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    Tag: Physiology

    Podcast #010 – Fun With Physics And Horses

    Fun With Physics And Horses– The Horse’s Advocate Podcast #010
    Doc-t May 19, 2021
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    Hay

    Hormesis, Hay And Horses

    Hormesis is the cellular process of resting which helps to clean up cellular debris, remove damaged cells and help the mitochondria switch their fuel …
    Doc-t June 19, 2020
    72 Comments

    Food Does Not Equal Love

    The purpose of eating is to survive. How sugars are used, the development of uric acid and the association of disease in horses is discussed and a sol…
    Doc-t February 15, 2020
    16 Comments

    ECEIM Consensus Statement On Equine Metabolic Syndrome

    The European College of Equine Internal Medicine (ECEIM) issued a statement on a problem affecting horses called Equine Metabolic Syndrome. I summariz…
    Doc-t March 9, 2019
    56 Comments

    Feeding Senior Horses

    When do horses become "seniors?" Why have I never found "senior feeds" for squirrels or other wild animals? Could "senior feeds" just be a marketing g…
    Doc-t November 3, 2018
    22 Comments

    Feeding The Horse As Simple As 1-2-3

    This is for horse owners who just want to know how to feed horses in a simple action set. Step 1) stop inflammation, Step 2) add protein, Step 3) writ…
    Doc-t August 4, 2018
    116 Comments
    Feeding signs

    Carbohydrate Dependency – Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Part 6 of 12

    Feeding sugar every day in excess of horse's needs creates a dependency no different than drugs and alcohol. This blog explains why.
    Doc-t March 1, 2018
    20 Comments

    Mitochondria and Making Energy – Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Part 5 of 12nut

    Inside every car is an engine needing fuel and inside every cell of your horse are engines called mitochondria. They both need maintenance.
    Doc-t February 19, 2018
    25 Comments

    Gut Inflammation – Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Part 4 of 12

    The digestive tract of the horse has a 1 cell thick lining with an army of defense cells behind it. Attacks on this cause the immune system to respond…
    Doc-t February 15, 2018
    18 Comments

    Gut Microbes – Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Part 3 of 12

    You are not feeding the horse but you are feeding the trillions of microbes within their gut and they, in turn, feed the cells of the horse. Happy gut…
    Doc-t February 8, 2018
    12 Comments

    Grazing Not Browsing -Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Part 1 of 12

    All equids graze ground plants. They avoid taller plants with more woody cellulose (lignin). Ruminants browse eating short and tall plants.
    Doc-t January 28, 2018
    46 Comments

    Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition – Introduction

    Complexicate - to complicate things to make people look more intelligent and feel more significant and usually agenda based. I decomplexicate horse fe…
    Doc-t January 19, 2018
    36 Comments

    Complexicate

    Horses are becoming too complicated to keep as I watch everyone try to better others as to why their theories are better. So I made a new word - compl…
    Doc-t January 1, 2018
    16 Comments

    Rhubarb Pie, The Orbiting Earth and Your Horse

    Our beliefs are based on what we've been taught by trusted sources. But is the knowledge we gain from mentors with no experience or with agendas reall…
    Doc-t October 22, 2017
    20 Comments

    Constantly At War

    In every moment of life in our horses, there is a battle between the body and the invading organisms surrounding them. To win, the immune system needs…
    Doc-t October 5, 2017
    12 Comments

    Symbiosis And The Horse’s Gut

    Symbiosis is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms. Horses cannot live without the micro…
    Doc-t September 23, 2017
    17 Comments

    Doughnut Hole

    Our horses digestive tract is a tube running through the body. This is a fundamental principle to understand. The hole in the doughnut isn't part of t…
    Doc-t August 16, 2017
    26 Comments

    No Sweat!

    Horses living in climates with high temperatures and high humidity are often affected by anhidrosis (non-sweating). This is a highly effective cure th…
    Doc-t August 3, 2017
    268 Comments

    Why Horses Should Not Be Fed Grain

    Feeding horses grain is a new concept (about 100 years) relative to the time they have been kept by humans (4000 years) or their time living on Earth …
    Doc-t July 15, 2017
    206 Comments

    Starvation and Weight Loss

    Starvation and weight loss follow 3 possibilities: 1) lack of food, 2) inability to consume food and 3) inability to absorb food. The results are the …
    Doc-t January 8, 2017
    0 Comments

    Chronic Protein Deficiency In Horses

    An introduction to the biggest health issue in horses today. Due to modern feeding, horses are consuming their own protein PLUS they are being fed eno…
    Doc-t October 15, 2016
    124 Comments

    Why Is My Horse Girthy? – HorseSense™ With Doc T

    This HorseSense™ 5 minute video describes the cause of grittiness in horses related to hind gut inflammation from inflammatory ingredients in horse …
    Doc-t March 25, 2016
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    Nutrition In Horses – a HorseTalk™ Webcast

    Feeding horses has been learned from someone in your past. But who taught them? And who taught them? Through the chain of teacher - student the infor…
    Doc-t December 7, 2015
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