Equine Energy Medicine

Send Audrey a Text to get your question answered on the show I'm fired up after talking with a colleague and graduate of my certification course about horses in her area getting GLP1s instead of nutrition changes. The concern goes beyond ordinary digestive upset. We're talking about an animal that relies on continuous forage intake, coordinated gastrointestinal transit, and extensive hin...

Send Audrey a Text to get your question answered on the show “He’s getting older.” “She’s always been grumpy.” “He’s just a picky eater.” Those explanations can make changes in your horse’s health easy to overlook. And when a problem keeps returning, familiarity can make it feel normal. In this episode, we’re covering seven warning signs in horses, from subtle changes in behavior and forage consum...

Send Audrey a Text to get your question answered on the show Navicular Syndrome in Horses: What Actually Helps A navicular diagnosis can leave horse owners feeling like their only options are corrective shoes, injections, pain medication, and eventually retirement. But how much do we really understand about what's causing the pain? In this episode of the Equine Energy Medicine Podcast, Audrey...

Send Audrey a Text to get your question answered on the show Equine Asthma and Heaves: What Keeps Airways Inflamed What should you feed a horse with heaves? If every answer sends you shopping for another respiratory supplement, it's time to look at the rest of the ration. In this episode, Audrey explores equine asthma and heaves through her anti-inflammatory forage approach. We're lookin...

Send Audrey a Text to get your question answered on the show Equine Gastric Ulcers: Why Symptoms Return After Treatment Stuck in a repeating cycle of ulcers? Before you buy more supplements or continue medication forever, let's take a closer look at the whole feeding program. In this episode, functional equine nutrition practitioner Audrey McLaughlin walks through her ingredient-first review...

Send Audrey a Text to get your question answered on the show Learn how to assess the bigger picture when caring for a horse with Cushing’s disease: coat and shedding, muscle, appetite, feet, feeding, and response to care alongside ACTH testing with your veterinarian. In this episode, functional equine nutrition practitioner Audrey McLaughlin explains PPID and shares her approach to forage-first eq...

Send Audrey a Text to get your question answered on the show What should you feed a horse with equine metabolic syndrome (EMS)? Before buying another metabolic supplement, let’s look at the whole diet: hay, pasture, feed, treats, and everything else going into the bucket. In this episode of the Equine Energy Medicine Podcast, Audrey McLaughlin walks through her anti-inflammatory forage diet approa...

Send Audrey a Text to get your question answered on the show Here is the question I get asked about EPM four times a week: does he need another round? And here is the question almost nobody asks: what is actually limiting this horse right now, and which part of his recovery has never been addressed? Those two questions send you down two completely different years. One is a loop. The other is a pla...

Send Audrey a Text to get your question answered on the show Your horse finished Lyme treatment and still is not right. Technically cleared by the vet, but you know something is still obviously not right.  Your vet did her job. The medication is finished. And your horse still is not the horse you had last spring. Flat topline. No stamina. Sticky behind. Grouchy about the girth. Nothing you can poi...

Send Audrey a Text to get your question answered on the show Over the last few weeks, I have had the privilege of hauling (some of) my horses for around 104 hours (well, the driving part was 104 hours - the horse part was around 60 hours) in August, along the Gulf Coast. Here are 10 things I learned about moving horses over 3,200 miles. I hope you enjoy! Minerals and Metals Mane Test: https://equi...

Send Audrey a Text to get your question answered on the show A four-year-old mare the vet diagnosied with synovitis, suspected bilateral upward fixation of the patella and normal radiographs and ultrasound.  In this episode, Audrey explores how development, muscle capacity, hoof balance, inflammation and nutrition may contribute to a locking-stifle pattern even when imaging is unremarkable. She al...

Send Audrey a Text to get your question answered on the show Most horse owners hear insulin resistance and picture a fat horse with a cresty neck. But body fat is not the definition, and lean horses can have insulin dysregulation too. In this episode, we are breaking down what the term actually means in 2026, why low NSC labels are not enough, and the ten questions I mentally run thru on every met...

