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Headley Holistics LLC Evolved Remedies--A Wellness Re-Evolution for Horse, Hound and Human!

05/29/2026

Half of all horses in developed countries are now overweight or obese. That statistic would have been unthinkable 50 years ago. Horses are grazing animals built to eat grass and hay. That hasn’t changed. What has changed is what’s in the feed bag. Corn. Soy. Wheat. Beet pulp. All heavily contaminated with glyphosate — a chemical known to disrupt the hormones that control how the body stores fat and damage the gut bacteria that regulate metabolism. In our feed store we see this every week. An owner doing everything right — managing portions, limiting pasture — and their horse is still gaining weight. We always ask the same question. What are you feeding?

Sources: Kentucky Equine Research · Wyse et al. (2008) · Stephenson et al. (2011) · Thatcher et al. (2012)

05/28/2026

Laminitis now affects 1 in every 10 horses annually. In 2000 that number was 1 in 50. A 2013 to 2014 study documented laminitis prevalence nearly doubling in a single year. It is now so common researchers are comparing it to colic in frequency. Laminitis is a breakdown of the structures inside the hoof that hold everything together. In severe cases the coffin bone rotates inside the hoof. It is as painful as it sounds. Glyphosate is known to kill the gut bacteria responsible for mineral absorption. Magnesium and zinc — both directly tied to hoof health — are now endemic deficiencies in domesticated horses. We have personally rehabilitated horses with severe founder using clean diet and natural supplementation alone.

Sources: USDA Equine Study (2000) · Blue Cross National Equine Health Survey (2013, 2014) · Prospective cohort study — Great Britain (2023)

05/27/2026

Equine Metabolic Syndrome didn’t have a name until 2002. Not because it didn’t exist — because it was so rare it didn’t need one. Today up to 40% of domesticated horses are obese and close to 30% are showing dangerously high blood insulin levels. In our feed store we almost never saw metabolic horses when I was growing up. Today it is the number one issue our customers come to us for help with. Between the mid 1990s and 2002 glyphosate use on American farmland went from 28 million pounds per year to over 100 million pounds per year. 2002 was also the year EMS got its name.

Sources: Johnson P.J. (2002) Veterinary Clinics of North America · USGS / EPA glyphosate usage data · Kentucky Equine Research obesity prevalence studies

05/26/2026

Nobody is talking about this. Glyphosate use in the United States has increased 300 fold since 1974. In that same window — Equine Metabolic Syndrome got its name for the first time in 2002. Laminitis nearly doubled in a single year between 2013 and 2014. Cushing’s disease is now being diagnosed in younger and younger horses. Up to 50% of horses in developed nations are overweight or obese. Two trends. One timeline. The graph in this video shows both lines side by side. We will let you draw your own conclusions.

Sources: USGS / EPA pesticide data · Environmental Sciences Europe (Benbrook, 2016) · Blue Cross National Equine Health Survey · WHO / IARC 2015 · Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine

05/25/2026

Radar came off the Southern California racing circuit in 2008 at 6 years old with a 50% suspensory ligament tear, classic thoroughbred hoof destruction and welts covering his body. His immune system was so dysregulated his skin was violently reacting to everything around him.

We looked at what he had been eating — race performance feeds, lots of oats, high grain, all of it heavily contaminated with glyphosate.

We cleaned up his diet completely and added whole food superfood supplements. His ligament healed. His hooves transformed. The welts disappeared. He has been on our farm for 17 years. His racing career broke him. Clean food fixed him.

05/22/2026

In 2011 we rescued an American Paint horse named Cash. He was 16 years old and days away from the slaughter pipeline.
Crippling arthritis.
Severe metabolic dysfunction.
Terrible hoof quality.
Conventional medicine had nothing left to offer him.

We looked at what he had been eating his entire life — corn, soy, wheat, processed commercial feeds saturated with glyphosate.

We changed everything. Clean diet. Black cumin seed press cake. Rose hips. MSM. PEMF therapy.

Cash’s arthritis became manageable. His metabolic issues resolved. His hooves improved. He lived on our farm for another 15 years.

05/21/2026

In 2021 we rescued two horses in polar opposite condition. Ranger was emaciated and weak — no muscle, no energy. Duncan was overweight and metabolic with skin issues, coat problems and fly bite sensitivity.

Both had been living on conventional commercial feeds loaded with glyphosate contaminated ingredients.

We stripped everything back and put both horses on clean whole food and superfood nutrition.

Ranger gained weight, rebuilt muscle and got his energy back.

Duncan lost the excess weight, healed his skin, regrew his coat and his fly sensitivity disappeared. Same solution.

Two completely different horses. The only thing that changed was the food.

05/20/2026

My family has owned and operated a feed supply store for 30 years. In that time we have watched something change that nobody is talking about.

The first question we always ask a new customer is simple — what are you feeding your horse?

After 30 years of asking that question the pattern is impossible to ignore.

The horses with metabolic issues, gut problems, joint dysfunction and skin conditions are almost always eating the same feeds. Corn. Soy. Wheat. Processed grains.

When we help owners switch to clean whole food nutrition — the horses get better. Every time.

05/19/2026

Two horses. Two different diagnoses. One thing in common. Gypsy was a 29 year old mare diagnosed with Cushing’s. Keli was a 10 year old Arabian gelding with six degrees of coffin bone rotation in both front feet.

When we pulled apart everything in our feed room — corn, soy, wheat, processed grains — the picture became clear.

Both horses had metabolic dysfunction rooted in what we were feeding them.

We changed the food. Both horses healed.

Gypsy lived another 10 years. Keli lived another 23.

05/18/2026

In 2016 my mom Shelley was part of a research group led by MIT researchers Dr. Stephanie Seneff and Anthony Samsel investigating why racehorses were breaking down at alarming rates.

Tendon failures. Ligament ruptures. Horses collapsing mid-race.

Their research pointed to something in the feed. What Shelley learned in those rooms changed everything about how we approach horse nutrition on our farm.

Sources: Seneff S, Samsel A — peer reviewed publications on glyphosate biological mechanisms, MIT

05/15/2026

This one is genuinely alarming and you need to know this. Corn, wheat, soy, barley, beet pulp — ingredients sitting in the majority of mainstream horse feed and supplements right now.

All of them heavily contaminated with glyphosate.

And glyphosate doesn’t just pass through.

It destroys gut bacteria, dysregulates hormones, compromises immune function, weakens tendons and ligaments, and is linked to cancer.

40% of horses today are metabolically compromised or at risk. Arthritis hitting horses at younger and younger ages. Cancer in horses. Reproductive failure.

Fifty years ago these were rare.

50 years ago horses ate hay, pasture, salt and water and they thrived.

Glyphosate entered our food supply in 1974.... I’ll let you do the math.

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