Horse Health

Horses react to stress in different ways—some spook, others tighten through the back or grind their teeth. Two popular nutritional approaches for taking the edge off are magnesium and valerian root. While both claim to promote relaxation, their mechanisms, legal status,...

Magnesium drives more than 300 enzyme reactions in the equine body, quietly regulating everything from nerve transmission to energy production. Yet forage analyses show that many modern hays hover below the 0.20 % Mg benchmark, while hard work, travel, and...

Magnesium is more than just another electrolyte; it is a key modulator of the equine nervous and muscular systems. Roughly 60 percent of the mineral is stored in bone, but the small circulating pool determines how readily a horse reacts...