{"id":65656,"date":"2026-06-06T09:17:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T23:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=65656"},"modified":"2026-06-06T09:17:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T23:17:01","slug":"the-medicalisation-of-animal-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=65656","title":{"rendered":"The medicalisation of animal health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65657\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Animal_Health.jpg\" alt=\"Animal Health\" width=\"834\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Animal_Health.jpg 834w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Animal_Health-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Animal_Health-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Why are pets and livestock increasingly developing the same chronic diseases as humans\u2014obesity, diabetes, cancer and metabolic dysfunction? In this issue, we investigate the growing medicalisation of animal health, from longevity drugs and self-amplifying RNA vaccines to lab-grown pet food and the expanding WHO One Health agenda. This isn&#8217;t about medical progress. It&#8217;s about how the same forces driving the chronic disease epidemic in humans are now sweeping across the animal world because pharma has identified it as a lucrative growth market for the coming decade. When it comes to livestock, there\u2019s no consideration of the effects on the food chain.<\/p>\n<p>We also look at one of the most overlooked, but most powerful aspects, to healthy ageing: purpose. New research suggests that having a strong sense of meaning in life may help protect against cognitive decline, chronic disease and even premature death.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, our latest natural health news roundup covers top stories such as:<br \/>\n\u2022 The \u2019Save Our Supplements\u2019 campaign to stop EU moves to slash nutrient levels<br \/>\n\u2022 How vitamin D in pregnancy improves children\u2019s health<br \/>\n\u2022 Biofield therapy for pancreatic cancer patients<br \/>\n\u2022 Mounting concern over gene-edited organisms in the EU and UK<br \/>\n\u2022 And the latest developments in the US fluoridation lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>In health, naturally,<\/p>\n<p>The ANH Team<\/p>\n<p>Finish reading:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/anhinternational.org\/news\/the-medicalisation-of-animal-health\/\">https:\/\/anhinternational.org\/news\/the-medicalisation-of-animal-health\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are pets and livestock increasingly developing the same chronic diseases as humans\u2014obesity, diabetes, cancer and metabolic dysfunction? In this issue, we investigate the growing medicalisation of animal health, from longevity drugs and self-amplifying RNA vaccines to lab-grown pet food and the expanding WHO One Health agenda. This isn&#8217;t about medical progress. It&#8217;s about how &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=65656\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The medicalisation of animal health&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65658,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65656\/revisions\/65658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}