Podcast #096 – Metabolic Syndrome In Horses – Part One
Equine metabolic syndrome (EMS) is a collection of factors and events within the horse affected by food, stress, and sleep. This podcast summarizes in…
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Podcast #095 – Scientific Studies, Marketing, and Horse Care
In this podcast, I explain in easy terms how a thought becomes a study and how the results are analyzed with math to predict if something causes disea…
Podcast #094 – Horsemanship – Here Comes The Sun
The Beatles played music from the 1950s through today, though two of the "Fab Four" are now dead. Their "invasion" of the United States occurred in 19…
Podcast #093 – Is Passion Missing In Veterinarians Today?
Veterinary medicine is a calling, a passion, that drives people to do extraordinary things, such as commit to healing animals at any moment, despite t…
Podcast #092 – EOTRH, Donkey Dentistry, and Cheek Tooth Extractions
This podcast covers three topics within the interest of dentistry in horses. EOTRH (Equine Odontoplastic Tooth Resorption and Hypercementosis), dentis…
Podcast #091 -Since The Days Of The Romans – Chapters 16, 17, and 18
This podcast is chapters sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen of my autobiography, Since The Days Of The Romans - My Journey Of Discovering A Life With …
Podcast #090 – Crisis With Equine Veterinarians
It is a simple math problem, as easy as a homeowner’s budget. If more equine vets leave practices than there are coming into practices, there will b…
Podcast #089 – Since The Days Of The Romans – Chapters 13, 14, and 15
This podcast is chapters thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen of my autobiography, Since The Days Of The Romans - My Journey Of Discovering A Life With Hor…
Podcast #088 – Since The Days Of The Romans – Chapters 11 and 12
This podcast is chapters eleven and twelve of my autobiography, Since The Days Of The Romans - My Journey Of Discovering A Life With Horses. Over th…
Podcast #087 – Get Your Horse’s House In Order – A Magazine Review
This podcast reviews a vet school’s economic impact statement and a special Equus magazine about the health of our horses. When I read these, my fir…
Podcast #086 – Since The Days Of The Romans – Chapters 8, 9, and 10
This podcast is chapters eight, nine, and ten of my autobiography, Since The Days Of The Romans - My Journey Of Discovering A Life With Horses. Over…
Podcast #085 – Integrative Medicine With Dr Marty Goldstein
Dr. Martin Goldstein is known as "Dr. Marty" and "The Dog Doc." He earned his veterinary degree from Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine in 1973,…
Podcast #084 – Since The Days Of The Romans – Chapters 6 and 7
This podcast is chapters six and seven of my autobiography, Since The Days Of The Romans - My Journey Of Discovering A Life With Horses. Over the ne…
Podcast #083 – Horse Care Old And New
How long ago is relative to how old we are. To a baby, yesterday seems so long ago. A 24-year-old may think they have "forever" before them, hoping th…
Podcast #082 – Since The Days Of The Romans – Chapters 4 and 5
This podcast is chapters four and five of my autobiography, Since The Days Of The Romans - My Journey Of Discovering A Life With Horses. Over the ne…
Podcast #081 – The Horse Race Between Evolution And Technology
Evolution defines the development of a species, such as the horse, throughout all time on Earth. However, the starting point may be adjusted to any mo…
Podcast #080 – Since The Days Of The Romans – Chapters 2 and 3
This podcast is chapters two and three of my autobiography, Since The Days Of The Romans - My Journey Of Discovering A Life With Horses. Over the ne…
Podcast #079 – Equine Dentistry For 40 Years
Four decades of floating horses have filled me with experiences hard to gain from a textbook. In fact, in 1983, there was only one book on equine dent…
Podcast #078 – Since The Days Of The Romans – Forward, Introduction, and Chapter 1
May 2023 represents my 50th year working with horses. So how did I get here? What brought me from being a wandering young man to becoming an equine ve…
Podcast #077 – The Messages Veterinarians Receive In Their Inbox
I received the following emails targeting equine veterinarians with various announcements last week. You must be "cognitively diligent" to read the su…
Podcast #076 – Feeding Sale Yearlings And All Horses
This podcast answers a question about the feeding of young, growing horses and their mothers sent to me by someone in Thoroughbred breeding and sales.…
Podcast #075 – The Role Of Being An Advocate For Horses
This podcast looks at a human study that initially solidified the benefits of consuming EPA, one of the Omega-3 fish oils so popular today. However, r…
Podcast #074 – Get Your Brain Right, Get Your Horse Right (“Cognitive Laziness”)
I am returning to podcasting after a 6-month break. I will tell you about why in the NEXT podcast. Instead, in this podcast, I want to read a blog I w…
Podcast #073 – AAEP 2022 Insulin Dysregulation
In this episode, I review a recommended paper by the prime speaker of this conference called "Review of Considerations When Feeding the Equid with Ins…
Podcast #072 – Cognitive Dissonance In Horse Owners
I discuss how we get bombarded with contradictory information in horse care. To preserve our sanity, we tightly hold to what we believe, given to us b…
Podcast #071 – Review Of Feeding Horses
Over the past month, I have heard many great stories about how well the no-grain plus soybean meal diet works from my dentistry clients. However, they…
Podcast #070 – Aging The Horse By The Teeth
Several years ago, I asked owners with horses of verified age (papers or lip tattoos) to allow me to photograph the incisors. I shot the left and righ…
Podcast #069 – Water For Horses
Water is one of the necessary ingredients to maintain life. Every animal and plant on Earth knows this, but because of the familiarity, we often don…
Podcast #068 – A Perspective On Veterinary Medicine With Dennis French DVM
My guest today is Dr. Denny French, a second-generation large animal veterinarian from the midwest United States. He was a professor at Louisiana Stat…
Podcast #067 – Equine Psychotherapy
I talked with Bonny Barry of Equine Reflections (EquineReflections.org), a non-profit horse therapy center in Folsom, Louisiana.
