Saturday 12 August 2017

Several Components Of Equine Inflammation Management Supplements

By Anthony Johnson


People domesticated horses to help them in various things such as work, transportation, sports and even warfare during the older times. They have different behavior, locomotion, breeds, markings, colors, sizes and life stages with a specialized vocabulary in describing them. Young ones could walk when they were born usually and trained starting at two or four years old.

Because of their several uses in many fields, their body could become weaker due to old age and may develop illness. This is the reason that equine inflammation management supplements are needed to help in keeping longer their good condition. These nutraceuticals have various ingredients contained in them in varying amounts that makes their effectiveness different with each horse.

These ingredients have been studied for the past few years in knowing what their effects on horses really are. This will help you to understand which supplements could help your animals better as some of them do not contain what is written on the label. The following are various components these nutraceuticals commonly have in them.

Intensive studies have been done for glucosamine compared with other joint supplement ingredients because of them being the basic building blocks of every connective tissue. Some products may extract them from a natural source like the sternum or trachea of catle. Others get hydrolyzed collagen from other sources like skins, ligaments and tendons.

Glucosamine is effective for relieving pain within ten to fourteen days sometimes and can slow breakdown in cartilage and encourage healing. Six thousand to ten thousand milligram of dosage each day is needed, particularly the latter dosage amount for working horses. Higher level is also suggested the first couple of weeks of their treatment to get a therapeutic level of this substance.

Combining components works best when their recommended therapeutic dose is being followed based on what each one should be. Sample of this is glucosamine and chondroitin that works better together compared to taking them separately. For healthy joints, vitamin C is important although too much of it would be harmful, and antioxidants like copper and zinc are helpful.

Chondroitin is a structural component of tough connective tissues, bone and cartilage with its effects not very obvious compared to glucosamine. Observers report though that horses appear to move fluidly when they have taken this. Formal studies have mixed results about them with the prevention of further breakdown in cartilage found as its greatest benefit.

Combining both chondroitin and glucosamine shows superior results when they compared it with separately using them. Many supplements though have combined them but their dosage, compared to separately taking them, are lower than what is required. These products are claiming that lowering the dosage will have the same effects still when combining them although no study has proven it.

Some of these products, although not all, that combines these ingredients actually work but no studies have shown the reasons why this happens. The best way is finding a supplement with full glucosamine dose and a closer to the correct one for chondroitin. There are other ingredients for these supplements but these two are the major ones unless they could discover other ones that can replace them.




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