OXY-OAT and Electro-Boost For The Athletic Horse

OXY-OAT and Electro-Boost increases the horse’s lung strength: How?
By strengthening the walls of the lungs and strengthening the chest and diaphragm muscles. The muscles of the chest and diaphragm do the work necessary to move large volumes of air in and out of the horse’s lungs.

Why increased lung strength is important:
The horse’s system gets more oxygen in the blood stream to burn the nutritional fuels for over all health and maximum performance.

How we know there is an increase in lung strength:
The University of Illinois studies indicate that octacosanol allows for the efficient conversion of food and storage fuels into biological energy, resulting in increased muscle strength, endurance, vigor, quicker reaction and faster recovery times. Octacosanol has been clinically proven to increase oxygen utilization during exercise.

OXY-OAT and Electro-Boost develops a stronger/healthier respiratory system:
By doing this the horses system can absorb to its fullest capacity the nutrients in the digestive system.

Our customers have experienced these changes in their horses:
Increased lung capacity, muscle tone, muscle strength, stamina and endurance. Reduction in time for speed events. Elimination of respiratory problems caused by allergies. New hair growth. No loss of performance during hot humid weather. Healthier looking horses.

Active Nutritional Ingredients In OXY-OAT and Electro-Boost

Octacosanol was identified by Professor Thomas Cureton at the University of Illinois as the component of wheat-germ oil that improved strength, reaction time, and endurance. In studies dating back to the 1960s, octacosanol has shown its ability to enhance endurance and oxygen utilization during exercise. Research shows that octacosanol is taken up by muscles. It appears that muscles store octacosanol and convert it to an energy source. Energy mobilization and metabolism are enhanced by octacosanol. The highest concentration of Octacosanol is derived from wheat germ.

Vitamin E is an antioxidant that counteracts the harmful free radicals that are naturally produced during metabolism in animals. Antioxidants protect cell membranes & tissues. Vitamin E is an important nutrient because it supplies oxygen to the heart and other muscles in the body. It maintains the circulatory system. It is essential for maintaining optimum health of the red blood cells.

Brewer’s Yeast is the dried, pulverized cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a type of fungus. It is a rich source of the B-complex vitamins, protein (providing all essential amino acids and minerals, particularly chromium . Chromium is an essential trace mineral that helps the body maintain normal blood sugar levels.

Why are Amino Acids important? Amino Acids are the building blocks of protein. Twenty amino acids are needed to build the various proteins used in the growth, repair, and maintenance of body tissues. Eleven of these amino acids can be made by the body itself, while the other nine (called essential amino acids) must come from the diet. The essential amino acids are isoleucine threonine, L-tryptophan, and valine . Brewer’s Yeast is a natural source of amino acids.

Electro-Boosttm and Electrolyte help prevent dehydration, muscle fatigue, heat stress during tying up and before or after activity. Also aids in the absorbtion of nutrients, vitamins and minerals.

Immediate Response
The Nutraceutical of choice for Horses

By: Dr. Gary Pusillo, M.S., PhD, P.A.S.

ACAN Diplomat, Board Certified Animal Nutritionist

Horses are constantly besieged by stressors and changes within them and around them, so it is essential for their health to achieve a harmonious inner balance. Walking the tightrope of health, balance and stability can be hard to maintain. The balance point for a horse walking this tightrope is non-dimensional, but quite real. Lose it even slightly, and the horse must put out tremendous effort to regain it, but when the horse rearing program is on target, there is little effort to be made in balance. The horse can then grow and develop under situations where all external forces cancel out by virtue of precise arrangement, one against another thus improving overall performance. In balance there is harmony in the very midst of chaos. Immediate Response is an essential tool in today’s horse rearing programs to help maintain a balance between pathogenic organisms and benevolent species.

The balance of health is dynamic. The elements and forces making up a horse and the changing environmental stressors impinging on them constitute a system so elaborate as to be unimaginable in its complexity. Horses are islands of change, subject to cycles of rest and activity, eating and fasting, of secretion of hormones, and of the rise and fall of powerful instincts, subject to noise, irritants, airflow, humidity, temperature, crowding, handling, odors, confined space, inoculations, agents of disease and physical trauma. The variables are infinite, and all is in flux and motion. That equilibrium occurs even for an instant in such a system is miraculous, yet many horses are mostly healthy most of the time, their bodies always trying to keep up the incredible balancing act demanded by all the stressors from the inside and out. More over, they do it dynamically, since equilibrium is constantly destroyed and re-created.

