Tag Archives: Diet

Acute Health Issues, Educational, Equine Nutrition

Your Horse’s GUT!

November 28, 2018 Gwenyth Santagate

“There are more than 50 known nutrients in food. Nutrients enable body tissues to grow and maintain themselves. They contribute to the energy requirements of the individual organism and they regulate the processes of the body.”

—Intro to Equine Natural Nutrition, PENZANCE Equine Integrative Solutions

Learn how to PREVENT dis-ease in your horse by feeding appropriately according to the species.

Learn how to FEED your horse … like a HORSE!

AT HOME.
IN YOUR OWN SPACE.
IN YOUR OWN TIME.
AT YOUR OWN PACE.

Consults, Educational, Equine Nutrition, Essential Oils, Herbs, Homeopathy, Natural Hoof Care, Training & Behavior

CYBER MONDAY SPECIAL!

November 26, 2018 Gwenyth Santagate

That’s right! 50% OFF regular tuition fees.
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Offer ends Friday Nov. 30th at Midnite.

All courses include personal attention and discussions via email or messaging – As much as you need.

Each course contains 10 modules and incorporates recordings of LIVE classes to augment visual presentations.

Designed for the older teen and adult who wants to enhance their Equine knowledge or is looking to further their education as a solid base for the career minded.

(The Private Coaching is personally tailored to YOUR challenges with your horse. 4+ hours.)

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Just click below to register. Allow 24 – 48 hours for Instructions to be email to you on how to access your course(s).

If you’d like more information, please email to me: gwen.santagate@gmail.com

Acute Health Issues, Consults, Educational, Equine Nutrition, Horse Care & Management, Horse Health & Wellness, Immunology

MICRO-WHAT?

November 20, 2018 Gwenyth Santagate

MICROBIOMES

What a funny word. Puts me in mind of tiny little cartoon buggies running around our guts.

Actually, did you know that we are MORE “buggies” (bacterial cells) than we are human cells?

The same applies to our horses.

So what, you ask?

I’ll tell you what — those microbiome buggies are the little critters that keep us healthy!

Over 80% of the immune system lies in the gut … in these little gut buggies. And THAT is a HUGE deal!

Our bodies and our horses’ bodies are full of trillions of bacteria, viruses and fungi. They are collectively known as the microbiome.

Some of the bacteria is related to diseases while others are extremely important to the immune system and overall health.

In fact, there are more bacterial cells in your body than human cells. There are roughly 40 trillion bacterial cells in your body and only 30 trillion human cells. That means you are more bacteria than human (1, 2).

In fact, there are up to 1,000 species of bacteria in the human gut microbiome, and each of them plays a different role in your body. Most of them are extremely important for your health, while others can and do cause disease.

In the hindgut of a horse, changes in the bacteria levels through dietary disruption, seasonal changes, stress, or age can lead to colic and laminitis, causing lameness or even death in severe cases. In this study, we profiled bacterial communities from fecal samples collected and submitted by horse-owners participating in the Equine Microbiome Project (EMP) and correlated differences in community structure with feed type, specifically horses eating exclusively hay, pasture, a hay-concentrate mix, or a combination of pasture, hay, and concentrate as reported in EMP metadata surveys. –https://www.j-evs.com/article/S0737-0806(17)30256-3/abstract

So, I ask you – which kind of bacteria are you feeding YOUR HORSE? (Well, and yourself, too — after all, our horses needs their humans to be healthy in order to take care of them, right?)

A very wise man once stated, “All disease begins in the gut.” — Hippocrates

Well, that doesn’t include genetic diseases but we’re talking metabolics here.

Think of Cushings, Insulin Resistance, EMS, Auto-immune, Leaky Gut, and so many more chronic nasties. THESE are the types of diseases with which our domestic horses are challenged more and more each day.

This has a lot to do with the different gut bacteria residing in the digestive tracts, as well as the integrity of the gut lining (1).

According to numerous studies, unwanted bacterial products called endotoxins can sometimes “leak” through and enter the bloodstream (2).

When this happens, the immune system recognizes these foreign molecules and mounts an attack against them, resulting in a chronic inflammatory response (3).

Inflammation is the response of the immune system to foreign invaders, toxins or cell injury.

Suffice to say, diet-induced inflammation has been shown to trigger insulin resistance, leptin resistance (causing obesity), fatty liver disease, and has been strongly linked to many of the world’s most serious diseases (4, 5, 6)

Without going into much more detail and totally bogging down our minds, suffice to say that, once again, Hippocrates was right when he said,

“Let thy medicine be thy food and thy food be thy medicine.”

