Featuring Rider Sarah Nicolls, New Online Community, Smectite Clay Benefits and More!

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Whole Food Success - Sarah Nicolls
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We Founded A Community!

BioStar Debuts WholeFoodforHorses.com Community in 2012

The Biostar team is very happy to announce a new online community just for horse people, like you, who are into feeding whole food at WholeFoodforHorses.com

The founding of WF4H is part of our mission to empower horse people by providing them with a platform to share their knowledge and experience with whole food.


In the Community you will find:

It is our absolute privelege to be able to create this community in support of helping horses and riders alike get more out of whole food nutrition.

We couldn't have done this without the support of our customers and it is our hope that the community will become a valuable resource to its members and visitors.


Membership is open & free and always will be. Join us!

Whole Food for Horses Community

Whole Food for Horses Online Community

Charity Support: Horses' Honor Rescue

Biostar pledges to support the efforts of Horses' Honor Rescue & Sanctuary in January.

This means that a portion of all Empower EQ sales throughout January will be donated to support the efforts of Horses' Honor.

Click here to read a personal word of support from BioStar Associate Gundi Younger.

Sarah Nicolls and Garron

Featured Rider: Sarah Nicolls & Garron

Featured Rider: Sarah Nicolls

Whole Food Prevails for Horses Overcoming Multiple Issues

Biostar featured rider, Sarah Nicolls, on how the whole food diet helped a laminitic pony, an ulcer horse and a horse with chronic colic.


Sarah: I changed my diet a few years ago, and this diet for the horses made sense to me. Now my horses don’t colic, have beautiful coats, and are really healthy.

I was afraid of the diet at first, but now I say, "Just dive into it and do it." It’s hard on the one hand to step away from commercial feeds, but once you do you will never go back. I think the closer we feed to nature the better the horses do. I board my horses, and even the boarding barn, seeing how good my horses look, has embraced the diet.... (continued)

Read the Rest Sarah's Feature >>

The Healing Power Smectite Clay

Smectite Clay Powder

Formulator's Corner: Smectite Clay

The Amazing Healing Power of Smectite Clay by Tigger Montague

An excerpt from our Formulator's latest article on Smectite Clay:


The use of clay both externally and internally has been a part of mankind’s medicine for thousands of years. Today this art of healing is formally known as Pelotherapy, and is used around the world in hydrotherapy, natural medicine, alternative medicine, and complementary medicine. Horse owners know Pelotherapy from the use and application of poultices, and smectite supplements like Bio Sponge from Platinum Performance, as well as the Biostar products: Rebound and Starlyte and Starmaker.

Smectite clay can absorb and bind toxins; because the clay’s minerals are negatively charged, and toxins are positively charged, the clay works like a magnet and draws the positively charged toxins to it. Smectite clays have the unique ability to adsorb and absorb toxins at a greater rate than any other clay
.... (continued)

Read 'Smectite Clay' by Tigger Montague >>

Latest Videos Added

Following our first video series: The 4 Basic Food Components of Your Horse's Diet, are 2 clips that shift focus from feed to supplements.

These clips are from a special talk that Biostar Formulator, Tigger Montague, gave in New England in 2011.

With Tigger making preparations for an upcoming visit to Wellington, the Biostar team is planning to release even more clips in the coming months. In the meantime, we invite you to check out our latest additions:

BioStar on YouTube®

Watch and share any of our clips and other recommended videos on Biostar's YouTube® channel.

Charity Support in 2011

One of Biostar's mission efforts is to support charities and not for profit organizations by donating a % of profits from specific products throughout the year.

In 2011 we donated to 5 charities including: The Equestrian Aid FoundationDanny and Ron's RescueThe Barbaro FundVinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center,  and The Pollinator Partnership.

We hope that other supplement companies will also join us in highlighting charities and donating to them in 2012.

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