I showed interest (on another board)in purchasing this product. Here is the reply I received......I personally wouldn't feed it.
A quick look at the "ingredients" shows mostly heavy metals and trace elements not know to have any value to animals.
Horse, Animal Vitamins and minerals,Power Horse,Power Dog,Power Cat, Power Rooster, caballos, perros, gatos, gallos,Laminitis,Founder,Horse Minerals,horse hair,supplement,cure laminitis,cure founder,farrier,hoof,legs,joins,colic,76 human minerals,hor Looking at whats in there, it is essentially a neatly packaged portion of dirt. Some of the items in there make my hair stand on end though. Several have been found around nuclear waste dump sites. There are similar products on the market here in the US from Utah and Nevada, all with high levels of radiactive elements. Sure radiactive elements are everywhere. Go outside and scoop up some soil and you'll probably have a similar list of analysis. But the soil outside your back door might be safer than this stuff.
EPA has set the arsenic standard for drinking water at .010 parts per million. This product contains 0.20 parts per million. Many times the EPA level for safe arsenic levels. Plus the hay that you feed is also absorbing some arsenic from the soil, so your horse's total intake can be even higher.
Thallium- Product has 10 parts per million. "Studies in people who ingested large amounts of thallium over a short time have reported vomiting, diarrhea, temporary hair loss, and effects on the nervous system, lungs, heart, liver, and kidneys. It has caused death. It is not known what the effects are from ingesting low levels of thallium over a long time."
Dysprosium- Product has 4 parts per million.
"As with the other lanthanides, dysprosium compounds are of low to moderate toxicity, although their toxicity has not been investigated in detail. Dysprosium does not have any known biological properties."
Thorium- Product has over 100 parts per million. Why don't they give you an actual number. 'Over 100' is not an accurate analysis, what don't they want you to know??? What is the actual ppm for the product? Death occurs in mice fed 1000 ppm longer than 14 days.
Uranium- Product has over 100 parts per million. Again, just like Thorium, why don't they give you an actual number? Typical concentrations in soil are a few parts per million (ppm) for Uranium. That is no where close to the "over 100" that the product lists.
This product is probably tailings from another mining operation. A by-product. Add a little binder, make it into a pellet and get a veterinarian from Argentina to state that it is great stuff. By the way, that 'study' was never officially published and never reviewed by anyone in the veterinary industry. It does not state whether they changed their feed supplier (they stated that the laminitis was caused by mold toxins). It did not state whether they did any aggressive ferrier work on the horses to minimize the laminitis damage. It didn't state whether the 150 horses that were stalled had any changes to the their routine (more turn-out time, etc.). They didn't even include a control group (stalled horses that were receiving no miracle mineral) to demonstrate that the changes would not have occurred under natural circumstances. There was mention of X-rays, but they never presented them as evidence of the improvements.
>>>Once these initial changes took place, a better displacement of the horses was observed. Although the vast majority of them never returned fully to be used in the ring, a visible improvement of the laminitic condition took place. Horses that could not walk did so, living at least a kind of life that would allow them to reproduce and be of some service.>>>
This is no different than an untreated horse suffering from laminitis. Once the trigger is removed (toxic feed, grain overload, road jarring, etc.) the horse starts to improve. He states that most of the horses never returned to the ring but they could walk and be breeding stock. Well, so could a laminatic horse that receives no treatment of special minerals. The best "repair" for laminitis/founder is careful and proper hoof trimming. Keeping the horse confortable while it grows a new hoof.
>>>But the real effect of the Trace Minerals was observed as the first year of treatment was completed: no more rotations occurred and the Laminitis cases became so infrequent, that we could expect them only when major changes of the food components took place, such as in the changes of seasons, from rainy season to dry or vice versa. We went from more than 10% incidence to zero rotations.>>>
So, they continued to feed their horses the aflatoxin infected feed??? If they are stating that no more rotations occurred BECAUSE of the mineral, then they would have had to keep them on the toxic feed, otherwise it would screw with the results. Were there no rotation because they were fed the miracle mineral or because the ranch stopped feeding the toxic feed?
Personally, I'd save the money and not buy a fancy package of dirt.
I'm looking for a response to all that. I obviously want to make sure my horse is safe and I'm doing something for her benefit not her detriment. Thanks much
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