So now, you know what MICROBIOMES are, how they affect your horses’ overall health (and your own). I guess the question now arises as to … do you want to learn more?

The key questions being … What are you gonna do now that you know this?

Ask me about my WHOLE HEALTH for the WHOLE HORSE protocol.

Don’t be shy. Email to me: gwen.santagate@gmail.com or even call me on the phone +1 860.556.9199 Let’s set up some time to chat further.

Acute Health Issues, Equine Nutrition, Horse Care & Management, Horse Health & Wellness, Natural Hoof Care

Thank you!

November 10, 2017 Gwenyth Santagate

Just wanted to share this. Received today .. just moments ago. It truly does warm my heart! …

ME: The BEST supplement for hooves is 1. as much movement the horse can get in a 24/7 period of time and 2. RAW FORAGE … supplement 24/7 hay/grazing with fresh veggies, fruits, nuts and seeds. THAT feeds the immune system and will strengthen new hoof growth like you’ve never seen before!

LAURA O: I learned this from you 20 years ago, Gwen and since then I’ve grown a garden just for them every year. Also, as part of the movement plan/rehab, we go for walks or I gather things to feed them. The grass is greener on the other side of the fence and have realized that horses really do love new ground! It’s done wonders for Promenade Walks as well. I’ll start off with coaxing and discomfort and I’ll be thinking enough, maybe we should go back, but then I get 200’ down the road, the ears prick forward, the heel first landings begin and suddenly I’m being dragged forward. With a balanced diet, the trees are no longer getting chewed on any more either. No composting bin needed either. The veggie trimmings that are safe, go straight to the barn. I’ll do a hay test every year, but that’s just a small part of it. What I don’t know, they tell me

Acute Health Issues, Equine Nutrition, Horse Care & Management, Horse Health & Wellness

Get Rid of the Muffin Top!

May 15, 2017 Gwenyth Santagate

Is your #horse a little pudgy? Well, the same #diet for humans to lose a few pounds works for horses, too! ESPECIALLY horses! (But leave out the meat in the horse’s diet! *grin*)

FEED RAW, FRESH FORAGES and toss out the processed stuff. Grass Hay 24/7, ‘salad’ once a day, raw, naturally chelated minerals, salt, water … and that’s it! KISS! Your horse that needs to gain weight will and the horse that needs to lose weight will.

IF other factors are correctly in place, as well …

Just like with humans — processed foods and supplements cause the “muffin tops” … well, ‘girthy’ horses and ‘cresty’ horses — those extra fat pads are their ‘muffin top’ … think about it. Then holler at me if you’d like to know more.

Acute Health Issues, Equine Nutrition, Herbs, Homeopathy, Horse Care & Management, Horse Health & Wellness, Immunology, PTSD & PHOBIA Therapy, Training & Behavior

It’s Been a Tough Winter

March 13, 2015 Gwenyth Santagate

It’s been a tough winter – everywhere and for everyone. Even for the horses. Their bodies use up alot of energy to stay warm and keep their systems going. Like us, they can get spasms during chills and shivering that will get ‘stuck’ and need help releasing. They slip and twist on the ice – that, too, can set up spasms in the body. If these issues are not identified and released they can precipitate behavioral challenges for the handler and rider come spring conditioning. Challenges that cannot be ‘disciplined’ or ‘punished’ away but must be viewed from a whole horse perspective.

I offer FULL consults – both distance and on farm. From head to hoof, your entire horse is evaluated and ‘treated’ using my WHOLE HEALTH for the WHOLE HORSE protocol.

Email to me if you’d like more info: caballus@charter.net or shoot me a PM here on Facebook. I work with all ages, all breeds, all disciplines.

Your horse deserves a break today!

Equine Nutrition

Feeding the Natural Horse

October 23, 2014 Gwenyth Santagate

PRE-ORDERING

“FEEDING THE NATURAL HORSE” by Gwenyth Browning Jones Santagate, is now available for PRE-ORDERING.
Santagate is presently working on the book and plans to have it completed by the end of 2014. But you can PRE ORDER it in PDF FORMAT and as soon as it is completed it will be delivered to your in-box.

THIS IS A SPECIAL PRE-PUBLICATION PRICE!!!

$15.00 USD
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Equine Nutrition, Horse Health & Wellness

Basic Diet for the Healthy Horse

October 22, 2014 Gwenyth Santagate 2 Comments

207 S Canterbury Rd., Canterbury, CT 06331
gwen.santagate@gmail.com▪ 774.280.4227

BASIC DIET FOR THE HEALTHY HORSE

Please note – this is for EDUCATIONAL purposes only and NOT to replace your veterinarian’s advice.

