August 2004

Your Horse Needs Antioxidant-Laced Fuel

These powerful nutrients arm your horse against the damaging waste products in his body.

Your horse’s best source of antioxidants is fresh grass.

It would be difficult in this day not to have heard the word “antioxidants.” You likely also know they’re beneficial to health, but you may not fully understand why.

As you remember from grammar-school science, every tissue in the body uses oxygen to burn the calories in foods. Oxygen is also a first-line immune defense against invading organisms, cancer cells and for repairing damaged tissue.

However, waste products are generated as the body finishes using up the oxygen, and these are called “free radicals.” Free radicals are also generated when drugs and/or toxins are broken down and enter the horse directly from pollution in air, soil and water. …