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The Horse's Advocate Podcast

May 26, 2021

There are three fundamental classes of medications in horses that I want to describe today to help horse owners understand what they are and why there is a price difference.

Legend drugs are original products protected by patents and sold under a famous marketed name. The FDA approves these to meet strict standards.


May 19, 2021

Physics is a collection of laws that control how things work in our universe. They have no allegiance to a country, religion or even if you are a plant, animal or mineral. Instead, physics is the rule book by which we all play.

How the laws of physics apply to our horses had intrigued me since about 1978 when I noticed...


May 12, 2021

The Parachute Study was a parody published in a top medical journal to bring attention to the fact that there are few research papers published that we can believe. Couple this with the fact that retractions in medical journals are at an all-time high; humans and horse owners don't know anything but what they know based...


May 5, 2021

Equine endocrinology is a deep and complicated subject. In this podcast, Geoff Tucker, DVM (Doc T), reports on a webinar he attended for continuing education credit presented by a pharmaceutical company. Dr. Tucker addresses their perspectives as compared to what he sees as a slightly different opinion.

This...