What’s the Poop?
Horse people are unique in many ways, and among all our various and interesting quirks is our obsession with poop. Typical is a non-horse person coming to a barn, wrinkling their nose, and asking,...
Category: Metabolism
Turning Down the Heat: Cooling Foods and Cool Star EQ
It’s summertime, and keeping horses cool requires stall fans, electrolytes, mineral salt blocks, and lots of water. Did you know that there are foods that can actually help a horse’s body cool down? In...
New from BioStar: Optimum Healthy Weight
One of the most common equine health challenges is maintaining a healthy weight: not too fat, not too thin. Horses with issues such as Cushing’s and metabolic syndrome can pose an even greater management...
Introducing BioStar’s Circuvate EQ: Whole Food Circulation Supplement
BioStar introduces Circuvate EQ, a brand-new circulation supplement in February, 2017, specifically designed for the equine circulatory system — the system responsible for sending blood, oxygen and nutrients throughout the body. When blood flow is...
Water Quality Matters: Introducing the Horse Hydrator
Water has been on my radar for some time now, long before hearing about the Horse Hydrator, and long before water disasters like Flint, Michigan hit the public news waves. It has been on...
Ayurveda: The Oldest Medicine on Earth
My first exposure to Ayurveda was in 1984 at The Natural Products Expo in Atlanta. I was working for a (human) nutritional supplement company that sold products through independent health food stores. Standing in...
Ingredients: Investigating the What, Where, and How
Seeking out and learning about novel foods and ingredients is one of the fun and interesting aspects of being a formulator. The supplement industry is bursting with new extracts, unique foods and nutraceuticals, and the global...
Understanding Non-structural and Structural Carbohydrates
Understanding the difference between non-structural carbohydrates (NSC) and structural carbohydrates, and how they are calculated, can be an important guide to maintaining healthy weight and a more balanced metabolism in easy keepers and metabolic...
BioStar Introduces Tri Dosha EQ: New Support for Metabolic Horses
Over the past several years as the number of metabolic horses has increased to almost epidemic proportions, I have been diligently studying, testing, and experimenting with plants and foods to see what can help...
Microbiota in the GI Tract Can Control Weight and Normalize Glucose
Studies over the past several years on mice and humans demonstrate that a particular phylum of microbiota, Bacteroidetes, play an important role in healthy weight and normalization of glucose. Research has shown that humans...
