About Animal BioScience Consultancy
Animal BioScience Consultancy
At Animal BioScience Consultancy, we apply only proven and published scientific research to produce a product or overcome a production/performance issue that standard nutritional supplementation and feeding cannot achieve. We go much deeper than just the nutrients in the feed/supplements. We look at what is going on inside, starting in the gut with the microbes and then the chemicals, hormones, cytokines, and other metabolic factors produced and released inside the body. We investigate alternative, powerful nutritional compounds that can positively influence the internal workings of an animal. At Animal Bioscience Consultancy, we are far more than just skin deep.
At Animal BioScience Consultancy, we investigate and explain how feed and different ingredients affect the body's function, the intricate link between what's eaten and the health of the gut microbiome, metabolism, immunity, endocrinology, physical and mental health.
We are much more than nutritionists
We are Animal Nutritional Physiologists!
Dr. Mark Barnett PhD
In 2003, after spending a lifetime working with large animals, especially horses, a mature aged student undertook a life changing decision to enrol in an Animal Science degree at the University of New England, Australia. Seven years later this student emerged from the academic world of teachings with a hard earned Doctorate in Philosophy (PhD) in Animal Nutritional Physiology. His name was Dr. Mark Barnett.
Dr. Barnett is a man with a curious mind. He always wanted to know what was going on inside the body when certain things were fed, when environmental conditions changed, when diseases struck, or when stress was high. What changed inside, why, and how did this affect the rest of the animal, mentally and physically? He was always fascinated with the idea that changing what we took into our body could change the way so many things worked inside and outside of our bodies.
For several years, Dr. Barnett worked in the animal nutrition world, first as a lecturer of Animal and Equine Nutrition in the veternary school at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, then as a contracted consultant for a nutrional advising company in Queensland, and finally as a self employed nutritional consultant. He worked hard and achieved much in these roles but he was always curious about what could be going on inside the body, both good and bad.
Then came the "age of the microbiome". The discovery that the microbes that reside in the digestive tract of animals, humans included, were more than just casual residents. It was discovered that these tiny microbes could influence not just how much feed was digested but the level and types of hormones and internal chemicals produced, whether certain geans were switched on or off, the impact of dietary nutrients on the physical health of the animals (metabolic diseases), and even the mood and mental health of an animal. Add to this an increased understanding of the roles that plant-based polyphenols play in the physiological health of humans and animals and Dr. Barnett's interest was piqued.
This is what Dr. Barnett loves learning about, dealing with, and helping others overcome and enhance for their clients.
This is what Animal BioScience Consultancy is!