About

As the formulator of Desert Defense® for Dogs, Randall Thomason has been a research biochemist and consultant for 40 years in laboratory and clinical disciplines focusing on disease prevention and treatment, behavioral, performance and nutritional enhancement for animal and human application.

Thomason’s philosophy is that we are living in an over-medicated society and that the “trigger is pulled” all too often to dispense drugs and vaccines that can create their own complications over and above whatever they are used for.

Because the origins of many drugs were discovered in nature through botanical identification, he strongly advocates the use of proven natural interventions that can help prevent illness and help the body fight the sickness of disease while building the immune system simultaneously.

Thomason received his Masters degree at the University of Washington, Seattle, and has worked clinically with animals at this University as well as Puget Sound University in Tacoma, Washington and Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. The focuses of the studies were clinical nutrition, supplementation, alternative disease therapy and hormone influence of immune corridors.

Another of his passions is venom research. Researchers are using venom from many of our deadliest creatures to create therapeutic medications that could lessen the impact of some of the world's deadliest diseases.

Since 2007 Thomason has focused his research on the use of targeted nutrition to support the health and well-being of dogs that are exposed to extremes of climate change such as high temperatures, dust storms and flooding. Heat maps are showing that this could cause fungal organisms to flourish among other issues. He is also focused on the impact of lifestyle, medications, and other choices on canine health. He is currently involved in the second ten-year study for this.

He has lectured throughout the US and has diversified his talks in a variety of areas including anti-aging and natural hormone replacement therapy, immune enhancement and disease prevention, alternative medicine, neurological diseases, performance enhancement, body fat reduction and sports nutrition.

Thomason is a frequent guest lecturer and was the co-host of the local Phoenix show Health, Nutrition & You and the nationally syndicated Genesis Nutritional Science Forum. Recently he was a frequent guest on the Pet Improvement© radio show and newspaper column.
He is published in a scientific journal by invitation.

He also has years of contract work as a formulator for nutritional supplement companies such as Animal Formulations, Rich Life, Radiance Nutritionals, Genesis 2000, Health Designs Northwest (human and veterinary lines), Pro Line Performance and Pet Health Pharmacy. Thomason is a member of the American Chemical Society.