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- BY CATHY McGLORY
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One of the biggest challenges
facing horse trainers today is how to insure that the horse in
training has all the necessary and essential nutrients available
for its foundation and recovery. Horses have survived droughts,
famine, drastic global conditions, disease, malnutrition, and extinction
because of the sustained energy of water, air, light, and plants.
Plants and plant oils contain essential nutrients equines must
have to make healthy cells, the basic building blocks for survival
and support.
For further information, contact Cathy McGlory at 505‑ 565‑ 8634
or email her at:
Cathy's website HORSEPOWERHERBS.COM and E-Store has more information on how to order her products. |
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Horses, as herbivores,
are guided by and vibrate to the natural intelligence of plant
life.
The wisdom
of selection for survival is an ever-present and potent factor in the choice a horse makes in its diet. Those choices determine
its rate of growth, repair, performance, attitude, lifespan,
and most importantly how its immune system functions.
When horses are fed U.S.P. vitamins (lab produced), these are
in an isolated form. The isolated chemical vitamins have
little resemblance to the perfect nutrients
that nature provides in herbs. This makes them difficult for the horses system
to recognize, absorb, and digest. Chemical vitamins may address a variety
of symptoms but never reach the underlying cause of disease.
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Whether racing, showing, breeding
or used for pleasure, a common factor that connects these horses
are the essential nutrients needed for growth, energy, recovery
and repair. Most of the feed supply for equines is over-processed
and has been treated with chemical fertilizers and pesticides
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Feed companies include cheap USP vitamins
and processed oils that quickly go rancid when exposed to
heat, light, or oxygen.
These same oils have been bleached and
de-odorized
to promote shelf life rather than health.
Chemical sprays and soil depletion play a large role in the
variety of the nutritional content of Alfalfa and hay crops.
Over 80%
of the corn fed to horses is genetically
engineered, a process that forever changes the "nature made" nutrients
in corn.
These chemically altered feeds may cause allergies, toxicity, and a depleted
system over time. Chemical vitamins mask deficiencies and never address
the underlying need for whole foods.
Competitive horses need complete nutrition.
Supplementing
with untreated Essential Fatty Acids is the key to unlocking the available
potential of the equine athlete. We need to take a closer look at what
is
needed for the
basic building blocks of the equine’s system.
Horses are primarily Omega 3 (Essential Fatty Acid) dependent. Corn oil,
which has been routinely fed to horses or added to commercial feeds has
no Omega
3.
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Organic grasses grown in nutrient rich soil are abundant
in Omega 3’s.
Twenty five million years ago,
when horses left
the forest and took to the open plains, Omega 3’s were
in a rich supply and a large factor in the development of the
running horse. Very few stabled horses today have access to
an organic feed supply with the proper balance
of un-damaged Essential fatty acids. |
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When working with racehorses we find
that Equus Oil supplies superior energy and stamina.
This year’s
Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Funny Cide used the oils
with phenomenal success. His coat, training, attitude, and
level of performance were enhanced by the addition of essential
fatty acids to his program. We have many barrel horses, jumpers,
eventing horses, polo ponies, show, and pleasure horses enjoying
the life-giving properties of this special oil.
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Regulate glands and organs
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Provide energy fuels
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Improve digestion
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Keep bones strong
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Decrease infection
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Produce a beautiful healthy coat
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Regulates gene expression
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Necessary for hormone production
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- EFA’s build muscle and prevent
muscular breakdown while speeding recovery from fatigue. They
are necessary for all cell growth and division.
- EFA’s strengthen the immune system by making hormone-like eicosanoids that
regulate immune and inflammatory response.
- EFA’s (especially Omega3 ) lower abnormally high levels of blood pressure.
By making the platelets less sticky, EFA’s lower the tendency for clot
formation and inflammation. (Prevents bleeding)
- EFA’s improve brain function, mood, intelligence, behavior, and vision.
- EFA’s are important components of the entire nervous system. They are necessary
for the conversion of uninterrupted energy.
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Equus Oil contains:
48% Omega 3 from flax seed oil, 24% Omega 6 from Sunflower
and Sesame seed oils, healthful minor ingredients rice germ
and oat germ oils, Evening primrose
oil, beneficial medium chain triglycerides from coconut fat, Lecithin,
Vitamin E, and Rosemary oil extract, all certified Organic
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For best results
- use measure (1/3 cup) with RaceProof in A.M. feed.
- Double
the amount 3-4 days prior to event.
- Note: Do not cook the
oil with bran mashes as cooking damages these oils
- can be
blended into warm feed.
- Smaller horses (500-800lbs) use
half measure (1/6 cup)
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Formulator Udo Erasmus has been designing custom oil
blends with health in mind for over 15 years. Dr. Erasmus
has written two books including the definitive
work on fats and oils: Fats That Heal, Fats
That Kill, for which he earned
a PHD. Udo has an extensive supplement line for humans including
the Perfected
Health Plan products. All of the formulas manufactured by Flora are produced
with the finest hand picked ingredients, organic and wild-crafted herbs,
many of which are grown on their pristine farm in the Andes Mountains
in Chile.
Cathy
Mcglory began her thoroughbred career with Calumet
Farms in 1969, at Hialeah Racetrack. She spent 12 years
working with racehorses from groom to jockey. She has studied
with the Bastyr University in Seattle,Washington and is a graduate of the Herbal
Healing acedemy in Arkansas. She has been active in the field
of Natural medicine for 13 years and manages her own company "HorsePower
Herbs " in Wellington Florida. Her most famous client
to date is Funnycide, the 2003 Kentucky Derby winner. Cathy specializes
in performance horse nutrition.
For further information,
contact Cathy McGlory at 505‑ 565‑ 8634
or email her at:
Cathy's website HORSEPOWERHERBS.COM and E-Store has more
information on how to order her products.
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