The Horse’s Advocate Podcast episodes are in chronological order below – the most recent is at the top.
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Three articles from the AVMA arrived in my inbox this week: Gap shrinks between new graduate, overall veterinary salaries Midlevel practitioner proposal secures enough votes in Colorado Federal appeals court…
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Forgive me as I rant about veterinary care. This week, I experienced or heard of four events between veterinarians and their owners that have me asking: Are the schools teaching…
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Over the next ten years, thirteen new vet schools will be built and accredited by the AVMA to teach and add 55,000 more veterinarians to the existing veterinary colleges and…
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This podcast provides two relatable examples of perception management in horse care: Is 24-hour access to hay good, and should you feed processed foods? By listening to this, you can…
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Horse owners are being told to purchase feed and supplements with the promise of improving everything with their horses. They do this by confusing you, forcing unproven marketing on you,…
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Understanding glucose and fructose metabolism within the cell and the effect each substrate has on ATP, the energy currency, is not just for advanced horse owners. This knowledge is crucial…
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This podcast delves into how Stephanie assesses the horse under saddle, determines the rider’s purpose and skill, and then uses her extensive knowledge of science and experience to match that…
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During my insightful conversation with Merja Sumiloff, we delved into the common thread of emotional blocks from our past that hinder our ability to form meaningful connections with ourselves and…
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Kerry Hayes joins me today. She is a life coach and a business coach who uses horses to accelerate people’s ability to find their inner power and confidence. She takes…
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I take a quick break from discussing fructose to return to the metabolism of glucose. The concept of flow (or flux), when understood, helps us feed our horses better. When…
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Welcome to this crucial podcast, where I introduce a concept that is not just limited to humans but also affects animals: the ability to convert glucose into fructose within the…
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On this podcast, Linda and I discussed the basis of all dealings between horses and humans, emphasizing connection at the core, followed by communication and leadership. She also described the…
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Geoff Teall, a seasoned horse trainer with an impressive 60 years of experience, has been a client of mine for over half of that time. His expertise is widely recognized…
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I start this podcast by describing Memorial Day in America, then tie this idea into what is happening in the equine veterinary profession. I only dwell on this briefly because…
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Building muscle in horses is a two-stage process. Many horse owners expect results when applying only one factor. This podcast shows that ignoring one of these factors results in poor…
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There is a turf war between veterinarians and non-veterinarians, both wanting to provide horses with preventive dental care. It started in the late 1990s and has gained protection behind laws…
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This podcast is about sugar as a fuel for our horses to use when it’s needed to run away from danger. However, I also tell the story of the risks…
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This podcast breaks down how to feed horses into five simple rules based on what the food does, good and bad, within the horse. It is a short discussion that…
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This podcast provides an alternative perspective to an interview published in an equine veterinary magazine with a board-certified veterinary equine dentist about EOTRH (Equine Odontoclastic Tooth Resorption and Hypercementosis). I…
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This podcast discusses the basics of breeding the mare and delivering the newborn foal.
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This podcast discusses two significant thoughts about equine veterinary medicine. The first is the breadth and scope of veterinary medicine, which is so much more than just horses. This is…
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This podcast discusses a comment by a listener who likes what I’m saying but doesn’t like to feed herself or her horses anything genetically modified or treated with chemicals. All…
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In this podcast, I discuss two diseases that affect horses: Kissing Spine, which involves the overriding spinous processes, and peripheral vestibular disease, which is discussed at about the 16 to…
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Many people face difficulties in convincing horse professionals such as vets and farriers to consider alternative approaches to horses’ health. These professionals tend to resist change, making it uncomfortable to…
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This podcast is about how I use the knowledge of the brain, and how both horses and humans think to connect and prevent a disaster. It might be refreshing, or…
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Feeding grain and processed feeds and supplements are killing our horses, yet these companies continue advertising to horse owners in all the horse magazines. However, with the Spring 2024 issue…
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I floated my 80,000th horse this week since my first one in May 1983. I include horses I helped in training others and a low estimate of the numbers I…
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In this podcast, I cover three topics discussed at this convention: free fecal water syndrome, ultrasonography of the equine tendon sheaths, and equine asthma. Each topic was informative, helping at…
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My podcast examines what might be happening to the diminished care offered to our horses and where to assign the blame. If you are listening to this podcast, please look…
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When used to understand nutrition, “calories in equals calories out” is the message of the First Law Of Thermodynamics. Everything on Earth, including horses, abides by this law; however, many…
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Stress comes in two parts: the immediate response from the adrenal glands with adrenaline and the longer-lasting response from the adrenals with cortisol. There are specific reasons all mammals (humans…
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Proteins are the most important of all the ingredients that horses need besides air and water. When planning horse diets, you must determine how much protein is required before adding…
