WINPRO - The Only Dog Supplements Powered by Plasma

Michelle Fern welcomes Tim Mitchum, President and CEO of WINPRO Pet, the only dog supplements powered by plasma.  Few dog owners are aware of the health-boosting powers of plasma, but this miracle ingredient has been used by farmers to improve the vitality and lifespan of work animals for over 40 years. When used regularly, the blood plasma used in WINPRO Pet can exert a profound and lasting effect on your dog’s health and happiness.

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Michelle Fern: So, you know, we love giving our dogs treats and supplements, and there's so many good things for your dog on the market, but are they really good?

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Michelle Fern: Are they really that different?

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Michelle Fern: Are they gonna make a difference in your dog's life?

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Michelle Fern: Well, my guest today has a product line that is very different from anything else out there, so I'm very excited to talk to him.

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Michelle Fern: Welcome back, everyone.

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Michelle Fern: I'd like to welcome Tim Mitchum.

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Michelle Fern: He is the president and CEO of WinPro Pet Products.

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Michelle Fern: They're pet supplements that are plasma powered.

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Michelle Fern: Welcome, Tim.

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Tim Mitchum: Hey, Michelle, great to be here.

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Tim Mitchum: I appreciate you having me on.

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Tim Mitchum: Excited to talk to you.

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Michelle Fern: I'm excited to have you on.

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Michelle Fern: So tell us, how did WinPro originate?

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Tim Mitchum: Yeah, you know, it's really kind of a crazy story.

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Tim Mitchum: So if you really wanna know how it started, WinPro, it started really back in the 60s, where Bill Bernardo, our founder, he kind of, he spent his early days in Algona, Iowa, really small town, Iowa.

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Tim Mitchum: You know, he kind of was lacking joy in his life at that time because he had an older brother, he was getting bullied a little bit by his brother's friends.

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Tim Mitchum: And all that changed when his dad brought home a dog named Yankee.

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Tim Mitchum: And this little German Shepherd mix and him became best friends.

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Tim Mitchum: In fact, he tells a story about how Yankee saved him from a rabid rat one time when he was riding his bike.

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Tim Mitchum: And then Bill also saved Yankee from a chicken bone choking incident.

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Tim Mitchum: And he always says it was kind of a bond that was unmatched and only the way that two strays could understand is what he says.

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Tim Mitchum: Yankee was really what set Bill's motion, set the unmatched love for Bill's and dogs kind of set it in motion.

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Tim Mitchum: And he always said, you know, although Yankee lived a great life, a long life, it's never long enough.

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Tim Mitchum: And when you lose a pup or an animal in general that you love, you never quite fully recover.

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Tim Mitchum: So that's really what kindled it for Bill.

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Tim Mitchum: And then later in life, he was working in the animal health industry and he saw firsthand what plasma was doing for other animals.

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Tim Mitchum: And so him starting a line for performance race horses was scared to death of race horses, was scared to death of horses, but he had five dogs at home.

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Tim Mitchum: And so we always laugh, he's like kind of stuck in the stable, but he was really a kennel guy.

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Tim Mitchum: And so he just made the leap of faith to take this science that had been around since the 80s and started Iowa State University into products that could benefit really the animal that he loved more than any other animal for his whole life.

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Tim Mitchum: And so he really just took a leap of faith to take that science that had made its way through all the other types of species and bring it into the canine world.

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Tim Mitchum: And that's really how it started or how it got its origin from.

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Michelle Fern: That's a really adorable and touching story.

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Michelle Fern: I have a question on plasma.

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Michelle Fern: Most people hear plasma and right away they think blood.

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Michelle Fern: And then if we start talking about supplements, I am sure some listeners out there might think, I'm giving supplements with blood in it to my dog.

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Michelle Fern: How does that help?

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Michelle Fern: But it's not quite blood.

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Michelle Fern: Can you explain and kind of a brief explanation for our listeners, what is plasma?

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Tim Mitchum: Yeah, so plasma is the really powerful components inside of blood.

