Elite Equine Health & Performance

11/30/2025

🦠💪 IMMUNE HEALTH STARTS FROM THE INSIDE OUT 🐴🌿
And it starts with the gut.

Did you know nearly 70% of your horse’s immune system lives in the gut? That’s why a healthy digestive tract is key to fighting off illness, maintaining energy, and bouncing back from stress or work.

At EEHP, we build our products with that philosophy in mind:
✅ Support the gut
✅ Fuel with forage-based nutrition
✅ Strengthen immunity naturally

Our formulas are designed to:
🌾 Promote fiber digestion
🧫 Balance gut microbes
🛡️ Reduce gut-related inflammation
✨ Provide targeted nutrients to keep the immune system strong — every single day

Whether your horse is recovering from stress, training hard, or just needs immune support heading into winter, our products help them stay strong from the inside out. 💚

🛒 Ready to support your horse’s health naturally?
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11/29/2025

🥧🦃 Thanksgiving Carbs & Your Horse: What’s the Connection? 🐴🍞

We humans love our carbs this time of year — mashed potatoes, stuffing, pie… 😋 But did you know your horse’s diet can be just as carb-heavy if it’s high in grain?

Grain = concentrated carbohydrates, and while carbs give horses energy, too much too fast can cause more harm than good:

⚠️ Sudden spikes in blood sugar
⚠️ Lactic acid buildup (hello, sore muscles)
⚠️ Disruption of gut microbes
⚠️ Increased risk of ulcers, colic, and even laminitis

Unlike us, horses weren’t designed for big carb feasts. Their digestive system thrives on slow, steady fuel — think fiber from hay and pasture, and fat as an energy boost when needed.

So while you enjoy your second slice of pie 🥧, just remember: your horse’s best “Thanksgiving dinner” is probably a good flake of hay and maybe a fat supplement — not a scoop of sweet feed!

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11/21/2025

🔬 Inside Your Horse’s Gut: Where Fiber Becomes Fuel

Inside your horse’s hindgut, there’s a microscopic party going on 🎉 — and guess what? Fiber is the guest of honor.

Here’s the mini science behind it 👇

🌿 When your horse eats hay or pasture, that fiber travels down to the hindgut — specifically, the cecum and colon.

🦠 That’s where billions (yes, billions!) of good microbes get to work fermenting the fiber. Think of it like slow cooking — instead of breaking down with acid like in the stomach, fiber gets digested by microbes.

💥 The result? Volatile Fatty Acids (VFAs) — clean-burning, steady energy that fuels your horse’s body, powers their muscles, and even supports gut health.

VFAs = the original slow-release energy bar.
And bonus: this process helps keep the gut environment balanced and lowers the risk of ulcers or colic.

📌 Bottom line:
Horses were built to run on fiber — not starch.
Support the hindgut. Feed the forage. Skip the grain.

🐴 Ever notice your horse’s energy improve when they’re on more hay or pasture? That’s hindgut fermentation doing its job. 🙌

11/20/2025

In Times of Viral Threat, Gut Health Isn’t Optional — It’s Everything 🐴🧬

With the recent EHV-1 outbreak on everyone’s radar, let’s talk about something that often gets overlooked in moments like this: the gut.

Your horse’s digestive system isn’t just for processing hay — it’s home to 70% of their immune system. When the gut is out of balance, the immune system has to work harder. That’s a problem during any viral outbreak.

And unfortunately, a lot of modern horse care makes gut health harder to maintain.

🚨 What Today’s Management Practices Do to the Gut

Let’s be honest — most of what we ask from our horses isn’t “natural”:
❌ High-grain diets disrupt the microbial balance in the hindgut, leading to inflammation, leaky gut, and lowered immunity.
❌ Frequent travel and competition add physical and psychological stress, which directly impacts digestion, hydration, and immune readiness.
❌ Pharmaceuticals (like NSAIDs and ulcer meds) have their place — but they can also disrupt the gut lining and microbiota over time.
❌ Limited turnout and irregular forage access mean the gut isn’t getting what it evolved to need: constant, slow fermentation of fiber.

In short: even the best-cared-for performance horse may be walking a fine line when it comes to immune health — especially during an outbreak.

🌿 So What Can You Do? Focus on the Gut.

✅ Prioritize Forage.
Consistent, clean hay and access to forage throughout the day help maintain a healthy hindgut and stable energy — far more than grain ever could.

✅ Reduce or eliminate excess starch.
Low-starch, forage-first feeding keeps the microbial balance in check and inflammation down — which is crucial when the immune system is under pressure.

✅ Be mindful with medications.
Work with your vet to use meds strategically and support the gut before, during, and after treatment. The gut lining needs time and nutrition to heal.

✅ Keep stress low where you can.
Routine, turnout, and herd interaction all support gut motility and calm the nervous system — both of which are tied directly to digestion and immunity.

✅ Watch for silent signs.
Not all gut stress looks like colic. Loose manure, girthiness, dull coat, irritability, or even underperformance can signal something’s off in the digestive tract.

📣 Bottom Line:
We can’t control every risk, but we can control how we feed and manage our horses.
In times like these, gut health is immune health. It’s not about gimmicks — it’s about giving the body what it needs to do its job.

Feed fiber. Avoid unnecessary starch. Watch the stress. Support the system.

💚 Your horse’s gut (and immune system) will thank you.

11/20/2025

🏇 Performance Horses: Fuel with Fiber, Not Grain

There’s a long-standing myth in the horse world that goes like this:

“If your horse is in hard work, they need grain to keep up.”

But here’s the truth:
👉 Performance horses don’t need grain.
They need fuel their bodies were designed to use — and that’s fiber.

🌾 Grain is loaded with starch, which digests quickly and can spike blood sugar. That might sound like “energy,” but it often leads to crashes, gut irritation, and inconsistent behavior.

🌿 Fiber, on the other hand, gets fermented in the hindgut and turned into volatile fatty acids (VFAs) — a clean, slow-burning energy source that supports sustained work without the drama.

💡 Want more calories? Add fat, not starch. Horses use fat efficiently and calmly — perfect for performance without the fireworks.

🐴 Still struggling with condition or stamina? That’s usually not a grain issue. It’s often a sign of:

Poor forage quality

Micronutrient gaps

Hindgut dysfunction

Or chronic stress/ulcers

Grain doesn’t solve these — it often makes them worse.

📌 Bottom line:
Fuel the gut. Feed the forage. Skip the grain.
Your athlete will thank you — with better focus, stamina, and recovery.

💬 Are you fueling your performance horse without grain? Share what’s working in your program — others might learn from it too 👇👇