Immediate Response aids in the achievement of balance in the horse by flooding organs with free-floating oligosaccharide molecules designed to clog up sugar-seeking binding sites on invading disease-causing organisms. In theory the bacteria, unable to attach themselves to prey, will be flushed away. It has been demonstrated that when selected pathogens are inoculated with mannan, this complex carbohydrate does not support growth. Benevolent species such as lactobacilli appear to have the enzyme complexes necessary to use this sugar. Immediate Response Paste containing Mannan oligosaccharides also seem to assist the process of phagocytosis as this process increases in the presence of mannan oligosachharides in some species of animals. A 1993 article in Scientific America by Janeway, reports that oligosaccharides containing mannose may also affect the immune system by stimulation of the liver to secrete mannose binding protein. This protein binds to the capsule of bacteria and triggers the immune system to respond.

Veterinary medicine still focuses on disease, giving it a failure orientation. Its practitioners still act as though disease catches animals, rather than understanding that animals catch disease by becoming susceptible to the seeds of illness to which animals are constantly exposed. Immediate Response is considered in the new class of health tools I call Neutraceuticals, which are used to maintain a dynamic balance within an animal’s body, naturally, working with the natural processes in the animal, complimenting and enhancing an animal’s ability to maintain balance a changing environment. "Neutraceuticals" in no way denies the solid achievements of orthodox veterinary medicine. It would be foolish to seek alternative therapy for conditions that orthodox veterinary medicine treats very well. "Neutraceuticals like Immediate Response Paste give the horse owner/farmer a valuable and efficient alternative to costly high-tech veterinary medicine. Prevention of costly problems is the goal of most "Neutraceuticals", rather than treatment as is the focus of pharmaceutical drugs. Certainly, there is a place for pharmaceuticals, particularly for the treatment of emergency conditions, where time is of the essence, but for the routine management of common illnesses, exclusive use of these strong drugs is technological overkill. "Neutraceuticals", like Immediate Response, also work very well as "compliments" to orthodox methods. In some cases combining therapies make good sense.

Rejection of simple, natural methods in favor of reliance on technology is expensive. Orthodox treatments have now become so expensive that many livestock producers and horse owners cannot afford it.

Healing and maintaining balance is a natural process, common to all life. If we want to foster healing, balance and promote health, we should pay attention to the ways of nature and learn to encourage the body’s own, innate mechanisms of self-repair and homeostasis. This is the basic principle of "Neutraceuticals". Far from being simply the absence of disease, health is a dynamic and harmonious equilibrium of all the elements and forces making up and surrounding an animal. Health is wholeness–wholeness in its most profound sense, with nothing left out, and everything in just the right order to manifest the mystery of balance Immediate Response aids the horse in the achievement of balance, and it marks the beginning of a new perspective on health. Remember that the horse’s body has remarkable powers of healing and self-repair. "Neutraceuticals" begin and end with that simple truth. It is your job as an important part of the horse industry to make intelligent choices of methods to activate and enhance those powers. Immediate Response Paste is an encouraging alternative therapy that shows excellent potential in complimenting the natural process of maintaining a harmonious inner balance within horses.

I first saw the benefits of Immediate Response Paste for horses with my own Percherons. I have a gelding that broke his jay when he was less than a month old. The resulting injury left him without some of his bottom front teeth. After he was weaned, he often "bolted" his food without proper chewing. One day he experienced a colic so severe it took hours of conventional treatment to pull him through. In two weeks he experienced colic again. This time his heart rate, respiration and gut sounds were more serious than the first colic. Knowing the benefits of Mannan on gut microflora, sounds were more serious than the first colic. I mixed together the Mannan with a blend of "other" unique potentiatiors into enough water to make a paste and dosed the gelding with a dosing syringe. Within 15 minutes, the signs of colic were almost completely gone.

Two days later we had our mares out for a photo session, in which one of them experienced severe colic after ingesting some shrubs and an excessive amount of lush lawn. Her heart rate, respiration, gut sounds and classic symptoms indicated a sever colic. Immediately, I dosed her with my new paste, and to my amazement the 2000lb mare was better in less than 15 minutes.

Since my horse’s experience with colic, I have always maintained one tube of Immediate Response for each of my seven Percherons. Immediate Response is also ideal for dogs and cats, especially with garbage gut and or when fed table scraps don’t agree with their stomachs. All my progressive horse clients currently feed Immediate Response Paste to their horses in all critical care situations and they all swear by the effects in the treatment and prevention of certain types of colic, G.I. upset and scours.

Since the definition of colic is abdominal pain or any pain to which the affected horse reacts abnormally with some or all of the following signs: restlessness, pawing, repeatedly lying down, rolling and getting up, distress, uneasiness, abdominal straining, mild to profuse sweating, abnormal stance and gait, depression, loss of interest in food and water: it would be difficult for people to know exactly what type of colic their horses are experiencing. Immediate Response will not affect colic caused by things that will not be affected by the actions of mannan oligosaccharides: particularly obstructive colic and displacement colic. Immediate Response seems to be very effective against colic caused by intestinal dysfunction and enteritis as a result of grain overloads, poor quality feed and general gastric upset from certain plant materials.

