FORMULATOR’S CORNER
This is where we go down the rabbit hole and talk about research and experiments with food, plants, and ingredients. The place where new ideas are sprouted, and new formulas and products are created. Tigger Montague, our founder and formulator, shares her insights and scientific research on health, nutrition, ingredients, and formulas. These articles are the basis of our products and our philosophies.
Formulator’s Corner: The Equine Stress Factor
Stress is an emotional and physical pressure that animals and humans both experience. Horses and dogs, just like people, can ...
Ultra Hoof EQ: Whole Food Hoof Support
Ultra Hoof EQ: A synergistic blend of specific hoof support nutrients bound to yeast for higher bioavailability, containing bovine colostrum ...
Stressing Me, Stressing You
Holidays seem to be the collective stress time: humans are stressed, and because our animals are so intuitive, they in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
What Makes a Horse Poultice Unique?
There are lots of choices in regards to horse poultice products, but neither the equine nor canine industries have seen ...
Nutritional Support for Lyme Disease
Most of what we hear about Lyme disease focuses on the danger to humans, but it's our canine and equine ...
Turmeric and Boswellia: The Dynamic Duo
When we think of dynamic duos, we may think of Batman and Robin, Thelma and Louise, or Butch Cassidy and ...
