I was referring to the advertisement.
And if it made your horse's hoof growth rings come in smoother(rather than time being responsible), I'd love to see any legitimate, juried, reviewed research not conducted by the manufacturer or its minions, that it has a generalized protective, preventative or treatment effect of any sort whatsoever, either to prevent or treat laminitis or founder, or to cause your horse's hoof rings to grow in smoother. But you see, this is how the supplement market works. And people swallow it. Hook line and sinker.
Too, the study should prove out the exact biochemical mechanism(s) that it uses, as well as how this combination of very, very ordinary substances present in almost every feed and supplement sold, is somehow magically transformed, as well as why it has this miraculous effect in THIS product but not all the OTHER supplements it appears in.
Laminitis is a devastating process that involves the immune system, metabolism, the bacteria that co-exist in the horse, as well as the circulatory systm, and is in fact a whole-body disease involving numerous processes, which only shows most obviously in the hooves. So I'd love to know how some magnesium etc would have this miraculous effect.
Vitamins and minerals and such are responsible for very specific actions and processes in the body. They are not magical miracle substances that act like Gort's Magic Salve in The Day the Earth Stood Still. They aren't 'general'. They do specific things - specific chemical reactions, they benefit the body in very specific and limited ways. But believing otherwise is how people get roped into spending so much money on supplements.
Yes farriers recommend all sorts of things, even vets do. They also sell stuff or help friends sell stuff.
I've also met people who swore up and down that painting their horses feet with kerosene or used motor oil caused them to grow smoother, too, and try as I might, I can find no possible mechanism by whch motor oil or kerosene would act in such a miraculous way.
Sorry, you're welcome to believe in it and I won't debate it further, but I will still offer my opinion that the advertisement for this product is both dangerous and irresponsible and hope that others will not be taken in by such hogwallop.
No supplement or similar product is proven to prevent laminitis when the management and health factors are there to put the animal at risk. Horses (and especially ponies) are pictured here time and time again that are dangerously obese and are at a very high risk for laminitis and its crippling effects.
It is extremely unsettling to think that anyone here (or on any other bulletin board) would give this product instead of changing their feeding and management of their horses to get them out of danger.
In other words, there is no product out there that will prevent your horse from getting laminitis if if obesity, insulin resistance, overfeeding, certain types of infections, impairment of the opposite leg, inappropriate work, immersion or other relevant stresses are present.