The ingredients listed are for the BASIC DIET for the HEALTHY HORSE … it is NOT inclusive of specific, dietary and nutritional needs for an unwell horse. Individual consult for such a situation for the unwell horses should be obtained.

Call (774.280.4227 or email to: gwen.santagate@gmail.com for a full, private consultation from PENZANCE.

TO BE FED ONCE A DAY ONLY, any time … can be two or 3 times a week for the ‘easy keeper’ :

TO BE FED IN PLACE OF AND ALL PROCESSED FEEDS OR SUPPLEMENTS ARE TO BE ELIMINATED.

• FREE CHOICE 1ST CUT good quality HAY
• GRAZING as afforded on NON-ENHANCED pastures … an old field that is free of any chemical enhancements or herbicides with 100’s of weeds, flowers, shrubs, etc. is ideal
• FREE CHOICE Sea Salt or Himalayan Salt
• 2 oz. of RAW, CHELATED MINERALS a day.

• RAW, ORGANIC VEGETABLES, FRUITS, NUTS, SEEDS: (1/2 quantities for ponies)
o 1 Apple
o 1 Orange
o 1 Banana
o 2 Yams (otherwise called ‘sweet potatoes’ in many stores – they’re orange in color)
o 3 – 4 Carrots
o 1 cup of dried, organic, unsweetened coconut chips (www.nuts.com is a good source)
o Handful of sprouts (alfalfa, broccoli, mung bean, spinach, or any mixed sprouts)
o 2 Handfuls of Spring Greens OR Spinach OR Kale
o ¼ Coconut or Extra Virgin Olive Oil (or other COLD-PRESSED Organic Oil)
o Handful of Black Oil Sunflower Seeds
o Handful of Pumpkin Seeds
o Handful of Flax seed or Chia seed (Can be left whole; no need to grind)
o 2 oz. of RAW, CHELATED Minerals (Can be purchased from PENZANCE or other sources)
o Quick “Glug” of organic Apple Cider Vinegar
(with the “Mother” in it. BRAGG’S is a good brand)

Cut up the fruits and vegetables into bite-sized chunks with skin, peels and seeds but NO PITS. Mix with the seeds and oils and vinegars and ‘serve’.

A personal consult is strongly suggested for a horse with health issues as the ‘diet’ will differ from the base diet for a healthy horse. gwen.santagate@gmail.com or (239) 573-9687.

Equine Nutrition, Horse Health & Wellness

Raw, Chelated Minerals

October 22, 2014 Gwenyth Santagate

RAW, CHELATED MINERALS — NO HOOF, NO HORSE.

NO MINERALS, NO HORSE.

Feeding horses doesn’t have to be a drawn out complicated task. Over 50 years of living with horses and caring for them has led me down paths about which I can’t even begin to tell you. I used to ‘believe’ in all the research for the best processed this or that or the other thing. I used to ‘believe’ in all the chemicals, the reports, the manufacturers’ golden words. I’ve thrown away more useless supplements that have cost me more thousands of dollars than I can even think of. Coat supplements, hoof supplements, calming supplements, breathing supplements, feed supplements, drugs for this or that – I’m sure if you have horses then you know about what I’m talking. Pages and pages and pages in catalogues from countless manufacturers all spouting their products are the best for horses.

And now I follow the K.I.S.S. routine — Raw forages, 24/7 Hay, Salt, Fresh Water 24/7 and raw, naturally chelated minerals.

Can’t fool Mother Nature! She knows best. And Mother Nature doesn’t supply processed feeds in 50# bags or artificial supplements in little plastic containers.

FEED THE HORSE LIKE A HORSE! Horses are herbivores. They eat vegetation of all kinds and types – trees, bushes, grasses, herbs, flowers, weeds, leaves, nuts, seeds, roots and EACH variety of forage, EACH type of forage supplies its own natural nutrition to the horse. Chlorophyll, Vits A, B, C, D, trace minerals, proteins, oils and more.And horses EAT DIRT for its mineral content.

In todays world, however, our forages, even wild, are weak in nutrients simply because of what mankind has done in terms of using artificial herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers and more when growing crops. They are weak in nutrients because their own supply for growth, DIRT, is deficient in synergistic minerals.

