EQUINE HEALTH
BIOSTAR’S EQUINE RESEARCH
Equine nutrition, diet, supplements, health products, and research specific to your horse’s health and wellbeing.
Feeding for Joint Health
Several years ago, a friend of mine had a total knee replacement. He had osteoarthritis from the bangs and blows ...
Feeding for Healthy Hooves
Before Tigger first formulated BioStar's Ultra Hoof EQ, she had already spent quite a painstaking period researching everything a supplement ...
Hemp Oil for Horses: The Seed of Well-Being
There are many oils that are commonly fed to horses. These include corn oil, soy oil, canola oil, flax seed ...
Feeding the Hindgut Ulcer Horse
Hindgut ulcer development and hindgut acidosis have become almost as prevalent as gastric ulcers in horses.Causes behind colonic ulcers include ...
Probiotics for Dogs and Horses: Live Performers for GI Health
Before jumping into the well-established benefits of probiotics for dogs and probiotics for horses, we need a little backstory. Let's ...
Do the Locomotion With Me
BioStar’s new Locomotion is the first horse supplement to provide equine muscle support by addressing the dual biological challenges of muscle ...
Arsenic and Heavy Metals: Risky Business for Horses, Dogs, Humans…
A rare type of kidney disease (CKD) in humans has killed thousands of agricultural workers along Central America’s Pacific Coast, in ...
Processed Foods: Gun-Puffed, Extruded, Pelletized…
I have often wondered how the whole processed food revolution started. So I headed down the rabbit hole to learn ...
Reformulating BioStar’s True Balance EQ
Five years ago I formulated a product called True Balance. It was formulated based on Ayurvedic medicine principles of food support ...
Are We Over-Supplementing Our Horses?
In a recent article, "Inside Elite Nutrition at the Olympics", author Nathan Gray interviewed Jeni Pearce, head of performance nutrition ...
Beer for Horses: Four Healthy Reasons
Guinness stout beer is often recommended as an aid to help horses with anhidrosis, but beer for horses goes beyond ...
Overcoming Equine Lameness With Therapeutic Whole Foods
BioStar blog contributor Lizzie Meyer relates her experiences with lameness in horses, and choosing the right whole food supplements to ...
