Is there a magic ingredient for the pig immune system? - Dr. Brooke Smith
Dec 28, 2020Click here to listen on Apple Podcast
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“If you want nutrition to be an important tool, you have to make sure that the other areas of your production are also up to snuff. So, are you maintaining a clean and comfortable environment? Are you sourcing healthy pigs to start? What are their pre-weaning environment, and what are they coming in with? Am I reducing the pathogen load there, so they're not bringing it with them into the barn? Are they stressed coming into the barn?” – Dr. Brooke Smith
What you will learn:
Biggest misconception on the immune system;
Meet the guest: Dr. Brooke Smith is an Animal Scientist and she is currently a dual DVM/Ph.D. student through the Veterinary Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois. Her Ph.D. research is focused on the applications of dietary soy bioactives and their immunomodulatory actions on the immune response in disease-challenged swine.
