Perfect Prep EQ™ - The Science

 

It has been known for many years that a variety of nutritional components, especially vitamins, minerals and amino acids have a direct effect on the cardio-vascular and nervous system of mammals. 
 
Even normally quiet horses become excitable in stressful situations.  Stress quickly uses up the horse’s normally sufficient levels of essential minerals, vitamins and amino acids, with the result that adrenalin, blood sugar and heart rate levels become uncontrolled and the horse becomes excitable.  Horsemen have long controlled the energy level and nervous state of their mounts by adjusting the levels of these nutritional components.
 
Non-chemical, totally nutritional management of horses under stress offers several benefits over using herbal or chemical (drug) approaches.  The nutritional approach is a very safe means of managing stress and excitability in horses.  Effects are transient and reasonably dependable.  Finally, since these components are found in every living mammal, it allows confidence that the nutritional components used are not detectable as a foreign substance by the laboratory tests run by the governing bodies of high level equine events.
 
PERFECT PREP EQ PRODUCTS use the following ingredients.  All components are the highest quality and consistency. Formulas are designed to be stable, efficiently absorbed and effective.  All manufacturing is under NASC guidelines.

THE FORMULAS.

The effectiveness of Perfect Prep EQ formulas is a result of the combination of quality ingredients and a proprietary compound.  Like with your grandma’s special cookies, the end result is as much HOW the ingredients are blended and the proportions used, as what the ingredients themselves are.

THE INGREDIENTS.

MAGNESIUM:

Magnesium is an essential mineral in the horse that acts to stabilize the fright-flight reflex.  It works on the cellular level in helping to allow insulin to store glucose and minimize the rapid changes in blood sugar that causes excitability. 
 
Magnesium in high levels is also effective at slowing the heart rate and relaxing muscles.
 
Magnesium and Calcium, both essential minerals in the horse, are chemically very similar but have opposite effects at the cellular level: Calcium is primarily present outside the cell wall while magnesium is abundant inside the cell.  Magnesium calms the nervous and cardio-vascular system; calcium excites nerves.  Calcium is required for muscle contraction; magnesium causes muscle relaxation. 
 
In the performance equine, the additional stress created by training and performance causes an instant deficit in magnesium, and an over abundance of calcium, resulting in excitability, muscle cramps and stress overload.
 
Different forms of magnesium are absorbed in different parts of the digestive system.  One of the benefits of the PERFECT PREP EQ formula is that the appropriate magnesium compound is used in our formulas to produce optimum effect and quickly correct the imbalances in the calcium-magnesium ratio.

TAURINE:

Taurine is a sulfonic acid.  It is synthesized in the liver from Methionine and Cystine.
As a neuromodulator Taurine is effective at regulating nervous system activity, preventing brain over activity and maintaining cell membrane stability. It is used in human therapies to help reduce nervousness and hyperactivity.
 
Taurine is also important in Potassium management in muscle cells, especially the heart, helping to maintain steady heart rates.
 
Quick changes in blood sugar exacerbate excitability in horses. Taurine is used in PERFECT PREP EQ formulas to stabilize blood sugar levels by potentiating insulin.

INOSITOL:

Inositol is a B vitamin that is required for proper formation of cell membranes.  It is effective in PERFECT PREP EQ formulas as a stabilizing element in the transmission of nerve impulses.  Inositol provides an overall calming effect on the nervous system.

THIAMINE:

Thiamine is an essential B vitamin that is key in the digestion of polysaccharides.  Large doses of thiamine are known to provide a high level of calming effect on the horse. PERFECT PREP EQ products use effective levels of the most absorbable thiamine compounds to calm the nervous system and relax the horse.

L TRYPTOPHAN:

L Tryptophane, the key ingredient in Perfect Prep EQ EXTREME, is an essential amino acid that is known to be converted in the body to serotonin, the chemical that produces a feeling of well being in the mammal and induces sleep or drowsiness.  It has more quieting effect if used on an empty stomach, and with daily use Tryptophane becomes less effective as a quieting agent as the horse gradually adjusts to the over abundance.

THE APPLICATION.

Horses are all individuals, and they respond to the same therapy in different ways. 
 
When you begin establishing effective levels of our formulas for individual horses, start with maximum recommended doses, and then back down to find the lowest level that will produce the desired effect.  The compounds are designed to be used independently or together, so feel confident that you may safely use them as needed.
 
Remember that the effects from a nutritional formula differ from an herbal or chemical product, and horses absorb and metabolize the various nutritional elements at different rates.