• Pupschism
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    1 day ago

    It’s a chemical your body also makes itself inside your joints, among many many other parts of your body.

    “The average 70 kg (150 lb) person has roughly 15 grams of hyaluronan in the body, one third of which is turned over (i.e., degraded and synthesized) per day” - Wikipedia

    Higher detected levels can be an indicator of cancer but I believe that’s because it helps heal parts of your body, including when maintaining a tumor. So your body ramps it up when it’s growing a tumor not because adding it to your body will cause a tumor to grow. Source

    Btw I’m just some guy on the internet, not a doctor.