Arcanum Wholistic Clinic

09/02/2026

Should dogs and cats be eating vegetables simply because we consider vegetables healthy?

It sounds like a strange question, but it points to something much bigger in pet nutrition:

Different species have different nutritional needs.

In our article “Dogs, Cats, and… Vegetables?”, Veterinary Heilkunst practitioner Aleks Mikic asks us to stop looking at animal nutrition through a human lens and instead pay attention to the animal itself, its anatomy, its teeth, its jaw movement and the way it naturally eats.

Cats, for example, are obligate carnivores, meaning they have specific nutritional requirements that must ultimately be supplied by animal-derived nutrients.

Dogs are different. Domestication has given dogs a greater ability to digest starches and a broader nutritional range, but that still doesn’t mean every ingredient marketed as “healthy” for humans automatically offers the same benefit to our pets.

And that is the larger question:

Are we feeding our animals according to their biology or according to our own food trends?

At Arcanum Wholistic Clinic, Veterinary Heilkunst looks at the individual animal as a whole, including nutrition, history, constitution and overall health.

Read “Dogs, Cats, and… Vegetables?” at Arcanum Wholistic Clinic.

Save this Reel if you’re interested in species-appropriate pet nutrition, and follow Arcanum for more conversations about natural pet health, Veterinary Heilkunst and whole-animal wellness.

08/27/2026

Should dogs and cats be eating vegetables simply because we consider vegetables healthy?

It sounds like a strange question—but it points to something much bigger in pet nutrition:

Different species have different nutritional needs.

In our article “Dogs, Cats, and… Vegetables?”, Veterinary Heilkunst practitioner Aleks Mikic asks us to stop looking at animal nutrition through a human lens and instead pay attention to the animal itself…its anatomy, its teeth, its jaw movement and the way it naturally eats.

Cats, for example, are obligate carnivores, meaning they have specific nutritional requirements that must ultimately be supplied by animal-derived nutrients.

Dogs are different. Domestication has given dogs a greater ability to digest starches and a broader nutritional range, but that still doesn’t mean every ingredient marketed as “healthy” for humans automatically offers the same benefit to our pets.

And that is the larger question:

Are we feeding our animals according to their biology or according to our own food trends?

At Arcanum Wholistic Clinic, Veterinary Heilkunst looks at the individual animal as a whole, including nutrition, history, constitution and overall health.

Read “Dogs, Cats, and… Vegetables?”at the link in the comments.

Save this Reel if you’re interested in species-appropriate pet nutrition, and follow Arcanum for more conversations about natural pet health, Veterinary Heilkunst and whole-animal wellness.

08/25/2026

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08/25/2026

08/19/2026

Do wisdom teeth automatically need to be removed?

For many of us, wisdom tooth extraction has almost felt like a rite of passage: they appear, they’re assessed and sooner or later, out they come.

But the decision can be more nuanced.

Wisdom teeth may genuinely require treatment when there is decay, infection, gum disease, cyst formation, damage to neighbouring teeth or other pathology. At the same time, a wisdom tooth that does not require treatment may instead be monitored by a dental professional.

At Arcanum Wholistic Clinic, we’re interested in the question underneath the question:

Why are we intervening, and is the intervention appropriate for this particular person?

Our article “The Wisdom in Your Wisdom Teeth” (see caption for the link) explores wisdom teeth through a broader wholistic lens and challenges the idea that parts of the human body should automatically be regarded as disposable.

Whether you’re currently facing a wisdom tooth decision or simply interested in holistic dentistry, biological dentistry, oral health and whole-person wellness, becoming informed is a powerful place to begin.

Save this for your next dental conversation, and follow Arcanum Wholistic Clinic for more perspectives on Heilkunst, wholistic health and whole-person care.

08/15/2026

Why do the same emotional patterns sometimes seem to follow us, even when the circumstances change?

The same grief. The same fear. The same anger. The same worry.

At Arcanum Wholistic Clinic, we look beyond the emotion presenting in the moment and explore the individual’s larger history.

Within Heilkunst, this can involve timeline work: looking at significant experiences throughout a person’s life and identifying emotional patterns that may have developed around grief, anger, fear, guilt, shame or resentment.

Instead of asking only, “How do we make this feeling stop?” we may also ask:

Where did this pattern begin?

Our approach to wholistic health is individualized because no two people carry the same history. Your experiences, emotional landscape and health journey are uniquely yours, and your care should reflect that.

Healing isn’t always about silencing what the body or mind is expressing. Sometimes it begins with understanding the story underneath it.

Read our latest article, “Addressing the Roots of Emotional Schisms,” (link in comments) to learn more about emotional timeline work and the Heilkunst approach.

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08/05/2026

You’ve changed your diet.

You’ve tried supplements.

You’ve eliminated gluten.

You’ve taken medications.

You’ve done “all the right things.”

Yet your digestive symptoms keep coming back.

At Arcanum, we believe healing begins by asking a different question—not simply “How do we reduce symptoms?” but “Why did these symptoms develop in the first place?”

Our approach through Heilkunst looks at the whole person, recognizing that each health journey is unique and seeking to understand the factors that may contribute to chronic illness, rather than assuming everyone with the same diagnosis requires the same approach.

If you’ve been searching for another perspective on IBS, Crohn’s disease, Colitis, or chronic digestive concerns, we invite you to read the full article.

Link in our bio.