Let's Talk About XCP

Eat like a Horse and Be Healthy

I recently read about a animal feed supplement called XCP. This supplement is a dried yeast product. Several companies are engaged in the manufacture of yeast supplements. A company called Diamond V manufactures a yeast feed supplement named XCP. It has been doing this for about 63 years and has a proprietary process. That is the introduction and now I will get to the place where the story gets interesting.

After several years it became noticeable that the employees working in the yeast processing room were seldom sick. Their counter parts in the other parts of the factory had the usual routine seasonal illnesses as did the processing room employees family's. The yeast was not knowingly or intentionally ingested, but, rather was absorbed as dust in the air.

There are yeast pores in the air in many parts of the world. And the strain of yeast pores vary over the face of the earth. This is often called wild yeast. That is why sourdough bread from San Francisco is so popular. They have a strain of yeast in that area that produces delightful bread. There is either a big difference between the wild yeast and Diamond V Mill's proprietary blend or possibly the air in the processing room has a high concentration of yeast. They claim that their processed yeast is not viral, but, contains dead yeast spores.

As this was a feed grade manufacturing facility and not a food grade facility, the company was somewhat slow or possibly reluctant to investigate its use on humans. As the research continued, more and more health benefits were documented.