Gold Star EQ: Camelina Oil for Horses
Camelina (Camelina Sativa) is a plant native to Europe; it has been used for thousands of years as food for both humans and livestock. In fact the Tollund Man, discovered in a bog in...
Category: Health Topics
Top Five Immune Support Foods for Horses
We know that the health of the horse begins in the GI tract. The gastrointestinal system plays a central role in immune system homeostasis, ie: balance. What we feed has an impact on not...
Five Steps to Complete Canine GI Support
Keeping our dogs healthy begins with what we feed them. After all, the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is the foundation of health and well-being, and plays a central role in immune system balance. But...
Hoofin’ It: Designing a Whole Food Hoof Formula
My friend Shannon emailed me one day and asked, “Why doesn’t BioStar have a hoof supplement?” The plain and simple answer was: “There are a lot of hoof supplements on the market.” She countered...
Metal Toxicity and the Foods That Fight It
With regard to metal toxicity and other ecological contaminations, Researcher Dr. Gregor Reid recently wrote in the Journal of the American Society for Microbiology that “the exposure to environmental toxins is a 21st century...
Don’t Bogart that Joint
All my life, I’ve heard humans talking about the wonders of medical cannabis. And not just the raw material, but the therapeutic compounds that come from it — like cannabidiol, or CBD for short....
Introducing Toppers: Real Whole Food Enhancements for Mealtime
How do innovative whole food supplements for dogs and horses go from idea to reality? A little backstory is in order… One morning in the kitchen as I prepared various vegetables, fruits, and nuts...
What Horses Used to Eat: Feeding Horses in 1856
A veterinary surgeon named John Stewart, professor of veterinary medicine in Glasgow, Scotland, wrote a book that was published in 1856 called The Stable Book: Being a Treatise on the Management of Horses. With...
Down and Dirty: Healthy Soil for Healthy Us
Dirt. Horses and dogs love to roll in it, plants need to grow in it, and children like to make mud pies out of it. We get dirt under our fingernails, on our clothes,...
Feeding for Recovery
Daily training exerts stress on the body and increases cortisol, which breaks down muscle rather than building it up. To understand why the best equine recovery foods work, it helps to know the four...
