What is Hormesis? Geoff Tucker, DVM explains the relationship between stress and diet in horses.

Описание: Welcome to The Horse’s Advocate Podcast episode 25: “ What is Hormesis, Hormesis, Rapamycin and Horses” Recorded on September 1, 2021

All things in life experience an ebb and flow, much like the seasons, the loss of leaves of the oak tree, the tides or the birth and death of all living things. What is the challenge for all of us and our horses is not just having a long life but being healthy through that life. All living things go through a period of stress physically to help us remain healthy. This necessary stress triggers cell functions to clean up and repair damage.

The pieces are coming together in human and lab animal studies, so I assume in horses. Beliefs must change, though, to gain the healthy ebb and flow required for cell maintenance in our horses. This change becomes hard to do when we want to nurture our horses with continuous access to food. However, once the unfortunate reality of the damage that continuously feeding our horses causes them, it will become easier to adapt to the science of how we care for our horses.

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