Riaflex Vitamin E, Selenium, & Lysine

Specially formulated for the performance horse, this product is a high spec, powerful combination of anti-oxidants essential for helping to maintain muscle function, vitality, condition, strength, and endurance. These nutrients are also of great importance to function of the immune system and in helping to maintain fertility in breeding stock.

Vitamin E, Selenium, & Lysine should be fed:

To working horses and ponies to ensure optimal muscle function
To horses and ponies with challenged muscle function
To mares in foal to promote foal health
To support immune system function, particularly for ill or "run down" horses
To horses grazing selenium deficient soil

Benefits of feeding this supplement:

Enhances athletic performance
Promotes recovery
Maintains muscular development
Increases strength and energy
Enhances oxygen delivery to lungs
Increases foal immune function
Aids fertility

Vitamin E, Selenium, and Lysine are three of the most widely used and most useful combinations of nutrients. They are powerful antioxidants that are often lacking in many horse feeds, providing in-adequate amounts for the working or recuperating horse.

Vitamin E & Selenium are key antioxidants that work at a cellular level and play a vital role in protecting cell membranes from damage. They act to maintain normal muscle function and help to ‘mop up' tissue damage that results from exercise, promoting the recovery and repair of muscle cell membranes. A deficiency of vitamin E greatly reduces endurance exercise capacity, and studies have shown that supplementation greatly enhances oxygen delivery to the lungs. Immune system development and function also relies on vitamin E. Research in mares and foals have also found that these nutrients boost foal health via effects on the mares' colustrum and milk. A deficiency of vitamin E in particular will lead to a foal's poor immunity to disease. Selenium is not only important as an antioxidant but supplementation ensures that vitamin E is utilised efficiently. In addition, Lysine is an essential amino acid for muscle growth and regeneration that is found to be deficient in many horses' diets.

All three nutrients are vital for exercising horses and recent research has shown that the daily requirement, especially for performance horses, is much higher than previously thought. Supplementation is especially important for the performance horse that is stabled, because reduced access to grazing causes vitamin E levels to drop dramatically. Additionally, many regions all over Britain and Europe are known to be soil selenium deficient and supplementation is therefore important even for the free grazing horse. Lysine is low in feeds of non-meat origin and is therefore often deficient in many horses' diets.

In Summary, Vitamin E, Selenium, & Lysine have powerful and vital roles to play in horse's health and are of significant importance to the performance horse, breeding horses, and ill horses.

Riaflex Vitamin E, selenium, and lysine has been formulated to the highest specification, providing balanced and nutritionally significant levels, at an affordable price to you the horse owner. Unlike Riaflex many companies fall well short of the vitamin levels required in order to be fully effective at the given job. Because we use high and fully effective dose levels in all of our products we are proud to disclose all of our component values. You should be wary of products that do not disclose values of vitamins. It is usually because they are included at insignificant levels.

Compare our dose levels to leading brands:

Weight of horse	Number of scoops	Daily amount of Vit E provided	Daily amount of Lysine provided	Daily amount of Selenium provided	No: of days supply
Up to 400kg	1.5	1350 IU	1500mg	0.60mg	50
400kg+	2.5	2250 IU	2500mg	100mg	30