Dr. Douglas Howard and Dr. Jake Van Dyke, Dr. Phytos creators Interview

Dr. Howard and Dr. Van Dyke join Mendte in the Morning to talk about their new food topper for dogs that helps boost your dogs health, digestion, and energy.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm very excited about this.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
I recognized doctor Douglas Howard as soon as I saw him.
You would all recognize him too. Chances are you have
his product in your house. He is the founder of
Balance of Nature and now Doctor Fidos, which we're going
to talk about in a moment because also here is
doctor Jake Vandyk, who is part of Doctor Fidos, a

(00:22):
very important part. We'll explain it a second. He's a
respected this is a hint, a respected veterinarian, Doctor Howard.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
This is exciting for you.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
I'm sure you get to expand your brand and talk
about how you came up with this idea.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Well, and actually it's a whole new company. It's really
not Balance in Nature, okay, but it's a Doctor Fido's
has been fun. We it's really not a new idea.
It's something that all along. You know, I deal with
the help and the well being of people. And I
found many years ago that often that's your pet too,
Because do you have a pet?

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, well my dog just died unfortunately, so but yes,
we're planning on getting another one. But I always want
to have a dog in the house.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
And you make my point, and that was a bad day, yes,
and there's been sadness. But when you would come home
and that dog was wagging his tail, how'd you feel?

Speaker 1 (01:15):
No, wonderful? You look forward to it.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, it's part of your health, yep. And so when
I realized that people actually their health is also combined
with the health of their animals, I thought we got
to do this. And that's a long, longer story. Sometime
we'll get into how that really addressed with the dog
we had. But and then I, you know doctor Jake
and I I've known him since he was a tiny

(01:38):
tad and he became a vet and we we said,
you know, let's do this then, so we adapted the
formula and we formulated this to fit best with animals.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
It sounds like you were left in a basket in
front of his house.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
That's everything that's wrong with me, wrong with me? He influenced.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
That's all new to hear. Well, good for you.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Talk us about Doctor Fidos and what are the working
ingredients in it and why is it important to give
to your pet?

Speaker 1 (02:07):
That's great.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
So Doctor Fidos contains forty whole food ingredients, fruits, vegetables,
some spices that are really good and a bunch of fiber.
And the relationship that doctor Howard and I have is
really beneficial to both of us because I'm concerned about
that day that my clients bring in a puppy to
the day that we put the dog to sleep, and

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everything in the middle needs to be better. And that's
really what motivates me to be part of this project
because I feel the benefit of balance in nature. I
take it myself and I've been given doctor fidos to
dogs for over two years and the results are amazing.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Talk about the results. What are the results so far?

Speaker 4 (02:50):
So things that I notice in my practice with my
patients is just overall better health and if you can
think of it, they're experiencing it.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
This is so important to families because I think we
all care about our dogs and our pets, and we
care sometimes more than we care about ourselves. We want
to keep them healthy. We just don't know how frequently.
And the thing is we can't guarantee life. I can't
guarantee how long something's going to live, not even my patience.
You know, that's that's between you and God. That's how

(03:21):
I put that one. But what I realized in my practice.
Finally was we can deal with quality of life. God
gils with God deals with quantity. But if we can
make that quality of life the highest it is, then
it makes everybody happier.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah, I wish I had your voice.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Man, if I had your voice, I'd be network, I'd
be more successful than I ever was.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
I wish I had. I wish I had your face.
So I've been told to have a radio face.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
All the time. Everybody recognizes.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
I think everybody, as doctor Howard just pointed out, I
think everybody wants to have their pa be healthier.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
We just don't know how to do it.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
That's the question that I get all the time. What
should I feed my dog? And when you go to
the grocery store, it's overwhelming because of all the choices
that are there, and unfortunately they're not great most of them,
and there's not a lot of information out there. So
this product really does hit the spot. It fills the

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need for good nutrition in our pets.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Well.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Sometimes we think we're doing the best thing, but some
of this stuff on the market that's sold for being
healthy is just not healthy.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
No, it's not.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
And the beauty of it is people afford what they
feed them what they can afford frequently. But it doesn't
matter what you're feeding you're at your pet. Doctor Fido's
Dog Topper food topper improves the nutrition always, it improves
the quality of whatever you're feeding them.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Right.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
The product's name again is doctor Fido's Food Topper. And
here's a phone number you can call eight eight eight
three eight eight seven two nine seven. And it's very
clever because Fido is p h y t o S,
which is part of the active ingredients, but it also
is Fightoh so I get it.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Very good, very good.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
By the marketing team. You can also go to doctor
Fidos d r p h y t o S d
r p h y t o s dot com and
they can order there.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Yes, they can get right on the phone on the
phone number. By the way, the last four last four
digits there spelled pause p a w S.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Very clever.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Eight eight eight three eight eight seven two nine seven.
Thank you both for coming in today. It's been wonderful
to talk to you. Oh yeah, the jingle, I forgot
all about the jingle. Thank you, Natalie. Natalie put up
a little signe.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Apparently you forget this too.

Speaker 5 (05:51):
Good you said you join us. Okay, you're gonna sing
for us, We'll go for it. Okay, was a doctor,
had a dog in.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
His name O, p H White t O, p H
White t O, p.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
H White t O, and Fido was his name.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Oh I hope you have professional singers for the Yeah,
I've been told that before. You're pretty good. All right, now,
let's give thank you so much for coming in today.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yes, of course, doctor Douglas Howard, founder of Balance of Nature,
and doctor Fidos and doctor Jake Van Dyke, who is
a respected veterinarian, is teaming up on this cause. I
can call it a cause because making our dogs healthier
is absolutely a cause. Thank you so much for being
here today.