Whether human or animal - health begins at the cellular level! This work conveys groundbreaking insights in the field of dog nutrition. It demonstrates how you can achieve and maintain your dog's cellular health, which is the key to a long, active life, simply through optimal feeding. Renowned veterinarian Jean Dodds and dog nutrition expert Diana Laverdure refer to the results of the still young, promising scientific discipline of nutrigenomics, which examines the interplay between genes and nutrition. Crucial for our health and that of our dogs is how the food we consume communicates with our cells and thereby regulates gene expression. While the genes we are born with cannot be changed, we can influence their behavior. This is precisely where the authors focus. They show how.