Health is often described as dynamic, in that the body can defend itself from all directions. Disease is stagnation, where the body has lost its fight flexibility. For example, when a cat is diagnosed with a urinary tract disorder, this is not an isolated event. The cat may have shown subtle signs—changes in a household behavior or maybe changes in personality—early warning signs of the body warding off disease. Left untreated, the next major stressor pushed his body into the diseased state. Learning your cat’s constitution and individual health patterns allows you to intervene with diet changes, supporting therapies, and environmental impreovements to realign an imbalance and slow or halt the development of disease. By using holistic principles along with significant advances in feline research, we can reach beyond the limitations of physical analysis and offer our cats healthier, vibrant