Chromium sources

karmikacres · Chromium sources

You can order human Chromium off the internet. The vet we use who really believes in it says to only use Chromium Picolinate and to use 5 mg a day. You can buy 500 mcg tabs and give them 10 or 1000 mcg tabs and give them 5 a day. Our eat them right out of the feed so they must not taste too bad.

Since adding Chromium, Sonet's cresty neck looks better and smaller fat deposits.

I agree that your mare is young for Cushings but what I've read and been told is that this is often an early sign of what's to come.

BTW, Sonet's endocrin tests and Insulin levels came back perfectly normal!

karmikacres

Oops - this was supposed to be attached to Karen's post about her mare bagging up.

Sorry. I will also copy and paste to proper thread.

Karen

whisperingwindfarms

From my eBook on Natural Horse Nutrition:

And add 2000-3000 mcg GTF (Glucose Tolerance Factor - the polynicotinate/niacin bound form) Chromium to its diet. It's best to start with the larger amount for a horse displaying fat pads and crestiness and then come down to the lower amount after about 3-6 mos; if symptoms reappear, go back up, but if they have disappeared, try going down 500 mcg every few months or so to find your horse's personal need level. We recommend the Solaray brand which makes 2 forms:

•Chromiacin (also helps dilate blood vessels which can be helpful in compromised hoof circulation/laminits situations so common to IR horses) OR

•ActiChrom (without the added niacin for strictly the blood sugar balancing).

•AVOID chromium picolinate, the most common and cheapest form; it delivers chromium but then the picolinic acid will bind with, and remove, other necessary minerals from the body.

karmikacres

PasoBaby_CarolU

I use chromium yeast.

I was told, and have read, that magnesium is the mineral best suited for reducing crest and fat pads.

I'm also following a new protocol with both my Cushings and IR mares. Using Thyro-L in triple dose for 3 weeks, then double dose for 3 weeks, then recommended dose for 3 weeks. I'll test again in a few weeks and let you know my results. So far, the Cushings mare is responding INCREDIBLY after just 2.5 weeks. I can't believe she is the same horse as a month ago! She feels better too.

karmikacres

Needed some more Chromium so I ordered Chromium yeast as well. Although our mare is not cushings, our vet suggested trying Thyro-L to see if that helped her. Not sure I am ready for that. She's already dropped some weight with the Chromium alone.

Karen