Assure Guard Digestive Health Support for Horses

Assure Guard Digestive Health Support for Horses

Shop a top-rated equine digestive care solution. Soothing and powerful, Assure Guard offers a solution to the most challenging digestive health problems in an effective, daily granular formula.

Does your horse suffer from painful ulcers? Chronic digestive issues? Poor performance and overall health? Assure Guard is the answer.
 
About 60-70 percent of a horse’s immune function comes from digestive health. Horses with ulcers and chronic digestive health issues suffer poor overall health, decreased performance, and continual pain and discomfort. But it’s a little known fact that horses with gastric ulcers often suffer from colonic ulcers. These horses need a complete formula that addresses and soothes tough digestive health issues like colonic ulcers.
 
Assure Guard is the solution to maintain digestive health and combat tough problems like colonic and gastric ulcers, colic, diarrhea, weight loss, and more. Assure Guard is the supplement of choice for horses going through ulcer treatments. Traditional ulcer treatments can stop acid production within the stomach. This allows more undigested feedstuffs to reach the hindgut and cause or contribute to the digestive disturbance including colonic ulcers. Research has proven that adding a quality probiotic to your horse’s ulcer supplement regimen provides a constant influx of live microbes, ensuring proper digestive health and breakdown of feed throughout the treatment period.
 
Assure Guard provides gastric support without shutting down acid production. It works to stabilize and condition the entire digestive tract for a long term, balanced approach. Antacids, enzymes, and probiotics work to support the stomach, small intestines, and colon while psyllium adds extra stabilization of the hindgut. Assure Guard can break the cycle of digestive disturbances that lead to recurrent gastric ulcers. It’s the most complete combination for total digestive tract conditioning.
 
Arenus is proud to offer Assure Guard as a daily equine digestive care supplement for your horse’s most challenging digestive health needs.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT EQUINE DIGESTIVE CARE SUPPLEMENT
Assure Guard can be fed as a standalone digestive maintenance supplement for horses with gastric challenges. We recommend using it in combination with Assure Plus for more effective gastric and hindgut health support.
 
The Assure Guard and Assure Plus System is the right choice for:
Horses with moderate to severe digestive issues such as recurrent gastric or colonic ulcers, colic, diarrhea, and sand accumulation.
Horses in training, competition, or high-stress environments.
Horses undergoing or recovering from traditional ulcer treatments.
Older horses with severe diarrhea or constant digestive issues.
Owners that want a customizable solution designed to maintain digestive health and tackle tough gastric and hindgut challenges as needed.

Benefits

• Soothing ulcer relief: Ulcer treatments can wreak havoc on any horse by throwing off the normal balance of the digestive system. Assure Guard soothes the system and prevents recurring ulcers to keep your horse feeling healthy and comfortable.
  
• Improved performance and wellness: Any digestive issue can disrupt your horse’s performance and comfort. Cinchy and irritable horses often have underlying digestive health problems. Ulcers are painful and make travel, training and riding a nightmare for your horse. Having a calm and happy digestive system keeps your horse relaxed and focused.
  
• Whole digestive support: Assure Guard works to support the entire digestive tract from the stomach through the hindgut where additional gastric conditioning is required.
  
• Flexible, targeted coverage: Use Assure Guard daily for cost-effective maintenance of difficult gastric problems. Pair with Assure Plus during the loading period and one week out of each month for maximum benefits. Add Assure Plus during times of stress for additional support when your horse needs it most.

Features

Our research-proven formula offers a unique delivery system that’s incomparable to any other ulcer or equine digestive care supplement on the market. The ingredients work to balance the foregut and the hindgut to provide maximum digestive health support.

• Powerful, effective formula: Assure Guard contains our unique blend of pre and probiotics, psyllium, gastric buffer, digestive enzymes, yeast and calcium carbonate to sooth and restore balance to the digestive tract. The formula prevents future and recurring digestive problems.
  
• Unmatched ulcer protection: Typical ulcer medications can stop acid production and cause naturally occurring digestive enzymes to die off. This can allow undigested feedstuff to move through the digestive tract causing hindgut ulcers or perpetuating the occurrence of gastric ulcers. Adding a quality ulcer supplement like Assure Guard can boost the effectiveness of treatments and ensure your horse’s digestive tract is constantly replenished with live microbes to maintain optimal function.
  
• Gastrointestinal Stabilizing Technology (GST): Exclusive, proprietary technology ensures that live microbes are protected from the acidic environment of the stomach for safe delivery to the hindgut. Assure Guard and Arenus digestive aids are the only products with GST.
  
• Effective maintenance and control: The trusted pairing of Assure Guard and Assure Plus addresses ulcer and serious digestive concerns while maintaining overall digestive health.
  
• Clinically proven system: A field trial study evaluating horses with a variety of serious GI conditions revealed that 90% of recurrent colic cases and 80% of chronic ulcer cases were resolved using the combination of Assure Guard and Assure Plus. 100% of cases were significantly improved.
  
• Butyrate: Also known as butyric acid, butyrate is a critical volatile fatty acid (VFA) produced in the hindgut of all horses. The high quality, high purity psyllium in Assure Guard has been shown to naturally and effectively increase the production of butyrate. Butyrate is critical to colonocyte health and regeneration, and important in the prevention and reduction of gastrointestinal inflammation.
  