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This podcast continues the simplification of one of the 7 “things” placed into our horses. These are air, water, minerals, various plant compounds, sugar, protein, and fat. The last podcast…
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This podcast is the first in a series that starts this process. I take one of the seven things placed inside the horse – sugar – and I define it…
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This podcast is a mix of two subjects. The first subject concerns oral care and teeth health in horses. I go over a paper about peripheral carries, which is the…
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This discussion took place at a Rounds With Doc T meeting available to members of The Horse’s Advocate (TheHorsesAdvocate.com). Attendees were able to ask questions throughout our time together. It’s…
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I ran across a brief article filled with so much misinformation about dentistry in horses and its relationship to their nutrition that I had to pick it apart. Join me…
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The annual Florida Association of Equine Practitioners meeting is in Palm Beach, FL this week. I review the topics to be covered, helping you see what the world of practicing…
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The annual Florida Association of Equine Practitioners meeting is in Palm Beach, FL this week. I review the topics to be covered, helping you see what the world of practicing…
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The annual Florida Association of Equine Practitioners meeting is in Palm Beach, FL this week. I review the topics to be covered, helping you see what the world of practicing…
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The annual Florida Association of Equine Practitioners meeting is in Palm Beach, FL this week. I review the topics to be covered, helping you see what the world of practicing…
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The annual Florida Association of Equine Practitioners meeting is in Palm Beach, FL this week. I review the topics to be covered, helping you see what the world of practicing…
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I want to give horse owners a different perspective on whether to feed their horses vitamins. Most discussions on this subject discuss what diseases are prevented by supplementing with which…
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What is an identity? Is it the thing that makes you an individual, or does it make you identical to others? Which one is it for an equine veterinarian? As…
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Equine metabolic syndrome (EMS) is a collection of factors and events within the horse affected by food, stress, and sleep. This podcast focuses on the fact that behind the top…
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Equine metabolic syndrome (EMS) is a collection of factors and events within the horse affected by food, stress, and sleep. This podcast summarizes information in general terms for most horse…
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In this podcast, I explain in easy terms how a thought becomes a study and how the results are analyzed with math to predict if something causes disease and, more…
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The Beatles played music from the 1950s through today, though two of the “Fab Four” are now dead. Their “invasion” of the United States occurred in 1963 when I was…
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Veterinary medicine is a calling, a passion, that drives people to do extraordinary things, such as commit to healing animals at any moment, despite the personal cost. Today, however, veterinary…
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This podcast covers three topics within the interest of dentistry in horses. EOTRH (Equine Odontoplastic Tooth Resorption and Hypercementosis), dentistry in donkeys at The Donkey Sanctuary in the UK, and…
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This podcast is chapters sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen of my autobiography, Since The Days Of The Romans – My Journey Of Discovering A Life With Horses. If you are new to this…
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It is a simple math problem, as easy as a homeowner’s budget. If more equine vets leave practices than there are coming into practices, there will be fewer to care…
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This podcast is chapters thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen of my autobiography, Since The Days Of The Romans – My Journey Of Discovering A Life With Horses. If you are new…
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This podcast is chapters eleven and twelve of my autobiography, Since The Days Of The Romans – My Journey Of Discovering A Life With Horses. Over the next few months, I’ll record…
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This podcast reviews a vet school’s economic impact statement and a special Equus magazine about the health of our horses. When I read these, my first reaction was a concern…
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This podcast is chapters eight, nine, and ten of my autobiography, Since The Days Of The Romans – My Journey Of Discovering A Life With Horses. Over the next few months, I’ll…
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Dr. Martin Goldstein is known as “Dr. Marty” and “The Dog Doc.” He earned his veterinary degree from Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine in 1973, as I did in 1984.…
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This podcast is chapters six and seven of my autobiography, Since The Days Of The Romans – My Journey Of Discovering A Life With Horses. Over the next few months, I’ll record…
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How long ago is relative to how old we are. To a baby, yesterday seems so long ago. A 24-year-old may think they have “forever” before them, hoping the past…
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This podcast is chapters four and five of my autobiography, Since The Days Of The Romans – My Journey Of Discovering A Life With Horses. Over the next few months, I’ll record…
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Evolution defines the development of a species, such as the horse, throughout all time on Earth. However, the starting point may be adjusted to any moment we choose, for example,…
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This podcast is chapters two and three of my autobiography, Since The Days Of The Romans – My Journey Of Discovering A Life With Horses. Over the next few months, I’ll record…
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Four decades of floating horses have filled me with experiences hard to gain from a textbook. In fact, in 1983, there was only one book on equine dentistry written by…
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May 2023 represents my 50th year working with horses. So how did I get here? What brought me from being a wandering young man to becoming an equine veterinarian? In…
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I received the following emails targeting equine veterinarians with various announcements last week. You must be “cognitively diligent” to read the subtle messages and misdirection, confusion, and sometimes utter nonsense…
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This podcast answers a question about the feeding of young, growing horses and their mothers sent to me by someone in Thoroughbred breeding and sales. Here is the question: “I…
