Equine America

Equine America UK is a global leader in the equine, canine and human supplement industry.

Equine America UK is a global leader in the equine performance and wellbeing supplement industry. It is a family run business, founded in 1997 by Phil and Julie Middleton, and now run by their son Lee. Their extensive range of targeted nutritional supplements and external products combine tradition with scientific research to provide innovative products to support optimum health and performance.

As part of this process, Equine America is collaborating with leading veterinary universities to further our understanding of equine nutrition, as well as helping to develop new products, alongside our own, highly qualified and experienced nutritionists.

Equine America have a global customer base, supplying elite riders from all disciplines, including Olympic and World Champions, as well as leisure riders. Our “30-day money back guarantee” serves to reinforce the total confidence in our products.

Built on Science

LASER QUALITY TESTING ON EVERY INGREDIENT

All our products are manufactured in the UK in food standard factories, using only the freshest, most innovative and effective ingredients

Lead Nutritionist

Deborah Leabeater, MSc, CBiol, MRSB

Explaining Cortaflex

Cortaflex®

Cortaflex® includes vital trace elements and precursors (or building blocks) of key compounds such as glycosaminoglycans and proteoglycans which are necessary for the production and maintenance of healthy cartilage and joint fluid, which also plays an important role in shock absorbing and lubrication within the joint.

Amino Acids

Amino acids such as glutamic acid - converted in the horse’s body to provide glutamine, which combines with glucose to form glucosamine – which itself then combines with other compounds to help give cartilage its flexibility and “sponginess”.

Copper, Manganese & Silicon

Are important trace elements which are all needed to help the horse produce his own chondroitin, (another important structural compound in cartilage), collagen and hyaluronic acid.

Collagen

An important compound needed by the chondrocytes to produce the water based matrix of the cartilage. Collagen helps to give cartilage its strength. (We utilize a sustainable and ethical source of marine derived collagen.)

Hyaluronic Acid (HA)

Is a key component of joint fluid, which bathes the joint, and acts and a lubricant and shock absorber.

MSM

More recently, as well as providing these vital building blocks, MSM (methylsulphonylmethane ) has been added to the Cortaflex supplements, to provide a bio-available source of sulphur, which is important in the repair process of the sulphur containing bonds in the cartilage matrix. MSM is also thought to have anti-inflammatory properties.

Boswellia

Cortaflex Super Fenn also contains Boswellia, a plant known for its antiinflammatory properties, to help reduce the on-going destruction of cartilage following micro-trauma and the resulting inflammatory responses arising from harder work.