ColiFLEX GastroJoint Care 3kg
UNIQUE FORMULATION!
Multifunctional Equine Digestive Feed Supplement Used by International Riders, Trainers, Studs & Vets
ColiFLEX GastroJoint Care provides a beneficial combination of key scientifically proven ingredients to help mitigate joint and gastric issues. Maintenance of joint constituents is essential for healthy joints. A healthy digestive system is pivotal to joint health. A compromised digestive tract can result in reduced digestion of key nutrients required to maintain a healthy joint complex. ColiFLEX GastroJoint Care is formulated with 50% Coligone, which works throughout the digestive tract using natural active ingredients to help combat compromised digestive health and support optimum digestion of Joint Care Supplement ingredients. This UNIQUE GASTRO-JOINT FORMULATION helps to ensure maximum nutrition for your horse’s joints, through improved digestive function. Suitable for for all equines, especially older & hard working horses, who may be subjected to wear and tear & require targeted nutrition to promote optimum joint flexibility & integrity.
Designed to help with Joint support, flexibility, suppleness, gastric irritation, crib biting, wind sucking, sour behaviour, tucking up, weight issues and poor performance in competition horses. Calms stressy horses.
COMPETITION SAFE - FEI & JOCKEY CLUB RULES
FEEDING INSTRUCTIONS;
Over 14.2hh :30-60g added to the feed once a day
Under 14.2hh: 25g (including foals and youngstock)
Can be used for horses, ponies, broodmares, stallions and foals
For Equine use only - for best results feed daily.
Ingredients per kg: Coligone 500g Glucosamine, 217g, MSM 20g Hyaluronic Acid (HA) 2.1g, Vit C 20g, VitE 5g/kg, Omega3 Complex 100g, scFOS, 100g, MOS 150g, Yeasacc 138g, Sodium Bicarb 10g, Seaweed Buffer
Technical Blog - ColiFlex GastroJoint Care
This month our technical blog focuses on our Brand New Product- ColiFlex GastroJoint Care - offering a unique Digestive and Joint Health fusion formulation to provide optimum nutrition for healthy joints. Lisa Elliott, MSc from Equine Nutrition Solutions - explains why joints are so important, what they need to be healthy, and how you can provide the best nutrition to help keep your horse’s joints flexible and functioning well throughout their life:
Whether your horse jumps, piaffes or hacks, their joints keep them moving. Synovial joints provide movement, and your horse has 18 of them spread throughout the skeleton. Providing these joints with the right nutrition is essential to maintain joint function and performance and minimise injury and a good place to start is knowing what the joint needs to remain healthy.
So, what makes a healthy joint?
Every synovial joint in your horses’ body contains two bony ends, covered by articular cartilage, which is a type of connective tissue, and encased within a joint capsule. The inner layer of the joint capsule called the ‘synovial membrane’ secretes synovial fluid which provides cushioning and prevents friction between the joint structures, and the outer layer helps support and stabilise the joint. The synovial fluid within the joint nourishes the joint cartilage. It’s important to realise that the joint should be thought of as a whole organ with key relationships between cartilage, bone, and synovial fluid where the synovial fluid supplies the vital nutrients for the joint to remain healthy and functioning well.
The synovial fluid contains a combination of different compounds all of which are integral to joint health. A major component of synovial fluid is hyaluronic acid which is a type of glycosaminoglycan (GAG) made up of a carbohydrate, attached to a protein backbone, Hyaluronic acid helps give synovial fluid its viscosity along with a type of protein called lubricin.
Articular cartilage contains a matrix of collagen, proteoglycans, and water. Hyaluronic acid is also present in cartilage. Proteoglycans help the cartilage become elastic and strong and are made up of chains of GAGs and incorporate chondroitin and keratin sulphate.
Maintenance of these joint constituents is essential for healthy joints, so how can you ensure you are supplying the right nutrition to support them?
Basic Joint Nutrition
Joints require certain macro and micronutrients, as part of a balanced diet, to maintain and support joint health and integrity. Glucose, which is abundant in forage, provides the basis for building GAGs and proteoglycans. Protein is key for proteoglycans and collagen so ensuring your horse is getting a good supply of essential amino acids will help build the protein for good joint integrity.
