Re: RC: Re: Glucosamine & Condroitin

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

At 12:14 AM 2/12/01, Magnumsmom@aol.com wrote:
>the damage done, which only shows up later, is irreversible.  And preventible.

We've got lots of endurance horses with lots of miles on them that don't 
have damage from doing the miles, so we know that it's not absolutely 
necessary to supplement with CS / GAGS to do the miles with some horses.

As a person who's been involved in breeding and also who's extremely 
interested in the future of endurance, here's my concern:

If you put a horse on CS / GAGS supplementation early on, you'll never know 
if they really needed them or not.  If they *did* need them and this horse 
is used for breeding, then from a breeder's point of view this is the first 
step toward creating a situation where CS / GAGS supplementation could 
become a *necessary* preventative.  In other words, there's a risk here of 
creating the problem we're trying to avoid.

Lif Strand
Quemado NM  USA
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