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Thanks for the helpful tips....i'll let you know how i make out.
Dave
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- I've not explored beyond this article (and it's always important to study all we can from various LL authors) still, this is something to consider.
As additional supplementation (beyond food sources), this should not be used by those with lyme, according to the authors here:
[section] Carbohydrates Consumed by Lyme Spirochete
An effort to determine which carbohydrates Bb consumes revealed that the organism utilizes the monosaccharides glucose, mannose and N-acetylglucosamine, as well as the disaccharides maltose and chitobiose.
A popular treatment for arthritis includes the administration of chondroitin sulfate and N-acetylglucosamine.
If the arthritis is Lyme-induced, N-acetylglucosamine is contraindicated. 22 (See Chart 14.)
- Full article at link above.
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Now, it may be that, as with one researcher who says we should avoid magnesium, but so many other LL authors and doctors, the fact that deficiency in MAGNESIUM can be dangerous, painful and beyond that many here do bring their magnesium levels up if their intracellular tests indicate the need or they find such excellent help from magnesium.
So, it may be with NAG, it may be a similar issue, IF there it is a required nutrients and if we may be deficient. Or not. NAG may not be as critical as magnesium is to our survival. Or it may.
And, as with magnesium, it may be that if other bases are covered, and if NAG is so helpful to symtoms, then there are other ways to head off what undesirable effect it may have. As long as "x" is also taken with "y" it changes the results, sort of thing.
I just don't have the energy to look further. -
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- Carol in PA poses this question elsewhere:
"One thing I can say already about it, is that Borrelia causes arthritis, and ~so many~ people feel better on glucosamine.
So maybe the supplements are replacing what the Borellia eats?" (end quote)
THIS could very well be the key. As time moves on, I've come to rely more on how my body FEELS and the effects of any particular efforts. Those that help, well, that's good information.
If something helps, that's pretty hard to ignore.
I just never had that experience from glucosamine & condroitin supplements I took years ago, but there are many variables.
Still, so many see positive effects from it, so there may be much more to it than what the authors of that article saw at the time that was written. -
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