{"podcast":{"title":"The Horse's Advocate Podcast","slug":"the-horse-s-advocate-podcast-3416912","podcast_index_feed_id":3416912,"rss_url":"https://thehorsesadvocate.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://community.thehorsesadvocate.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/4/2/b/6/42b6fcf71f9b234a40be95ea3302a6a1/THA_Podcast_Cover_Apple_2021_copy.jpg","author":"Geoff Tucker, DVM","episode_count":181,"summary":"The Horse's Advocate Podcast is about helping horse owners find the missing horse owner's manual for owning and caring for horses. Geoff Tucker, DVM (aka, \"Doc T\"), brings you wisdom from almost 50 years with horses. But beware - some of this stuff is NOT what you might expect. When the \"box to think outside of\" was built, he was never included and remained outside! This show aims to Help Horses Thrive In A Human World.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-06T16:21:17.068713+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-horse-s-advocate-podcast-3416912"},"episode":{"title":"Why Horse Supplements Are Only Guessing - The Horse's Advocate Podcast #168","slug":"why-horse-supplements-are-only-guessing-the-horse-s-advocate-podcast-168","published_at":"2026-04-08T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-horse-s-advocate-podcast-3416912/why-horse-supplements-are-only-guessing-the-horse-s-advocate-podcast-168","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-horse-s-advocate-podcast-3416912","url":"https://thehorsesadvocate.libsyn.com/why-horse-supplements-are-only-guessing-the-horses-advocate-podcast-168","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thehorsesadvocate/PC168_AUDIO_Why_Horse_Supplements_Are_Only_Guessing.mp3?dest-id=1330034","summary":"My wife placed a supplement ad for horses in front of me and said it was \"interesting.\" She knows me, so she was testing me to see if this one was really special or just another waste of money. Rather than give the same old response about marketing ploys to take money without substantiating the product, I decided to go deeper. The expression \"correlation does not mean causation\" is familiar. But what about randomized, controlled studies - the \"gold standard\" of research? Do these expensive, precise studies live up to the hype? Not necessarily. Mendelian randomization is a new approach to randomizing a study population in a true and natural way. It reduces (or eliminates) biases by looking for variations in the genetic code that have occurred over millions of years. This podcast goes into SNPs (Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms) and GWAS (Genome Wide Association Studies) to see if this new research technology has come into horse research, and more importantly, if it can prove the use of supplements to make horses healthier.","meta_description":"My wife placed a supplement ad for horses in front of me and said it was \"interesting.\" She knows me, so she was testing me to see if this one was really…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2086,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-horse-s-advocate-podcast-3416912/episodes/why-horse-supplements-are-only-guessing-the-horse-s-advocate-podcast-168/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-horse-s-advocate-podcast-3416912/why-horse-supplements-are-only-guessing-the-horse-s-advocate-podcast-168.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}