ELEVATE MAINTENANCE PWDR 10LB 4

Elevate has been a great addition to my thoroughbred's diet! My vet recommended this product due to the natural source of Vitamin E and the credibility of the brand. I was pleasantly surprised that my picky boy will eat this powdered product when mixed with his normal ration balancer and alfalfa pellets - no added sweeteners necessary!

I was a bit skeptical when my vet told me to try Vitamin E to help build muscle on a 15 year old thoroughbred. I put him on 3 scoops a day to start and in three months he's muscled and filled out well over his topline, back, and rump. This was the only change to his diet and his workload has remained the same. He's also put on weight in the right places. Very impressed!

I love this Vitamin E supplement. I started both of my horses on this, both for different reasons after talking to my vet/trainer/just reading more about how it is a great all around supplement to have your horses on. Both are doing fantastic on it. My TB lives on a grass pasture 24/7. I started him on this for the neurological and muscling benefits. We've been working on building proper muscle tone and he has been working very hard so I didn't want him to be sore/stiff. We were also worried about some neurological issues with him as he was giving slight signs of potential issues but he has made great improvements on this supplement. The supplement combined with continued proper conditioning has helped nearly eliminate all of the potential neurological issue signs we were worried about when I first got him around a year ago. On the opposite end of the spectrum, my QH lives on a dirt pasture since she is such an easy keeper and is turned out to grass for only a few hours during the day. I read a lot about how this supplement is important especially for horses who don't have free access to grass or quality grass. She has dappled out for the first time in the 9 years I've owned her and just looks absolutely fantastic. She is always a member of the "clean plate club" so she has no issue with the powder falling to the bottom of the feed pan, she will spend 15 minutes after her bit of grain is gone just licking the bucket to get anything left!

This is the best value and my horse finds it palatable, however when I received it, the label said it contained dextrose. It is a very small amount, but I don't want to take any risks with my PSSM horse. I switched to Smartpak's vit E supplement (2500 IU/scoop), which is also natural vit E but doesn't contain sugar.

I have used Elevate for a while now, before I even got my current horse. He had always done well with it and had managed to look amazing even in some rough conditions. He ended up being diagnosed with EPM last month, as a complete and total shock to me. We simply tested as a precaution. Elevate helped Captain incredibly to the point where we didn't know! He has since been treated for it and I don't think I will ever have a performance horse that dose not use this supplement. It is INCREDIBLY palatable, I had a horse that would not even eat apples and she LOVED this. I would recommend this for any horse that needs it!

My vet recommended vitamin E to support my horse's muscles due to his inability to push off his hind end (we have exhausted the joint treatments). After much research, I found that there are really 2 best products for bioavailability and purity - the other is a liquid, so I selected Elevate for ease of use. I appreciate that Elevate is straightforward vitamin E - nothing extra. I needed to start with a high dose, so the 2lb container was perfect for my needs (I hope to eventually get down to 1,000 IU daily & get this in my SmartPak for even more ease!). I added Elevate at the same time I made diet modifications (reduce starches; increase fat). This combination has worked magic for my warmblood gelding. I went from wearing huge spurs and getting into a battle every ride to him happily moving off my leg with no spurs.

My horses have really have no pasture, and getting fresh cuttings of hay is difficult to do. So naturally my horses were beginning to show signs of vitamin E deficiencies. Poor top lines, scratches, longer healing for minor abrasions, tight muscles, etc. Adding 3,000 mg/day of Elevate vitamin E turned my horses around, with very noticeable improvements at about the three week point. My 20 y.o. Holsteiner is making slower progress, but my 23 y.o. Polish Arabian and my younger horses responded more quickly. I've tried other products, including SP's Vitamin E, MVP's E-Se-Mag, and various other Vitamin E & Selenium supplements, but Elevate has the natural form of vitamin E, in high concentration, and has really made the noticeable difference.

A good economical source of natural vitamin E, but I was a bit frustrated to see "dextrose" listed as an ingredient on the bucket though it was not listed under "Ingredients" online. This was to be fed to four insulin resistant horses and two ulcer prone horses, so I would not have ordered had I known sugar was an ingredient.

I am disappointed with the results of this product. I had four horses tested for Vitamin E levels, all tested very low, they all went on Elevate beginning October 2019, beginning with liquid Elevate and switching over to Elevate powder February 1 2020. They were again tested May 20 2020 and came back very low still. These four horses have been receiving Elevate for 8 months at the recommended dosage by a veterinarian. I recommend testing before using any supplements and test again to be sure you are receiving results.

There should be a warning of some sort about the dextrose in thise product, which is unnecessary to begin with. Granted, I should have really double checked the ingredients but I figured a natural vitamin E powder would only contain vitamin E. The ingredients are in fine print so it's harder to find anyways. I bought this for my Cushings/IR mare and within two days of being on it she went into a full blown laminitis episode. At first I had no idea why this happened, she was well controlled on her meds. Then I decided I should double check the label for this product since it was the only new addition. Low and behold, DEXTROSE! Metabolic horse owners beware!