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This podcast looks at a human study that initially solidified the benefits of consuming EPA, one of the Omega-3 fish oils so popular today. However, recently, the same investigators of…
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I am returning to podcasting after a 6-month break. I will tell you about why in the NEXT podcast. Instead, in this podcast, I want to read a blog I…
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In this episode, I review a recommended paper by the prime speaker of this conference called “Review of Considerations When Feeding the Equid with Insulin Dysregulation” by Dr. Pat Harris.…
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I discuss how we get bombarded with contradictory information in horse care. To preserve our sanity, we tightly hold to what we believe, given to us by trusted sources. Who…
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Over the past month, I have heard many great stories about how well the no-grain plus soybean meal diet works from my dentistry clients. However, they also tell me how…
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Several years ago, I asked owners with horses of verified age (papers or lip tattoos) to allow me to photograph the incisors. I shot the left and right lateral, the…
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Water is one of the necessary ingredients to maintain life. Every animal and plant on Earth knows this, but because of the familiarity, we often don’t think much about remaining…
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My guest today is Dr. Denny French, a second-generation large animal veterinarian from the midwest United States. He was a professor at Louisiana State University (LSU) School of Veterinary Medicine…
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I talked with Bonny Barry of Equine Reflections (EquineReflections.org), a non-profit horse therapy center in Folsom, Louisiana. Bonny’s honesty about her journey into this field will affect you whether you…
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Horses thriving is open to interpretation, but as we look at our horses, we all see the difference between thriving and existing. We see this in ourselves. Thriving is a…
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Horse owners are overwhelmed with conflicting “facts” about the care of their horses. Yet, an underlying theme of all the research I find is that everyone wants to treat a…
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As long as there isn’t an ice age, the thin horse will survive and thrive longer than the fat horse because the downside of excess body fat is the propensity…
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In this podcast, I talk about a variety of subjects. Some I have discussed in detail elsewhere, and some are new. These subjects include the microbiome of horses (and what…
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I discuss how we can change ourselves in a way that doesn’t complicate our life but enhances our ability to connect with those horses who would not otherwise want to.…
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Many horse owners associate weight loss in horses with dental issues. The most common sign of a dental problem is “Quidding” or the formation of a “Quid.” Will the horse…
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Dennis Brooks, DVM is an equine ophthalmologist with a worldwide presence established over 40 years. We chat about many subjects: *Where are veterinarians and the profession today? *How is today’s…
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Millions of scoops of grain are fed to our horses every day around the world, yet when I ask horse owners what they are feeding their horses, I usually get…
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This podcast is the second time I have picked up a popular horse magazine, reviewed the articles and added my thoughts on the ones I selected. I received some positive…
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Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome, or EGUS, is being treated in more horses today than almost any other disease considered “routine.” The advent of visualizing the stomach lining using a fiber-optic…
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This episode goes over some frequently asked questions I often get asked as I meet horse owners. My answers are not based on scientific facts because there are no clear…
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In this episode, I go through an email I received from Africa with a connection in the state of Washington here in America. Their results with laminitis are remarkable. But…
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Entropy means the natural and required decrease in energy, moving organized things into disorganized things and eventually ending in complete chaos. It is the description of the Second Law of…
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Feeding our horses as they have for the past 30 years is the “well-worn path.” Insulin resistance, Cushing’s Disease, suspensory ligament disease, decaying teeth, dropped fetlocks, early retirement, obesity, and…
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My last podcast (#051) was about the infodemic we are experiencing in the horse world. This is where there is so much conflicting information about the care of horses. In…
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This will be a podcast where I vent my frustration in my attempts to help horse owners help their horses thrive in a human world. All I try to do…
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I attended 3 equine seminars all with veterinarians discussing different matters: 1) “How Horses Think” put on by Cornell University (not the vet school) 2) “Laminitis Rounds” put on by…
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Why Do We Go To The Horse Barn? Helping Horses Thrive In A Human World is what we do at The Horse’s Advocate. But what about us? How do we…
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Every day someone asks me about feeding their horses. For me it has become simple only because I have repeated this information but for you…. maybe not so simple. I…
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I go over some of the recent articles showing up in the magazines and news feeds for horse owners discussing 1) cavities in the cheek teeth of horses and 2)…
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Today’s guest is Dr Jenny Susser, a sport and performance psychologist from Ocala, FL. In her words, she “successfully applies her years of experience merging mind and body wellness with…
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The top line of horses is the muscles along the back bone from the withers to the rump. It is where the saddle or load goes onto the horse. It…
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I report here on the safety and side effects of 4 different therapeutics used for specific purposes in horses. These 4 studies were presented at the 2021 AAEP meeting I…
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This is a review of what kind of wounds occur in the horse, what needs to be done about them and how to make them heal with the best possible…
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I am on a path of revealing just how science works and why it is a well orchestrated drama to usually promote an agenda. I try not to be cynical…