Tammy asks: ‘What makes Alleviate a better product than using mag oxide, dolomite or other magnesium products like more-mag, brands of chelated magnesium etc?, which are often the more attractive option due to the cheaper price’. Mag Oxide is an inorganic form of magnesium that has to be fed in relatively large doses to do any good and then it can act as laxatives. Dolomite is mainly calcium carbonate with only a small proportion of magnesium. Both are ideally meant to be spread on the ground and washed into the soil. For Mag oxide to be utilized by the horse, once ingested it has to split from the oxide part, then find an amino acid to attach to so it can enter the cells to do it’s work. All the organic forms of minerals are ‘chelated’ or already attached to an amino acid so they are ‘good to go’, that’s why they are much faster acting and better utilized overall. Alleviate is chelated and is soluble. Rather than mix it with water and then bottle it, we pack it as the powder so you are not paying for water to be shipped around the country. There is absolutely no difference in rate of effectiveness between Alleviate (or AlleviateC) and so called ‘liquid magnesiums’. Because of the small dose rate, Alleviate is actually inexpensive with one 350gm pack lasting a 400kg hack around 5 months. Including boron in the mixes also gives ‘more bang for buck’ as in the absence of adequate boron both calcium and magnesium are more likely to be lost in the urine. Feeding boron consistently over their lifetime will help delay onset of demineralization and degenerative diseases. As magnesium isn’t stored in the body it makes no sense to subject the horse to ‘highs & lows’ by only feeding it once a week. Any not used up will quickly be excreted. As evidenced at Equitana new research is pointing away from using too much magnesium on it’s own as a calmer. In fact too much can get in the way of the chemical ‘off-switch’ for nerve impulses. The value of special chelated calcium for cellular signaling is coming to be understood. This explains why most people find AlleviateC and XtraCal work so well, they are both excellent for that purpose because contain this chelated calcium. Get yours from our website here or most Farm stores or horse feed supplies calmhealthyhorses/product_nz/allevc.html
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 05:41:37 +0000
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