I really doubt that Renafood is going to actively hurt your cat–I don’t think it’ll do anything to help with the symptoms of kidney disease, either. I haven’t heard about too much research on Renafood; most of the evidence is anecdotal, and nobody that I know of uses Renafood alone to treat kidney disease, which really complicates the assessments of how effective or harmful it may be. Part of the issue with Renafood–and it’s a big part of why it pings my snake oil radar–is that the so-called active ingredients are trademarked terms of art, and not actual scientific names, and no big labs or research universities have bothered to study or pursue the formula. I’m not saying that big pharma is correct in everything they do or release, but they’re pretty cutthroat and if anything looks like a promising way to make a lot of money, you can bet that they’d be on it like white on rice. Renafood has been around for a long time, and the fact that there’s no published, peer-reviewed literature on it and that no other companies have courted Standard Process for some kind of licensing scheme indicates that it’s a placebo at best. Looking at the ingredients list, there’s nothing in there that could hurt a cat.

Good luck to you and Max!

Thanks for leaving a comment. Do let us know how the blood work looks, and best of luck to you and Angel.

She is shedding less, grooming less (it was constant) is less cold, her “voice” is different, and at 15, she even plays! She is more alert, yet calm, and just seems more content and comfortable.

She is about 15 lbs. and I give her 3 Renafood per day + 6 Cataplex ACP mixed into her food. To get her to consume more water, I make a “soup” out of her food and add warm or hot water (this also dissolves the vites) I only feed her high quality canned food with NO ASH–if it is 0% it would be not listed at all since by law, the companies are required to list it.