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Tim Mitchum: So what we do is we take recycled blood that would have been just thrown away.

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Tim Mitchum: So we really do pride ourselves on using product that would have not been recycled and recycled it.

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Tim Mitchum: And we put it through tons of very scientific processes to fractionate out the blood proteins inside of that plasma.

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Tim Mitchum: And so what you end up with is a very powder form, spray dried plasma, which is pretty common phrase in the scientific industry, spray dried plasma, and that's what you end up.

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Tim Mitchum: So we take that powder and then we inject that into all of our products so that the dogs can really get the benefit of what plasma does.

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Michelle Fern: Okay, so related to blood, not exactly blood.

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Michelle Fern: I like that you're sustainable.

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Tim Mitchum: Yeah, so it's the good components inside of blood that we pull out into a dried form.

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Michelle Fern: Okay, and what makes plasma better for health products than say just a health product or supplement that's nutritionally based?

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Tim Mitchum: Yeah, so it doesn't necessarily mean that it's, we're not really claiming that we're better, but a lot of the time, it's not a nutrition issue.

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Tim Mitchum: And so what the plasma's promise is that we reduce inflammation at the source of where it starts, and plasma is a very active ingredient, so it attaches to receptor sites in the gut and is made available to respond wherever the dog needs it.

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Tim Mitchum: So plasma is really what I like to call as nature's, it's the natural enemy of inflammation.

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Tim Mitchum: And when we get rid of the inflammation, the system, the dog's body, the cat's body, the animal's system will heal itself.

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Tim Mitchum: So our promise is to get out of the way, the negative or excessive inflammation before it comes chronic, so that the animal's body can heal itself.

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Tim Mitchum: And it's pretty remarkable when you see that.

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Tim Mitchum: Just to give you a little background on why I am at the company is, I was given, I had a long hair chihuahua.

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Tim Mitchum: I married into the long hair chihuahua.

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Tim Mitchum: I like to make sure I say that because I'm a bigger dog, but I absolutely loved Roxy.

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Tim Mitchum: And she hadn't jumped on the couch or the bed for three or four years.

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Tim Mitchum: And I'm in Iowa, obviously, and that's where the science comes from is Iowa State University.

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Tim Mitchum: And a friend of mine who was involved in WinPro dropped off these hip and joint shoes for me to try.

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Tim Mitchum: And at that point, I mean, I really didn't ever think about giving my animal or my pet a supplement of any kind.

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Tim Mitchum: It just didn't really cross my mind.

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Tim Mitchum: But on a whim, I just decided to give it to her.

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Tim Mitchum: And within 15 days, she was jumping all over the couch, all over the bed and all over the house.

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Tim Mitchum: It's literally like she got her puppy legs back.

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Tim Mitchum: But the big aha moment for me was she could always make that jump physically.

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Tim Mitchum: Like logistically, she had all the right pieces.

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Tim Mitchum: There was nothing broken.

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Tim Mitchum: She was just choosing not to because it wasn't worth it.

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Tim Mitchum: And with the moment we took away that inflammation with Plasma doing the job of that, it's like she got her puppy legs back.

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Tim Mitchum: But really, it just returned her to the most normal that she could be at that age.

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Tim Mitchum: And it was really eye opening me because no different than if we have a sore back and there's a box that we need to pick up, we just keep walking past it until our back feels better.

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Tim Mitchum: Well, if our back never feels better, we just create new patterns like people lifting a dog up on the couch or up on the bed.

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Tim Mitchum: Once they feel better, you take that inflammation and that pain associated with that away.

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Tim Mitchum: It seems like a miracle, but in reality, it's like the most natural thing ever.

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Michelle Fern: That's a great story.

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Michelle Fern: I love that.

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Michelle Fern: You talk about inflammation a lot.

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Michelle Fern: So is that where I know that when joints are inflamed, that causes pain?

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Michelle Fern: Is that basically where you're getting joints, muscle, tissue, whenever it's inflamed?

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Michelle Fern: Just think about a bruise, right?

