The Ultimate Superfood for Horses

By Madeleine Innocent Madeleine Innocent
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Madeleine is a natural health consultant, specialising in homeopathy. She treats both people and animals. She is as passionate about natural, wholesome food as she ...

When looking for the ultimate superfood for horses, you need to consider several factors. Just buying any old food or supplement will not necessarily be in your horses best interest. You need to know why you are doing what you are doing. And what is available, behind all the hype.

So let's look at why you need to consider a superfood for your horse in the first place.

With the over use of artificial fertilisers and pesticides and other chemicals, the soil in most parts of the world is dying. Yet it is only a vibrant, living and healthy soil that can deliver the nutrients, all in a perfect and natural balance, to the plants that grow in it. And it is these plants that impart their nutrients to horses.Without a balanced source of nutrients that occur naturally, many ailments occur, from the most mild to chronically serious ones.Synthetic nutrients cannot be properly absorbed, not the way naturally occurring ones are. At best, synthetic nutrients pass straight through the system, unused. At worst, they can slowly build up in places they have no business to be.Synthetic nutrients are all in isolation. Yet nature works by nutrients combining to give a perfect balance. No one nutrient can work on its own.

If the grass or hay that horses need in abundance is deficient in nutrients due to modern farming methods, you need to supplement their diet to retain good health. Although organic paddocks can supply a more balanced nutrition to the grazing animals, this does depend on the natural fertility of the soil, and the performance you require from the horse. If the commonly available supplements are not adequately filling this gap, what other alternatives are there?

Blue-green algae is the most nutritious food known.People who take this natural supplement regularly experience a jump in energy.The best algae contains 60% complete protein. Complete protein means it contains the eight essential amino acids animals need to thrive. Protein is important for all animals, particularly performance ones.Blue-green algae is the richest source of beta carotene, the precursor to vitamin A which horses need in abundance, to maintain good health.Blue-green algae contains a rich variety of essential vitamins and minerals that are deficient in most soils.

However, not all blue-green algae is equal. Algae takes up whatever is in the water, be it good or bad. Obviously you don't want to give your horses a dose of algae that is absorbing toxic chemicals in polluted waterways, or algae that is grown in the polluted oceans, or algae that is farmed with fertilisers, as this will merely exacerbate the problem.

Luckily, there remains a naturally occurring, unfarmed blue-green algae, fed by mineral rich mountain streams, that is rich in all the essential nutrients for lasting good health. The ultimate superfood for horses in concentrated form.

Madeleine Innocent is a full time natural health consultant (homeopath) based in Perth, Western Australia. She treats both people and animals. Homeopathy has taught her that the cause of ill health should always be explored before any treatment is considered. Diet is one area that is frequently overlooked. For more information, visit: Superfood for Horses

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