>>>> You should join the equine cushings group and ask someone there. They have a lot of experience with insulin resistance. I believe that a vet is the moderator of the group!
I joined that group for a while, just to learn more, but I'll warn you, it's a very busy group, strictly held on-topic, and it can be pretty overwhelming. There are some good documents on file there, but, I thought they were a little abrupt to people asking basic questions. (The answer was often effectively "look it up in the files." Oh well, at least they have good files.) I think there's a lot of good information there, but unless you have a horse with seriously acute symptoms, it's pretty time-consuming to try to wade through everything. Sundance died four years ago, and my other horses are all pretty stable now and have been for years - if that changes, I'll rejoin that list. If you'd like to do some less time-consuming but still very credible research, you can go to www.thehorse.com and search for topics on laminitis, Cushing's, insulin resistance, etc. They report on new findings regularly, and follow the research of the Bluegrass Laminitis forum - I think that's the name of the group. Anyway, whatever the name, there's a consortium of vets and farriers who have been researching this topic for many years, and they knowledge gained has been phenomenal. I've learned tons from following these articles. I think this is a good place to start for people whose horses have basically shown no serious signs, just to learn what symptoms to watch for, and how you might change your feeding and management practices to prolong the good health of healthy horses. With so many "easy keepers" in this breed, I I think we all should learn something about what to watch for. Karen Thomas, NC No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.2/1272 - Release Date: 2/11/2008 5:28 PM
