Re:AirPods Causing Tinnitus?
by CommanderData on Saturday March 04, 2023 @06:09PM
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There may be cures in future (ways to regenerate all the areas that are involved in hearing - Auditory nerve, synapse and OHC, IHC) but there currently is no way to regenerate HC after apoptosis in Humans. Recovery of damaged/stressed HC, auditory is shown to happen naturally to a degree and -might- be helped through supplements.
I take NAC myself and a few other supplements, the idea is to help support and lessen the effects of oxidative stress. I wouldn't promote any of my protocol since the literature is too weak and from various hearing related forums I read, efficacy highly subjective.
If you're wondering - 7,8 Dihydroxyflavone (DHF) shows promise and there's some literature on frontiersin on this but delivery was done intratympanic injection to the RWM and on animals. Taking the it as a oral supplement may raise risks of some cancers.
Re:AirPods Causing Tinnitus?
by AnthonBerg on Saturday March 04, 2023 @06:20PM
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Thanks! Yes, it’s important to distinguish between cure-some-types-somewhat-sometimes and cure-almost-any-type-consistently.
I’ve been very surprised in recent years to learn just how much actionable information is in the scientific literature. More is known than is known, sort of.
I had been taking N-acetylcysteine (NAC) regularly for a while for reasons completely unrelated to hearing. I unmistakably noticed my hearing to improve. High frequency hearing once lost came back.
I didn’t believe it. Looked on Google Scholar. The effect is known.
The literature supports it; here’s just one paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2021.6594...
Antioxidant properties seem to be what’s helping, and I’d guess it’s the mucolytic aspect of NAC as well.