An objective discussion about feeding horses with GMO foods treated with pesticides and herbicides. Why to worry and why we should not worry.

Protein in the maintenance of horses is not appreciated. It is not complicated. Our training of feeding horses has ignored the importance.

Where do horses get their fat if all they eat is ground plants (pasture and hay)? The answer is from bacterial digestion of cellulose. Here are the details.

Feeding sugar every day in excess of horse’s needs creates a dependency no different than drugs and alcohol. This blog explains why.

Inside every car is an engine needing fuel and inside every cell of your horse are engines called mitochondria. They both need maintenance.

The digestive tract of the horse has a 1 cell thick lining with an army of defense cells behind it. Attacks on this cause the immune system to respond.

You are not feeding the horse but you are feeding the trillions of microbes within their gut and they, in turn, feed the cells of the horse. Happy gut microbes = healthy horse.

The similarities and differences between sugar, fat and protein. It is essential to understanding how these interact in the health of horses.

All equids graze ground plants. They avoid taller plants with more woody cellulose (lignin). Ruminants browse eating short and tall plants.

Complexicate – to complicate things to make people look more intelligent and feel more significant and usually agenda based. I decomplexicate horse feeding.

Horses are becoming too complicated to keep as I watch everyone try to better others as to why their theories are better. So I made a new word – complexicate – to describe this phenomenon.

I need to come clean with all of you. I have been cheating on the no grain diet. Please forgive me but I and Melissa have been put into an impossible position. Tis the season of sugary treats offered by grateful clients..

Nothing about dentistry, nutrition or horses. I take a break. We all should once in a while to rejuvenate my senses. Photography is how I do this. Just some of my 2017 photos.

The cause of EOTRH in horses is based on the current thought that it is an autoimmune disease. Lectins without mucous leads to leaky gut at the gums.

Within veterinary medicine are recognized divisions (surgery, medicine, ambulatory) and within these are hidden divisions. Do these affect horse owners and dentistry?