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Me too. I’m still here!

Confirmation bias?

Survivorship bias.

more like survivorship bias?

Perhaps the causality here is that if you care about reducing own mortality, then your general course is action ends up reducing your mortality. It would be difficult to tell if it's glucosamine that's the cause, or some other thing a person of the kind that takes glucosamine would do (or all of such things in combination).

I can’t speak for people, but I did notice meaningful improvement in my dog’s joint pain when we provided glucosamine supplements.

Inflammation is correlated with many conditions, so I would not be surprised to see other correlations, or that it was combined with other inflammation reducing agents.

I wouldn't argue that it might be helpful, who knows, just the study in question does not rule out what I said and neither does anecdotal evidence

I was taking it, but then I died