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09/04/2026

Tendon and ligament injuries heal slowly for reasons nobody explains. These tissues are up to 80% collagen — a rope the body rebuilds strand by strand — and it can’t do that without the raw materials: amino acids like glycine (from forage like alfalfa) and lysine, the rate-limiter for building protein at all. It also needs copper and zinc; copper runs the exact enzyme that cross-links collagen into strong tissue. Two more factors most people skip: glyphosate damages the gut that builds and absorbs those amino acids and appears to interfere with glycine and protein synthesis (still debated, but it fits), and tendons barely have a blood supply — which is why healing drags, and why a quality red-light device and PEMF therapy help by driving blood flow into stubborn tissue. Rest gives time; nutrition and circulation decide how well it heals.

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Sources: Samsel, A. & Seneff, S. (2016), “Glyphosate pathways to modern diseases V: Amino acid analogue of glycine in diverse proteins,” Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry. Del Castilo, I. et al. (2022), “Lifelong exposure to a low-dose of the glyphosate-based herbicide RoundUp causes intestinal damage, gut dysbiosis, and behavioral changes in mice,” International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Shehata, A.A. et al. (2013), “The effect of glyphosate on potential pathogens and beneficial members of poultry microbiota in vitro,” Current Microbiology.

09/03/2026

That “sun-bleached” coat? Usually it’s not the sun — it’s copper. Coat color comes from melanin, and the body can only make melanin using an enzyme that depends on one mineral: copper. Run short, and the pigment factory slows down — a black horse goes rusty, a bay reddens and fades, and it can’t bounce back. The sun does bleach, but a deep, well-fed coat resists it; a copper-short coat has less pigment to lose and can’t replace it. So the “sun” often just exposed a mineral gap — and copper rarely travels alone, zinc works right beside it, and most forage is short on both.

Worth knowing: after the mild calming effect, the first thing owners report on Organic Black Cumin Seed Press Cake is a softer, shinier, deeper-colored coat.

The fix isn’t dumping copper in a bucket — it’s balanced, whole-food minerals your horse can actually use.

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09/02/2026

Just started your horse on black cumin seed? Here’s what to actually watch for — because the first changes are quiet, and if you’re not paying attention you’ll miss them. Weeks one and two: it usually shows up in behavior before looks — a calmer, more even temperament is often the first thing owners notice. Then the coat: more shine and richer color (unless it’s deep winter, when the coat is busy doing other things). And a horse that’s genuinely happy at feeding time. These early shifts are small on purpose — they’re the signal the deeper work has started underneath.

The big stuff — hooves, gut, real resilience, and the natural fly control everyone wants — builds over months. Stick with it through next spring and you’ll be blown away when your horse sheds out that winter coat.

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09/01/2026

Check your horse’s feed bag right now. You won’t see the word “glyphosate” — it hides inside the ingredients. The ones to know: corn, soybean/soybean meal, beet pulp, wheat middlings, and oat or barley by-products. It gets in two ways — corn, soy and sugar beets are engineered to survive being sprayed with it, and grains like wheat, oats and barley are often sprayed right before harvest to dry the crop down. And the catch most people miss: “non-GMO” does NOT mean glyphosate-free — only certified organic keeps it out. Why care? Glyphosate was designed to kill plants by knocking out the shikimate pathway that lives in your horse’s gut bacteria; research also links it to a damaged, leaky gut lining, and it’s been tied to metabolic dysfunction and hormone disruption. The simplest fix is the oldest one — feed clean forage, not a bag of by-products.

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Sources: Benbrook, C. (2016), “Trends in glyphosate herbicide use in the United States and globally,” Environmental Sciences Europe. Darwent, A.L. et al. (1994), “Effect of preharvest applications of glyphosate on the drying, yield and quality of wheat,” Canadian Journal of Plant Science. Duke, S.O. & Powles, S.B. (2008), “Glyphosate: a once-in-a-century herbicide,” Pest Management Science. Shehata, A.A. et al. (2013), “The effect of glyphosate on potential pathogens and beneficial members of poultry microbiota in vitro,” Current Microbiology. Del Castilo, I. et al. (2022), “Lifelong exposure to a low-dose of the glyphosate-based herbicide RoundUp causes intestinal damage, gut dysbiosis, and behavioral changes in mice,” International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Mesnage, R. et al. (2017), “Multiomics reveal non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in rats following chronic exposure to an ultra-low dose of Roundup herbicide,” Scientific Reports. Gasnier, C. et al. (2009), “Glyphosate-based herbicides are toxic and endocrine disruptors in human cell lines,” Toxicology.

08/31/2026

Arthritis in horses isn’t just wear and tear — it’s inflammation outrunning repair, and the four levers that actually slow it down all start in the feed bucket. Pull the grain and sugar feeding the fire, add omega-3s from flax to counter it, feed the copper, zinc and boron that rebuild cartilage and bone, and bring in whole-food antioxidants. Two superfoods pull real weight here: black cumin seed is a standout for calming inflammation, and rosehips are great for joint support — just NOT for an uncontrolled metabolic horse, since the natural berry sugar is too much. And one owners miss: injections and bute only mask pain, while long-term NSAID use quietly damages the gut — a clock, not a cure.