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Michelle Fern: A basic bruise because that's inflamed and then that causes pain.

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Michelle Fern: So that's just a real simplified way.

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Michelle Fern: You're the science guy more than I am.

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Michelle Fern: But I'd like to ask questions from my audience's point of view.

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Michelle Fern: And so am I on the right track as far as...

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Tim Mitchum: Yeah, so let me go a little bit deeper in that.

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Tim Mitchum: I think it'll help explain.

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Tim Mitchum: Inflammation is a good thing.

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Tim Mitchum: The problem becomes when it's the body, the animal system is unable to keep up with it.

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Tim Mitchum: So what we do is we, the plasma gets rid of excessive inflammation, so it normalizes the body and regulates the system so it can heal itself.

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Tim Mitchum: Today, in today's day and age, the amount of toxins and stressors and everything that are on our pets, whether that's chemicals or just any type of environmental things that go on now, there's so much more stressors and toxins that keep the body always fighting off these things that you can really, it's hard to get them back to normal without a little bit of help.

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Tim Mitchum: And that's what our product does.

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Tim Mitchum: It really helps keep them in a position where their body is constantly regulating and healing itself because we've gotten rid of a lot of that excess inflammation.

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Michelle Fern: Does WinPro also help or the WinPro supplements also help prevent disease?

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Michelle Fern: And what about lengthening the life of your dog?

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Tim Mitchum: Yeah, so it's not a claim that we can make, but we do know this, that if you keep inflammation at bay, the overall health of the animal and the system will work better.

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Tim Mitchum: And so what that in turn means in a, I guess, in an easy way to say it, is that their ability to heal and recover and keep active, it definitely is extended because they're just healthier.

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Michelle Fern: Makes perfect sense.

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Michelle Fern: All right, we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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Michelle Fern: Welcome back, everyone.

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Michelle Fern: We're talking to Tim Mitchum, the CEO and president of WinPro Pets Supplements and Products.

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Michelle Fern: So let's talk about the history of plasma in pet supplements.

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Michelle Fern: Has this been used before?

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Michelle Fern: Are you pioneers?

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Michelle Fern: How does that work?

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Tim Mitchum: So the kind of the cool thing is, is we are definitely not pioneers in plasma, but we are pioneers in plasma-based products for the canine and soon to be the feline industry.

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Tim Mitchum: Plasma actually started back in the 80s, the science behind plasma, and it started Iowa State University.

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Tim Mitchum: And I'm kind of, I feel kind of close to this because I married a hog farmer's daughter.

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Tim Mitchum: And back in the 80s at Iowa State University, they were having a terrible mortality rate when weaning piglets.

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Tim Mitchum: And so they tried environmental factors, they tried nutritional factors, and nothing seemed to work.

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Tim Mitchum: And so what they ended up doing was they were working on this spray dried plasma matrix at the time.

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Tim Mitchum: And so they started introducing that into the pig's diet.

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Tim Mitchum: And the mortality rate went from something like 20% to less than 1%.

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Tim Mitchum: And what they found was it wasn't anything about like the environment and the nutrition, it was the stress of that situation was causing so much inflammation that that was creating the mortality.

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Tim Mitchum: And what plasma proved out to be was really the best at reducing that inflammation so that they could get through that process.

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Tim Mitchum: So that was back in the 80s.

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Tim Mitchum: And since then, it's really been through every feed species, livestock, cattle, poultry, lambs, obviously pigs.

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Tim Mitchum: And it moved into the performance horse world, performance race horse world, where Bill met up with it.

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Tim Mitchum: And I don't know if you know much about horses, Michelle, but they're horse racing, but they're one of the most stressed animals out there.

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Tim Mitchum: And they have a situation that is called bleeders.

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Tim Mitchum: And that's when a horse is so stressed from so much, they start bleeding through their nose.

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Tim Mitchum: I knew nothing about this before I got to WinPro.

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Tim Mitchum: And so it had a dramatic impact in that industry as well.

