K & V Elite Equine Products Ltd

Formulated with the finest natural ingredients, such as joint health, digestion, immune support and calmers. Protek is a unique supplement with a 3 in 1 formula which only uses the highest standard, food grade ingredients. Using three well known herbs for their natural benefits. Originally formulated with Garlic, Cinnamon and Oregano to help support the normal function of the gut. We don’t compromise on quality, no need to buy multiples. Protek complies with BHA standards and has no known banned substances. It is used by many horse trainers William Haggas, Stuart Williams, Michael Scudamore, Adrian Wintle & Tony Carson to name but a few. Protek is competition and race safe. Not only is Protek a great all rounder it maintains condition and is great for recovery too. Can also be used right to up to race day unlike others out there which need 3 days withdrawal before a race. Even after competing maintains energy levels and no weight loss due to stress, travel etc. Not only can Protek be used to maintain certain horse related problems but a great maintenance supplement too... Can be used all year round no break needed....Allows your horse to perform at peak level from your happy hacker through to your thoroughbred. Nothing beats the experience & knowledge of the people behind it, who have been in the horse world for over 40 years. We have world renowned scientists Dr Nigel & Sue Plummer, veterinarian & immunologist Dr James Tang who invented the freeze drying process. Our manufacturer Cultech Ltd have a production that is second to none. Our credentials go above and beyond what is expected of a horse supplement. We have complete traceability as every ingredient comes with a test cert and only released after testing. Manufactured By Cultech, UK Leaders In Innovation And Research If you buy an inferior quality product, it will not give you benefits of feeding to your horse(s), which will be of little or no use if you cannot get a quality standard. We can guarantee the allicin content of 8% in our garlic. Without this enzyme it’s of little or no use as that of other garlic on the market this is why they can sell it & cinnamon so cheap. Our advice would be if they cannot guarantee the quality, what are you really buying? We only offer the highest grade, you can get a food grade quality. If it is good enough for us, it is good enough for the horses. We have been in and around the horse world for over40 years and with our passion and love of horses, we researched the ingredients of garlic, cinnamon & oregano and benefits of feeding to horses and have come up with this unique formula PROTEK..... As we are all aware it is very important to maintain balanced microbial population in the equine digestive tract. A delicate balance exists among the different types of microbes that reside in the gastrointestinal tract.The products of forage digestion are volatile fatty acids, which horses use for energy. Horse cannot perform their best if digestive microbes are out of balance.In the horse, there are many types of bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract, and each type is efficient at digesting certain nutritional components. The microbial population is complex and consists of bacteria, protozoa, and fungi/yeasts. The number of microbes is too high to fathom, but one drop of cecal fluid from a horse could potentially have one billion bacteria.In general, there are five types of microbes:cellulolytic bacteria: digest fiberproteolytic bacteria: break down proteinlactic acid-producing bacteria: digest starchprotozoa: produce volatile fatty acidsfungi/yeasts: break down fiberother bacteria: produce B-vitaminsThese microbes are actually found throughout the entire digestive tract but because most favor a pH-neutral environment, nearly all inhabit low digestive tract, the cecum and colon.The goal of microbial balance involves keeping the numbers of cellulolytic high and the lactic-acid producers low. Further, as cellulolytic bacteria produce volatile fatty acids, proliferation of pathogenic bacteria, like E. coli or salmonella, cannot occur. If the lactic acid-producing bacteria population starts growing, they produce enough lactic acid to influence the pH of the gut, making it less hospitable for cellulolytic bacteria and more agreeable for the pathogenic bacteria. This is when problems may arise. How tolerant an animal is to changes in the pH before problems begin can be highly individual.Balance is all about population control. When there is an overload of one kind of substrate that one type of bacteria digests, then there is a population explosion of that type of bacteria. This affects the populations of the other types of bacteria, since they have less substrate to digest and the by-product of the digestion of the booming population may make the environment less habitable for the rest of the microbials. Shifts in the bacterial populations can cause digestive upset.How to keep it in balance? A normal high-forage diet (lots of pasture and/or hay) will supply the microbes with exactly what they are looking for to maintain balance, particularly the cellulolytic bacteria, protozoa, and fungi.Allicin is one of most high potency in antimicrobial activity and what mazing is that allicin is much less sensitive benefit micro orgasms compared to pathogenic bacteria, like E. coli or salmonella,Allicin can maintain the best balance of horse gut microbial populationsAllicin is from garlic but most garlic on the market do not contain much allicin due to high temperature process. Dr. James Tang, a veternary immunologist developed an innovated process which can keep 95% allicin after process and this technology has been widely used in animal feeding industry since 2010 Why allicin so important in our supplement PROTEK: Just one of our top scientists we have behind us. DR James Tang veterinarian & immunologist and also one of our consultants for PROTEK. This is why we at K & V Elite Equine Products Ltd always advise you to ask your supplier these questions to make sure you are getting the correct garlic so you get maximum benefit: Fresh garlic contains alliin (or precursor of allicin) and alliinase, when the garlics physical structure is broke, for example: Crushed or sliced, the alliinase is released from the cells and converts alliin into allicin. The Alliin/allicin contents vary depending on the harvest from different geographic locations and different species. Most garlic that is available on the market are hybridized garlic due to high output, which provide the big size and the nice appearance but allicin contents are low. Our garlic is selected from a special area in China called Cangshan which are the original species, not hybridized, sizes are relative small, output are low, with less than 7 cloves in each garlic bulb. More importantly, most commercial garlic processes decompose/denature the alliinase by washing,cutting and high temperature drying, so most garlic products only contain 1000ppm or 0.1% of allicin which has no values for biological function if taken. Dr. James Tang developed a unique process which allows dried garlic powder containing a great level of allicin (greater than 10,000ppm or 1%). This is why our product is different with other garlics on the market which have little or no effect.Allicin can optimize the horses gut microflora by inhibition of "bad microorganism" and allow benefits microorganism" survive and function better to maintain horses at best physiology conditionsThis is why we at K & V Elite Equine Products only use top quality ingredients in our supplement to give you the most benefits possible...