Importance of gut health to drive animal performance and health with Dr. Lance Baumgard, Iowa State University and Dr. Corwin Nelson, University of Florida

Importance of gut health to drive animal performance and health with Dr. Lance Baumgard, Iowa State University and Dr. Corwin Nelson, University of Florida

Author: Balchem Animal Nutrition & Health July 8, 2025 Duration: 46:52
This episode was recorded at the 2025 Florida Ruminant Nutrition Symposium. Dr. Baumgard begins with an overview of his presentation, “Importance of gut health to drive animal performance and health.” He notes the metabolic and inflammatory fingerprint of all stressors is essentially the same, indicating they likely all emanate from the gut. Overall, we’re gaining a better understanding of how typical on-farm stressors negatively influence gut barrier function. He thinks the most likely mechanism of leaky gut is the immune cell known as a mast cell. When an animal or human is stressed, the enteric nervous system releases corticotropin-releasing factor, which binds to the mast cell, the mast cell degranulates, and the former contents of the mast cell (TNF-alpha, proteases, histamine, etc.) causes the gut to become leaky. (4:20)

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