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It's Animal Health Week In The Province

This year’s national theme, “Optimal Nutrition for Optimal Health,” is intended to remind animal owners that what and how much they feed their animals plays an important role in their animals’ health and well-being.
 
Agriculture Minister David Marit says Optimal nutrition can affect everything from an animal’s immune system to weight gain.
 
Cody Allison is a Livestock Nutrition Consultant with Proveta and says it all starts with getting a feed test done.
 
“You can’t outsource through any feed company until you actually know what your forage has tested and the quality of it. You can either spend too much money that you don’t need to spend or you can be spending exactly what you need to spend. So, feed testing is huge and having the right person in your corner on the nutrition side of things is even more huge.”
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Sweetener Effects on Gut Health - Dr. Kwangwook Kim

Video: Sweetener Effects on Gut Health - Dr. Kwangwook Kim



In this episode of The Swine Nutrition Blackbelt Podcast, Dr. Kwangwook Kim, Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, discusses the use of non-nutritive sweeteners in nursery pig diets. He explains how sucralose and neotame influence feed intake, gut health, metabolism, and the frequency of diarrhea compared to antibiotics. The conversation highlights mechanisms beyond palatability, including hormone signaling and nutrient transport. Listen now on all major platforms!

“Receptors responsible for sweet taste are present not only in the mouth but also along the intestinal tract.”

Meet the guest: Dr. Kwangwook Kim / kwangwook-kim is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, specializing in swine nutrition and feed additives under disease challenge models. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Animal Sciences from the University of California, Davis, where he focused on intestinal health and metabolic responses in pigs. His research evaluates alternatives to antibiotics, targeting gut health and performance in nursery pigs.