Clinical Studies On Pet Supplements

We asked several leading companies that are in the business of manufacturing holistic pet supplements about any information on studies done to assess the effectiveness of their products. With the millions of dollars spent on pet care products every year you would expect to see conclusive studies on supplements like glucosamine for example. Glucosamine is sold as a main ingredient in supplements advertised as "joint care supplements." A lot of the information that we find online about joint care is annecdotal. People think it helps their dog or cat. They see some improvement and just continue dispensing it...

Some products even state on their label that they're "clinically proven", whatever that means. We'll continue to get to the bottom of this. Either they can produce the study that led to their statements, or not. If they don't, wouldn't that be false advertising?

We've run into several sites that boast having "evidence-based information" or clinical data on supplements. But they require you have to pay for membership and basically promise not to share that information... What's with all the secrecy? Is there something we're not supposed to know about these products?

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