Calcium and phosphorus are key constituents of bone but need to be supplied at the correct ratio of 2:1 (calcium to phosphorus) to ensure bones, and related joints stay strong and healthy. Other essential minerals include copper, zinc and sulphur which are all important in the formation of cartilage. Important vitamins for joint and bone health include Vitamin A, D and B vitamins along with Vitamin E.
Targeted Joint Nutrition with ColiFlex GastroJoint Care
ColiFlex GastroJoint Care provides optimum, targeted nutrition for healthy joints in 2 ways:
In the Digestive Tract
A healthy digestive system is pivotal to joint health. Even if a horse is receiving a fully balanced, forage-based diet, a compromised digestive system could mean reduced digestion of key nutrients needed to maintain a healthy joint complex. Additionally, a healthy digestive tract is essential for your horse to gain full benefit from targeted joint nutrition.
ColiFlex GastroJoint Care is formulated with 50 per cent Coligone, which works throughout the digestive tract using active, natural ingredients to help combat compromised digestive health and support optimum digestion. This unique formulation helps to ensure maximum nutrition for your horse’s joints, through improved digestive function.
In the Joint Complex
Exercise and the natural ageing process can result in wear and tear within the joint complex, which can lead to inflammation and breakdown of key joint constituents and eventually, degenerative joint disease (DJD) or arthritis. ColiFlex GastroJoint Care provides a beneficial combination of key nutrients to help mitigate these effects, and provide the building blocks to support healthy, strong, and flexible joints in a readily available form:
Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulphate
Glucosamine in an important precursor, or a ‘building block’ to glycosaminoglycans and Chondroitin Sulphate is a principle glycosaminoglycan of Proteoglycans. Both provide key joint requirements to help promote joint health, flexibility, and integrity. ColiFlex GastroJoint Care contains both Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulphate because research has shown they work well together to improve joint function. Recent studies have shown evidence that they help to build cartilage, reduce inflammation, and offer protection against cartilage degradation within the joint.
MSM
MSM is mainly a source of sulphur, which is essential for Collagen Production. Collagen is a structural protein which is a critical component of joint cartilage providing a structural framework. MSM also has anti-inflammatory properties and can help reduce pain, helping to soothe discomfort and promote a healthier joint complex.
Hyaluronic Acid (HA)
Hyaluronic Acid (HA) is another glycosaminoglycan. It is the key component of synovial fluid which provides essential lubrication and is also a potent anti-inflammatory agent, which makes it essential for healthy joints. Research studies using HA have shown reduced joint swelling and inflammation, along with chondroprotective effects, which help to delay the characteristics of arthritis and improve joint movement.
Antioxidants
Preventing damage to joints from free radicals, which are released during normal exercise and metabolic processes is vital in preserving joint health and integrity throughout your horse’s life. ColiFlex GastroJoint Care supplies Vitamin C and E, both potent anti-oxidants, which work together within the joints to reduce damage and inflammation caused by free radicals. Vitamin C also has an important role within collagen production. Supplying Vitamin C is particularly important for older horses who are less able to produce it within their body, to ensure their bones and joints remain strong and healthy.
Omega 3 Complex
Omega 3 fatty acids are known for their anti-inflammatory properties, which help prevent damage to joints by controlling inflammation. Omega 3 fatty acids can also reduce pain and stiffness and research has shown that they are readily absorbed into synovial fluid, increasing their potential to provide support and comfort within the joint capsule. Recent studies have shown that horses with arthritis receiving Omega 3 fatty acids had a significant decrease in joint inflammation. ColiFlex GastroJoint care, therefore, contains a potent Omega 3 complex to help mitigate damage and support optimum joint health and integrity.
ColiFlex GastroJoint Care delivers generous levels of calcium for optimum bone health and integrity. Strong, healthy bones are essential because they create less stress on joints, which helps to ensure those joints stay flexible and functioning well.
ColiFlex GastroJoint Care is particularly suitable for older and hardworking horses and ponies who may be subject to greater wear and tear and need targeted nutrition to promote optimum joint flexibility and integrity. The unique formulation of ColiFlex GastroJoint Care also means it can be fed daily to a wide range of horses and ponies to support digestive health and provide beneficial nutrition to aid the development and maintenance of healthier joints.
If you have any questions about creating the best diet for your horse and keeping your horse healthy through the right nutrition, please contact Coligone – 0333 0503785/07986 183616 or sales@hbradshaws.co.uk.
