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DR SILVER’s SUPPLEMENTS: His Relationship with RxVitamins for Pets™

Dr Silver is medical director for Boulder’s Natural Animal. His personal mission is to serve as an educator to veterinarians and pet owners about natural therapies and wellness strategies, and he has been working hard to achieve this goal for the last 10 years of his career.  But what many people do not know about Dr Silver is that he is one of the foremost veterinary formulators of natural products for dogs and cats.

About 15 years ago, a Nutraceutical company, RxVitamins, approached Dr Silver, based on his reputation, and asked  him to design herbal and nutraceutical veterinary formulas that address specific disease conditions in dogs and cats.

The result is the RxVitamins for Pets professional line of natural condition-specific formulas for dogs and cats. These products are made from the same high quality human grade materials and have the same rigorous quality control as the human supplements that RxVitamins manufactures.

The RxVitamins for Pets natural formulations are sold only to veterinarians, but are available through the Boulder’s Natural Animal website. These 24 formulations cover the basic wellness needs of animals, such as digestive enzymes, probiotics, fish oils and whole food supplements. But these formulas also go a step further by providing very specific natural support for certain disease conditions such as arthritis, heart disease, cancer, anxiety, liver disease, chronic diarrhea, inflammatory bowel disease and colitis, and many difficult to treat conditions.

These formulas are not meant to substitute for the attention and care of a veterinarian, although many times they can substitute for the use of pharmaceuticals. These formulas can be used side by side with pharmaceuticals, and in many cases these formulas can help to reduce the need for higher doses of pharmaceuticals.

This line of products is one of the best selling lines of natural products to veterinarians, and is the only natural product that is sold exclusively to veterinarians. Dr Silver travels extensively around the United States to lecture to veterinarians and veterinary students about the uses of nutraceutical and botanical products in day to day practice. Several years ago Dr Silver spent a week in Taiwan, speaking to the veterinarians there about natural medical therapies, and in the spring of 2008 Dr Silver travels to Romania to speak to the veterinarians there about how they can add natural therapies to their practices.