Vitamins and minerals prevent hearing loss?

About 10 million people in the US today - from people returning from war to students who listen to music through headphones - are suffering from a noise-induced hearing loss.

This growing situation has led researchers and physiotherapists from Michigan State University's auditory research institute to hope to find a treatment with just one vitamin and mineral cocktail. Magnesium. This study promises to be effective in preventing hearing loss due to loud noises.

According to Glenn E, the assistant of the UM Health School ENT assistant and also the director of the auditory laboratory for children, said: 'How to limit hearing loss is a very important issue '.

'Once we cannot limit hearing loss by using ear shields and protective measures, then we really need access to other special protection for people. often have to deal with loud noises. I hope that pharmaceuticals will make people's lives more charming and useful. '

The combination of vitamins A, C and E plus Mg into tablets is given to patients participating in the research process. There is a drug that is researched and developed at UM Kresge auditory research institute that is given to patients before they are exposed to noise. Previously there was an experiment on Japanese pig breeds, the combination of four microorganisms together prevented up to 80% of auditory hearing loss .

Currently AuraQuell is conducting experiments on a series of experimental patients in four national groups: trials applied in the Swedish and Spanish military, tested in Spanish industrial parks, experiments for students who have a habit of regularly listening to music as big as the iPod of Florida University. These experiments are funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). These are the first NIH-funded clinical trials that involve finding ways to prevent hearing loss caused by noise.

"If we see the prospect of 50% success in people from the experiments we do in animals, then surely we will get effective treatment for concussion-induced hearing loss. It is a wonderful dream, 'said Dr. Josef M. Miller, co-author of the study, a communication disorder professor and director of the hearing disorder research center. At the UM ENT Department of the Kresge Hearing Institute, he was also appointed at the University of Florida and Castille de La Mancha and is in charge of this project with his colleagues at Karolinska Institute.

University of Michigan Green Glenn is testing patients' hearing. (Photo: University of Michigan)

A century ago, everyone thought that noise affected hearing ability due to excessive mechanical vibration that destroyed the eardrum structure inside the ear. There is no interference to protect the eardrum rather than reducing the intensity of the sound going straight to it, like the ear button, but it is not always effective.It was later discovered that the noise that causes internal metabolism produces molecules that damage cells inside the ears, and this finding helped the process of finding ways to limit this effect. .

Experimental research funded by NIH has resulted in new hearing loss caused by mechanical noises; These early theoretical studies have found the AuraQuell formula as a very effective way to prevent disease.

Miller noted that the experimental cells applied to a number of soldiers played a particularly important role because the number of soldiers suffering from hearing impairment increased according to order, due to the devices exploding themselves. and other sounds.

He added that the defense ministry spent $ 1.5 billion last year to compensate for the hearing loss of soldiers , and military hospitals also gave $ 1 billion to treatment. Clinical and treatment of ear disease. Recent figures in an article published by the Institute of Medicine show that one-third of troops returning from war in Afghanistan and Iraq cannot be recruited due to hearing loss.

'This is not only a major problem in the quality of life for affected individuals, not just the cost of society for compensation and health care services, but importantly it is the effect of Army in this moment '. Miller founded a UM company called OtoMedicine with a license to produce vitamin and magnesium tablets that have been applied in life.

Hearing loss is more common, Green said, when sounds that are too loud cause the formation of molecules inside the ear and these molecules affect the cilia cells. in the ear. These cells then collapse and form scars, which cannot be restored.

UM researchers have discovered that a combination of vitamins when mixed with magnesium can prevent hearing loss due to loud sounds caused by blocking the interaction of complex cells.