Rounds With Doc T
This is a live meeting with Doc T, during which members can ask questions about horses. Doc T... View more
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Rounds with Doc T – Thursday May 25th, 2023 [Replay]
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Rounds with Doc T – Thursday May 25th, 2023 [Replay]
Rounds With Doc T May 25, 2023
00:23 – “Is there a way to participate without downloading Zoom?”
I answer this briefly on the recording, but a complete answer I give in the forum reply below.
01:55 – “Have you considered giving The Horse’s Advocate clinics?”
I answer this briefly on the recording, but a complete answer I give in the forum reply below.
02:49 – “I was wondering about the grass this time of year (spring) when I have a donkey with laminitis (founder). I limit his grazing.”
First, I show how to search for subjects like this on the website. Then I discuss what spring grass is and how the fructose in it causes inflammation in humans, and I hypothesize the capillary bed within the hooves.
I use a carousel example to describe how glucose and fructose differ when reacting within the TCA (The Citric Acid or Krebs) cycle to develop energy. I also review the importance of adding high-quality protein in adequate amounts to form a stronger hoof.
Preventing laminitis involves reducing inflammation by decreasing fructose and glucose in the diet and strengthening the hoof by adding high-quality protein.
22:15 – “Are you as against feeding the straw portion of barley, wheat or oat straw given that it is the part without the seeds? It’s the portion of the grain plant that doesn’t carry the significant proportion of the sugars. So if finding grain free grass or forage is difficult at a particular time of the year, would you recommend feeding only lucern /alfalfa as the roughage or would you permit the feeding of a straw? If yes to straw, which of the 3 above would you favor above the others?”
I discuss Structural and Non-Structural Carbohydrates (SC and NSC) in all plants, including straw and hay. Straw is what remains after harvesting the seed grain. While usually used for bedding, feeding straw as a “hay” with no seed head can be used, and this should have a lower NSC content.
29:18 – My discussion – Concentrating on the relative importance of the macro-nutrients in the diet.
I exclude air and water from this discussion. After all, these macro-nutrients are the most important because all will quickly die without them. I then give my reasons for placing protein first in the order of importance for the remaining macro-nutrients; fat, sugar, and minerals.
35:32 – My discussion – Entropy is the root cause of all diseases.
I define the term “entropy” as the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. Then, risking the possibility that I will lose all of you, I gently go into why I believe humans and horses are becoming ill and dying from poor health (a poor healthspan) because cells in the body run out of the ability to make energy. It is like a gas engine in a car getting poor-grade fuel, water in the fuel, or a faulty fuel pump – the engine has trouble running smoothly, eventually quitting altogether.
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7 Replies
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Question: Is there a way to participate without downloading Zoom?
Question: Have you considered giving The Horses Advocate clinics?
Thank you! Wren’s person, Linda.
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Hi Linda; Zoom is a great program to have on your computer, tablet, or phone. It doesn’t take up too much space and it is “safe” to use because they constantly update it with security enhancements. The program can be used to attend any Zoom meeting.
Zoom became popular during COVID and surpassed Skype, Google, Facebook, and all other meeting platforms. True, there are others that I could use, but I would still need to select one to give these meetings.
According to the browser page that opens when you click on the meeting link, you need to install the Zoom Client which, on Apple, is available from the App Store. It also says that you can “Join from your browser.” If you click this, you need to enter your name and agree to their terms.
Zoom is a platform available to everyone, is safe (so far!), and makes attending meetings easy. Please direct message or email me if you need to discuss this more. There is another member also having trouble getting on the meetings which I will be helping her with tomorrow. Doc T
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I have not considered giving lectures as my life is already filled with travel and work. The exception is/was when I was already in the area for floating. Since last September, when I sold my northern part of the practice, I only service all of FL, Long Island ( a land unto itself), and Louisiana. If someone wants me to talk at night in these areas, I would.
I would need to charge for my travel expenses plus a fair fee for the time away from my home (travel time) +/- lost revenue from floating that day. And I no longer enjoy flying, and if I did, I always go 1st class to decrease stress – and that is getting too expensive without air miles.
The logical thing to do is to have Zoom meetings which are held 104 times a year and cost only the membership fee, which has more than just these meetings. In addition, the replay can be watched in a more convenient time slot, and questions can be posted before the event with the answers listened to later.
I have given lectures before and I enjoy giving them. Doc T
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Hi Linda, this is Matt, and I help with the tech side of things. Out of curiosity, is there another online meeting platform you prefer? What is it about the Zoom platform that you don’t want to use/download? I believe there is an option to dial in by phone as well, but it is not as functional as the full Zoom app. If you have ideas on how to make our events more accessible I would love to hear them.
Also as Geoff mentioned he is quite busy for live talks but having a live event at least once a year is something we would look into
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Question:
Are you as against feeding the straw portion of barley, wheat or oat straw given that it is the part without the seeds? It’s the portion of the grain plant that doesn’t carry the significant proportion of the sugars. So if finding grain free grass or forage is difficult at a particular time of the year, would you recommend feeding only lucern /alfalfa as the roughage or would you permit the feeding of a straw? If yes to straw, which of the 3 above would you favor above the others?
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I found this Rounds particularly valuable, not that the others aren’t, but this one just refreshed the core issues with a diet high in sugars. Great analogies you’ve used to explain concepts simply Definitely one to listen to multiple times.
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@DinahC Thank you!!
When you have a moment, please look at @Matt-Support questions below.
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