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Tim Mitchum: And so it's been through everything, really, but we've just taken it from kind of the behind the scenes industries to companion animal and into really the pet parent's hands.

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Tim Mitchum: That's really how we've pioneered it.

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Tim Mitchum: And it's, you know, it's had its challenges.

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Tim Mitchum: It's a unique ingredient and product, so it doesn't, it's not like anything else.

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Tim Mitchum: So there's definitely a learning curve that had to be undertaken, for sure.

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Michelle Fern: Yes.

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Michelle Fern: And I knew horses, especially race horses, are stressed.

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Michelle Fern: I didn't know they bleed through their nose.

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Tim Mitchum: Yeah.

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Michelle Fern: Oh, that's terrible.

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Michelle Fern: Knowing the history of plasma and what, you know, pet parents will learn from listening to this amazing podcast.

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Michelle Fern: Should they talk to their vets about plasma?

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Michelle Fern: I know that you also have a vet product, you know, a product that's just, you know, available through your veterinarian.

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Michelle Fern: Or is this something, because we're going to talk about more of the One Pro products a little bit later, but is this something that a pet parent can give to their dog and soon cats without any concern that their health will be negatively affected?

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Tim Mitchum: Yeah, so our product is very, the vets typically just love the idea of our product because they're looking for an orally fed plasma solution because they understand the benefits of plasma.

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Tim Mitchum: Like they've understood that for a long time, but they've never really had the opportunity to have a product that was proven.

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Tim Mitchum: That had was an orally fed application.

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Tim Mitchum: So we always encourage pet parents to talk to their vet about any product really that they introduce into their animals, their pets lives.

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Tim Mitchum: But we've certainly had no issues with any of that.

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Tim Mitchum: And we sell every day to thousands of pet parents across the country, our products very successfully and had transformational results.

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Tim Mitchum: But we love the vets taking a look at our products because typically what happens is they end up bringing our products into their vet clinic because they really don't have anything else to offer that's even close to that.

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Tim Mitchum: They either have a really prescription focused drug or maybe a nutritional supplement that maybe or maybe not big believers in.

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Tim Mitchum: But this kind of really fills a gap that has a really powerful mode of action.

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Tim Mitchum: That they haven't had before and they understand the science of plasmas.

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Tim Mitchum: So typically the vet is really excited about it when they read our labels and learn about our products.

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Michelle Fern: We're going to talk about in a sec about how you should introduce WinPro into your pet's diet because it's not just a treat, it's a supplement.

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Michelle Fern: But before we get to that, how does WinPro help with preventative care?

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Michelle Fern: So we talked about inflammation and some people might be listening might be think, okay, I should give this to my pet when I notice my pet's in pain or my pet struggling.

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Michelle Fern: But what about if your pet's fine?

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Michelle Fern: Does WinPro help?

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Tim Mitchum: Yeah, so there's a couple of different areas that we focus on on the preventative side.

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Tim Mitchum: If you think a big picture, if you're just going to keep inflammation at bay, that's a net positive for the health of the animal.

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Tim Mitchum: If you don't have a remedy to solve, just using the power of plasma over something else that maybe doesn't really have a benefit, will keep inflammation down that will benefit the health of your pet.

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Tim Mitchum: So that to me is the reason why you would want to do that.

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Tim Mitchum: But we do have some preventative like our my dog Daisy, she takes a meal topper and she's very young and very healthy.

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Tim Mitchum: But she takes a meal topper and then a dental stick, all with the science of plasma.

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Tim Mitchum: And then every once in a while, I'll give her, you know, maybe a hip and joint product just because she's a larger dog and I just want to, you know, keep her running and catching the frisbee as much as possible.

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Michelle Fern: Great answers.

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Michelle Fern: What about for dogs that have allergies?

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Michelle Fern: So my puppy dog is allergic to everything and he has a salmon based diet.

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Michelle Fern: So would he be able to take WinPro supplements or would that be a challenge for him?

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Tim Mitchum: No, like our allergy product is our number one selling product.

