Message Number: SG5819 | New FHL Archives Search
From: daakipman@terra.com.br
Date: 2003-08-18 05:16:28 UTC
Subject: brewer's yeast: good/bad?
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <6577853.1061183788260.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>

I was reading some of the archives to see if I could figure out if brewer's yeast is good or bad for ferrets with insulinoma and I got kind of confused. I got that chromium is bad for ferrets with insulinoma (because it lower's the blood glucose) BUT:
- aren't the traces of chromium low in brewer's yeast?
- and doesn't the fact that it is high in protein, B vitamins, and minerals (other than chromium) make it good?

And also, I read that somebody disrecomended brewer's yeast and sugested "finding other ways to add B vitamins, protein
and trace minerals to a ferret's diet".
- what would some of these ways be??

Thank you all in advance, and some "official" Vet advice would be hightly apreciated,
Daphne