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Rounds With Doc T – “No-Grain Challenge Review” – 2022 December 26th
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Rounds With Doc T – “No-Grain Challenge Review” – 2022 December 26th
The No-Grain Challenge Review
The basic purpose of the “no-grain challenge” is to offer horse owners a way to feed horses according to their evolutionary development. The reason is to prevent the plethora of ailments horses now have that, in my experience, were not around 50 years ago. These include: dropped fetlocks, kissing spine, white line disease, the abundance of equine metabolic syndrome, the abundance of Cushing’s disease, the abundance of insulin resistance and laminitis, fractured cheek teeth, EOTRH of the incisor and canine teeth, sleep disorders, nephro-splenic ligament entrapment colic, and the epidemic of suspensory injury and skin diseases.
I invented a new word: complexicate. This describes the creation of complexity of something to make that idea more important than any other idea without proof. In other words, marketing. I have attempted to decomplexicate the feeding of horses to remove the root causes of the above ailments plaguing our horses today. Many horse owners worldwide have joined me by accepting the no-grain challenge, and almost everyone doing so has seen the benefits.
This Rounds With Doc T explores the challenge, where it came from, and how it is doing. Included are testimonials, the most commonly asked questions, and why adding high-quality protein is so important.
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If anyone wants to submit a new testimonial, this would be a good time. Leave it here for others to see. Doc T
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This was sent to me via email. Very interesting and insightful questions that I touch on in this Rounds. These could easily be addressed in more detail in an AMA, which I think I will do in January.
- I can find little on bioavailability and it seems to be ignored by horse nutritionists. In fact it seems to be completely ignored by the NRC (examples if you would like). What I do find is that basically animal proteins are 90 to 100 % and plant proteins are 50%. What are the factors that make one so much more effective than the others? Is there a place to find the data?
- How is EMS diagnosed and is it easily detected?
- A question of sorts but more of a, it seems to me:
n-6 to n-3 ratios are an indicator but a significant factor in chronic inflammation is in the imbalance of eicosanoids created by AA and EPA.
It is not the ratio of 6 to 3 but the excess of 6’s to 3, i.e. in 100 grams, olive oil is 9:1 but only has an excess of 6’s to 3 of 8 grams, Soybean oil is 7:1 but an excess of 48 grams 6 to 3’s. Corn oil has 56 grams of unmatched 6’s
In grass fed beef and in wild game, deer and bison, that consume a diet having a ratio of 1:4, the 6:3 ratio is 2:1. In grain finished beef the ratio is 20:1. The numbers are similar for horses raised and finished for consumption.
It seems to me that the omega 6 and 3 ratios measured in beef are AA and EPA as these have become eicosanoids or local hormones and it is the AA to EPA ratio that we are seeing.
In humans AA to EPA is measured in the blood. – “Some experts consider an AA:EPA ratio of 1.5 to 3 to be low risk, 3 to 6 to be moderate risk, 7-15 to be elevated risk, and above 15 to be high risk”. Although I am comparing blood v flesh samples, the numbers are too similar not to be correlated, it seems to me.
Does it make sense that the high number of unmatched AA to EPA in some oils promotes chronic inflammation? Is part of chronic inflammation the result of a hormone imbalance?
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