Summary: <a href="http://offthegridbiz.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Tigger-Montague.jpg"></a><br> <br> <a href="http://offthegridbiz.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/BioStar-logo.png"></a><br> <br> Tigger Montague from BioStar US took sometime to sit down and talk us about the companies fine horse and dog supplements, what brought her into the industry from her time in dressage and some of the companies challenges and mindset during the COVID-19 pandemic and how to handle adverse situations. <br> <br> Be sure to check her BioStar as well as her Healthy Critters Podcast linked below. <br> <br> BioStar US<a href="https://www.biostarus.com/">biostarus.com</a><br> <br> Healthy Critters Podcast <a href="https://www.healthycrittersradio.com/">healthycrittersradio.com</a><br> <br> <br> Full Transcript<br> Brian: Tigger Montague is the owner of BioStar, a provider of nutritional supplements for dogs and horses.<br> <br> Tigger has been in the supplement industry, both human and animal for 38 years. She competed in dressage as a professional, but had to give that up when she started BioStar.<br> <br> She's written two books, has a fine monthly podcast called Healthy Critters and lives on an organic farm in Virginia.<br> <br> Tigger Montague, welcome to the Off The Grid Biz Podcasts.<br> <br> Tigger: Thank you, Brian.<br> <br> Brian: Why don't you let everyone know a little bit about how you ended up here, what's your life's story up to this point?<br> <br> Tigger: How much time do you have?<br> <br> (laughs)<br> <br> Actually, my competition horse it was diagnosed with inflammation of the bursa. The bursa is in the foot and my vet is one of the United States Equestrian Team veterinarians. We tried every drug every modality known to man to get this horse sound, nothing worked.<br> <br> He finally said to me, I think we're going to have to nerve him. And that means cutting the nerves in his foot so that he wouldn't feel it.<br> <br> The problem with nerves and horses is that the nerve regenerates. So in a year or two, we'd have to go back and nerving him again. So my vet was away at a big show in Calgary, Canada. And I thought, well, you know, this horse is going to have surgery, maybe I should start thinking about preparing his body and I was working at the time as a consultant for a human health food company called Mega Foods, doing a lot of research on raw food, spending a lot of time in California.<br> <br> I thought, well, you know, maybe I should just start sprouting some seeds and I had a little dehydrator and I just literally took sprouted seeds, added some papaya, made it into little cookies to hydrated them and start feeding them my horse. To make a long story short, in about three weeks I saw an improvement.<br> <br> And then my vet came and he couldn't believe it.<br> <br> He said, wow, if you can do something with nitric oxide, you might be onto something. I didn't really know what nitric oxide was, but it turns out it's the master circulatory molecule of the body.<br> <br> There are certain foods that are very high and an amino acid called arginine.<br> <br> Arginine is a precursor or a substrate for nitric oxide production.<br> <br> So I started looking at foods that were high in arginine, and they always contain lysine.<br> <br> I realized that in nature, those two amino acids are always together. Now some foods are high in lysine, low in arginine and others are high and arginine low in lysine. But when I sorted out the high arginine foods and made them into a cookie if you will, just to dehydrated them. And feed them to my horse, he came sound.<br> <br> I went, whoa. okay, okay, there's really something to this food. And that start that started the journey.<br> <br> Brian: Wow, that's incredible. So how did that know into a business for you?<br> <br>
