Hair Analysis

Hair analysis has been popular with naturopaths for many years, and for 30 years Europeans have been applying this technology to their horses. When Standardbred racehorses came to Canada from Europe, this practice came with them. Naturopaths work toward optimum health; not just fixed on fixing health problems, these specialists push horses in the direction of perfection. Hair analysis provides them with a tool to determine a horse’s weak points by pinpointing nutritional deficiencies and exposure to toxins.
Twenty years ago, Hans and Elizabeth Söderström started their company in Sweden to provide hair analysis as a diagnostic tool and products to address non-optimal equine conditions diagnosed, including gastric conditions that could lead to decreased performance and eventually illness and even death.

Elisabeth Söderström, who runs the United States’ distribution point for Swedish Horsepower, is based in Clearwater, Florida. She enthusiastically shares successes from clients who’ve experienced miracles with the company’s supplements.
A heartwarming story comes from Texas, where doting grandparents gave their young granddaughter an aging and gentle broodmare, a perfect first horse for a child. Unfortunately, the mare developed diarrhea lasting for months, and no treatments seemed to work. The young girl faced the loss of her new friend, so the grandparents turned to Swedish Horsepower. Joann suggested Gastromin to address the gastric issues, and the mare was started on the supplement.
A week later, Elisabeth received a welcome phone call. The grandfather had gone into the barn and begun shouting. His wife rushed to him, expecting, as she had been for days, to find the mare down and unable to rise. Instead, she found her husband, triumphantly holding a handful of manure aloft, exclaiming “This is the first solid poop she’s had in months!”
Today, the mare is doing fine and the granddaughter is enjoying her first horse.
Increased performance brings racehorse trainers to Swedish Horsepower. Successful harness racing trainers Erv Miller and Trond Smedshammer are listed among Swedish Horsepower’s satisfied customers. On a racetrack, optimum conditioning can shave the fraction of a second off a horse’s time that makes the difference between first place and out of the money.
Another satisfied customer is barrel racer Emma Haynes. She began supplementing her eight-year-old Quarter Horse mare, LA Showtime, with Pre and Post Competition, designed to increase the effectiveness of the circulatory system and thus improve performance. With the help of this supplement, Emma and LA Showtime shaved a full second off their racing time.
And about those deer…in Indiana, a deer farmer has found that by supplementing the fawns as they are weaned, they show fewer symptoms of stress. The common “weanling diarrhea” is eliminated, and they grow larger and stronger.
There are many symptoms and indications that a horse may be experiencing some non-optimal physical condition that can be addressed nutritionally, such as stiff neck and shoulder muscles, problems with the knees and front vertebra joints, tension in the groin, poor and dull coat, colic, sluggishness in the muscles, poor appetite, weight loss, significant increases in the production of saliva or dry mouth and swollen glands under the jawbone. Or perhaps you just want to boost your horse’s performance in a competitive field.
To find out more about this fascinating science, visit http://www.swedishhorsepower.com/.

Horse Natural Products

Swedish Horse Power, 

has developed all natural products, through years of clinical studies, the process of hair analysis, has aided, in their development.

Horses are a grazing animal, and by its' nature, dependent on herbs with high nutritition. Since ancient times the horse has migrated over large areas,  in search of suitable grazing areas. Natural instincts led the native horse to the proper grazing areas, where they could find the necessary herbs, that were important to their health. Today, the grazing areas are often fenced in, and lack the combination of needed herbs, for proper feeding. Regardless of how well the horse's instincts are developed, the horse cannot find the needed nutrition. A grazing horse spends about 15- 18 hours per day, eating.

Since the horse can no longer naturally find most of these herbs, these all natural supplements, are the perfect alternative, to his well being, and enables your horse to live a healthy, long life.

The basic philosophy behind the treatment with our products is to locate the cause of the different symptoms in a horse. These symptoms, are very often caused, by an accumulation of waste products, and toxins, in the detoxifying organs, large intestine, kidney's and lungs, and the skin.

Our products help to detoxify the horses system, and aid in the horse's own healing process.

We recommend that a horse of about 1,200 lbs. should eat 18-22 lbs. of good quality hay divided into four feedings. It should be offered in the same manner as when it grazes. If the horse is on good pasture, 24 hours a day, the amount of hay, can be cut out entirely or divided,  into 2 feedings per day. We also recommend whole oats, approximately 7-10 lbs. per day, divided into at least two feedings, more or less depending upon the work load, and over all condition of the horse, since they are all individuals, that must be taken into consideration, for some easy keepers, 2 lbs. per feeding may be enough, horses also need sugar to maintain healthy bacterial flora in the guts. Sugar beet pulp, (soaked, in plenty of fresh clean water), contains much energy, this sugar based food, is suitable as an energy complement, Molasses, also posses much energy, and can be given for replenishment of needed energy, and the horse must have ample access to plenty of fresh clean water.

This type of feeding schedule helps your horse maintain it's natural, healthy, way of life, when processed foods are given, many of the nutrients, are actually depleted, leaving the manufacturers, no other choice, but to add certain vitamins and minerals, before it is processed.