Bonny’s honesty a…
Podcast #066 – Mission Statement
Horses thriving is open to interpretation, but as we look at our horses, we all see the difference between thriving and existing. We see this in ourse…
Podcast #065 – Is What We’re Being Taught Correct?
Horse owners are overwhelmed with conflicting “facts” about the care of their horses. Yet, an underlying theme of all the research I find is that …
Podcast #064 – Accepting Fat Horses
As long as there isn’t an ice age, the thin horse will survive and thrive longer than the fat horse because the downside of excess body fat is the p…
Podcast #063 – Horse Microbiome, Dentistry, And More
In this podcast, I talk about a variety of subjects. Some I have discussed in detail elsewhere, and some are new. These subjects include the microbiom…
Podcast #062 – Horsemanship And Confidence Versus Arrogance
I discuss how we can change ourselves in a way that doesn't complicate our life but enhances our ability to connect with those horses who would not ot…
Podcast #061 – Weight Loss In Horses – Dental Or Not?
Many horse owners associate weight loss in horses with dental issues. The most common sign of a dental problem is “Quidding” or the formation of a…
Podcast #060 – Dennis Brooks DVM, Horse Eyes and Veterinary Medicine
Dennis Brooks, DVM is an equine ophthalmologist with a worldwide presence established over 40 years.
We chat about many subjects:
*Where are veterina…
Podcast #059 – What Are We Feeding Our Horses, And Why?
Millions of scoops of grain are fed to our horses every day around the world, yet when I ask horse owners what they are feeding their horses, I usuall…
Podcast #058 – A Review Of A Horse Magazine #2
This podcast is the second time I have picked up a popular horse magazine, reviewed the articles and added my thoughts on the ones I selected. I recei…
Podcast #057 – Protein and Gastric Ulcers In Horses
Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome, or EGUS, is being treated in more horses today than almost any other disease considered "routine." The advent of visual…
Podcast #056 – Horse Dentistry Questions
This episode goes over some frequently asked questions I often get asked as I meet horse owners. My answers are not based on scientific facts because …
Podcast #055 – Horses And The Web Of Influence
In this episode, I go through an email I received from Africa with a connection in the state of Washington here in America. Their results with laminit…
Podcast #054 – Entropy And Horses
Entropy means the natural and required decrease in energy, moving organized things into disorganized things and eventually ending in complete chaos. I…
Podcast #053 – Horses And The Road Less Traveled
Feeding our horses as they have for the past 30 years is the “well-worn path.” Insulin resistance, Cushing’s Disease, suspensory ligament diseas…
Podcast #052 – Conflicting Information For Feeding Horses
My last podcast (#051) was about the infodemic we are experiencing in the horse world. This is where there is so much conflicting information about th…
Podcast #051 – Horse Owners Experiencing An Infodemic
This will be a podcast where I vent my frustration in my attempts to help horse owners help their horses thrive in a human world. All I try to do is g…
Podcast #050 – Horse Seminar Summaries
I attended 3 equine seminars all with veterinarians discussing different matters: 1) “How Horses Think” put on by Cornell University (not the vet …
Podcast #049 – Why Do We Go To The Horse Barn?
Why Do We Go To The Horse Barn? Helping Horses Thrive In A Human World is what we do at The Horse’s Advocate. But what about us? How do we thrive in…
Podcast #048 – Horse Nutrition Review
Every day someone asks me about feeding their horses. For me it has become simple only because I have repeated this information but for you…. maybe …
Podcast #047 – Cavities In Horse Teeth And More
I go over some of the recent articles showing up in the magazines and news feeds for horse owners discussing 1) cavities in the cheek teeth of horses …