EQUINE HEALTH
BIOSTAR’S EQUINE RESEARCH
Equine nutrition, diet, supplements, health products, and research specific to your horse’s health and wellbeing.
Omeprazole for Horses with Ulcers: the Good, the Bad, and the Questionable
Omeprazole is a medicine classified as a proton pump inhibitor (PPI), and its purpose is to block stomach acid production ...
Success Story: Kelly Soleau-Millar finds Performance Success with Whole Food
When Kelly Soleau-Millar’s top horse at the time was battling persistent hind gut ulcers and no medication seemed to work, ...
Circulatory Support for Horses in Winter
The importance of added equine circulatory support in the winter months is clear; cold weather can bring out the youthful ...
Medicinal Mushrooms
Medicinal mushrooms have thousands of years of use as therapeutic foods in Traditional Chinese Medicine as well as in ancient ...
Green-Lipped Mussels for Equine and Canine Health
The indigenous people of New Zealand, the Māori, have for hundreds of years regarded green-lipped mussels (Perna canaliculus) as a ...
How to Select the Best Probiotics for Horses
Probiotics for horses are popular supplements in the equine world. They are often included in commercial feeds, multivitamin and mineral ...
Gastric Support in a Multivitamin/Mineral: Optimum GI
BioStar presents the latest in its multivitamin/mineral line: Optimum GI. This innovative supplement addresses and supports both the upper and ...
Advanced multivitamin/mineral with joint support now available!
As we continue to study nutrition for horses, we have discovered mineral deficits, specific mineral excesses, and protein requirements that ...
Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome and Your Horse
I remember the first time I heard the words: “I think we need to treat your horse for ulcers.” It ...
Announcing Optimum EQ 2.0 from BioStar
If you give your horse a multivitamin/mineral, it’s possible that your horse’s body is not able to process all of ...
Does your horse need a multivitamin/mineral?
Questions about multivitamin and multimineral supplements come across my desk several times a week. The topic is often on internet ...
BioStar Upgrades Multivitamin/Mineral Formulas
When we introduced Optimum EQ to combat equine mineral deficiencies in 2007, it was revolutionary: not only for the ingredients ...
