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"An anxious dog isn't choosing to pace, bark or tremble. The alarm in their brain is firing, and the system that should switch that alarm off has stopped doing its job. Fix the system and the behavior follows."

Dr. Kathryn Dench, MA VetMB

"An anxious dog isn't choosing to pace, bark or tremble. The alarm in their brain is firing, and the system that should switch that alarm off has stopped doing its job. Fix the system and the behavior follows."

Dr. Kathryn Dench, MA VetMB

There's nothing worse than watching your dog panic over things you can't explain to them. The doorbell. A garbage truck. Your hand picking up the car keys.

And anxious dogs are now the rule, not the exception. A 2020 study of 13,700 dogs found 72% showed anxiety-related behavior. Behavior problems are also one of the top reasons dogs get surrendered to shelters.

You May Have Already Noticed the Warning Signs...

Most owners get told anxiety is a training problem. The research says otherwise. Anxiety is wired into your dog's brain chemistry, in an alarm circuit built from three parts:

In an anxious dog, the circuit fires too fast and too often. The doorbell rings, and stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline flood your dog's body before any decision gets made.

Here's the part that matters most: every anxious episode strengthens the circuit. The panic gets faster, stronger and harder to interrupt.

Training alone fails because a brain in panic mode can't learn. Calming chews wear off in hours and never touch the circuit. Sedatives mute the symptoms while the circuit keeps wiring itself tighter.

In the early 1990s, a research team led by Dr. Raphael Mechoulam identified a system inside every mammal that science had missed for decades: the endocannabinoid system, or ECS.

The ECS is the body's own stress regulator. The ECS decides when to sound the alarm and when to stand down. Two receptor types do the work. CB1 receptors in the brain regulate fear and mood. CB2 receptors throughout the body regulate inflammation and nervous-system function.

When the ECS runs well, cortisol falls after a scare and your dog returns to calm on their own.

Here's the problem Dr. Dench kept running into in practice: the modern dog's ECS is run down. Chronic stress, processed diets and years of over-firing drain the system.

Once the ECS weakens, nothing switches the alarm circuit off. Your dog stays anxious longer after every scare, and the fear wiring builds.

The good news: the ECS can be restored. Restore the system and you're not masking your dog's anxiety. You're giving their brain back the tool that switches the alarm off.

One family of natural compounds supports ECS function directly: full-spectrum plant compounds.

The plant makes dozens of compounds that work as a team, an effect researchers call the entourage effect.

Strip the team down to one isolated compound, the way most cheap pet-calming products do, and most of the effect goes with the discarded compounds.

Extraction matters as much. High-heat processing destroys the delicate compounds, and CO2 extraction keeps the full spectrum intact.

Sourcing matters most of all: independent testing has repeatedly caught imported products in this category carrying heavy metals, contaminants and fillers.

It's exactly because of these reasons above - most products in the market fall short.

Dr. Dench looked at what was on the shelf and refused to recommend any of it. So she partnered with PawOrigins' formulators to build the oil she gives her own rescue dogs.

Drop on the food, or administered directly. Job's done in 7 seconds a day.

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