Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGlucose - The Mystery Of This Required Sugar - # 177 The Horse's Advocate Podcast
Season 2026 Episode 177
Glucose is one of many sugars. It is an essential nutrient for both horses and people. When talking about sugar in food, you might hear words like c…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Am I Too Old To Teach The Young Horse Owner? #176 The Horse's Advocate Podcast
Season 2026 Episode 176
New horse owners join the community every day, from children to adults with little or no experience. Many expect horse ownership to be as simple as …
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Common Plant and Tree Toxins of Horses in North America - #175 The Horse's Advocate Podcast
Season 2026 Episode 175
Horses graze on grass and plants, not trees, because their digestive tracts—shared by equids, tapirs, and rhinoceroses—cannot digest wood. Unlike ru…
4 months ago
Why Science Isn't Helping Horses - #174 The Horse's Advocate Podcast
Season 2026 Episode 174
Science relies on asking questions, testing them, obtaining answers, and questioning those answers again. Scientists never settle; their curiosity dr…
4 months, 1 week ago
Horses Are Not Robots - #173 The Horse's Advocate Podcast
Season 2026 Episode 173
NOTE: There is a section about 1 minute long where it sounds different because I inserted a video of me driving my hands-free car. To see it, please …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Sugar Fungus In Horse Feeds - The Horse's Advocate Podcast #172
Season 2026 Episode 172
The first time I heard the words "Sugar Fungus" used with horses, I thought it might be a new, and possibly harmful, reportable disease. I braced my…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Crisis in Veterinary Medicine Gets Worse - The Horse's Advocate Podcast #171
Season 2026 Episode 171
The April 2026 edition of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA Vol. 264, #4) caught my attention with 4 articles and an…
5 months ago
Equine Metabolic Syndrome and Insulin Resistance Are NOT the Same - The Horse's Advocate Podcast #170
Season 2026 Episode 170
Equine Metabolic Syndrome (EMS) and Insulin Resistance (IR) are just words to most horse owners. We hear them, and we hope our horse doesn't "get the…
5 months, 1 week ago
Cancer In Horses - Is Their Diet Helping? - The Horse's Advocate Podcast #169
Season 2026 Episode 169
Cancer is defined as normal cells of the body behaving badly, at least that's the simple explanation given by AI. It's more complex than that. Luckil…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Horse Supplements Are Only Guessing - The Horse's Advocate Podcast #168
Season 2026 Episode 168
My wife placed a supplement ad for horses in front of me and said it was "interesting." She knows me, so she was testing me to see if this one was r…
5 months, 3 weeks ago