11/27/2025
WHY PROTECT IS SO IMPORTANT FOR YOUNG ATHLETES
Protect is designed specifically for the young performance horse — the horse whose body is still growing, remodeling, and learning how to carry itself.
These horses don't need collagen added.
In fact, replacing what their body should naturally be producing can work against their development.
Instead, Protect delivers the nutrients, minerals, and cofactors a young horse needs to activate and boost its own collagen synthesis — supporting strong, clean structural development from the inside out.
Protect gives young bodies exactly what they need to nourish themselves, without replacing or overwhelming any natural pathway.
1️. High HA + High Beta Glucans — everything a young body needs to nourish itself
Protect delivers elevated HA levels to support:
joint lubrication
cartilage development
tendon + ligament hydration
smooth, confident movement during training
And beta glucans provide the stability young horses often lack:
grounding the immune system
focusing the activation from Noni
supporting healthy inflammation cycles
protecting the gut during training, hauling, and stress
These two together — HA + beta glucans — form the early-structural support system that keeps the young horse protected before problems ever start.
2️. No collagen — intentionally
Young horses are at their peak for natural collagen production.
Replacing their collagen is counterproductive.
Supporting their ability to produce it themselves is what creates long-term soundness.
Protect supports:
✔ natural collagen pathways
✔ correct connective tissue formation
✔ proper remodeling
✔ strong movement patterns
✔ long-term joint + soft-tissue integrity
This is structural nutrition done the right way — age-appropriate, performance-aware, and biologically intelligent.
3️. Light sulfur + inflammation balance — not overwhelming a young horse
Young bodies are sensitive.
Their detox, sulfur, and inflammation pathways are still developing.
Protect offers light, safe, micro-damage support, preventing overload while still supporting:
early micro-tear repair
training soreness
stress-related inflammation
4️, Built on the foundation of EVERYTHING in the DRV Line: Noni + HA
Noni activates the pathways the body uses to absorb, repair, and respond.
HA lubricates, hydrates, and stabilizes movement.
Beta glucans ground and direct the activation.
This foundation is the architectural base that allows the DRV line — Protect, Rebuild, Core Unity, Viral Shield — to work the way they do.
5️. FOUNDATION → PERFORMANCE DEMAND
When the body has a solid foundation, supplementation stops being about “fixing” problems —
and becomes about supporting performance demands.
The higher the demand,
the higher the need
for clean, structured, intelligent support.
Protect is built for exactly that:
high-performance training, young horses entering real work, big movers, growing athletes, and horses expected to perform at a higher level early in life.
Protect doesn't replace the body's systems.
It equips them.
It strengthens them.
It prepares them.
This is the formula that supports a young horse before they ever get behind.
✨ IN ONE SENTENCE:
Protect is everything a young, high-demand, performance-bound horse needs to nourish itself, build a solid foundation, and stay strong without overwhelming natural pathways.
Don't worry — these new products don't replace our foundational rockstars. You can and should still use the Blue Label daily for total support but when performance demands heighten or more support is needed, we now have you covered- safely. Without all of the guess work. Without all of the confusion. Full transparency into the why, what and how.Those foundational formulas are the reason we can do what no other company can.They're why our timelines to soundness, comfort, and healing are shorter, cleaner, and more effective — all while protecting the core of the body instead of breaking it down. God designed the body for everything to work together — to support itself from within. When that design is honored, the body responds with a level of health and resilience that can't be manufactured or forced. That's what we're after.That's what matters most to us.Because when you honor the body's design…the body honors back
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
