12/10/2025
Pro ty kdo se chtějí vzdělávat.
⭐️ZDARMA -> Odkaz na online lekci připravenou odborníkem na laminitis a endokrinologii najdete v 1.komentáři příspěvku (mého i původního).
Moc doporučuji majitelům koní sledovat i The study of the equine hoof.
Insulin is the cause of the most common form of laminitis: HAL - hyperinsulinaemia associated laminitis.
It is basically too much insulin in the blood.
Insulin has been shown repeatedly in controlled studies and many field studies to cause laminitis.
If your pony or horse has a high insulin then the risk of him getting laminitis is higher than if his insulin is in the normal range. Dr Van Eps shows the evidence for this.
He promotes suitable diet, movement and weight loss to reduce insulin and shares the new drugs available to reduce insulin.
Please see the comments for the link to the lecture.
Thank you to Andrea at the laminitis site for sharing this with me!
Dr Andrew van Eps runs the Laminitis & Endocrinology Laboratory at PennVet in the USA.
With his beautiful Australian accent he explains that laminitis due to increased insulin is due to stretching of the secondary epidermal lamellae.
This stretching weakens the supporting function of the lamellae and under the forces of the horse's weight, increased by movement, P3 and the hoof capsule can move away from each other and P3 can sink down into the hoof capsule.
If insulin levels are returned to normal by limiting sugar and starch in the diet (and if necessary with the short-term use of SGLT2 inhibitor medications), the lamellae can often repair, and horses return to full soundness.
We also know that mechanical strategies and trims are also very important in treating laminitis.
