The Horse's Advocate Podcast

Equine Metabolic Syndrome Happens When Cell Engines Get Stuck - The Horse's Advocate Podcast #187

Like all animals, horses need energy to survive. That energy comes from fuel, which is why many health issues focus on what horses eat—grains, hay, supplements, and treat

What Are The Actual Costs of How We Feed Horses? The Horse's Advocate Podcast #186

Horse owners who are watching their budgets often focus on the cost of feeding each horse—hay, grain, supplements, and treats. But what about other expenses, like illness

Are Drugs And Machines Necessary To Float Horse Teeth? - The Horse's Advocate Podcast #185

Since 1983, I have seen horse dentistry shift from hand-floating, done without medication or machines, to a mechanical approach using sedation and motorized tools to remo

How Does Energy Flow Make Your Horse Unhealthy? - The Horse's Advocate Podcast #184

In the last podcast (#183 - How Does Energy Flow Keep Your Horse Alive And Healthy?), the energy potential of the cell is its ability to perform all necessary functions,

How Does Energy Flow Make Your Horse Alive And Healthy? The Horse's Advocate Podcast #183

Everything that happens in horses requires energy. Similarly, every household and business has a budget. When there is enough money, everything is good, and with our hors

How Helpful Are Vitamins and Supplements For Our Horses? - The Horse's Advocate Podcast #182

There are two ways to provide vitamins, minerals, and amino acids to your horse: through factories or nature. In this episode, I discuss how horses obtain these nutrients

Marketing and the Funding Of Science - Reasons Why Horses Are More Sick, Not Less - #181 The Horse's Advocate Podcast

My mailbox and inbox get a never-ending stream of advertisements, all promising that my horse will become free of disease or super-athletic. Some boast scientific researc

What Can Horse Owners Do To Prevent The Top 3 Foal Complications? - #180 The Horse's Advocate Podcast

Foals are especially vulnerable in their first months of life. Think about the first time you met a newborn foal—did you know it takes both knowledge and experience to pr

The Reason Why Horse Teeth Need To Be Filed (Floated) - #179 The Horse's Advocate Podcast

Filing off sharp edges inside a horse's mouth may seem a bit odd at first glance. If nature is perfect, you might wonder, why would horse teeth need this help? How did ho

Can Ertugliflozin Save My Horse? - #178 The Horse's Advocate Podcast

Glucose is an essential sugar for horses, but too much of it can be harmful. While diet is your main tool for reducing glucose intake, what can you do when your horse sti

Glucose - The Mystery Of This Required Sugar - # 177 The Horse's Advocate Podcast

Glucose is one of many sugars. It is an essential nutrient for both horses and people. When talking about sugar in food, you might hear words like carbs, starch, fructose

Am I Too Old To Teach The Young Horse Owner? #176 The Horse's Advocate Podcast

New horse owners join the community every day, from children to adults with little or no experience. Many expect horse ownership to be as simple as using everyday conveni

Common Plant and Tree Toxins of Horses in North America - #175 The Horse's Advocate Podcast

Horses graze on grass and plants, not trees, because their digestive tracts—shared by equids, tapirs, and rhinoceroses—cannot digest wood. Unlike ruminants (cattle, deer,

Why Science Isn't Helping Horses - #174 The Horse's Advocate Podcast

Science relies on asking questions, testing them, obtaining answers, and questioning those answers again. Scientists never settle; their curiosity drives them to consider

Horses Are Not Robots - #173 The Horse's Advocate Podcast

NOTE: There is a section about 1 minute long where it sounds different because I inserted a video of me driving my hands-free car. To see it, please watch this on YouTube

Sugar Fungus In Horse Feeds - The Horse's Advocate Podcast #172

The first time I heard the words "Sugar Fungus" used with horses, I thought it might be a new, and possibly harmful, reportable disease. I braced myself for the thought t

The Crisis in Veterinary Medicine Gets Worse - The Horse's Advocate Podcast #171

The April 2026 edition of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA Vol. 264, #4) caught my attention with 4 articles and an author's response to

Equine Metabolic Syndrome and Insulin Resistance Are NOT the Same - The Horse's Advocate Podcast #170

Equine Metabolic Syndrome (EMS) and Insulin Resistance (IR) are just words to most horse owners. We hear them, and we hope our horse doesn't "get them" attached to their

Cancer In Horses - Is Their Diet Helping? - The Horse's Advocate Podcast #169

Cancer is defined as normal cells of the body behaving badly, at least that's the simple explanation given by AI. It's more complex than that. Luckily, in horses, cancer

Why Horse Supplements Are Only Guessing - The Horse's Advocate Podcast #168

My wife placed a supplement ad for horses in front of me and said it was "interesting." She knows me, so she was testing me to see if this one was really special or just