Send Audrey a Text to get your question answered on the show What does anti-inflammatory nutrition actually mean for horses? In this episode, I break down how anti-inflammatory equine nutrition became oversimplified into a “fix it with a scoop of...” mentality—and why that misses the point entirely. We’ll talk about the real role of forage, feed ingredients, fatty acid balance, sugar and starch, m...

Send Audrey a Text to get your question answered on the show Palmitoylethanolamide, better known as PEA, is gaining attention as a potential tool for chronic, inflammatory, and neuropathic pain. In this episode, Audrey examines how PEA works, the only published equine case series, the dose used in those horses, formulation and absorption concerns, safety limitations, where PEA might fit in a rehab...

Send Audrey a Text to get your question answered on the show Levamisole has become one of the most talked-about adjunct therapies for Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis (EPM), but should horse owners and practitioners be asking more questions?  In this episode, Audrey McLaughlin, RN, MSN, Board-Certified Traditional Naturopath and equine nutrition practitioner, explores how working in both human a...

Send Audrey a Text to get your question answered on the show Your horse still doesn't have a topline, even after switching feeds and adding an amino acid supplement. Audrey breaks down why topline loss is rarely a protein problem, why sodium and mineral status matter more than most owners realize, and why chronic inflammation can block muscle building no matter what's in the bucket. Lear...

Send Audrey a Text to get your question answered on the show Magnesium is the most recommended supplement in the horse world right now. Every trainer has an opinion. Every feed store clerk has a favorite brand. Every Facebook group has a thread telling you which form is "the good one." Today we're taking magnesium apart to teach you how to actually think about it instead of just fol...

Send Audrey a Text to get your question answered on the show Sound familiar?  The ground gets wet, then dry, then wet again. And like clockwork, your horse comes up three-legged lame with a hot, throbbing foot. You call the vet. You call the farrier. Somebody says wet-dry cycles. Somebody says stone bruise. You soak, you wrap, you wait for it to blow, and everyone moves on until next year. Mineral...

Send Audrey a Text to get your question answered on the show Every summer, thousands of horses are diagnosed with allergies. They get steroid injections, antihistamines, fly sprays, expensive supplements, and then next summer, they are right back where they started.  Today we are looking at summer skin (and overall allergies) through the EEM framework - and by the end of this, you will see your ho...

Send Audrey a Text to get your question answered on the show Today we're talking about white line disease, and I want to approach this one a little differently than most of what you'll find online, because most of what you'll find online stops about halfway through the actual story. We're going to start at the beginning: what white line disease actually is, how it's typica...

Send Audrey a Text to get your question answered on the show Today's topic is the reason terrain gets out of balance in the first place. We're talking about the five biggest mistakes I see on the Minerals and Metals Mane Test, the MMMT, week after week, horse after horse. Here's the belief I want you to walk away questioning today: most horse owners are not making bad decisions. The...

Send Audrey a Text to get your question answered on the show Your horse has had fecal water for months. You've tried the probiotics. You've added the gut supplements. You've done the paste. You switched hay. You called your vet. And every single time, you get some version of the same answer: it's probably stress, or maybe ulcers, or just how some horses are. And meanwhile your...

Send Audrey a Text to get your question answered on the show Today we're tackling one of the most frequently cited studies in the world of equine hair tissue mineral analysis, or HTMA. If you've spent any time researching HTMA, you've probably heard someone say: "That 2022 Journal of Equine Veterinary Science study proved hair mineral testing doesn't work." And honest...

Send Audrey a Text to get your question answered on the show Cleaning out the Q&A bin, in this episode we had some fantastic questions - we are talking about: Dr. Allison Marshall, DVM and her podcast Full Circle Equine Wellness as well as her thoughts on soy Chantal from Australia asks about herbs and combining them, how many is too many Visium Light code clarification: audrey10 And a deep di...

Send Audrey a Text to get your question answered on the show In this episode: Why well-fed horses still struggle The four reasons good programs fail What 10,000+ mineral assessments reveal about patterns How to shift from symptom-chasing to root cause thinking Links mentioned: Minerals and Metals Mane Test: https://equine-energy-medicine.myshopify.com/products/minerals-and-metals-mane-test?variant...