Fun With Physics And Horses – Podcast #010
Physics is a collection of laws that control how things work in this world. They have no allegiance to a country, religion or even if you are a plant,…
Tag: Physiology
Hormesis, Hay And Horses
Hormesis is the cellular process of resting which helps to clean up cellular debris, remove damaged cells and help the mitochondria switch their fuel …
Food Does Not Equal Love
The purpose of eating is to survive. How sugars are used, the development of uric acid and the association of disease in horses is discussed and a sol…
ECEIM Consensus Statement On Equine Metabolic Syndrome
The European College of Equine Internal Medicine (ECEIM) issued a statement on a problem affecting horses called Equine Metabolic Syndrome. I summariz…
Feeding Senior Horses
When do horses become "seniors?" Why have I never found "senior feeds" for squirrels or other wild animals? Could "senior feeds" just be a marketing g…
Feeding The Horse As Simple As 1-2-3
This is for horse owners who just want to know how to feed horses in a simple action set. Step 1) stop inflammation, Step 2) add protein, Step 3) writ…
Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Part 06 of 12 – Carbohydrate Dependency
Feeding sugar every day in excess of horse's needs creates a dependency no different than drugs and alcohol. This blog explains why.
Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Part 05 of 12 – Mitochondria and Making Energy
Inside every car is an engine needing fuel and inside every cell of your horse are engines called mitochondria. They both need maintenance.
Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Part 04 of 12 – Gut Inflammation
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…
Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Part 03 of 12 – Gut Microbes
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…
Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Part 01 of 12 – Grazing Not Browsing
All equids graze ground plants. They avoid taller plants with more woody cellulose (lignin). Ruminants browse eating short and tall plants.
Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Introduction 2
Complexicate - to complicate things to make people look more intelligent and feel more significant and usually agenda based. I decomplexicate horse fe…
Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Introduction 1 – Complexicate
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 - compl…
Rhubarb Pie, The Orbiting Earth and Your Horse
Our beliefs are based on what we've been taught by trusted sources. But is the knowledge we gain from mentors with no experience or with agendas reall…
Constantly At War
In every moment of life in our horses, there is a battle between the body and the invading organisms surrounding them. To win, the immune system needs…
Symbiosis And The Horse’s Gut
Symbiosis is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms. Horses cannot live without the micro…
Doughnut Hole
Our horses digestive tract is a tube running through the body. This is a fundamental principle to understand. The hole in the doughnut isn't part of t…
No Sweat!
Horses living in climates with high temperatures and high humidity are often affected by anhidrosis (non-sweating). This is a highly effective cure th…
Why Horses Should Not Be Fed Grain
Feeding horses grain is a new concept (about 100 years) relative to the time they have been kept by humans (4000 years) or their time living on Earth …
Starvation and Weight Loss
Starvation and weight loss follow 3 possibilities: 1) lack of food, 2) inability to consume food and 3) inability to absorb food. The results are the …
Chronic Protein Deficiency In Horses
An introduction to the biggest health issue in horses today. Due to modern feeding, horses are consuming their own protein PLUS they are being fed eno…
Why Is My Horse Girthy? – HorseSense With Doc T
This HorseSense™ 5 minute video describes the cause of grittiness in horses related to hind gut inflammation from inflammatory ingredients in horse …
Nutrition In Horses – HorseTalk Webinar
Feeding horses has been learned from someone in your past. But who taught them? And who taught them? Through the chain of teacher - student the infor…