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Tim Mitchum: So the plasma has had a profound impact on allergy symptoms, whether that's itchy skin, hot spots, you know, rashes, hair growth.

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Tim Mitchum: And it really all comes down to reducing inflammation at the source.

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Tim Mitchum: And that can be a little bit different with allergies, but it doesn't matter with our product because plasma is designed by nature to go where the problem is.

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Tim Mitchum: So it's had a profound impact if you've had struggles clearing up or solving those itchy skin, irritated skin types of problems, even with, you know, a really good diet, we come in and typically really knock out that last bit that maybe something else wasn't quite covering it.

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Tim Mitchum: And we also have a lot of people that have tried everything and then tried our product, and it finally solved that problem.

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Michelle Fern: What types of products does WinPro have?

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Michelle Fern: As you mentioned, hip and joint, dental stick, meal topper, what other products are in the lineup?

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Tim Mitchum: Yep, so we have a remedy kind of lineup.

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Tim Mitchum: We have a calming allergy, a hip and joint, and that can be prevention or remedy.

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Tim Mitchum: I use it as prevention because I have a larger dog.

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Tim Mitchum: We have a meal topper, which probiotics, prebiotics, and then plasma kind of all mixed together.

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Tim Mitchum: And we have a dental stick.

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Tim Mitchum: We have a gut health product.

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Tim Mitchum: And then we move into, well, I guess the meal topper, the dental sticks.

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Tim Mitchum: Those are kind of more in the preventative side of things.

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Tim Mitchum: Although if there are challenging GI issues, the meal topper has done wonders for that.

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Tim Mitchum: And then we get into the products that we have coming out, which is the feline version of the meal topper, which cats are a lot more finicky than dogs.

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Tim Mitchum: We've been finding that out.

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Michelle Fern: Not in my household or not.

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Tim Mitchum: Really?

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Michelle Fern: And the smallest one who used to be bigger, Dennis, he'll eat lettuce.

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Michelle Fern: When you're eating lettuce, he comes and taps you, where's mine?

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Tim Mitchum: Yeah.

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Michelle Fern: And my dog, who's now a doggy, having Zeus, he used to like raw broccoli.

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Tim Mitchum: That's crazy.

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Michelle Fern: Raw broccoli, with nothing on it.

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Michelle Fern: I know, right?

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Michelle Fern: But Dennis eats like, so he wants lettuce.

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Michelle Fern: He'll tap here and it's like, Dennis, this is lettuce.

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Michelle Fern: And I know that they're carnivores, but yeah, but they're not finicky in my house.

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Michelle Fern: I don't know what, I don't feed them anything so magical.

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Michelle Fern: I mean, I'm not gonna just talk about that, but they're not this finicky.

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Michelle Fern: But most normal cats, most cats, not that mine are that abnormal, but most cats you write are finicky.

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Michelle Fern: So how are you testing your new cat products?

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Tim Mitchum: So we have a group that we send products to.

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Tim Mitchum: I don't know exactly, this is what they do, right?

00:22:13.791 --> 00:22:18.571
Tim Mitchum: They run large kennels and they test for acceptance rates.

00:22:18.831 --> 00:22:34.051
Tim Mitchum: And so we've had to go through a couple of iterations, but we have an advantage with plasma is naturally, dogs and cats typically just love plasma as its own, the natural spray-dried plasma flavor.

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Tim Mitchum: But we've definitely had to test around that for the feline and add some chicken, I think is the one that we've, that tested out the best.

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Tim Mitchum: And we have a meal topper and then a dental stick for cats, which I'm really excited for because there's some really good studies around, you know, gum disease and doing whatever you can to keep the bacteria out of the mouth.

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Tim Mitchum: And plasma is amazing.

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Michelle Fern: I just did a show on dental, which might not air right next to this show, but we just had a show about dental care.

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Michelle Fern: And there's not a lot of dental products for cats, and it is really a challenge to brush their teeth, and it can be dangerous for us humans because there's so much bacteria in their mouth.

