Elite Equine Health & Performance

10/12/2025

🐴 Is Your Senior Horse Really “Aging” or Just Inflamed?

We hear it all the time:
“My old guy’s dropping weight.”
“She’s losing topline and I can’t keep weight on her no matter what I feed.”
“He just seems... older lately.”

And the first suggestion? “Add a senior feed!” 🙄

But here’s the hard truth:
👉 Most senior horses aren’t “just old.” They’re inflamed.
What looks like aging is often the final stage of chronic, low-grade inflammation that’s been building for years, especially in the gut.

Let’s break it down:

🧠 The root issue isn’t calories. It’s compromised digestion.
High-NSC (sugar + starch) feeds; even “senior” ones; spike glucose, acidify the gut, and throw the microbiome off balance. Over time, this damages the gut lining, blocks nutrient absorption, and leaves horses looking and feeling depleted.

That’s why throwing more fortified feed at the problem doesn’t fix it, it fuels the fire.

🌾 Senior horses don’t need more feed. They need better function.

✅ Can seniors live without a bagged feed?
Absolutely. Horses are designed to get everything they need from forage, as long as they can chew it or you give them soaked hay pellets or chopped hay as a replacement. Their body knows how to balance if the gut is working.

Here’s what we’ve seen actually work:
🔹 Remove inflammatory triggers (sugars, starches, processed oils)
🔹 Feed forage they can safely eat and digest
🔹 Support the gut with ingredients that repair, restore, and rebalance

That’s where Victory and Ulcer Defense come in:
🌿 Victory provides clean calories, anti-inflammatory fats, and amino acids from whole seeds — no grain, no fluff.
🌿 Ulcer Defense soothes and rebuilds the gut lining without suppressing digestion like traditional ulcer meds.

Because when you fix the gut?
➡️ Nutrients get absorbed.
➡️ Energy returns.
➡️ Topline rebuilds.
➡️ The sparkle comes back.

Not magic. Just biology working again.

Let’s stop blaming age and start restoring health. 💚

10/11/2025

Always give your horse the benefit of the doubt

10/10/2025

🌾🥥 “But horses don’t eat that in the wild…” 🐴💬
We hear this a lot when talking about things like h**p seeds, chia, or coconut in horse diets. And hey, it’s true—your average wild mustang isn’t cracking open a coconut on the prairie. 😄

But let’s take a step back.
Wild horses also don’t eat alfalfa hay or neatly baled grass.
They don’t jump 4-foot fences, run barrels, rein, cut cattle, or race on groomed tracks either.

So much of what we feed and ask of domestic horses doesn’t exist in the wild. Yet one thing remains consistent:
➡️ Their digestive system.

Whether wild or domestic, a horse’s gut still functions as a fiber-fermenting powerhouse built to extract energy from plant material. Their systems haven’t evolved to match our modern feeding habits; they still rely on slow, steady fermentation in the hindgut, constant trickle feeding, and a forage-first diet.

That means even if we use ingredients they didn’t evolve with; like seeds or oil-rich plants; we have to respect how their bodies process food. That’s where the science comes in: understanding how different feeds interact with their natural digestive design.

✅ Bottom line?
We may feed modern ingredients and ask them to do modern jobs; but their bodies still run on ancient rules.

10/09/2025

a intestinal stone, or mineral deposit, that forms in the gastrointestinal tract around a foreign object or a core of indigestible matter, like a piece of wood or wire or rock

10/08/2025

Knowlege is power

10/08/2025

10/07/2025

🧬 Feed Horses the Way Nature Designed — Not the Way Feed Companies Compensate

Most modern “ulcer solutions” don’t fix the root cause; they just try to slow down a process that was never meant to happen.

When you feed high-starch, high-sugar feeds, you overwhelm the horse’s small intestine; and here’s the problem: horses only produce a tiny amount of amylase, the enzyme that digests starch.

So what happens? 👇
➡️ The extra starch slides right through to the hindgut
➡️ Ferments too fast, drops the pH
➡️ Kills off beneficial microbes
➡️ And when those microbes die, their toxins and bad bacteria leak through the gut wall into the bloodstream; causing systemic inflammation that shows up as ulcers, skin reactions, stiffness, poor recovery, and unpredictable behavior.

Feed companies know this, so they add “slow-release starch” or beta-glucans to “slow digestion.”
But that’s just a bandage on the wrong wound.

Because the truth is:

🐴 Horses aren’t meant to digest starch slowly; they’re meant to avoid it altogether.

When you feed a forage-first, fat-and-fiber-fueled diet, everything changes:
✅ The stomach stays naturally buffered
✅ The microbiome stays balanced
✅ The gut wall stays sealed and strong
✅ Energy becomes steady not frantic
✅ Inflammation calms from the inside out

That’s the foundation of what we build at EEHP.pro
Products that work with the horse’s biology, not against it.

No grain. No fillers. No bandages.
Just clean, functional fuel that restores gut health and performance from the inside out. 💪

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10/06/2025

If you want to go round and round the merrygoround with ulcers, hey it's your horse and it's your money. If you want to get rid of ulcers for good and watch your horse thrive like never before, we have a solution for you

10/03/2025

🌱 Epigenetics: How Your Horse's Feed Talks to Their Genes 🧬🐴

Ever heard of epigenetics? It's a big word, but a pretty cool concept — and yes, it’s got everything to do with how we feed our horses. 👀

Here’s the scoop:
Epigenetics is all about how genes can be turned on or off — not by changing the genes themselves, but by influencing how they’re expressed. Think of it like a light switch: the gene is the bulb, but nutrition and environment control whether it’s shining bright or staying dim. 💡

So what does this mean for our horses?

👉 The nutrients in your horse’s diet can actually influence which genes are active — affecting things like metabolism, immune response, growth, and even stress resilience.
👉 This means that what you feed your horse today could impact their long-term health — and even the health of their future foals! (Yep, some epigenetic changes can be passed down. Wild, right?)

🧾 For example:

Diets rich in methyl donors (like folate, choline, B12) can affect gene expression related to cell growth and repair.

High-starch or high-sugar diets may influence genes related to inflammation and insulin sensitivity.

Balanced trace minerals (like zinc and selenium) support healthy epigenetic function, especially during development and stress.

Bottom line?
Your horse’s feed isn’t just fuel — it’s information. 🧠💪

By feeding a balanced, forage-based diet with the right nutrients, you're not just supporting your horse's body… you're helping guide how their genes show up and do their job.

Pretty amazing stuff!

👍 Like this post if you’re fascinated by how nutrition can shape your horse’s future!
💬 Got questions? Drop them below – let's geek out together (in the fun way)! 😄👇

10/02/2025

A grain free diet is proving superior over and over again. To be successful, your horse needs the appropriate fuel and building blocks, without the biproducts and fillers.

10/01/2025

I am actually spending less money on feed and supplements now than I was before and I am getting much better results with the higher quality ingredients

09/29/2025

Everything you say and do is a choice; choose wisely.