TAURINE & L-CARNITIN

Can L-Carnitin or Taurine deficiency cause your dog's heart disease - maybe have something to do with the heartproblems?


We know that Taurine deficiency was found to be a common cause of DCM in cats in the late 1980s.
Increasing the amount of taurine in commercial cat food enormously decreased the frequency of this disorder.



There is a lot of examination that documented low plasma taurine concentrations in dogs with clinical signs of DCM. By given them Taurine & L-Carnitin there has been a better heartfunktion.

Unfortunately is blood plasma test not always accurate - there has been clinically proven that a dog's blood plasma can show normal concentrations of L-Carnitine and Taurine while their heart tissue is deficient. So, unfortunately is blood plasma test nothing to rely on completely.



Some has even had so good result, that they could take their dogs of medication.


But, we shall know, that we never can cure DCM - In best case, we can prevent and possibly reduce their medication.


Most of our dogs can maintain a normal level of taurine in their blood plasma without having to include it in their diet [ depend on the food to ofcourse] But most of the dogs with DCM, taurine deficiency does not seem to be the culprit.
It is possible that some dogs have a metabolic defect that prevents it from being assimilated into the heart muscle normally.
It is to be hoped that we one day very soon can find that answer...

For best results, they say that taurine & L-carnitine shall be dosage twice daily.


The research is going on to see if there is any clinic connection between
Taurien - L-carnitinbrist and DCM.


To think about :

Many people recommend you, NOT to give your puppie any dogfood which contain to high level of protein - they say that the dog shall grow slowly and not to fast, they can get HD/ED etc..


But, the thing you shall not forget is; your dog puppie/dog need the proteins for not to develop other diseases like, heartproblems.
In this proteins, the aminoacids is, Taurine and L-carnitine etc..


To give a dogfood with a low dose of protein, may not be that good then, and I wouldn't recommend it!
I think the problems is somewhere els, there are other factors to take a good look on, for example - fat level etc..
And we shall never forget that the dog has a genetic heredity to..



Taurine is a amino acid found in - kidney, liver and above all - in brain - - Which may not be on the menu to often ;o))
In the commercial dogfoods - Taurine is almost non-existent - But, there is some company who have started to add taurine in there food, the question is - Is it enought?l


Taurine deficiency , can apart from heart diseases cause eye diseases, kidney diseases and to bladder problems.


L-carnitin also is a amino acid and is the body's own pick-me-up is predominantly.
L-carnitine, that delivers energy to the muscles, primarily the cardiac muscles, and does so by effecting the catabolization of fat in the cells


On studies they have seen that a heart attack quickly empties the tissue of L-carnitine, but an additional supplement can be life saving.



Even though cardiovascular suffering is the area in which the greatest blessings of L-carnitine will reveal themselves in a hopefully not too distant future, there is also relief to be found for others outside this large group of patients.


Cystinuria is one disease that they have seen low levels of L-Carnitine, it can be a result of cystinuria in which dogs have impaired reabsorption of cystine and other amino acids. .