{"id":7260,"date":"2021-05-21T16:34:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T23:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=7260"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:16","slug":"horse-health-high-insulin-and-fat-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=7260","title":{"rendered":"Horse Health &#8211; High Insulin and Fat Horses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-21-173153.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7261\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-21-173153.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"790\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-21-173153.jpg 790w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-21-173153-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-21-173153-768x777.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many horses that develop laminitis are overweight or obese. We know that the vast majority of laminitis cases are caused by high insulin levels. The correlation has always been obvious, and it didn\u2019t take long for an assumption to arise that obesity is a laminitis risk factor and causes elevated insulin. There\u2019s just one thing: it\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwhorsesource.com\/high-insulin-and-fat-horses-does-obesity-lead-to-high-insulin-or-is-it-the-other-way-around\/\"><strong>READ MORE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au\/bitstream\/handle\/11343\/148423\/Bamford%20PhD%20Thesis.pdf?sequence=1\"><strong>Relationships between diet, obesity and insulin dysregulation in horses and ponies<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many horses that develop laminitis are overweight or obese. We know that the vast majority of laminitis cases are caused by high insulin levels. The correlation has always been obvious, and it didn\u2019t take long for an assumption to arise that obesity is a laminitis risk factor and causes elevated insulin. There\u2019s just one thing: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7264,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260\/revisions\/7264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}