Veterinary Medicine Is Broken and Your Dog Is Paying for It

Most pet owners trust that regular vet visits, decent food, and a joint supplement are enough. Dr. Kevin Toman spent 35 years practicing that model. He doesn't believe it anymore.After four decades in clinical medicine, a personal MGUS diagnosis that pushed him toward integrative care, and a growing awareness of how poorly the profession was serving aging pets, he rebuilt his practice entirely around longevity. He now runs one of the only concierge veterinary practices in the country focused on extending healthspan, not just managing disease.If you don't have a pet, stay with this one. The conversation keeps landing back in the same place: the principles driving longevity in dogs and cats are the same ones driving it in humans. Rapamycin, caloric restriction, early cancer diagnostics, dental inflammation as a systemic disease driver, the failure of reactive medicine. Dr. Toman is applying an identical framework to a different patient population, and in some cases the data is cleaner because the studies are easier to run.Dr. Kevin White sits down with Dr. Toman to cover rapamycin's role in preventing and treating cancer in dogs and cats, why he's using it preventively in asymptomatic patients, why glucosamine and chondroitin don't work and what the research actually supports, how breed-specific risk changes everything about how a patient should be managed, the cancer navigation crisis facing pet owners in rural areas, and where early cancer diagnostics are heading for both species."The relationships and the holistic care that are so important to lifestyle and longevity have disappeared from the veterinary lexicon."This one covers more ground than most pet health conversations get anywhere near.Find more from Dr. Toman at helpingpetslivelonger.com and freevetcall.comAnd follow The Daily Apple and leave a review to help more people find the show. Instagram: @KevinWhiteMD YouTube: @KevinWhiteMDwww.primehealthassociates.com  Prime Health Associates