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Quick guide

The eleven human systems, translated for dogs.

A dog is not a small human, but the map is the same eleven systems. What changes is the timescale, the failure mode and the first number worth measuring. This page holds the translation, and points each system at the products and pages that serve it.

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Same eleven systems

Anatomy is conserved. Heart, lung, joint, brain, gland, gut, kidney, immune, skin, gonad, sense.

Seven times the speed

A dog moves through a decade of ageing in eighteen months, so screening intervals compress with it.

Different failure modes

Valves not arteries, SDMA not creatinine, cancer at six not sixty. The lever changes with the mechanism.

System by system

Open any system for the human framing, the canine reality, the one divergence that changes the protocol, and the shop categories and pages that follow from it.

In a human program

Plaque, blood pressure and cholesterol drive human cardiac risk, and statins plus cardio training are the standard answer.

In a dog

Dogs rarely get coronary atherosclerosis. Their hearts fail at the valves and the electrical system instead, on a curve set largely by breed and size.

The divergence that matters

Cholesterol is close to irrelevant. Valve grading, chamber load and rhythm are everything.

First number we measure

NT-proBNP alongside a sleeping heart rate trend from the collar.

Markers

  • -Resting heart rate variability
  • -NT-proBNP
  • -Echo valve grading
  • -Blood pressure trend

Protocol

  • -Annual echo from mid-life
  • -Zone-2 conditioning walks
  • -Sodium and body-condition control

Shop categories for this system

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