Howdy. Hoping to get survey of which brand of dog food you used ie, Fromm, Wellness, etc and how old your dog is/was?
I also found a good article here about feeding goldens. If anyone knows who the author is, I'd love to know to see if she is legit
How to feed a Golden Retriever
I don't really buy into this kind of pseudo-science. Dogs are not wolves, so anybody who places the fundamental piece of an argument on that assumption has sort of lost me. Wolves also tend only to live a few years in the wild, so the implication that wolves are much healthier and never get cancer is based on naivete, not actual knowledge of wild animals.
Certainly, it's good for a dog to get a large part of his protein from good meat sources, and a dog doesn't need as much vegetable matter as a human does, but you have to remember that dogs have evolved for 20,000 years to eat human garbage, so their needs are not identical to wolves.
For example, consider what she says about DNA (it appears to be an unsourced quote): "Mitochondrial DNA studies of 7 breeds of domestic dogs vs 23 wolf populations showed a difference of only .2% (that's 2/10 of 1%)." First of all, mitochondrial DNA is not the same thing as nuclear DNA, so she's sort of fudging over a really important nuance of the science of evolution. Secondly, .2%, depending on which .2% it is, could be a HUGE difference.
So no, I don't think she's legit, though she does mention on a number of occasions that her conclusions aren't scientific and that she's not a vet or nutritionist, so at least she's honest.