Down the Rabbit Hole with Quercetin
What are quercetin supplements, and how can they help your horse? We go down the rabbit hole to learn more about this powerful flavonoid, how it supports body systems, and how to ensure it’s...
Category: Muscles & Recovery
Horses, Allergies, and Histamines
For the past year, I’ve spent a lot of time down the rabbit hole, examining the Western and Eastern medicinal approaches to horse allergies and equine asthma. As with other complicated health issues, the...
Understanding Inflammation and Your Horse
The inflammatory process is both fascinating and complicated. The essence of inflammation is the normal protective response by the body’s defense system. As with humans, inflammation in horses is an important part of the...
Medicinal Mushrooms for Dogs & Horses
Medicinal mushrooms have thousands of years of use as therapeutic foods in Traditional Chinese Medicine as well as in ancient Greece and Egypt. Now they’ve become increasingly popular in the U.S., for therapeutic use...
Ask Tigger: Diet Recommendations to Build Muscle
Tigger shares her experienced take on muscle-building diet recommendations for horses: Dear Tigger, I recently purchased a horse that was doing mid-level dressage and am transitioning him into a mid-level jumper. I am struggling to...
Supporting the Equine Immune System with Optimum Defense
The equine immune system is a vast, complex biological apparatus. How well it functions depends on a number of factors including nutrition, stress, and age. Our horses’ immune systems can be challenged further by...
Tigger’s Stress-Busting Tips
Before jumping to some unique and effective stress-busting tips, let’s reflect a moment on where we are today: The infamous year 2020 has tested our collective patience, nerves, and sense of well-being. It...
Integrated Nutritional Support for Cushing’s Horses
The approaches to biological health challenges — including treatment of insulin-resistant and Cushing’s horses — are very different between Eastern and Western medicine. The driving principle of Western medicine is reductionist medicine, which treats...
Cooling Tips for Horses, Dogs, and You
With record breaking heat covering much of the country this month, it’s a good time to seek out cooling tips for horses — not to mention for your dogs and your human companions. In...
Bovine Colostrum for Horses, Dogs, and People
Bovine colostrum is one of those versatile supplements that I always have on hand for the horses, the dogs, and myself. I first learned of it after the 2000 Summer Olympics, when it was...
