Can you hear me Mother?

I guess we've all read that the quality of our diet can affect eye health, but until this week I'd never considered that it may also affect ear health.  Age related hearing loss is not totally due to something wrong mechanically with the ears but how the brain processes information that gets passed t the ears, a process that begins to degrade during our 40's & 50's.This type of hearing loss may be reversible and conditions such as tinnitus could be improved.

Nutrients that have been found to aid hearing include Vitamin A, magnesium, folic acid, and zinc.  These nutrients collectively support our hearing by protecting against oxidative stress in the cochlear, preventing damage by free radicals, improve blood flow to the ear.
For tinnitus, folic acid/B9 has proven to be beneficial more so if taken from fresh foods such as dark green leafy veg & lentils rather than from supplements.  

As well as eating right, there are other ways we can protect our hearing that are very simple to accommodate into our lives; 

Turn down the volume on audio devices

Wear ear plugs if visiting or working in noisy environments

Take regular breaks from listening to devices with earphones  or limit to an hour a day  

til next week

MB