In this episode of The Swine Health Blackbelt Podcast, Dr. Ryan Dilger, University of Illinois and Dr. Brooke Smith with Cargill, discuss the research they conducted on soybean meal, revealing its mitigating effects on respiratory disease, specifically, the ability of soy-derived components to improve immune function and viability of PRRSv-infected pigs and the mechanisms for immunity and resilience to SRD by key soy-bioactives. Listen and watch! 

“Nutrition, like everything, is only part of the picture, but remains a potentially underutilized tool for supporting health-challenged pigs.” — Brooke Smith, DVM, PhD, Veterinary Nutrition Lead, Cargill Animal Nutrition - Pork Solutions

“The body of work to date shows consistent mechanistic evidence that soy bioactives modulate host immunity and inflammation in ways that are relevant to swine respiratory disease.” — Ryan N. Dilger, PhD, Professor, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign   

𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁s:

Brooke Smith, PhD/DVM, completed her PhD in swine nutrition and health interactions, focusing on soy isoflavones on growth performance and clinical responses to PRRSv infection in weaned pigs. Post-DVM, she is Veterinary Nutrition Lead for Cargill’s North American Pork Technical Service Team, developing nutritional approaches to help support disease-challenged pigs.

Ryan N. Dilger, PhD, Animal Sciences Department Professor and Chair of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. His research includes the interaction of nutrition, immunology, and neuroscience, and can be broadly categorized into practical nutrition and health issues and fundamental nutrition and developmental questions using the pig as a model to improve human health and well-being.

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What you will learn:

• (00:00) Highlight
• (00:43) Introduction
• (02:33) Research update
• (03:23) Soy bioactive role
• (06:31) Immune response
• (11:13) Nutrition in disease
• (13:26) Practical producer advice
• (16:33) Closing thoughts

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