For traditional veterinary medical care comments, see this video:    • Horse Runny Nose? Before You Give Antibiot…  

What a TBT Practitioner Does for a Snotty Nose 🐴

Meet Betty. Snotty nose. Antibiotics. Better. Then… snotty nose again. More antibiotics. Better. Then snotty again.

Sound familiar?

At some point you have to stop and ask — why does this keep coming back?

That question is exactly where TBT starts. And the answer? It’s probably not what you’d expect.

In this video, I walk you through what a Tucker BioKinetic Technique practitioner actually does when they show up to a horse like Betty — and the very first thing we do might surprise you.

Hint: it has nothing to do with the nose.

What happened with Betty after one TBT session is something her owner definitely didn’t see coming. (Neither did Betty, probably. 😄)

Listen to find out. In this podcast you’ll learn:

➡️ Why recurring horse nasal discharge keeps coming back even after antibiotics
➡️ How TBT finds the root cause — and why it’s often nowhere near the nose
➡️ What natural horse healing looks like from a veterinarian’s perspective ➡️ What Betty’s owner saw the very next day after her first TBT session

If your horse has any of these, this video is for you: 🐴 Chronic runny nose / nasal discharge in horses 🐴 Horse keeps getting snotty nose after antibiotics 🐴 Recurring equine upper respiratory infection 🐴 Horse sinus infection not responding to treatment 🐴 Looking for holistic equine health alternatives 🐴 Interested in natural horse healing and energy work 🐴 Wondering if there’s a root cause your vet keeps missing

 

Summary:

Summary by AI:

A horse (Betty) had a recurring runny nose that kept coming back despite antibiotics. The speaker argues this happens because only the symptom is treated, not the root cause.

Using Tucker Biokinetic Technique (TBT), the practitioner doesn’t focus on the nose itself but instead tries to identify the horse’s primary underlying issue (which could be elsewhere, like the gut, fascia, or circulation). In Betty’s case, they addressed problems with the sternum (affecting breathing), blood flow to the lungs, and the lymphatic system.

After treatment, symptoms briefly worsened (more discharge), which is interpreted as the body clearing out waste, and then resolved completely within two days. The main point: lasting improvement comes from addressing root causes, not just symptoms.

 

 

Transcription:

Renee (00:00:01.07)
Now this video is about how to fix a horse’s nose from a TBT perspective. So let me tell you about Betty.

Renee (00:00:11.10)
Betty had a snotty nose. The owner took her to the vet, got antibiotics, and the snot cleared right up. Great, right? Except a few weeks later, the snot was back.

Renee (00:00:24.05)
So more antibiotics. The snot went away and it came back again. And at some point you have to stop and ask, why? Why does this keep coming back? Are we actually fixing anything?

Renee (00:00:36.28)
Are we just slapping a Band-Aid on the same problem every few weeks? And that’s when Betty came to me. So here is the TBT perspective. In my previous video about horses’ snotty nose, I talked about the basics. Supporting your horse with good nutrition, checking the temperature, and potentially using the liver product to help the immune system do its job.

Renee (00:01:00.11)
That’s all good stuff. But today I wanna show you what a TBT practitioner, that’s Tucker Biokinetic Technique, would actually do when showing up to a horse like Betty. Because we don’t start with the snotty nose. We don’t walk up and go, okay, symptom, runny nose, let’s fix that. That’s not TBT thinking.

Renee (00:01:20.26)
The first thing we do is connect with the horse’s energy field and we ask, what’s really going on? Now let me explain that, because while TBT is complex, each step is simple. Every living being has an energy field. Yours extends about 2 feet around your body. That’s documented.

Renee (00:01:41.21)
Science has measured it. And the horse’s energy field, about 10 feet. So when you’re standing next to your horse, you’re already inside that field. You’re already connected. You just haven’t learned to listen yet.

Renee (00:01:54.25)
In TPT, we learn to get yes and no responses from this field. It’s kind of like the positive and negative charges on a battery. The field tells us what the horses need. The first question we should ask is, should we chase this symptom of snotty nose, or is there something more important going on? Every time, we follow what the horse already knows, and we call this working by primary.

Renee (00:02:23.03)
We’re always asking, what’s primary for this horse right now? Not what we think, what the horse’s body is telling us. And here’s the thing, sometimes the answer surprises you. You’d think with the snotty nose, the primary problem is obviously somewhere in the respiratory system, right? Lungs, sinuses, something in there.

Renee (00:02:45.29)
This is logical, but sometimes that’s not it. I’ve had horses where the snotty nose was just a symptom of an intestinal problem, nothing to do with the nose at all. The body was dealing with something going on in the gut, and the nasal discharge was how it was showing up. Other times, the primary issue is the fascia or the pleura. That’s the connective tissue and lining around the lungs.

Renee (00:03:12.16)
Not the lungs themselves, the wrapping around them. If the pleura gets inflamed, it’s quite restrictive and painful to breathe. That’s called pleuritis in people. So anyways, you just never know. That is exactly why we ask first every time, no matter what the symptoms are telling you, cuz the symptom is just the horse’s way of waving a flag.

Renee (00:03:34.29)
It’s not necessarily pointing to the right area. So we connect with the energy field, we find the primary, and we go in order of what’s best for the horse, whatever that order turns out to be. So with Betty, here’s what the TBT protocol looked like. I needed to fix the sternum first. Sometimes it surprises people, but the sternum, that’s that breastbone right in the middle of the chest, is directly connected to the diaphragm.

Renee (00:04:04.27)
The diaphragm is what controls breathing. So if the sternum is misaligned, the diaphragm is restricted and your horse is working way harder to breathe than it needs to. Also, when the sternum’s over to the side, then one lung is not able to expand as well as the other one. The next thing for Betty was the blood flow to the lungs. If the blood isn’t flowing well to the lungs, the immune response to that whole area gets sluggish.

Renee (00:04:35.03)
Blood flow to Betty’s lungs wasn’t good. We found the primary for that, which was an artery, and fixed it. Next on Betty’s primary list was the lymphatic system. Think of the lymphatics as your horse’s drainage system. Cleans out the waste, the pathogens, all the stuff the body’s trying to get rid of.

Renee (00:04:53.00)
If it’s backed up, well, a runny nose is actually one way the body tries to push that stuff out. For Betty, the lymphatic system, actually the tubing of the system, needed help, especially around left lung. And that was it for her treatments. We always ask if it’s best to do any more today or not, because sometimes they just need some time to process and deal with what has been changed. So how was Betty the next day?

Renee (00:05:20.14)
Perfect? No. In fact, she had massive snot. I know that doesn’t sound great, but in TBT we actually love to see that. It means the body is responding and healing, clearing out the bad stuff.

Renee (00:05:34.06)
Doing what it’s actually supposed to do. And then that was it. Within 2 days, all the snot was gone permanently. No more cycles of antibiotics because we didn’t just address the symptom. We found the primary root causes.

Renee (00:05:48.14)
We worked on what her body actually needed. That is TVT. So if this kind of thinking resonates with you, or if you’ve watched your horse go through the same symptom loop over and over and thought, there has got to be a better way, There is, and you can learn it. Check the link below to find more about the TACO BioConnect technique and how you can start using it yourself.