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Vitamin E

Vitamin E is one of the wonder vitamins, and both dogs and cats need supplements.
It is essential for healing diseases of the circulatory system (and preventing them), including heart tachycardia and arteriosclerosis.
It promotes fertility, slows aging, prevents cataracts, boosts the immune system, protects the body against pollutants and cancer, and heals the skin.
Vitamin E prevents steatitis in cats and boosts muscle power and endurance in working dogs.
It helps in dissolving tumors, especially in breasts, and in relieving posterior paralysis and disc problems in dogs.
The vitamin oxygenates the blood and improves the function of all internal organs; its antioxidant abilities protect the lungs.
In humans, vitamin E deficiency disorders include heart disease, muscular dystrophy, brain and neurological problems, and reproductive failures.
Doses range from 100 IU per day for cats to 400 IU or more for larger dogs (in healing disease).
Diane Stein used up to 800 IU per day on a 45-pound puppy for a period of 3 months with good results and no side effects; higher doses resulted in vomiting.
Wendell Belfield used amounts of 1200 IU per day to cure cats of steatitis, a vitamin E deficiency disease.
This is one of the vitamins to supplement daily as part of a routine diet; it is a must for cats that eat fish and for dogs with skin ailments.

Vitamin D

Vitamin D deficiency leads to rickets, a bone deformity disease that dogs may be more prone to than cats.
This vitamin prevents osteoporosis and hypocalcemia, and is essential for normal teeth, bones, and growth; and in the absorption of calcium and phosphorus.
Vitamin D in nature is formed on the animal or human skin by sunlight-indoor cats have no way to synthesize it for themselves and the vitamin is not included in most pet foods.
Cod liver oil is a prime source.
Little is known about animal requirements, but tropical zoo animals deprived of sunlight in northern winters need supplements to prevent crooked bones.

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