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Thank You so much for sharing this amazing information. I have one horse on the no grain challenge since August 2018, and is doing wonderfully. I have been starting another new horse as of about a month ago. Have just started adding soy bean meal.
Thanks, Cindy
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Hi! I just want to thank you for all if your posts! You explain everything in a way that we can ALL understand!
Last year in June, I had a gallstone “attack”. That hurt! Went to the doctor, they did all the tests and found numerous gallstones. They also had me take a MRI. I found out from that, that I have a “mild” fatty liver. Everything I have read so far, doesn’t say anything about eating more protein. It is all about low fat diets , no sugar, and less carbs. If increasing the amount of protein we give to our horses works for them, will it work for us?
Thank you for all if your information!
In humans, Dr Christianson (The Metabolic Reset Diet) advocates about 80g of pea protein and 10,000mg resistant starch daily for 28 days. In horses it is Dr Tom Divers (Cornell vet school) advocating protein and glucose for fatty liver syndrome and he sites Dr Sharon Center (Cornell vet school) for similar findings in dogs and cats.
The premise behind what Dr Christianson calls “leaky liver” and what I call “liver overflow” is that ALL food is converted into the same 3 materials (glucose, triglycerides or “fat” and amino acids from proteins). He believes it is not what you eat (low fat, low carb, no sugar) but how much we eat. A liver that receives too much fuel will overflow into body fat once it becomes saturated. If this fuel abundance persists then the liver cannot access the stored fuel. It becomes “stuck.” This affects other systems including his favorite organ the thyroid. He also believes that fatty liver and leaky liver are behind insulin resistance, diabetes and protein loss through abnormal consumption.
Bile production is intimately related to proper liver function. I have been told how severely painful a gallstone is and I would not wish that on anyone. If decreasing food intake and increasing protein intake is all that is needed to prevent bile blockages, reduce body fat and make the 2nd largest organ in our body efficient again then count me in!
Thanks for reading (AND SHARING) and commenting. Doc T
You did an amazing job explaining this in an uncomplicated version.
Thanks Adriene :-}