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Endocrinology podcast
Dr T, I’m curious if you have the opportunity to discuss articles, like the one on endocrinology, with the authors in a sort of round table conversation. If so, has the exchange of ideas sparked subsequent research or thought?
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I am not prepared to open discussions with these authors because I don’t have the time or personnel. At some point I will be able to hire a team of researchers to help me prepare to discuss things with others because I would need to further understand their work. But until I am retired and do this full time I will not on a routine basis reach out to these authors.
In addition, almost every podcast presenting information on horse health has a bias either in the sponsorship of the podcast or in the employment of the presenter(s). This bias requires them to toe the line preventing honest debates.
I want to remain in the unique position of funding this website without sponsorship or advertising. Donations are always accepted as long as no strings are attached!
<font face=”inherit”>What sparks my “research and thought” are listening to people way more intelligent than me but they are usually involving human research. There just is no (zero) money in equine research without funding from an interested party. Couple this </font>to research being conducted on the research being done (yes I said this correctly) showing that there are no (zero) nutritional research papers published today that are either unbiased, have sufficient statistically significance or both and you will never get good information about the health of our horses. Please read the book “Good Calories, Bad Calories” by Gary Taubes for insight to the prominence of the low fat, high carb diets that have harmed more humans than helped. He uses information that is over 200 years old.
This leaves me to do only reporting and analysis of articles and podcasts that come out to horse owners offering an opposing point of view. Without this I believe that these articles and podcasts I review are only marketing pieces with agendas.
A long answer to a short question, I realize. But I want to be transparent here. I expect everyone here to question what I say, research for themselves and then return to compare and discuss. As time moves on I will be able to expand and offer multiple points of view in one place. Until then, I am a one man show (with family help on the back end). I hope this will be an honest answer for you. Thanks for asking.
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