Nutrition

$276.00 worth of Platinum Performance supplements arrives on the RR doorstep. Chromium Yeast, Hemo-flo (nitric oxide booster), Equine Electrolyte, Vitamin C, and Glucasomine Sulfate and also the multi-vitamin "Platinum Performance". Here's something to consider while I'm constructing the final warm up-fracture resistance post.

Please note I'm new to PP, though apparently they've been around. I noticed a PP add on the "On The Muscle" DVD which came out in '04 or '05.

If you have familiarity with performance nutrition, and I spend a lot of time studying about this stuff using myself as a guinea pig, you'll be struck like a lightening bolt by the PP website compared to all other horse vitamin companies. Jeez--it's almost all here--full spectrum proteins, alpha lipoic acid, BCAAs, nitric oxide enhancers, bioflavines, etc. etc. Missing is CQ10 and some of the more intricate human supplementation you'll find on websites such as "Optimum Nutrition" and T-Nation, but, overall, this is good!

And, RR is all excited as the package arrives, but, what is this...the website listed ingredients but for most fails to list dosages. The large 10 lbs. of Multi-Vitamin entitled Platimum Performance does list dosages on the tub and, to their credit, manufacture date, but quickly becomes a major disappointment on closer scrutiny:

Iron 264 mg. 10 times human dose of unnecessary and excess iron per serving--this, e.g., added to Omelene 200 will (presumably)give very excessive iron daily to the horse.

Chromium 264 mcg. Sounds like a lot? Chromium for glycemic control and insulin regulation. Let's see. My personal bottle of Twinlab GTF Chromium--200 mcg. PP gives our horse barely more than human dose chromium.

Vitamin C 250 mcg. for a horse. They should be fined.

Choline 6 mg. Human choline pills, 200 mg./day.

L-Carnetine 26 mg. A human dose is 300 mg/day. Again, fraud.

Vitamin A 7500 IU--the one I take for myself contains 20,000 IU

Vitamin D 1500 IU (as if D supplementation is necessary for horses) . My D supplement
contains 1000 IU.

Some trace minerals:
selenium .79 mg. human dose 200 mg.
zinc 132 mg human dose 30 mg. here we at least have 4 times human dose.
manganese 132 mg, human dose is 15 mg. finally, a horse dose.
there is no copper, boron, molybdenum

Let's look at the proteins. They're almost all here.
Arginine at 2020 mg. human dose is 900 mg. for this important nitric oxide booster.
Glycine 1294 mg, human dose is 400 mg. 3 times human dose.
Lysine 1122 mg., human dose is 700 mg.

and, on and on. Can we say major fraud. This company to the unsuspecting gives the impression of a complete vitamin supplement by listing their contents, but, when you look at actual dosages very few of them are horse doses except "fat" which is over 70g per dose.

So, another RR disappointment and in this case a very expensive one. On the positive side of things, PP does have a lot of products, and several of these are far advanced beyond what you see from other supplement manufacturers, most of whom still sell the same stuff they did in the early '90s.

Training:
August continues. We make very good progress in nice weather. It's hot, but, hardly feels like the 100s they're talking about. 100 degrees in Eureka Saturday. We'll see. Breezes tomorrow night for the oldsters, and we've been galloping up to them. Nob at 159 (so he says) last night).
Art:
8/4/07 Sat. Burch Day 2: 5 min walk under tack
8/5/07: Sun. Burch Day 3: 5 x 2f at 90% speed riderless with some full speed stuff in each heat. 10 min walk under tack.
8/6/07 Mon. 10 min tack only. Much effort by Nob produced mostly puzzled looks and a faster walk, but, did get three steps of trot. We're on the way!