Image - EquiNatural's Murphy, pure Connemara native, completely carb-intolerant, and our most metabolically challenging boy.
✔️Blood glucose and insulin levels.
✔️Gut, microbiome and liver support.
✔️Endocrine & circulatory systems.
✔️Naturally occurring nutritive vitamin, mineral and antioxidant levels.
*Safe to feed on an ongoing basis.
*Please note this is a nutritional, functional food supplement and not veterinary medicine. See Dr Kellon's Horse Sense - 'Nutrition is not 'Alternative' Therapy.
*For the latest research and updates, see our main Herbal Nutrition by Condition/EMS/IR
page.
It's only really since the mid-2000s that vets have recognised the Equine Metabolic Syndrome (EMS), usually accompanied by obesity/fat pads and an high risk of chronic laminitis. I say 'usually', but recent science (2016) is now showing this isn't necessarily always the case.
As Dr Eleanor Kellon has recently posted ,
"Obesity is widely believed to cause insulin resistance in people but that's not necessarily the case in horses. ... Banase et al [2016] found that markers of inflammation in skeletal muscle were actually lower in horses that were obese, and lowest of all in obese horses with elevated insulin – the exact opposite of what would be expected in a human."
What is an absolute given, though, is that the metabolic horse is uncompromisingly carb-intolerant, which means a lifestyle on our neon-green UK grass is the metabolic horse’s enemy, because grass is carb-rich in what's commonly known as simple sugars, namely fructose, sucrose, glucose, and a relatively new one - pectins , part of the grass leaf cell wall, which are also full of their own sugar nutrients because they're the fuel to make the blade grow to a stem and seedhead.
Collectively these create the single biggest hormonal disorder a horse faces - insulin resistance, aka IR.
This means the body has become resistant/unable to perform the insulin hormone instruction, which then creates a damaging domino cascade in the body. It drives all those excess sugar calories into fat cells that produce other hormone messages that increase hunger, slow down metabolism, prevent fat burning, and spike inflammation.
Our human-grade, certified organic tinctures gives you a ready-to-absorb potent source of phytonutrients at the highest-strength available, for immediate absorption straight into the bloodstream and to the body’s cells.
Berberis vulgaris (Barberry) Bark Decocted 1:3 35%, Galium aparine (Cleavers) Herb Infused 1:3 35%, Foeniculum vulgare (Fennel) Seed Dist /Dec 1:3 35%, Ginkgo biloba (Maidenhair) , Galega officinalis (Goat’s Rue) Herb Infused 1:3 25%, Carduus marianus (Milk Thistle) Seed Decocted 1:3 65%, Urtica dioica Folia (Stinging Nettle) Leaf Decocted 1:3 35%, Tabebuia impeteginosa (Lapacho/Pau D'Arco) Bark Decocted 1:3 35%, Smilax ornata (Sarsaparilla) Root Decocted 1:3 25%
Produced to ecological standards and free from agro-chemicals. See our Quality page for for Organic Certification Documents.
Berberis vulgaris (Barberry), Galium aperine (Cleavers), Foeniculum vulgare (Fennel), Galega off. (Goat’s Rue), Ginkgo biloba (Maidenhair), Silybum marianum (Milk Thistle), Urtica dioca (Nettle), Tabebuia impeteginosa (Lapacho/Pau D'Arco) Bark, & Smilax ornate (Sarsaparilla)
Supplements of any kind should be fed with caution to the pregnant or nursing mare so always seek veterinary advice.
The content in this website is intended as a sharing of knowledge and information from our own research over many years, together with clients' experiences and our own personal experience over 5-decades of horse care. This website is about enlightening towards a more naturopathic approach to support a healthy lifestyle for our horses. Any information contained within is not intended as a substitute or replacement of veterinary or other professional advice, and we would encourage everyone to make their own equine healthcare decisions based upon their own research.
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