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From: "Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2006-12-19 20:22:07 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Major find/Question-unknown illness!?
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com

> Sukie, can you let us know where you read this.
> Thanks,
> Shirley
>

Sure can, but I honestly am not sure that I agree that the person's conclusion because we
have seen some who are on antibiotics have fewer bouts of runs when yogurt with live
cultures is given.

The writer has a doctorate in animal nutrition, though so he knows more than I, and I
expect that could include an alternative reason the yogurt has helped.

Let me find the past post(s). Oh, the person had different email addresses than the last
two. This may take a little longer to find and then narrow down than i expected since I
can't skim as well as I used to be able to do.

Okay, this is NOT more explicit post I recall but does have it in part maybe 80 to 90 % of
the way through and has some other very interesting info:
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG2354

Ah! Here you are Shirley. This has the info you wanted in detail:
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG1623

including

BEGIN QUOTE
The functional benefit of yogart as well as other types of
probioticts or prebioticts lays in the fact that the "good"
bacteria or non pathogenic bacteria overgrows the "bad"
bacteria and makes for "better" or more complete
digestion. This function takes place in the ceacum and colon
of the humans not in the stomach or small intestines. The
ferret lacks a ceacum, an ileocolic valve and an effective
absorptive colon. Further, the ferret's colon contains little
bacteria and is practically sterile. This is the main reason
that pre and pro bioticts or yogurt can have little to no
effect in ferrets as it does in other mammals.
END QUOTE

AND LATER

BEGIN QUOTE

The protein in the yogurt is casein and is a very high
quality as well as is the fat. Since lactase is an induced
enzyme, ferrets, cats and dogs can adapt to milk products
given enough time, usually 6 to 12 weeks. Mr Lipinski
does bring up a cogent point in identifying the digestive benefit
of increased surface area of food stuffs. This along with the
nutrient quality mentioned above is the source of the benefit of
yogurt to ferrets and not the bacteria replacement in the gut.
DR Thomas Willard

END QUOTE

Hey. I didn't learn it the first time around; maybe I will this time...

This may also be of use to you, but my eyes are a bit tired today so I'll let you check:
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG2414

Today noticed a very interesting thing in the Jan 2007 Scientific American. You know how
previous caloric restriction studies showed that they increased life spans, and a later
refinement found that (for the only animal studied that way, an invertebrate. that it was
restricting the protein levels which got the longer life spans. Well, humans doing it
noticed that they were always cold, so they wondered what effect jut reducing core body
temperature would be. They tricked the brains of mice into thinking the surroundings
were hot so that their core temperature went down a fraction of a degree. The result was
the same as caloric reduction: they lived about 1/3 longer than controls did. If memory
serves the paragraphs mentioning this said that the article was in the Nov. issue of
Science.




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