
The list goes on and on.
I completed my studies in canine nutrition and became a certified canine nutritionist, CMA registered in the UK, where I do a major part of my work. Over the past two years, I've dedicated my life to reading, analyzing, and synthesizing more than 250 scientific studies on how diet affects canine health and longevity. I have also studied over 1000 scientific studies on canine health, disease development, and prevention and the vital role of the microbiomes in every aspect of canine health.
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I studied the structure and composition of the canine gut microbiome, which determines our dog's health and longevity. I have written 105 in-depth, science-based analyses of the 25 most common diseases in dogs, the role of diet in their development, the changes in the gut microbiome and the different microbiomes of the canine body, including sexual, nasal, and skin microbiomes associated with those diseases.
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Along with one of the most renowned experts of living nutrition, Carole Dougoud Chavannes, who have been leading figures of the whole foods movement and the science of nutrition for 48 years, I've learnt how whole living foods affect our dog's health and lifespan, that it's not the nutrients themselves that are important, but their sources, and that not all nutrients are created equal (natural versus synthetic ), the hazards of synthetic nutrients to our dogs' organs and cell functions, and how a fresh complete diet may extend our dog's life and allow us to make them disease proof, avoid chronic and inflammatory conditions, and treat existing ailments.
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By her sides, I've learned loads of valuable knowledge that isn't commonly discussed in nutrition, let alone in canine nutrition, but is vital to our dog's health and longevity, from biochemical mechanisms of nutrients found in raw foods, the complex nutritional co-factors found in nutrients, of which synthetic nutrients don't contain, but a nutrient cannot be recognized nor properly utilized by a body, humans or animals, without it.
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Mrs. Carole Dougoud Chavannes is closely following my work, and strangely, over the past 30 years, and the tens of thousands of people she has directly met and influenced via her work internationally, she disclosed to me that the majority of her client's dogs are given a vegan or vegetarian diet!
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My research was significantly influenced by the work of Dr Charles Schnabel (1895-1974), a world-renowned chemist who identified the presence of vitamins and minerals in wheat grass and numerous other cereals.
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Dr. Schnabel conducted one of the most impressive and intriguing studies on how nutrients from whole foods affect living organisms.
He rescued dying hens who were in such horrible shape that they were virtually lifeless.
He only gave them sprouted and grounded wheat for three months, with no other food.
Not only did those hens healed completely, but they also began to lay an average of tree times more eggs every day and became stronger and healthier than any other hens he had ever observed.
Dr Charles Schnabel's research has been utilized to create billions of supplements for both human and animal usage over the last 75 years.
I'm passionate about how we can bio-hack our dog's health to reverse the ageing process, prevent diseases such as so-called hereditary health conditions like hip dysplasia and "incurable diseases" like diabetes and allergies, heal health conditions, and extend our dog's lifespan by feeding a fresh whole homemade, nutrient-dense,
and complete plant-based diet.