Resistance is everything
The health of human and animal, will depend on a functioning immune system. It is able to distinguish between own body elements and and foreign body elements and operates as a defense system to recognize and fight intruders (bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi) or changing own cells (tumors). A very ingenious system that is influenced by many outside factors. That is particularly true for a horse.

Not that horses have a much more fragile immune system than humans, but they are usually one to them unnaturally held and used, leading to excessive stress. A little stress can do no harm and is even necessary to survive and to perform, even in the wild. But an overdose of stress has harmful effects on their immunity and therewith the health of the horse. Click on the button "Stress in horses” to read more about this. It is therefore important that a horse is in balance in a natural way.. Hippodinal helps to maintain this balance mentally and physically.

Equine Stress
Our horses are generally kept very unnatural in relation to the nature of the animal. A horse is a social animal and a flight animal. These two characteristics are not characteristics, but go much deeper. They are part of the essence of the horse. A horse can only respond to those basic instincts are. Think of grazing, flights, another groom, either: just a horse social life. Our form of keeping house and offers opportunities that often or too little. As a result, no action following the induced stress hormone cortisol. This hormone is needed to survive and to perform. If there is action following the pulse is created the cortisol the body uses and there is nothing wrong. But that does not happen, then piling on cortisol in the body and the immune system is thus affected. This increases the resistance against various types of infections dramatically, and the horse is susceptible to disease. Even for diseases which previously was thought that it only had to deal with other influences such as laminitis, gastric ulcers and Cushing's disease. Serious diseases that you see more. Not only because the immune system under pressure by the way, but also by poor nutrition, administration of antibiotics, the need to deliver high performance and transportation. This latter factor is very underestimated in the building of stress in horses. Can you help yourself by stress as much as possible, Hippodinal at the physical level can help to restore the natural balance and optimize the immune system.

Disease Images
Skin Fungus, mug, strangles, influenza, respiratory infections are all no ways to optimize immune system, which is obvious. But there are other syndromes which indirectly with impaired immunity deal. This is called a chain reaction in the body through a metabolic disorder may ultimately lead to insulin resistance (similar to diabetes of type II diabetes in humans). This has proven a connection with laminitis and even Cushing's disease, where the excess insulin the hormone affects the functioning of the pituitary. Although as yet no satisfactory solution for summer eczema, will a properly functioning immune system can prevent aggravation.

In summary, it means that a weakened immune system often is the basis of whether or not immediately visible problems. Strengthening the body's defenses of the horse is therefore an important factor in a targeted health management. .