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Any concerns about glucosamine raising eye pressure? And also, if NAG is a component of GAGs, doesn’t that mean taking an NAG supplement could contribute toward

Any concerns about glucosamine raising eye pressure? And also, if NAG is a component of GAGs, doesn’t that mean taking an NAG supplement could contribute towards increased ocular pressure as well? Or are the chemical pathways in the body too dissimilar for that to happen?

hirenj 4y ago
If there’s a connection, it might be via hyaluronan, another glycan polymer, which is abundant in the vitreous humor in the eye. I don’t know much about how it’s regulated. Generally, I don’t think we know enough about how metabolite levels translate to specific complex carb levels because there’s a relatively complex set of intermediate steps which themselves can be regulated.