Marcia Rosenberger, Animal Communicator

10/27/2025

Excellent somatic help you could do with your dog.

09/13/2025

So what steps can you take as an owner to dial in your metabolic horse's diet?

Work with a trusted nutrition professional. Diet really is EVERYTHING for metabolic conditions. It can literally be the difference between life and death. While that's an alarming statement to read, it's the unfortunate truth. If you suspect your horse has a metabolic condition, reach out to your vet for diagnostics. Post diagnosis, your first call should be a trusted nutrition professional. --This is probably not your veterinarian.

How do you find a truly metabolic savvy nutrition pro who can make a difference?

You can always contact me. I work remotely on horses all over North America and collaborate with Veterinarians of all specialities. You can send me a message or visit our website to schedule a consultation or case review.

If you're more comfortable working with someone local, here are my suggestions on how to select a functionally minded nutriton pro:

1) Independent consultants only. Avoid those who work for feed or supplement companies. The likelihood that you will receive unbiased recommendations is low.

2) Clinical experience. To me this is the most important component. If your nutrition professional has never worked within Veterinary Medicine, they likely won't have the knowledge of how to interpret diagnostics or which panels are most appropriate for determining your horse's individual metabolic status. If they've never worked in the field, they may struggle with the language and/or confidence to discuss your horse's case with your primary care vet. Collaboration between vet and nutritionist is critical.

3) Ask about their nutrition credentials. Just because someone has PhD after their name doesn't mean they are better educated than someone who has, LVT, FNTP, or no letters at all. There are several practitioners I highly respect who did not go the conventional route for their education. In fact, because they didn't go with the mainstream education I find they are MORE informed and outside the box thinkers who get better results. If you work with a PhD, ask them what their PhD is in. I know PhDs who now call themselves a nutritionist when their PhD wasn't in nutrition.

4) Ask questions. If they're a nutrition consultant, who did they receive their certification through? How long was the course? What are their philosophies about feeding? If they are "certified" through one of the feed companies, you'll likely be in the same situation as a nutritionist who works for a feed company. If they're promoting "low starch" only and/or grain-based diets, they're sending your horse to an early grave. --Yes, I really said that, and I stand by it.

5) I am all about empowering owners to be their horses best advocate. The nutriton professional you choose should be able to tell you why they are making the recommendations they are, not just dictate them to you. If they can't break down the biological processes that are affecting your horse, and how food impacts their condition(s), and in a way that makes sense to you, they probably don't understand it themselves.

08/22/2025

Comparison is Significant in animal communication.

Wow!

06/11/2025

🌡️ When Your Horse's Cooling System Shuts Down

Temperature regulation requires enormous energy expenditure and sophisticated cellular coordination. When mitochondrial exhaustion occurs, the horse's ability to maintain normal body temperature becomes severely compromised, leading to dangerous heat stress even in moderate conditions.

Sweating, the horse's primary cooling mechanism, requires active transport of electrolytes across cell membranes - a process consuming significant ATP. Sodium-potassium pumps in sweat gland cells must work continuously to produce hypotonic sweat for evaporative cooling. When mitochondrial function is impaired, sweat production decreases dramatically despite high body temperatures.

Vasodilation, bringing warm blood to skin surface for cooling, depends on nitric oxide production in vascular endothelial cells. This ATP-requiring process becomes impaired when mitochondrial energy production fails. Blood flow to skin decreases, trapping heat in body core.

Respiratory cooling through increased breathing rate also demands significant energy. Respiratory muscles have high mitochondrial densities to support continuous activity. When exhausted, horses cannot maintain rapid, shallow breathing needed for respiratory heat loss.

Most dangerously, brain thermoregulatory centers require enormous energy to coordinate temperature control. When brain mitochondria become exhausted, horses lose ability to sense temperature changes and respond appropriately, leading to uncontrolled hyperthermia.

Clinical signs include minimal sweating despite elevated temperature, rapid breathing with minimal air movement, elevated resting heart rate, muscle tremors, and mental depression.

12/01/2024

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