Glaucoma is a neurodegenerative disease of the optic nerve, similar to brain neurodegeneration, and is the leading cause of irreversible vision loss.

“glaucoma is actually probably a little cluster or constellation of diseases that we lump together it's a degenerative disease like a neurod degeneration we talk about nurd degenerations in the brain like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's glaucoma is a neurod degenerative disease it happens instead of affecting one or different area in your brain it happens to affect the optic nerve that connects the eye to the brain”