Holistic Pet Approved Facebook ad: “Give Them Their Spark Back”

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I bought a stroller for my own beagle last spring so he could still come on our walks, and I'm still not over it. It's a pet stroller. Three wheels, a little mesh canopy, a cupholder I have never once used. I bought it off a woman named Deb on Facebook Marketplace for 40 dollars. She met me in the parking lot of a Giant Eagle and told me it had been her poodle's before he passed. She was very kind about it. I put it in my trunk and drove home and sat in my driveway for ten minutes before I brought it inside. Because the dog it was for, the dog who was going to ride in it while I walked, was Murph. And Murph is mine. I retired from the post office four years ago after 31 years carrying mail in Squirrel Hill. Same route. Same houses. Same dogs barking at me from the same porches. I walked an average of 11 miles a day in all weather for 31 years. My knees were the joke of the breakroom. People used to say I had the knees of a 30 year old at 50. I'm Maureen, by the way. I'm 61. I live in a row house on a steep street in Pittsburgh that my husband Bill and I bought in 1989 for 47,000 dollars and a handshake. Bill died in 2018. Pancreatic. Eleven weeks from the diagnosis. He didn't suffer long and I'm grateful for that even when I'm not. Murph is a tri-color beagle I got six months after Bill died because the silence in this house was going to kill me before grief did. He'd been found wandering on a country road with a notched ear and a limp that healed on its own. He's eleven now. Forty pounds of stubborn nose and good intentions. For years, Murph and I walked the loop. The loop is what I call the route around the neighborhood that goes down Bellefonte, across the bridge, up the hill past the synagogue, and back along Wightman. It's about a mile and a quarter. It takes 25 minutes if Murph doesn't find anything interesting and 45 minutes if he does. We did the loop twice a day. Morning and evening. 7:30 in the morning, the streetlights still humming. 6:15 in the evening, the lights coming back on. That's around 2,920 walks, if you want to count it that way, which I do, because I have a lot of time on my hands now and counting is one of the things I do. I want you to understand what the loop meant to me, because the loop is the whole story. When Bill died, the loop was the thing that got me out of bed every morning. Murph needed to go. So I went. Some mornings I'd cry the whole way around and Murph would just trot along like nothing was happening, which was the right thing for him to do. The loop was my life. It was the only part of my retirement that felt like something. And Murph was the one leading it — nose down, tail up, dragging me toward every fence and fire hydrant in the neighborhood. And then about two and a half years ago, the loop started getting harder. Not for me. For him. It wasn't sudden. That's the part I want you to hear. Nothing about this was sudden. It started with the hill on Wightman. There's a stretch about three-quarters of the way through the loop where the sidewalk pitches up for maybe 200 feet. Steep enough to make you breathe through your nose. One evening, Murph got to the bottom of that stretch and just... stopped. He looked up at the hill. Then he looked back at me. He sat down. I told myself he was just tired. Probably hot. Probably a lazy evening. I turned us around. Did the loop the other way. Skipped the hill. Within about six weeks we'd stopped doing the hill at all. Just looped the bottom half. Down Bellefonte, across the bridge, back along the flat part of Wightman. Murph didn't seem to mind. I told myself he didn't mind because that's what I needed to tell myself. He kept getting slower. His back legs started sliding out from under him on the kitchen floor. He stopped meeting me at the door. He'd take a few stiff steps when he got up in the morning, then walk it off. In the evenings he started staring at the wall like he'd forgotten where he was. I took him to the vet. She's a nice woman. Younger than me. Smart. She felt his hips and watched him walk and she said the words I knew were coming. "He's eleven, Maureen. Some of this is just getting old." Just getting old. That's the phrase, isn't it. That's the phrase they reach for when they don't have anything else to offer you. As if his body were a pair of shoes he'd simply worn out. She gave me a joint chew to try and told me to keep him comfortable. I left her office in the rain and sat in my car in the parking lot and I thought, "I am going to lose the loop." Not lose Murph. I knew he wasn't going anywhere yet. But I was going to lose what we had. The mornings and the evenings. The only structure my retirement had left. I tried everything. I want you to know I tried everything. Glucosamine chews. Chondroitin. Turmeric treats from the pet store on Murray. A senior "wellness" supplement, 40 dollars a bottle. An orthopedic bed. A ramp for the couch he refused to use. I tried one of those liquid drops I saw on Instagram — a "NAD" serum in a little dropper bottle, 55 dollars. When I looked closer at the reviews, half of them said it was mostly water. I'd squeezed a few drops on his food for three weeks and nothing changed. I found out later there was barely anything in it to begin with. I tried laser therapy at a rehab place by the dental school. 