Animalife Vetrogut Soothe & Settle encourages the formation of normal manure and is ideal to soothe and settle the stomach and hind gut. It provides calcium, magnesium, silicon as well as 72 trace minerals.
Previously known as Acid Fix, this formula is ideal for horses experiencing periods of stress or changes in their routine as it creates the perfect pH for your horse to maintain gut balance and reduce the risk of acidosis and stomach ulcerations.
A highly efficient equine buffer made from calcareous marine algae, its honeycomb structure breaks down slowly in the horse to stabilize pH and, as a result, improves the performance and health of your horse.
Vetrogut Soothe & Settle is unique and natural. It contains significant amounts of calcium, magnesium and silicon as well as 72 additional trace minerals complexed together in a structure engineered by the cell wall of the seaweed Lithothamnion species. It also contains a unique trace mineral profile gained from its formation in a marine environment. The elements contained are at trace quantities and are insignificant alone, but within a multi-mineral matrix they work synergistically providing unique and robust bioactivities.
Vetrogut Soothe & Settle is a marine-plant, multi-mineral complex, derived from the cytoskeleton of the red seaweed Lithothamnion sp. It is sustainably harvested from the pristine waters off the northern coast of Iceland. Over the course of the seaweed’s life, minerals are accumulated from the seawater, and stored as carbonate salts in the plants cell wall. Calcium and magnesium represent one third and over 2%, respectively of the 74 components in the total dry mass of Vetrogut Soothe & Settle. Vetrogut Soothe & Settle has an intricate and unique 3-dimensional structure molded by the cell wall of Lithothamnion sp.
Harvested from red algae (Lithothamnion) from the sea off the coast of Iceland, Lithothamnion has a honeycomb structure that provides a large surface area of (>10m2) per gram and a slow release of bio-available minerals, calcium, magnesium and silicon.
Research shows this has significant buffering action for 4-6 hours under simulated in-vitro stomach digestion conditions and also stimulated in vitro hindgut fermentation activities. (Moore-Colyer, M. et al. (2014). Journal of Equine Veterinary Science. 34(3):391–397)
What are the key benefits?
- Encourages the formation of normal manure
- Ideal to soothe & settle the stomach and hind gut
- Creates the perfect pH for your horse to maintain gut balance and health
- Reduced risk of acidosis and stomach ulceration
- Increased fiber digestion
- Reduced risk of laminitis and bloating
- Breaks down slowly – conditioning your horse and neutralizing significantly more acid, over a longer period