Tying up or the more accurate term Rhabdomylousis is a myopathy where the basic mechanism for the condition remains unknown. The etiology in many cases is very similar, that is several days without exercise while fed on grain followed by rigorous exercise. It was thought that muscle glycogen accumulated during rest, and this was utilized during exercise with the production of excessive amounts of lactate. It now seems unlikely that this theory is correct, but the pathogenesis remains elusive. Studies from the UK racing stables have indicated that chronic sodium and /or potassium deficiencies may be involved in the pathogenesis of chronic intermittent Rhabdomyolysis. Recently, it has been reported that there is a genetic component to the disease. Although Vitamin E deficiency has been incriminated in the etiology of Rhabdomyolysis, it is now clear that Vitamin E deficiency is not a cause of the classic disease.

I have never used Immediate Response for treating Rhabdomyolysis, but I would suggest using it to prevent problems arising from the disruption of the horse’s homeostasis. The use of Immediate Response would be an excellent addition to the ration of horses prone to Rhabdomyloysis, because very often digestive dysfunction results when the horse experiences this condition. Quite often treatments used by Veterinarians for Rhabdomyolysis disrupt normal digestive functions, thus requiring the addition of substances like Immediate Response to try to bring balance back to the horse’s gastro-intestinal tract.

Dr. Pusillo is responsible for the nutritional input in close to 200,000 horses throughout the United States and Canada. Gary M. Pusillo holds a BS. Degree in Animal Husbandry from Delaware Valley College of Science and Agriculture, a MS. In Animal Production and a Ph.D. in Animal Nutrition/Production from Iowa State University. Dr. Pusillo is a Registered Feed Microscopist, a Certified Professional Animal Scientist and a Board Member of the American College of Animal Nutrition. Recognized not only for his work with goats, dogs, cats, horses, calves, pigs, dairy cattle and exotic species, his expertise in direct-fed microbials and nutraceuticals is well recognized throughout the feed industry. His reputation for innovation and cutting-edge formulations are legendary. Dr. Pusillo was the first nutritionist in the United States to be licensed to practice on horse race tracks.

Dr. Pusillo is currently the only Board Certified Nutritionist in private practice servicing the domestic pet and performance horse industry. His broad background in all aspects of animal husbandry has earned him clients in almost every state in the U.S. and in many foreign countries. From his extensive diverse and varied group of clients, Dr. Pusillo has experienced animal related problems that most veterinary practitioners will never rarely see.

Because of his unique perspectives and recondite knowledge, Dr. Pusillo is widely sought after as a spcaker and educator.

Immediate Response- Rapid Response Nutrition for All Animal Classes

Rational for use:

"Immediate Response Past" contains ingredients that can help restore and promote a healthy GI tract environment.

SYE (specialized yeast extract derived from the cell wall of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae) is a special type of sugar that offers binding sites to sugar-seeking pathogens. By using their binding capacity to link with SYE rather that the gut wall, they have incapacitated themselves. Because SYE does not provide nutrition, the pathogens are unable to grow and colonize. Several studies have been conducted examining the effects of yeast extracts and their derivatives on pathogens in the GI tract. Components of bacterial surfaces called lectins are involved in the onset of enteric and urinary disease by allowing bacteria to adhere to epithelial cells in these sites. Lecitins specific for SYE predominate in intestinal pathogens. SYE provides a source for attachment that will absorb bacteria that would otherwise attach to the gut wall. SYE may also help bind toxins in the GI tract. Since SYE is not degraded by digestive enzymes, it passes through the tract with the pathogen(s) attached, preventing colinisation. Some beneficial bacteria such as lactobacillus appear to have enzymes that are complex enough to override this system therefore not adversely affected by SYE.

In vitro studies examining E.coli already bound to epithelial cells found that the E.coli could be displaced from these epithelial cells within 30 minutes when exposed to a specialized yeast derivative. This demonstrates that SYE not only prevents the attachment of pathogens to the gut, but may also "clean up" already attached pathogens.

There have also been reports that SYE can have immune modulation effects including a positive effect on the complement system. SYE appears to play a role in the presentation of bacteria antigen to the antibody-producing cell. Immune modulation prepares the immune defenses to responds more quickly and more forcefully to invading pathogens. In a study conducted in Ireland, dogs fed a ration of SYE for one week were then vaccinated for parvovirus, distemper, leptospirosis and adenovirus. The SYE fed dogs had a greater response to the vaccine-as determined by circulating neutrophil and immunoglobulin G concentrations.

SYE may also enhance the maintenance of GI tract integrity. It has been reported that the intestines of animals fed SYE had taller villi and shorter crypts. The villi are where absorption of nutrients takes place.

Direct-Fed Microbials (DFM’s). Immediate Response Paste contains viable host-compatible DFM’s as well as potentiators that not only enhance the growth of the DFM’s in the products but also enhance the naturally occurring beneficial present in the GI tract.

Fungal Derived Enzymes. By including the most common fungal derived enzymes, digestion is more quickly normalized.

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