Several Components Of Equine Inflammation Management Supplements

By Anthony Johnson


People domesticated horses for helping them in many things such as sports, work, transportation and warfare even during the older years. They have different markings, life stages, breeds, colors, locomotion, sizes and behavior with a vocabulary used specially for describing them. When born, young ones could immediately walk and their training starts when they reach two to four years of age.

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.

Glucosamine has been studied intensively among joint supplement ingredients and are considered the basic building block for every connective tissues. Some products might have them from natural sources like from cattle sternum or trachea. Others have hydrolyzed collagen from sources such as ligaments, tendons and skins.

Glucosamine is effective on relieving pain in shorter times between ten and fourteen days and can encourage healing and slow cartilage breakdown. Six thousand milligram to ten thousand of dosage is needed each day, specifically the latter amount of dosage for working horse. During the first weeks of treating them, a higher level is suggested also to give them this substance in a therapeutic level.

Components work best when combined specially if their suggested therapeutic dose has been followed for each ingredient. Chondroitin and glucosamine combined is an example that together works better rather than separately taken. Vitamin C for healthy joints is essential although too much is harmful and zinc and copper are antioxidants which can help as well.

The structural component for cartilage, tough connective tissues and bone is chondroitin although its effects are not as obvious as glucosamine. Horses appear to more fluidly move though as reported by observers when this is taken by them. Formal studies regarding them have mixed results with its greatest benefit is preventing cartilage breakdown further.

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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