Medicinal mushrooms are everywhere right now, and most of us have no real way to tell a good product from an expensive one. In this episode I sit down with Carter Easler, who managed the Senior Dog Study, to talk about what the research actually showed and what to look for before you buy.

We get into why boosting the immune system is often the wrong goal, what it means to regulate it instead, and why the same mushroom can support two dogs with very different problems. Carter walks through the five things he checks on any label, including dual extraction, what the mushroom was grown on, and whether the company will hand over a third party certificate of analysis. If you have ever seen mycelium inclusive on a package, that part of the conversation is worth the listen on its own.

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Carter Easler is an educator specializing in functional medicine for pets. More from him at mycodog.com

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If you have been wondering how to start a pet business but keep putting it off, this conversation is for you.

Emergency veterinarian Dr. Lynda Loudon spent 23 years in emergency medicine before she built her own online business. In this episode she tells us what pushed her over the edge, why she has pivoted three times, and what she now tells students who think they need one more certification before they are allowed to begin.

We also get honest about our own story. Charly and Larry spent a full year on a pet nutrition idea they could not launch with the ethics they wanted, and had to start over. PAWDEGA began as a dog page on Instagram called Milka the Frenchie.

You will hear why niching down is the thing that makes you findable, why 500 followers is a room full of people rather than a small audience, and why writing down how you do things now is what decides whether your first hire frees you or buries you.

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Most of us have done it. A symptom shows up late in the evening, the vet is closed, and we open ChatGPT and start describing what we are seeing. The answer comes back quickly and sounds completely certain.

In this episode, canine nutrition researcher Dr Conor Brady explains why that certainty is the problem. An AI tool has no ability to tell whether what it is saying is true, and he puts the figure at about 20 percent of facts, one in five, that could be questionable. He walks through how to structure a question so the tool challenges you instead of agreeing with you, why he tells it to stay away from news sources and Wikipedia, and the time it told him something about a dog's pancreas that made perfect sense right up until he looked for the evidence.

We also get into deepfake ads promoting pet products nobody actually endorsed, and the single message that protects you from acting on one.

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Dr Conor Brady is the author of Feeding Dogs Dry or Raw: The Science Behind the Debate, which took him ten years to write. Find him at https://dcbholistic.com

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