The Pet Health & Nutrition Center Q&AAnswer
Jan 05, 2024 - 09:28 AM
Our Daily Multi Plus is a whole food supplement and does not necessarily replace other supplements. However, science has shown than getting vitamins and minerals from whole food sources is far superior to manufactured vitamins and isolated minerals. We do not like to criticize other pet supplement manufacturers. However, I will offer a short critique of each of the supplements that you mentioned in your question. Dr. Jones Ultimate Canine Health Formula is comprised primarily of synthetic and/or isolated nutrients. If you are feeding an appropriate home-prepared diet many of these nutrients are not needed and will have to be eliminated by the body as excesses. If you are feeding a commercial pet food diet that already has all of these manufactured vitamins as part of their formula (just look at the ingredient label), adding this vitamin supplement will be duplicating those vitamin additives and could lead to extreme excess (especially fat soluble vitamins) and be detrimental to an animal's health. The Bark and Whispers Probiotic has a similar probiotic profile to our formula found in the Daily Multi Plus, however the amount of probiotics in Bark and Whispers is overkill. Nearly 35 billion cfu for a cat! It is recommended that a human (150 lbs) uses 10 to 20 billion cfu of probioitcs daily as a supplement. More is not better and excesses of a limited number of probiotic species (compared to the hundreds of species in a digestive tract) can cause imbalances and is not recommended, although often done for marketing purposes. Lastly, Enzyme Miracle is similar to our digestive enzyme formula found in Daily Multi Plus, but you will notice when comparing the two that our enzyme formula is much more complete. For many reasons, and I've only listed a few here, it is my view that you would be better off using our Daily Multi Plus formula as opposed to the three pet supplements you indicated.