60 dollars a session. After six of them Murph moved about the same, and I stopped going. I tried a joint injection at the vet in the fall of 2023. It helped for about five weeks. Then it didn't. Then we were right back where we started, plus 400 dollars poorer. By that Christmas, Murph was doing about a quarter of the loop. Just down to the bridge and back. By last March, he wasn't doing the loop at all. I was opening the back door, letting him into the yard, and standing on the porch with a coffee while he sniffed around the chain-link fence for ten minutes and then came back inside. That's not a walk. That's a bathroom break. Murph knew the difference. He'd look at me from the bottom of the porch steps with those long brown beagle eyes, and I would feel something I cannot describe to you in any way that does it justice. I felt like I was failing him. That sounds dramatic. I know. He's a dog. He doesn't keep score. But I knew. I knew what I'd promised him when I picked him up from that rescue six months after Bill died. I'd promised him a life. I had walked through three decades of Pittsburgh weather for strangers' mail, and now I couldn't give my own dog a walk around the block. That's when I bought the stroller. I told myself it was a good compromise. He could still get out. Still smell the neighborhood. Still be part of the loop. And then I stood on my own sidewalk, on a Tuesday in March, and pushed my stubborn old hound around the block in a stroller while he rode there like a deposed king, and I have never felt more defeated in my life. I cried for an hour after we got back. Then I called my sister Bernadette in Erie and told her what had just happened. Bernie is 64. Three years older than me. She's a retired ER nurse. She does not put up with self-pity from anyone, including herself. She listened to the whole thing. She let me cry. She didn't interrupt. And when I was done, she said, "Maureen. Can I tell you about something I started giving Roscoe nine months ago that I think you need to look into." Roscoe is Bernie's chocolate Lab. He's twelve. That was the turn. I want to tell you what Bernie told me, because this is the part where the whole story changed, and I want to give you the same chance I got. Bernie said Roscoe had gone downhill the same way Murph did. Slower on the walks. Sleeping all day. The back end going while the front stayed sharp. Her vet had told her the same thing mine told me: he's old, keep him comfortable. But Bernie is a nurse. She doesn't dismiss things. She goes home and reads. And what she read changed how she thought about Roscoe. And how I think about Murph. Here's what she told me, and here's what I went home and read for myself that night. Every cell in a dog's body — the ones that power his muscles, that keep his joints working, that manage inflammation, that keep his mind sharp — those cells need cellular energy to do their job. Cellular energy is made by mitochondria. Little power plants inside every cell. When a dog is young, the mitochondria work great. The cells get all the energy they need. The body does what the body is supposed to do. But the mitochondria need a fuel to run. It's called NAD+. And here is the part nobody told me: as a dog ages, that NAD+ quietly drops. Year after year. Less NAD+ means less cellular energy. And the cells all over his body start running on a deficit. When the cells run on a deficit, everything slows down. The muscles. The recovery. The joints. The sharpness. The spark. That's not "just getting old." That's an energy problem. And every single thing I'd tried — every chew, every drop, every injection — was working on the outside. Trying to soothe the joint. Trying to numb the ache. None of them did a thing for the fuel that was running out underneath. Bernie said it to me like this. "Maureen, you spent 31 years delivering mail to houses. Imagine trying to deliver mail to a house with no electricity. You can keep showing up. You can keep dropping off envelopes. But nothing inside the house is going to work, because the power is out." That hit me in the chest. The power was out in Murph. I'd been treating his legs like they were the problem. His legs weren't the problem. His legs were the symptom. The cells inside him were running on empty. Bernie told me about Lumiqour. She'd been giving Roscoe their NAD+ powder for about six months. She told me, in her flat ER-nurse voice, that he was back on his walks. That he'd started meeting her at the door again. That he'd gone up onto the bed on his own for the first time in over a year. What made her trust it, she said, was the label. It wasn't a serum. It wasn't a proprietary blend. It was a powder — so they could put a full, real dose in every scoop — and every single ingredient and its exact amount was printed right there. NR and NMN, the two building blocks a dog's body turns straight into NAD+, both at real doses. Not one cheap precursor. Not the token amounts. Plus