Anneh (and Roy),
I find myself wondering if epilepsy is really inherited or if , in fact, it comes more from the animals diet.
I assume that you got the dog from someone and did not own it's parents.
Because one doesn't usually take an animal from it's mother as soon as it's born but instead weeks or months after it's birth (probably sometime after it has been weaned and has been eating solids for a while), then the diet that was fed the mother (and possibly the father) would be very similar to the one your puppy was receiving before you got it.
Look at someone who claims that their condition is irreversable because they inherited it from their parents and when you ask them about their parents diet and way of eating and then them, you will almost always find that they eat very similarly to the way that they did when they were growing up and living with their parents.
While we do inherit some things from our parents, we can change most things, especially our conditions and like other sicknesses, I believe that the disease called epilepsy is a condition and is changeable.
Regarding the use of grains how that might spread yeast infections...not everyone who calls themselves holistic eats whole grains as a center of their diet and therefore might confuse refined grains with whole grains, refined grains often require simple sugars and lab produced yeast in their preparation, whole grains don't usually use simple sugars and in the case of naturally leavened bread use wild yeasts without added sugars so one will not get yeast infections from whole grains nor natural leavened breads, as yeast infections require simple sugars and the yeasts that grow on simple sugars.
And to insure that a pet is digesting the whole grains that are added to their meat a seaweed meals, perhaps a little fermented soy like miso can be mixed in.
Now about where to get bladderwrack (besides the seashore! :-) ) try (
http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/b/bladde54.html ) or (
http://www.seaveg.com/products.html ) and (
http://www.alcasoft.com/seaweed/pages/catalog.html ).
The latter two are companies that have been serving the macro community for many years and deserve our patronage!
I hope that helps.
Thank you, very much.
Bruce