(PRESS RELEASE) THE SPIRIT OF ANIMAL HEALING: An Integrative Medicine Guide to a Higher State of Well-Being (St. Martin’s Essentials; on sale, $17.99) is the long-awaited follow-up to Dr. Marty Goldstein’s tremendously successful first book, The Nature of Animal Healing. THE SPIRIT OF ANIMAL HEALING provides readers with the most up-to-date tools and knowledge they need to keep their dogs and cats healthy and prevent diseases from occurring in the first place, instead of just treating their animal companions when they are sick.
However, this book is not simply a new edition of Dr. Marty’s first book with some refreshed content. It is a completely new book in which Dr. Marty turns the traditional approach to animal care upside-down. It is chock-full of the very latest integrative medical knowledge (which combines conventional therapies with complementary and alternative medicine).
Coupled with the vast amount of specialized expertise and learning Dr. Marty has gained from his own practice over the past 45 years, THE SPIRIT OF ANIMAL HEALING takes readers on a journey to the leading edge of integrative veterinary understanding to achieve greater insight into the minds and bodies of their animal companions.
In an interview, Dr. Marty can speak about:
- Why true and effective healthcare is lacking. Despite all the amazing advancements in the field of veterinary medicine, the overall health of our companion animals continues to decline and incidences of major diseases, especially cancer continue to rise.
- Biologically appropriate dietary requirements and guidelines for our pets. If scientists studied the way dogs and cats would eat in nature, we would have never developed the pet food industry to become what it has.
- Standardized, routine vaccination protocols are one of the mainstays of the profession of veterinary medicine. Vaccinations are considered vital and necessary for the maintenance of health. And also, benign. However, there is now so much scientific documentation on the potential downsides associated with vaccines and how unnecessary repetitive administrations during a pet’s life are.
- Animals, like humans, are spiritual beings and there is a very tight relationship between both kingdoms that transcends just the physical. Major aspects of health and disease co-exist on this plane but are rarely addressed.
- An understanding of the field of nutraceuticals along with advice on how to select nutritional supplements. Nutritional supplements were almost non-existent for pets until several decades ago. Although they are now fortunately so abundant, there is as much confusion associated with selecting which ones to use.
- With so many pets now plagued with so many chronic, degenerative illnesses, Dr. Marty can explain why this is and how to properly address several of the most prominent ailments.
- As there are major advancements in the field of medicine, there have also been quite a few unique therapeutic modalities of equal significance in the field of alternative therapies.
- Dr. Marty’s career as an integrative veterinarian spans almost half a century and his practice has attracted many thousands of interesting people with their companion animals from all over the world. Some unique and inspirational personal stories that occurred along the way are woven throughout the narrative.