resveratrol and quercetin to protect the cells, and B3. "You just scoop it on their food," she said. "Roscoe's picky and he eats it clean. It's chicken-flavored." I ordered a jar that night from their website. Then I ordered a second one, because Bernie told me to keep a backup. The jars came on a Thursday. I started Murph on it Friday morning. One scoop over his breakfast. He sniffed it, then ate the whole bowl. Week one, I didn't notice anything. Bernie had warned me. She said the cells don't refill overnight. They have to be given the fuel and time to come back online. Week two, Murph got up off the kitchen floor without the stiff, careful shuffle he'd been doing for two years. Just stood up. Week three was the first time we made it to the bridge and back without him stopping. About a quarter of the loop. The first real walk we'd done together in nine months. Murph knew. He knew before I knew. He started bringing me the leash again every morning around 7. He'd stopped doing that two years ago, around the same time the loop got too hard. He just knew. Week five was the first time he went up the Wightman hill in almost two years. He got to the top and kept going. I had to stop, because I needed to cry for a minute and I didn't want to cry while I was walking. Murph sat down next to me. Looked up at me with those long brown beagle eyes. Like, "took you long enough." I'm 14 weeks in now. We do the full loop twice a day. The stroller is folded up in the garage behind the recycling bins. I keep meaning to give it back to Deb, or pass it along to someone who needs it. I haven't yet. I think part of me wants to keep it as a reminder of how close I came to accepting the smaller version of our life. I want to tell you something now that I want you to think hard about. If you are watching your dog shrink, if you've quietly gotten used to the smaller version of your walks, if you've stopped doing the things the two of you used to love because his body stopped cooperating, please listen to me. Your dog is not broken. His cells are running out of power. That's a different problem than "just old age." A very different problem. Because "old age" sounds permanent, and that's the thing they tell us at the end of a ten-minute appointment when they don't have anything else to say. The cells in your dog can still do what they were built to do. They just need the fuel back. They need NAD+ back. And that's something a dog's body already knows how to use — you just have to give it the building blocks. You're not too late. Murph was eleven and riding in a stroller. Murph is eleven now and does 2.5 miles a day and forgives me for the year I let him down. If you've got a Murph, if you've got a loop, if you've got something the two of you have quietly given up on because his legs or his energy stopped showing up — please. Go read about Lumiqour. They have a 90-day money-back guarantee. Give it 90 days. If your dog doesn't come back online, send it back and get every penny back. Every one. No questions. Think about what that says. Nobody offered me a refund on the joint injection. Nobody offered me a refund on the laser therapy. Nobody offered me a refund on that serum that was mostly water. Nobody offered me a refund on the year I lost with my dog. Lumiqour does refunds. That tells you who's standing behind their product and who's just standing behind your copay. Murph is asleep on the rug behind me as I type this. Snoring like a small lawnmower. We did the loop this morning. We're going to do it again at 6:15. Don't lose your loop. 👉 https://learn.lumiqour.com/5-reasons-why-nad P.S. With Murph, it was small things first. Standing up without the stiff shuffle. Meeting me at the door. Bringing me the leash. Then bigger things. The bridge. The hill. The full loop. You won't notice it all at once. You'll notice it the way you notice the days getting longer in February. Not the change itself — the fact that the change has been happening, and you didn't realize until you stopped to look. P.P.S. Lumiqour has a 90-day money-back guarantee. 90 days. Three months. That's longer than I made it with most of the things I tried before giving up. If your dog hasn't started coming back online in 90 days, every penny back. The injection didn't come with a guarantee. The laser didn't. The serum from Instagram didn't. Lumiqour does. Confidence shows up in policies. P.P.P.S. It's a small company and Bernie warned me they sell out. I didn't believe her until I went to reorder and saw a note that their last batch had moved faster than expected. I keep two jars in the cabinet now. One open, one waiting. Because I am not going back to pushing my own dog around the block in a stroller. I'm not going back to the smaller version of our life. If you've been thinking about this for any length of time, go now. His cells have been running on a deficit for years. Every week you wait is another week the deficit gets deeper. P.P.P.P.S. Do not forget about the 90-day money-back guarantee. You're risking nothing. I was risking the rest of the good years I have left with my dog. 👉 https://learn.lumiqour.com/5-reasons-why-nad

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