Liver disease in cats has become very common in recent decades. Why wasn't it common before that?

Lifestyle and diets have radically changed in the last 80 odd years, perhaps starting in the 1950s, after most of Europe had recovered from the ravages of WW11.

These changes have become common, but they are not in the interests of cats generally.

In the past, cats were very often kept for rodent control as much as pets, so they roamed free and ate healthy, natural diets.

Now, cats are often kept exclusively indoors, so they have no ability to feed themselves or to self medicate.

Typical commercial cat food is about as far from their natural diet as it is possible to be.

Instead of fresh, raw, quality meat and bones, now they face plant based food (usually rejected from the human market), perhaps a little animal protein from a rendering plant (rejects from slaughter houses, road kill, dead and diseased farm animals, etc), all laced with chemicals masquerading as nutritious supplements.

Logic can tell us this does not lead to health.

If the cat is still eating, even a little, a change of diet to fresh, raw, quality meat can bring about a rapid recovery.

This should not be surprising, as cats are carnivores. They are not able to digest or assimilate vegetable matter or chemicals. No one has ever seen a tiger frantically digging up carrots.

The recovery may not be 100%, but it will be significant, usually in days.

The diet is your domain. No one else in the world can change that. Learn how to achieve that easily (link below), without spending a fortune or hours of preparation.

Your preferred health practitioner's domain is to provide the best treatment to assist the liver healing.

Don't mix up these roles. Your practitioner can't change your cat's diet. You probably don't have the skills to treat your cat. And DIY is not an option in such a serious condition.

Veterinary treatment is suppressive rather than curative. Vets do the best they can with their limited resources, but they are in bed with the drug companies. They have largely been sold out and now their hands are tied.

Veterinary drugs are immune suppressive and toxic. They make the matter worse, in the long run, if not the short.

In reality, they are destroying the immune system, by suppressing the symptoms.

A history of the use of drugs for every issue that arrises can lead to organ failure as a cat ages. This is why they now have such short lives.

Contrast this with holistic treatment.

Holism means looking at the whole. The whole body, not just parts. Everything is considered - mind, emotions, toxicity, physical.

Homeopathic treatment, one of the main players in holism,  doesn't just target the recovery of the whole body, it does so by considering the individual.

The treatment supports the recovery of the immune system. It works in tandem with the body's best efforts at healing itself, not in opposition.

Full recovery may take time. And the journey may have unexpected twists and turns. However, changes will be apparent along the way.

Along with the quality raw diet, your job is to keep notes on progress and to report them to your cat's practitioner at each follow up consultation.

It's sad to consider all the cats who are killed with this eminently treatable condition. It's a pity vets don't refer these cats to homeopaths, who have so much more to offer.

Liver disease in cats, in fact any disease in anyone, can all be healed this way. A return to the biologically appropriate diet for the species and holistic health care is an exceptionally beneficial duet. 

And you don't need a local homeopath. Many are now happy to work on-line.