Improving Performance Horses – Learn the Hidden Natural Secerts

Lactic & Pyruvic Acid from Exercise in Muscles & Blood are the
MOST Limiting Factor for Performance in Horses.

 There is a Very Narrow Body pH Limit that is Mandatory for Optimal Performance.

Utilizing Ionized Alkaline water generated fresh from a medical grade water processor as drinking water for performance horses can help them more rapidly recover from exercise acidosis, dehydration and myopathy (Tying Up).

The accumulation of excess lactic and pyruvic acid in muscles and blood is the most limiting factor for muscle strength, endurance and speed.

Performance horses can only function properly if the pH (acidity or alkalinity) of the blood is within a very precise narrow range of pH 7.42 to 7.45.   Any variation from this normal range will result in a decrease in performance.

All day long the body produces acids as a normal part of metabolism, even in resting horses. The body is continually neutralizing and excreting these acids to preserve the pH of tissue cells and blood within the optimal range, so the body can function normally.  In resting and only slightly active horses, the body maintains the correct acid-base balance through a complex series of processes, including the elimination of carbon dioxide through the lungs during breathing, and the elimination of lactic acid through the kidneys and urine.

Normally a non-working horse can eliminate excess acid without depleting its salt (electrolytes or alkali) reserve, but the situation changes dramatically when the horse is subject to strenuous exercise.  Different types of work result in different electrolyte losses.

Horses performing low intensity exercise for long periods ( long distance endurance) lose large amounts of sweat which is high in electrolytes, particularly chloride ions.  This creates a high blood pH (known as a metabolic alkalosis).

Lower intensity exercise uses oxygen to provide energy, and is known as aerobic exercise.  Aerobic exercise does not produce high levels of lactic acid.

Horses performing shorter term, high intensity (sprint) work, such as CDE Driving horses during the Marathon and cones phases, event horses on the cross country course or race horses: TB or QH, and polo ponies lose smaller volumes of sweat, but develop lactic acidosis from anaerobic metabolism. This intense exercise uses a different energy production pathway, where energy is provided from carbohydrates without oxygen (anaerobic exercise). The side effect of this intense exercise is the production of large amounts of lactic acid buildup.  Blood lactic acid levels increase dramatically at speeds over 10 meters per second.

Exercise that causes acidosis rapidly causes muscle fatigue, failure to finish (reduced stamina and endurance), muscle soreness and extended recovery periods (12 to 24 and up to 72 hours).

Acidosis can be worsened if a horse is dehydrated, with insufficient water and electrolytes to maintain normal body fluid balance.   Ionized, alkaline, negative ORP water and electrolytes help maintain the cell and blood acid/alkaline balance to near normal limits and decreases dehydration and allows for a more rapid recovery from exercise.

On the other hand, prolonged slow work tends to cause heavy sweat loss and alkalosis.  Sweat contains large amounts of essential electrolytes, and these must be replaced rapidly to maintain normal body pH and fluid balance.

Alkalosis causes poor performance, blowing after exercise, nervousness, muscle cramps, and increased blood bicarbonate levels.

The best way to neutralize acids is to use an alkali.   The body does this by using the essential electrolyte, sodium (an alkali), which forms a salt with the excess lactic acid.

The problem with this is that sodium reserves are quickly depleted when horses are producing a lot of lactic acid during hard exercise, and are losing sodium in sweat as well.   Low body sodium levels reduce the normal thirst reflex, so horses with low sodium levels are often not inclined to drink after hard work, and thus don’t re-hydrate as well as they could.

In addition, when salts are formed while neutralizing lactic acid, they can’t be lost through the kidneys unless they are in solution, so the body must use water it cannot afford to lose, to make sure the salts are eliminated causing increased dehydration.

That’s one reason why Processed water or Alkaline, Ionized, Micro-structured Water generated by a medical grade water processor & electrolyte supplements are critical in performance horses.

A horse in work loses, in one hour, up to twice as much water, sodium, and chlorides as would be lost normally during a whole day in a resting horse.

After energy availability; the accumulation of excess lactic acid in muscles and blood is the most limiting factor for muscle activity, and the most common cause of muscle fatigue, cramps, tying up and poor performance.

 Why Ionized Water Improves Your Horses Performance?

• Ionized Water is ordinary water processed through a medical grade water generator – so that it can – Balances blood and tissue pH rapidly
• Ionized Water – Hydrates quickly, much faster than any other water. One of water’s unique properties is the negative ORP. Negative water is easily & quickly pulled into the individual
• cells through the aquaporin (or water channel) structures in the cell walls. Ordinary water forms large clusters, has a positive charge causing it to contain free radicals.
• Only a small fraction of the ordinary water we drink is permeable to the cellular wall.
• The ordinary water you and your horses drink does not hydrate well, it only irrigates the tissues.
• A body has to work very hard to absorb regular water. Wasting vital energy trying to hydrate and remove acids from exercise, of which a performance horse cannot afford to spare.
• Medical Grade Ionized Water – Is high in Anti Oxidants which gobble up massive amounts of free radicals produced during exercise.

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References: RanVet,  Pol J Vet Sci. 2010;13(2): 373-9 Muscle damage, hydration, electrolyte balance and vasopressin concentrations in successful and exhausted endurance horses. Munoz A, RiberC, TrigoP, Castejon F. Depart of Animal Med and surgery, School of Vet Med, U Cordoba, Spain.