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It is thought that Tasco® improves the animal’s overall health status by reducing the conditions for growth of pathogenic microbes, by increasing the proportion of beneficial microbes and activating the animal’s own immune system. This improved health status of the digestive tract of production animals, enhances the bioavailability of nutrients and reduces the energy used to fight subclinical disease conditions.
Reductions in energy used to maintain good health could have significant effects on reducing the animal's maintenance component of metabolic rate. This reduced net energy of maintenance allows for more energy available for production such as growth, lactation and reproduction.
It is well known that one of the major components of basal metabolic rate is the turnover and repair of GI tract cells and GI tract lining. Improved GI tract health, increased digestive tract integrity and enhanced immune competency could spare enough metabolic energy to account for increased marbling and other improved production traits seen with Tasco® administration.
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