• Vet recommended formula: Assure Guard has been a standby tool for many veterinarians fighting digestive health challenges. Vets around the country trust the patented digestive health formula to relieve ulcers, colic, loose stool, weight loss and more.
  
• Recyclable packaging: Eligible product for “Ride for a Green World” initiative. Save money while helping the environment!

Directions For Use

For general digestive maintenance or management of colic, loose stool or poor body condition feed horse one, level scoop daily per 1100lb of body weight or follow dosing chart.

When feeding Assure Guard with Assure Plus for additional or rapid hindgut stabilization or sand removal, it is recommended to split the daily dose of Assure Guard with each grain meal (i.e. if horse receives 1 scoop daily, give ½ scoop with morning grain and ½ scoop with evening grain) and feed Assure Plus in the evening. See Assure Plus directions and dosing for specific requirements.

If palatability issues arise, add small amounts of water, oil or molasses to encourage acceptance.

It is recommended that you consult your veterinarian for specific recommendations prior to adding Assure Guard, or any supplement, to your horse’s daily regimen.

Store product in a cool, dry place.

ASSURE GUARD DOSING CHART
If your horse is enrolled in the Colic Assurance Program, please refer to the custom dosing charts within the program.

Ingredients

Direct fed microorganism blend (distillers grain, dried Saccharomyces cerevisiae fermentation product, sodium silicoaluminate, dried Lactobacillus acidophilus fermentation product, dried Enterococcus faecium fermentation product, dried Aspergillus oryzae fermentation extract, dried Trichoderma longibrachiatum fermentation extract, dried Bacillus subtilis fermentation extract), brewers dried yeast, dried Saccharomyces cerevisiae fermentation solubles, psyllium seed husk, calcium carbonate, dextrose, sodium ascorbate, licorice root powder, zinc methionine hydroxyl analogue chelate, anise oil, mineral oil, natural and artificial flavoring (apple and licorice).

Guaranteed Analysis per 35g Scoop:

* CFU refers to colony forming units (live cells)
** HUT, MWU and CU are recognized industry standards for measuring enzyme potency

FAQs

Q: How is Assure® Guard different from other digestive supplements?

A: Assure Guard combines our patented digestive supplement formula with calcium carbonate to soothe ulcers that are present and combat the occurrence of gastric and hindgut ulceration. This formulation was utilized with Assure Plus in a large research study evaluating a variety of digestive challenges like colic, loose stool, poor body condition and ulcers. The findings were so impressive that the study was published and presented at both the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) yearly conference and the 10th International Colic Symposium.

Q: What is the difference between Assure Guard and Assure Guard Gold?

A: Assure Guard is a powerful digestive aid designed to combat tough digestive health challenges such as gastric and colonic ulcers. It’s meant to be paired with Assure Plus for maximum benefits. Assure Guard Gold is a combination of Assure Guard and Assure Guard Gold in an easy to use pelleted formula.

Q: Other supplements, when compared to Assure Guard, contain more probiotics. Does that mean they’re better?

A: More is not always better when it comes to probiotics. The patented Assure Guard formula has been extensively researched to find the most effective balance of prebiotics, probiotics, yeast, gastric buffer , psyllium and digestive enzymes. Microbes in other supplements are often broken down in the stomach’s acidic environment before reaching the hindgut. Arenus digestive aids are the only products with Gastrointestinal Stabilizing Technology (GST). GST in Assure Guard ensures the microbes arrive safely in the hindgut to provide the maximum benefit to your horse.

Q: Will horses easily eat Assure Guard?

A: Yes, Assure Guard is highly palatable. Many horses eat Assure Guard supplements without an issue. If you have a picky eater then there are a few simple things you can try like starting with a small amount of Assure Guard or adding water, vegetable oil, diluted corn syrup (50 - 75% water) or molasses.

Q: Will my horse need to be on Assure Guard forever?

A: Assure Guard is designed as a daily, maintenance program. It can be used to address acute problems, most horse owners opt to incorporate Assure Guard into their horse’s daily supplement regimen to prevent recurring issues.

Q: Why is it recommended to use both Assure Guard and Assure Plus?

A: Each of the products in the Assure System are unique and designed to work together to address digestive challenges in your horse and maintain optimal gut health. Typically, we recommend using both products daily for 4-6 weeks in the beginning to reset your horse’s digestive tract and ensure it’s functioning as efficiently as possible. After this initial period, most horse owners are able to transition to a maintenance dose of giving Assure Guard everyday and Assure Plus for 7 consecutive days each month or 7 days every 12 weeks. The Assure System products are designed to be flexible for each horse’s lifestyle and requirements. You may find that your horse does well with only Assure Guard or you may want to try another Assure System program to suit your horse’s needs. This allows you to only feed the amount your horse needs for a flexible, affordable digestive health solution.

Q: What is the shelf life of Assure Guard and how should I store it?

A: Even though Assure Guard contains high volumes of live microbes, its exclusive formulation ensures stability for at least 2 years from the manufacture date if stored properly. The Assure products are meant to be stored in a cool, dry place with the bag tightly sealed and the bucket lid closed.

Q: When feeding both Assure Guard and Assure Plus, why is it suggested to feed them at different times?

A: We recommend feeding the products at different times to help with the breakdown of feedstuffs and ensure that your horse receives regular doses of live microbes throughout the day. Probiotics do not reside in the hindgut for long and a reinforcement after 12 hours instead of 24 hours works best to repopulate them.