Various 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 many uses in various fields, they could develop illness or their body would become weaker specially in old age. That is why they need equine inflammation management supplements to help them keep their good condition longer. These nutraceuticals have different ingredients with varying amounts in them making their effective vary in each horse.

Studies have been done for these ingredients in the past years to know what their real effects on horses are. This would help you in understanding which supplements could better help your animals as some have labels written with those they do not contain. The following are several components common to have in these nutraceuticals.

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 glucosamine and chondroitin shows superior results though when compared to using them separately. Many supplements are combining them although they have lower the dosage of what is required when taken independently. These products claim that when you combine them, you could lower the dosage and still have the same effect even when there is no study that proves this.

Some product, though not all, which combines these ingredients are actually effective but no studies could show why that happens. The best thing to do is to find a supplement with a full dose of glucosamine and closer dosage to the correct chondroitin one. Other ingredients are there for these supplements though these two are their major ones unless a new discovery can replace them.




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