Recent News for Supplements
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Testing an Anti-Inflammatory Dietary Nutraceutical (AAEP 2008)
March 19, 2009
Horse owners commonly add nutraceuticals to their horses' diets to treat or prevent joint disease, but most products have no research data supporting their effectiveness. ... Read More
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New Equine Fact Sheets Available on TheHorse.com
March 06, 2009
TheHorse.com now offers additional Fact Sheets on topics our readers have indicated are important to them based on searched terms, reader views on that topic, surveys/polls, and personal communications. Following are the newest <A... Read More
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Joint Injections Show Effect in Osteoarthritis Study
February 23, 2009
To evaluate the effect of PSGAG and HA on clinical signs and various other measures of osteoarthritis, researchers utilized 24 horses with a similar degree of osteoarthritis in one carpal joint.... Read More
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Managing Joint Health
January 01, 2009
Tips for year-round joint health and management. No Joint, No Horse. Should this be the new motto for 21st century horses? Joint injury, joint disease secondary to trauma or injury, and osteoarthritis (OA) are major... Read More
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Survey Finds Eventers Nutritionally Sound, but Oversupplemented
December 28, 2008
In a survey of leading three-day event riders, researchers found that the majority of riders fed their horses based on research-driven recommendations, but the number of supplements used per horse did raise some eyebrows. During the Jersey... Read More
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Herb Shown to Reduce Inflammation in Equine Study
December 13, 2008
Move over glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate, there might be a new supplement in town. In a clinical trial involving 74 trotting horses, LitoVet, a rose hip powder manufactured specifically for animals by HybenVital in Denmark, had an ... Read More
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Glucosamine in a Cushing's Horse?
December 01, 2008
Q: As soon as my 20-year-old gelding was diagnosed with equine Cushing's disease, I eliminated glucosamine from his diet. However, he appears to have become gradually and increasingly stiff and short-strided without it. I really think that it helped ... Read More
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Supplement Safety
December 01, 2008
Standards help to ensure, manage, and effectively monitor risk of use for products and ingredients for horses.... Read More
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MSM Shows Protective Effect in First Equine Study
November 25, 2008
In the first peer-reviewed, published study to evaluate the effects of the nutritional supplement methylsulfonylmethane (MSM) in horses, Spanish researchers found that MSM exerted a protective effect against the detrimental physiologic changes... Read More
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ACVIM Conference Highlights
October 01, 2008
Among the hot topics this year were nutritional supplements, infectious disease, and metabolism problems. What do nutritional supplements, infectious diseases, and snake bites have in common? All were considered "hot... Read More
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Herbs for Horses
October 01, 2008
While there is some scientific evidence that herbs can be used as effective treatments and preventives in humans and animals, "natural" does not always mean "benign." You probably know the types: Eager Ellen, who is sold... Read More
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Good as Gold? More Research Supports Glucosamine
September 30, 2008
Questions and concerns abound surrounding the use of oral joint health supplements for horses with osteoarthritis, and so researchers continue their quest to determine if and how glucosamine works to decrease pain and inflammation caused by... Read More
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More Evidence Supports Glucosamine for Joint Disease
September 25, 2008
Skeptics continue to doubt the effects of glucosamine and other oral joint health supplements, but mounting research seems to be proving, one step at a time, that there is more to these products than meets the eye. Canadian researchers, led... Read More
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Safety of Nutritional Supplements for Horses Unknown, Researchers Say
September 14, 2008
Just because a supplement comes in fancy packaging with a tamper-resistant foil seal and promises of efficacy does not necessarily mean that it is safe for your horse. According to the Committee on Examining the Safety of Dietary... Read More
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Joint Injections and Cartilage Health: More Fuel for the Fire
September 03, 2008
The potential impact of intra-articular medications on the health of cartilage in joints has been debated for decades. Adding fuel to the fire is the recent finding that two common joint medications not only support cartilage cells, they also... Read More
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Horses Absorb Components of Gelatin, Researchers Find
August 28, 2008
In 2006, a pair of researchers who reviewed the literature on gelatin (hydrolyzed collagen) in humans found that it is absorbed intestinally and accumulates in cartilage. They also reported that supplementing gelatin led to a significant increas... Read More
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Readers Respond: Herbs For Horses
August 14, 2008
More than 1,600 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, "Would you consider using herbal supplements, such as aloe vera juice, milk thistle, ginger, etc., in your horse's feed or as a topical... Read More
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Vita Flex Nutrition: Equinyl
July 03, 2008
ComfortX works by suppressing the ability of neutrophils, a type of white blood cell, to migrate and attach to the site of the inflammation. It helps control inflammation earlier in the process and its mode of action is separate and distinct from COX... Read More
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Texas A&M Performing Research on Arenus Joint Supplement
June 26, 2008
Arenus, a division of Novus Nutrition Brands LLC, in conjunction with researchers from Texas A&M University, is studying the efficacy of a new, patent-pending technology in joint supplements, according to Marketing Manager Jeremy Moore.... Read More
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Vitamin Function (Book Excerpt)
June 21, 2008
Here's a primer on the function of each of the vitamins important to the horse, beginning with the fat-soluble vitamins.... Read More
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Oral Joint Supplements for Horses
May 01, 2008
With scores of oral joint health supplements on the market, how do horse owners know which to buy? This article examines the current state of the equine nutritional supplement industry, and it presents a seven-step "ACCLAIM" approach for horse owners... Read More
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Hyaluronic Acid vs. Triamcinolone Acetate for Osteoarthritis
April 11, 2008
Osteoarthritis has a major impact on pain and athleticism of horses, and many medications are used to combat it. At the 2007 American Association of Equine Practitioners Convention, held Dec. 1-5 in Orlando, Fla., an in vitro study comparing... Read More
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Doxycycline Antibiotic Might Help Treat Arthritis
April 01, 2008
Osteoarthritis is the most common human joint disorder in the world, and in the equine industry it's the most economically important disease. It's the primary cause of decreased athletic function and wastage in racehorses.... Read More
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Glucosamine and Joint Health: Pharmacologic Research Ongoing
March 26, 2008
Canadian researchers recently compared the pharmacologic properties of two different forms of glucosamine--hydrochloride and sulphate. They measured significantly higher levels of glucosamine in synovial fluid samples from horses receiving the oral... Read More
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Myristol's Effects on Clinical Joint Disease
March 25, 2008
For the study, 39 horses in Missouri and Florida (on a broodmare farm, a Thoroughbred retirement center, and in two university equestrian programs) were selected for naturally occurring osteoarthritis that caused Grade 2-4 lameness on a scale of 0-4.... Read More
