Feed supplements to maintain performance and health

Recent reports in the literature confirm the links between exercise, inflammation, immune system response and the use of food components and nutraceuticals to modulate these responses (Franke et al., 2005). To that end, recent work conducted at Rutgers examined the anti-inflammatory effects of a number of food extracts. In vitro studies demonstrated efficacy in cell culture and a rodent model demonstrated efficacy in reducing experimentally induced- inflammation model (Franke et al., 2005). Follow up studies focused on the most promising extracts with the horse utilized as an intermediate animal model (Franke et al., 2005). Those studies were funded by the US Department of Defense with the rationale that food extracts with anti-inflammatory properties could replace or reduce the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) for the reduction of delayed onset muscle soreness in humans.