In unfamiliar or stressful situations like transport, treatments by the vet, dentist, farrier or extreme weather, a horse may experience stress and naturally have a strong instinct to flee. How much stress your horse experiences depends on its character, genetics and experience. Unfortunately, sometimes it is inevitable that your horse is exposed to a stressful situation. Then, Pavo BeChill can help to reduce stress quickly (within 30 min – 2h) and promote relaxation.
Supplement to reduce stress
A stress response in the body of the horse is influenced by signalling substances which are sent towards and from the brain. Basically these signalling substances can send two messages: a stress-message and a relax-message. Increased amounts of stress messages result in an increased heart and breathing rate, sweating and tightening of the muscles. On the other hand, when the level of relax messages are increased, the heart and breathing rate becomes normal again and muscles will be loose and supple. In stressful situations, the body ensures that the level of stress messages increase and the relax messages go down. This results in the horse being more alert and ready to flee and, thereby, experiencing stress. Pavo BeChill blocks the body’s mechanism to break down relax messages and limits the increase of stress messages. So, Pavo BeChill influences both messages and, therefore, helps to reduce stress very effectively.
Magic ingredients: lemon balm & magnesium
The most important ingredients of Pavo BeChill are lemon balm and the well-known magnesium. Lemon balm is a natural ingredient that helps to reduce stress as it blocks the breakdown of relax messages. Therefore, more relax messages remain telling the body to keep the heart and breathing rate normal and the muscles relaxed. Lemon balm is a powerful ingredient as very low amounts already have a great effect on the stress-reaction in the horse.
Magnesium helps to block the production of stress messages, meaning the body receives less signals telling the horse to increase the heart and breathing rate, start sweating and to tighten the muscles. Additionally, it’s proven that cortisol (stress-hormone) concentration is significantly lower after feeding magnesium. Magnesium is one of the most-well-known ingredients that help with stressed and nervous horses.