Why Most Nutrients Never Reach Your Dog's Brain

Furever Active RanchJuly 30, 20266 min read

Your dog's brain is protected by the blood brain barrier, which blocks most nutrients, including common antioxidants and glutathione itself. Alpha lipoic acid is one of the few antioxidants that crosses it, and once inside it helps recycle vitamins C and E so they last longer.

We all want to do right by our dogs. We research the best foods, we look for the cleanest ingredients, and we would do just about anything to help them stay healthy and sharp.

So it hit hard to learn that most of the good nutrition we give our dogs never actually reaches the one organ that needs it most. Their brain.

The security system in your dog's brain

Your dog's brain has a built in security system called the blood brain barrier. It lines every blood vessel in the brain and decides what gets in and what gets turned away.

It does a great job keeping dangerous things out, like toxins and bacteria. It also blocks many of the beneficial nutrients we feed our dogs, including most common antioxidants.

You could be giving your dog the best nutrition available and their brain might barely get any of it.

The defense that runs out

Every day, your dog's brain is attacked by free radicals and, left unchecked, they wear down brain cells over time.

The brain's main line of defense is an antioxidant called glutathione. When glutathione levels are healthy, the brain can maintain itself. When they drop, brain cells become more vulnerable to that daily wear and tear.

The obvious answer would be to give more glutathione. Like most nutrients, glutathione itself gets blocked by the barrier.

The antioxidant that gets through

That is where alpha lipoic acid comes in. ALA has a unique molecular structure that allows it to cross the blood brain barrier. It is one of the very few antioxidants that can.

Once inside, it helps recycle other antioxidants already in the brain, like vitamins C and E, so they last longer instead of being used up and lost.

We included ALA in NeuroChew because it can actually reach the brain and support its natural defenses from the inside better than almost any other antioxidant.

What most supplements miss

Most dog supplements do not think about this. They load up on antioxidants that never make it past the barrier. The label looks great but the brain never sees the benefit.

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