EQUINE HEALTH
BIOSTAR’S EQUINE RESEARCH
Equine nutrition, diet, supplements, health products, and research specific to your horse’s health and wellbeing.
Stealing BioStar: Kemosabe Confesses
by Kemosabe Well, she caught me in the act. I had cleverly removed the lid from the Optimum Senior JS ...
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 ...
Getting Started With the Whole Food Diet
It can seem daunting to disconnect ourselves from commercial horse feeds and plunge into the world of the whole food ...
Looking Back: Feeding Horses in the 1800s
I came across an interesting book called The History, Treatment, and Diseases of the Horse written by William Youatt for ...
Salts of the Earth: Understanding Electrolytes
Horses cool themselves by sweating as we do, but they can sweat three times more than humans from the same ...
Intuition: The Best Communication with Your Horse
In our high-tech world of bytes and data we can forget there's another avenue of communication that isn’t cellular, or vocal, ...
The Environmental Impact of Manufactured Amino Acids
I ran across an interesting study from the Netherlands published in 2010 that examined the raw materials and ecological impact ...
Thera Calm EQ: The Equine Stress Formula
As many people know, I am rather obsessed with the GI tract. The more I learn, the more compelling I ...
Decisions, Decisions: What Supplement to Use When?
“Which product is best for my horse? Do I need hemp oil or camelina? Do I use Flex-Well or Comfort ...
Making Sense of Stress: The Gut-Brain Connection
The more we learn about the gut-brain connection, the better we can get at addressing equine health issues. One of ...
Side Effects: Medications and the Nutrients they Deplete
We know that the health of the GI tract is fundamental to equine, canine and human health. It is the ...
Oxidative Stress Reduction for Longer, Healthier Living
Oxidative stress has been recognized as a contributing factor in fatigue, memory loss, muscle or joint pain, susceptibility to infections, ...
