My vet just suggested putting my 12-year-old WB hunter on chromium as his insulin came back slightly elevated (24.5).
Anyone here have success stories to share?
He’s already on low NSC grain, first cut hay and restricted access to grass. Gets super spooky if fed the wrong stuff, and flat-out paranoid on MSM.
I give my pony chromium picolinate (as this is the form we happen to have) as he is IR, cresty and was overweight. I did so many diet changes (soaked hay, handful of low NSC grain to just get his supplements in, no grass at all etc) so I can’t say for sure the chromium helped, but he is doing much better, has lost weight and his crest is now soft (was rock hard). Its an easy add and does not cost much so I’ve kept it up for him.
Thank you! How much are you feeding? Internet research is coming back with a big range (as usual).
I give my guy 4mg/day. I read somewhere that giving more than 4mg/day is not beneficial but I’m sure it also depends on the form of chromium that is given, as there are several different kinds. I see on the package of Quiessence (chromium/magnesium supp) that 4mg of chromium is the max to give a horse per day (though the chromium is a different form that the picolinate that I give).
Chromium propionate, not picolinate, has shown to help insulin sensitivity at 4mg/day. Picolinate has not shown to have that effect
I use Remission, it dropped my ponies levels enough I could lower meds.
I believe it has Chromium in it.
I feed UltraCruz Metabolic Support with magnesium and chromium to my metabolic mini mule. I fed Remission for years but he didn’t want to eat it anymore. The UltraCruz is a pellet that he gobbles up.
That is good to know! I always look out for your posts @JB as you’re such a wealth of non-biased knowledge here!
I have a message in with MadBarn to ask which type they use in their AminoTrace (which I already feed) and MagneChrome products. Labels just say “Chromium” so it’s a mystery!
If it turns out I need to switch in order to get propionate, any suggestions for good sources of that type that you know of that are available in Canada?
I feed Quiessence, and I know that it is has chromium propionate. I may weight it out against the UltraCruz to see if that’s a better value. Quiessence isn’t costly, but I already order vit e from UltraCruz regularly, so I could toss that in my order.
Great to know, as that one is definitely readily available in my area!
I’ve never looked hard, just know there are a lot of human products that claim (becaues, ya know, supplements lol) to be proprionate. Bulk Supplements is where I’d probably start but I don’t know if they ship to CN, or if there’s a CN equivalent
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