Steve Brown 

Steve Brown is the person the raw pet food industry calls when a diet has to balance on paper as well as it does in theory. A renowned formulator of meat-based diets for dogs and cats, a researcher, and the author of three books on canine nutrition, he earned the nickname 'the balanced diet guy' by insisting that ancestral feeding claims be checked against measured nutrient profiles.

He developed the Canine and Feline Diet Formulator™, the software now known as the Animal Diet Formulator, which practitioners and manufacturers use to build diets that meet published nutrient requirements. His books span two decades of that work: See Spot Live Longer (Creekobear Press, 2004), Unlocking the Canine Ancestral Diet: Healthier Dog Food the ABC Way (Dogwise Publishing, 2010), and See Spot Live Longer the ABC Way (Dogwise), which distills the approach into two practical changes to a dry-food diet.

Brown now focuses on teaching veterinarians how to balance whole food diets, and continues to write on nutrition research, including regular contributions to Whole Dog Journal. He is part of Darwin's expert panel. Meet all of our experts.

CREDENTIALS: 

• Developer, Canine and Feline Diet Formulator™ (now the Animal Diet Formulator)
• Author of three published books on canine nutrition
• Nutritional researcher and formulator of meat-based diets for dogs and cats
• Contributor, Whole Dog Journal
• Educator — teaches veterinarians whole-food diet balancing
  

AREAS OF EXPERTISE: 

• Canine and feline nutrition research
• Meat-based and ancestral diet formulation
• Nutrient profiling and diet balancing software
• Fatty acid and micronutrient balance in raw diets
• Veterinary nutrition education
• Nutrition writing and publishing