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Equine Cushing’s and Insulin Resistance Group Inc.

Laminitis
Founder

In the U. S. alone, over one million horses suffer from laminitis annually. The pain and distress of an acutely laminitic horse is a very difficult thing to witness. When you care about your horse every hour seems like an eternity.

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Equine Cushing's Disease
Pituitary Pars Intermedia Dysfunction (PPID)

Once thought to be a death sentence, horses with Equine Cushing's disease/PPID can live long, healthy, and useful lives.

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Equine Metabolic Syndrome (EMS)
Insulin Resistance (IR)

Insulin Resistance can arise in response to other disorders, diseases or challenges, but in non-PPID horses the vast majority of EMS horses are not "diseased".

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Reports From the Field

My IR/PPID mare takes me on 2 hr trail rides 2 or more times a week. She has over 100 hours and 300+ miles logged on the trail in 2016. We are living the good life.

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Latest News

Updates on research, conferences, proceedings, publishing, media releases, articles, and more.

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