In Nevada, however, there are mines that are pure and unadulterated by man other than to mine for the RAW, CHELATED MINERALS that they hold. And these minerals are, simply, what NATURAL HORSE MINERALScontains. Find out more about what these minerals are here:

http://www.chelatedtraceminerals.com/chelated_trace_minerals.html

What are chelated minerals? Chelation is the suspension of a mineral between two or more amino acids, or bonding to “small proteins”, peptides or amino acids. (“Chela” is Greek for “claw”.) Chelation substances can include things like amino acids, ascorbic acid and orotates, as well as hydrolyzed protein. Chelation improves the absorption of the mineral from the digestive tract. Chelated Minerals are ORGANIC minerals.Inorganic minerals have to be ‘chelated’ before they can be utilized proficiently in the gut. Organic minerals, however, have been previously processed by plants or other marine life, thus ‘chelated’. Inorganic trace minerals are in the raw, elemental or metallic state and, when ingested, cause absorption problems for the organism that has ingested them.

NATURAL HORSE MINERALS ARE CHELATED, RAW, ORGANIC MINERALS that are pure and mined from several mines in the heart of Nevada. Just what your or my horses would be eating if they lived free on the range out there along with their forage and natural salt.

MOTHER NATURE KNOWS BEST.

This photo show incredible changes to a horse with Lyme Disease, Founder, Pemphigus coronitis and Scratches in just 2 !! WEEKS of being fed Natural Horse Minerals:

The chart below lists the minerals in NATURAL HORSE MINERALS:

Aluminum	Al	Holmium	Ho	Rhodium	Rh
Antimony	Sb	Hydrogen	H	Rubidium	Rb
Arsenic	As	Indium	In	Ruthenium	Ru
Barium	Ba	Iodine	I	Samarium	Sm
Beryllium	Be	Iridium	Ir	Scandium	Sc
Bismuth	Bi	Iron	Fe	Selenium	Se
Boron	B	Lanthanum	La	Silicon	Si
Bromine	Br	Lead	Pb	Silver	Ag
Cadmium	Cd	Lithium	Li	Sodium	Na
Calcium	Ca	Lutetium	Lu	Strontium	Sr
Carbon	C	Manganese	Mn	Sulphur	S
Cerium	Ce	Magnesium	Mg	Tantalum	Ta
Cesium	Cs	Mercury	Hg	Tellurium	Te
Chlorine	Cl	Molybdenum	Mo	Terbium	Tb
Chromium	Cr	Neodymium	Nd	Thallium	Tl
Cobalt	Co	Nickel	Ni	Thorium	Th
Copper	Cu	Niobium	Nb	Thulium	Tm
Dysprosium	Dy	Nitrogen	N	Tin	Sn
Erbium	Er	Osmium	Os	Titanium	Ti
Europium	Eu	Oxygen	O	Tungsten	W
Fluorine	F	Palladium	Pd	Uranium	U
Gadolinium	Gd	Phosphorus	P	Vanadium	V
Gallium	Ga	Platinum	Pt	Ytterbium	Yb
Germanium	Ge	Potassium	K	Yttrium	Y
Gold	Au	Praseodymium	Pr	Zinc	Zn
Hafnium	Hf	Rhenium	Re	Zirconium	Zr

Here are a couple of links that will further explain the difference between ‘rocks’ and organic minerals (Natural Horse Minerals)

http://www.traceminerals.com/research/humanhealth

http://www.chelatedtraceminerals.com/mineral_questions.html

Are you convinced yet? More specs … One 35# bucket of Natural Horse Minerals will last one horse about 9 months when administered at 2 oz. a day …
that’s just a little over .87 cents a day!

One 15# bucket of Natural Horse Minerals will last one horse about 120 days when administered at 2 oz. a day. And that’s just a little over $1 a day!

Remember what you read above? The natural diet for the natural horse is SIMPLE — raw forages, 24/7 hay, MINERALS, salt and water. Oh, and I add Transfer Factor at the start of a new diet just to help keep the Immune System at peak, working order. Transfer Factor will increase the natural killer cells in the immune system by 238% – 437% … can’t get any more “peak” than that!The ongoing, healthy, natural diet will keep the domestic horse in the best condition possible!

It’s easy to order the NATURAL HORSE MINERALS … simply select your choice below:

15# BUCKET :: NATURAL HORSE MINERALS – $135 +S&H

120 days for 1 horse @ 2 oz. a day @ just a tad more than $1 a day.

35# BUCKET :: NATURAL HOSE MINERALS – $235 +S&H

9 months for 1 horse @ 2 oz. a day @ just .87 cents a day!

For the natural forage DIET PLAN for the HEALTHY HORSE go here: Feeding Horses

If you have a horse that has “special needs”, please contact me. I can help you and together, as a team, we can work out the diet that is best suited for YOUR horse at this time.

PENZANCE Equine Integrative Solutions – Where Mind, Body & Spirit meet … naturally.