07/15/2020
🐴🌱 How Can CBD Oil Help Your Horse?
Horse owners have noticed a significant improvement in some aspects of their horses’ health thanks to CBD oil. These are:
👉🏻 Equine Arthritis
It is devastating to watch your companion of many years succumb to the effects of aging. Arthritis can be extremely debilitating to horses. CBD works on relieving the pain of arthritis by dealing with it at its source – inflammation.
Together with Omega fatty acids, Cannabidiol is a powerful anti-inflammatory agent. Although nothing can reverse the effects of aging permanently, CBD oil can ensure that your horse enjoys his last few years pain-free.
👉🏻 Laminitis
A dirty word for pony owners everywhere, laminitis is difficult, time-consuming and expensive to manage. It requires extensive, ongoing treatment with veterinary supervision.
Insulin resistance as a result of a nutritional upset is usually the cause of laminitis. Omega 3 oils are instrumental in decreasing inflammation and improving insulin resistance. The high quantities of Omega 3 fatty acids in CBD oil make it effective as part of the treatment for laminitic equines.
👉🏻 Soreness
Domesticated horses usually lead a life far from the pastoral roaming that suits their design. As such, they can become stiff and sore from over-exercising as well as lack of exercise.
Rest and physiotherapy can do much to relieve strained muscles. CBD oil takes it a step further by reducing the inflammation brought in the muscles by sudden prolonged exertion.
Likewise, horses confined to box rest for day after day can become stiff from lack of mobility. Once again, h**p oil can relieve these stiff muscles.
Horses are highly tolerant of small aches and pains, so it can be difficult to tell if their backs or legs are hurting after a long time under saddle. By including h**p oil in their daily diet, you can do much to relieve these niggling pains.
👉🏻 Undesirable Behaviours
Many horses experience anxiety in their daily lives. Many of these relate to their natural status as a high-flight prey species. The anxiety-inducing instances include:
Separation from the herd, which they see as their source of security
Competition for food
Traveling in a confined space while in a horse trailer
Sometimes horses experience anxiety for no apparent reason. This is usually due to unpleasant associations with items or activities that you may not be aware of.
Some horses, like people, are just born that way.
Anxiety is a complex phenomenon that is closely related to the fight-or-flight response in mammals. Anxiety levels depend on the delicate balance between the neurotransmitters, dopamine, and serotonin, in the brain.
CBD oil is an excellent treatment for anxiety. The terpenes in h**p oil work naturally to regulate the balance between neurotransmitters and soothe anxiety.
Less anxiety means less cribbing, windsucking, kicking, biting, and food aggression. In the same way that CBD works for anxiety in dogs it can help your anxious horse.
🌱 The best news is that CBD oil is no longer a prohibited substance for horses competing in FEI sports. This means equine athletes can enjoy the benefits of h**p oil without falling foul of dope-testing regulations.
🌿 How Does it Work?
It’s easy to understand the benefits of h**p oil when you consider how it acts on the physiology of the horse.
👉🏻 All mammals have an endocannabinoid system (ECS) which allows them to make the most of these h**p oil benefits. This how it works in simple terms:
👉🏻 Two kinds of cannabinoid receptors, known as CB1 and CB2, are present in the cell membranes of animal cells.
👉🏻 CB1 receptors are usually found in the brain, lungs, liver, and kidneys. CB2 receptors occur in the immune system and immature blood cells.
👉🏻 Because of their location at a cellular level, these receptors can influence important bodily functions like inflammation, pain, gastrointestinal functions, and mood.
The name ”cannabinoid receptors” stems from their ability to receive and process the Cannabinoids found in h**p.
👉🏻 In this way, the benefits of the cannabinoids can travel from cell to cell, healing and soothing as they go along.
Recent studies have shown that mammals can produce their own cannabinoids, known as endocannabinoids. This production slows down over time, and this is where the trouble starts. A poorly functioning ECS is an invitation for infection and disease to take a hold.
👉🏻 Adding supplemental CBD to your horse’s diet helps the ECS in one other way. It prohibits anandamide from getting broken down by FAAH.
👉🏻 Anandamide is an endocannabinoid that regulates basic functions like inflammation, immunity, body temperature, sleep and pain sensation. More anandamide means these systems can function at their best.
🌿 The gist of the story is that mammals are naturally designed to receive and metabolize CBD.
🌿 Extensive studies are still sparse with regard to domestic animals but tests on lab rats have confirmed many of the healing qualities of h**p oil.
🐴🌱🐴 CBD Oil for Horses
You should add Hemp/CBD Oil to your horse’s meal in the morning and evening.
🌿CBD Oil Tinctures
CBD oil tinctures consist of a combination of h**p seed oil, and h**p oil rich in phytocannabinoids.
👉🏻🐴👉🏻 Please message me direct to see if cbd can help your horse!!every person & horse is different and will absorb, retain and use the CBD Oil differently - that’s why you need a personalized plan. I’m here to help.....
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