I use some dynamite products, and Bruce I do see your point about possible income influencing some thinking. However, in this case w/the dynamite products I just don't feel that really holds true. I feel they do help animals.
I am a distributor but don't sell it. I use the products for my own personal use on my horses. I am not of the personality type that can sell things to people even though I could definately use the income! I'm just not a seller. I respect that most folks can learn on their own trial and errors. I don't particularly like to make errors, however I've often learned more from them.
That being said, I'm also a skeptic at heart. I had to actually try many of these products to believe in them myself. Thus far, at least w/my animals I have see some very very good results.
One mare of mine in particular of which I have no scientific data to back up the results but it worked. I will tell you what I had discovered.
Many folks have had horses w/sarcoids. Well my beloved humane society adopted first horse I ever had developed some pretty nasty looking sarcoids over two years ago. She was a beautiful dressage horse. Started w/one and they just multiplied rapidly. I became alarmed when they had spread from the diameter of a penny to about a 3" diameter. Plus, they looked ugly. Right on the front of her gaskin, LR. I had looked into treatments and they were all expensive, invasive, and would cause my mare a lot of discomfort as well as her having to be on bute long term. Desperate to not put her thru this yet desiring strongly for a cure I just tried a few things. I did not want to try the Xterra (sp? sorry). So I purchased some pure tea tree oil from dynamite just for the heck of it. I sprayed that on her cut along with some Blue Kote spray. I had no idea if it would work but thought what the heck. Cheap and safe right? Well guess what? Within the first week they not only stopped spreading but started to dry up. Following week they were starting to fall off on their own. Third week they were almost gone. I kept spraying maybe a few times a week. They completely disappeared. Knowing that sarcoids can reappear I waited. Waited, waited, waited. Months nothing. Even her fir regrew normally. Today, over two years later nothing. Her gaskin looks like it did before she was affected by them and no regrowth anywhere near the area. I have no scientific theories (I'm not that smart just go on intuition and observation)..to explain why it worked but it did.
It gets better too. Last year this same mare, whom I love w/all my heart; yet is very very accident prone no matter how safe I try to keep her, somehow split her leg open right below the gaskin, same leg as the sacoids (figures) right at the front of the hock. REALLY bad cut. Deep and wide. Made your stomach sick to look at it. Just missed tendons and everything in there. I could see inside her leg when she'd lift it to walk. uGGG..My first issue was trying to keep it from becoming infected. I doctored it best I could and wrapped it. Difficult to wrap that area but was imperative to keep it clean so I found a way. It started to heal then stopped at a certain point. I called the vet for suggestions. They wanted to do skin grafts to restimulate growth. $300-500.00. Lots of bute again. 6-9 months healing time in that area as they said it was very difficult to heal.
Now I know bute has its place but I'm a conservative w/medicines. Human and animal. I usually tend to way the postives w/the side affects and make my own call. This mare has a very sensitive body chemistry so I had to make a decision. Once again, I got a little advice from another dynamite distributor, actually talking to her by accident, and she suggested trace minerals. Minerals? For a cut? No way. Well, at $25.00 a bottle and no pain possibly to my mare vs several hundred dollars and lots of bute I once again figured what the heck. Id'd try this first and if it didn't work I'd have no choice but to do the other.
I applied just a few drops in each corner of her lacertation and within hours, days it formed not only a protective layer but also the healing was somehow restimulated. Her leg was completely closed and healed in a few weeks. No infection, now swelling, she was sound fortunately, and looks better than before. She had an old scar from before I got her there. It actually looked better than before she cut it. Go figure.
I don't doubt medicine at all. Nor vets. I respect my vets. I've just decided to try to fine other ways less invasive FIRST if possible. Again, I have no scientific theory, data or information as to why these to products worked but they did. My eyes and the fact that my mare healed from both serious afflictions were proof enough.
Also my endurance mare is a dynamite horse. Just the minor stuff like the vitamins, minerals, loose salt. I do not feed her the PGR as I don't really feed her grain. She does fine.
I do use another product that I like instead of that. There are many many out there. I am pleased we have so many choices. I have to say I do back the dynamite products at this point.
Still as for science to me only seeing is really really convincing to me not just facts in a book. Just my own personal experiences true to fact. I'm no longer a skeptic.
