Threads here have recommended it. But Google says oats can cause ulcers, as do some of the ulcer supplement manufacturers.
If beta glucan is the active part of oat bran or flour, do people buy that and feed to horses? What’s the recommended amount?
And I can’t find studies - is it all snake oil?
Go look what the primary ingredient of Suceed is.
Oat flour.
Right. But if you search articles you read that oat flour contains starch. Which is bad for ulcers. And that beta glucan is the part of oat flour that can help. So why not cut to the chase?
The oat flour in Succeed isn’t just generic, ground oats, which IS what some people do (sometimes successfully, sometimes not)
They use a special breed of oats high in beta glucan, and they grind the portion of the oat with the bg, so that each measured weight of the “flour” is highest in bg.
If you just grind oats, you’re just feeding whole oats, only ground, including all the starch.
Cereal grains in general can cause ulcers. Oats carry the lowest risk due to their high fiber content and where they are digested.
You COULD buy beta glucan and feed that. It absolutely has valid science in supporting mucosal lining health.
so what would be the dose if I got the kind I linked to above? 250mg/day for humans… x10? At that rate the bag is 200 servings at $0.56 each
In this study (opens a PDF) “Participants were administered 1 to 2 ounces of a polysaccharide blend (MHB3 Hyaluronan [240–480 mg]; Betacan Schizophyllan [60–120 mg]” (Schizophyllan being the beta glucan)
My oldie came with some loose manure issues. I tried oat flour and saw positive change the first week (if I recall correctly) but then back to loose manure. Same for extra pro/pre bios (though I think the positive changes lasted longer).
Switching from regular TCS to the Gold TCS fixed him right up, touch wood.
I do not know if his loose manure was ulcer related or not but thought I’d share.
that study was done on Relyne (in case anyone is interested), and because it’s a combo of HA and bg, it’s hard to know how much of that contributed.
This study showed results at 2gm but not 125mg but dang there’s a huge range in between.
Soooooo 
The Gold line adds in gastric support in the form of the “same” seaweed-derived calcium that’s in Outlast
Yes! I tried Ourlast before the switch and didn’t see the results I have with the Gold TCS but there were other factors that may have made it an unfair comparison.
At 2g the 500g bag of beta glucan I shared contained 250 doses at a cost of $0.45 each which isn’t bad compared to Relyne at $1.21 maint/$2.42 loading dose. Minus, of course, the hyaluronin…
Ulcers are a real rabbit hole… 
You could add l-glutamine to the bg and be more like Succeed.
How much l-glutamine, do you think?
Smartdigest Ultra has 1,000mg, FullBucket® Equine Probiotic Pellets has 2,500mg, dac CoolGut has 10,000mg and Platinum recommends 36,000mg twice a day!
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