The Evolved Remedies Anti-Inflammatory & Arthritis Support Protocol is built around exactly these levers — add it to a forage-based diet.

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08/28/2026

Insulin resistant horse? Before you reach for a supplement, look at the hay — it’s most of the diet, so it’s the biggest lever you’ve got.

Hay TYPE matters more than most realize. Cool-season grasses store sugar as fructan and can run high. Warm-season grasses like Teff make no fructan and tend to run naturally low in sugar and starch — often under 10%. Bonus for this time of year: research shows horses grazing Teff in the FALL hold lower blood sugar and insulin than horses on other forages.

Two things people get backwards with Teff: (1) you want FIRST cutting, boot stage, before the seed heads — starch climbs as it matures, the opposite of most hays; (2) source matters. A lot of Teff is grown as a cover crop for potatoes — the most pesticide-heavy crop there is — and those residues linger in the soil. Look for Teff grown for horses, and ask for the analysis.

Get the forage right first. If you want a complete program to layer on top, the Evolved Remedies Equine Metabolic Support Protocol gives a metabolically challenged horse everything it needs — just add it to a forage-based diet.



Sources: Kentucky Equine Research; University of Minnesota Extension.

08/27/2026

Spending money on gut supplements but nothing sticks? The daily feed may be working against you.

Glyphosate kills weeds by blocking the shikimate pathway. It’s called safe for animals because horses and humans don’t have that pathway — true, our own cells don’t. But the bacteria in your horse’s gut DO. Those microbes use it to build three amino acids behind serotonin (gut motility, mood) and thyroid hormone. Block the pathway, disrupt the microbiome.

And it’s not just theory: in rats fed glyphosate, researchers found the exact chemical signature of that pathway being shut down in the living gut. Estimates of how many gut species are vulnerable run from ~a quarter to over half — the number is still debated, the direction isn’t. You can’t out-supplement a daily dose of the thing disrupting the gut. Reduce the input first.



Sources: Mesnage & Antoniou (2020), Current Research in Toxicology; Puigbò et al. (2022), Life; Mesnage et al. (2021), Environmental Health Perspectives.

08/26/2026

Glucosamine and MSM get all the attention. Boron barely gets mentioned — and it may be a missing piece for bones and joints.

What boron does: it helps the body hold onto calcium and magnesium (less lost in urine), helps the body use vitamin D, and appears to lower inflammatory markers in arthritis research. The wild part: decades ago, researchers noticed regions with low soil boron have higher arthritis rates — and horses get nearly all their boron from soil-grown forage.

Honest note: equine-specific research is still emerging, though a recent young-horse study showed improved bone and mineral metabolism with boron. We’re not selling you a magic mineral — just pointing at a real mechanism most people have never heard of. Sometimes the answer to a joint problem is hiding in the dirt.



Sources: Newnham (1994), Environmental Health Perspectives; Biological Trace Element Research (2026), Arabian foal study; Nielsen, boron & mineral metabolism.

08/25/2026

Before you accept a Cushing’s (PPID) diagnosis, ask one question: what season was the blood drawn?

Every horse has a natural late-summer/fall rise in ACTH — the hormone the test measures. In fall, the median in NORMAL horses runs about double the usual upper limit. So on a standard reference range, a healthy fall horse can read “high.” In horses with only vague signs, roughly 80% of positive fall tests have been shown to be false alarms.

This is why good labs use seasonally adjusted fall ranges, and why many vets avoid basal testing in autumn. A truly PPID horse shows the clinical signs AND a number well beyond the seasonal rise — not a marginal October blip. If it was borderline this time of year, it’s worth a conversation about retesting before committing to lifelong medication.



Sources: Menzies-Gow et al. (2024), BEVA Primary Care Clinical Guidelines, Equine Veterinary Journal; University of Guelph AHL; Equine Endocrinology Group.

08/24/2026

Fall is the forgotten laminitis season. Spring gets all the warnings — but cool nights plus sunny days can push pasture sugar just as high, and in fall it can stay high all day instead of draining overnight the way it does in summer.

A few field notes we go by: nights below ~40°F followed by bright days is the danger combo. Brown, short, or “stressed” grass is NOT automatically safe — stressed grass often hoards the most sugar. And the early-morning “safe window” you lean on in July can disappear in October.

If your horse is metabolic, insulin-resistant, or has foundered before, this is the stretch to tighten grazing and actually know your hay’s numbers. Not every horse — but the wrong horse on the wrong fall pasture is a vet call waiting to happen.



Sources: Longland & Byrd (2006), Journal of Nutrition; Kentucky Equine Research; Oregon State University Extension.

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