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Tim Mitchum: Yeah, and that's exactly why we are bringing that to market.

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Tim Mitchum: So like our product, because, you know, plasma is the secret, the key weapon against inflammation is we have no products that are around scraping.

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Tim Mitchum: It is simply getting that with an appropriate amount of chew time in the mouth, which can only be 15 to 20 seconds to make sure that that plasma goes where the bacteria is and really keeps that mouth healthy for that animal.

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Tim Mitchum: In Daisy, we constantly get compliments from the vet and also just people how greater teeth look.

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Tim Mitchum: And we've never done anything.

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Tim Mitchum: We've never brushed them or anything, nothing.

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Michelle Fern: Well, brushing teeth is not easy.

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Michelle Fern: And they're usually, I remember my dog brushing and he's trying to lick the toothpaste and I'm trying to brush.

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Michelle Fern: Then he acts like I'm gagging him.

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Michelle Fern: Zeus did not like it.

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Michelle Fern: And cats, I'm not going there.

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Michelle Fern: So I'll use other things, but I like my hands.

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Tim Mitchum: I do want to just mention that we are really launching our Plabbit Plus product into the vet space.

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Tim Mitchum: And we have a lot of vets really taking advantage of a sampling that we're doing for that.

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Tim Mitchum: So the products that we have really do belong in that space.

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Tim Mitchum: So it'll be interesting to see what happens.

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Tim Mitchum: But if anybody in your audience has a vet that would be inclined to learn about this stuff, I'd be happy to send out some of the Plabbit Plus samples to their vet to kind of get an introduction there.

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Tim Mitchum: But we're really, really excited about that.

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Michelle Fern: Well, I'm excited for you because they're great products.

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Michelle Fern: So Tim, you have a special offer for all of our listeners I hear.

00:25:02.891 --> 00:25:20.351
Tim Mitchum: Yes, so if you go to winpropet.com, winpropet.com, and you use the coupon code at checkout, bestbet20, bestbet20, you'll get 20% off your order.

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Tim Mitchum: And you can also buy on Amazon, Chewy, and those are the three main places right now that are the most predictable to get the product from.

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Michelle Fern: Well, I wanna thank you so much for that discount.

00:25:32.351 --> 00:25:35.191
Michelle Fern: I'm sure everybody listening really appreciates it.

00:25:35.471 --> 00:25:38.611
Michelle Fern: And of course, thank you so much for coming on Best Bets for Pets.

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Tim Mitchum: I appreciate it.

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Tim Mitchum: I appreciate your audience listening for the time.

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Tim Mitchum: So I really don't take that for granted.

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Tim Mitchum: So thank you.

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Michelle Fern: I hope you all enjoyed the show.

00:25:47.231 --> 00:25:48.651
Michelle Fern: What a great offer.

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Michelle Fern: So if you go to winpropet.com and use the code bestbet20, 20% off your order.

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Michelle Fern: This information will also be on the episode page for the show.

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Michelle Fern: Just know that there's always a page you can go to to find out a little bit more about our shows.

00:26:08.211 --> 00:26:17.391
Michelle Fern: We do this for all our shows and it helps because hey, when I listen to my podcast, I'm usually exercising and you can't, don't have anything to write down with, right?

00:26:17.431 --> 00:26:19.911
Michelle Fern: So you can go to our show page and there's your info.

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Michelle Fern: I want to thank my guest, Tim Mitchum, for giving us such a great offer on WinPro Pet Products.

00:26:25.711 --> 00:26:31.751
Michelle Fern: Thanks to my audience for listening to Best Bets for coming on 14 years now.

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Michelle Fern: So thank you so much.

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Michelle Fern: Thanks to my cat crew that is eagerly waiting to try the WinPro feline products coming soon.

00:26:41.211 --> 00:26:48.071
Michelle Fern: And a special thank you to my magical producer that makes me and my guests sound amazing.

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Michelle Fern: And hey, you never know what we're gonna have next on Best Bets for Pets.

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