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Re: [RC] Apple cider - Susan E. Garlinghouse, DVMDepends on the alkaline buffers the vinegar has to overcome. If you get down to the chemical equations, you have to feed a LOT of vinegar to affect the hindgut pH in the slightest. Which makes sense, given that the normal pH of the stomach is 10,000 times more acidic than any vinegar, and yet the pancreas has no trouble whatsoever neutralizing it back to 7. Wouldn't put much (or any) stock in apple cider vinegar for anything other than masking the flavor of "strange" water. Susan Garlinghouse, DVM (in enterolith country) ----- Original Message ----- From: <heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <cstiles@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 7:47 PM Subject: Re: [RC] Apple cider I asked one of the vets at Loomis Basin last summer if apple cider vinegar worked on entroliths and she said they've done studies on it, soaking a stone in apple cider vinegar for long periods of time and it didn't do anything to it. CarolI never practiced in enterolith country, so am not personally well-versed in "enterolithology" but I was under the impression that one can't dissolve stones already present by using apple cider vinegar, but rather that it causes the chemistry of the GI tract to be such that the stones don't form in the first place. In other words, it is at least somewhat preventative, but not curative. Heidi ============================================================ I don't think you have to join a gym or buy frilly outfits to get some fitness. A decent set of shoes and a 15 minute dismount here and there will help. ~ Jon K. Linderman, Ph.D., FACSM, Assistant Professor of Health and Sport Science, University of Dayton ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================ ============================================================ The two best drugs to have in your kit are Tincture of Time and a Dose of Common Sense. These two will carry you through 99.999% of the problems associated with horses and endurance competition. ~ Robert Morris ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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