Reverse hearing loss with nutrition

Current thinking has us believe that age-related hearing loss is an inevitable consequence of getting older, but is it really? Hundreds of studies from around the world show severe vitamin deficiencies in those with hearing loss. Even more importantly, replacing the missing vitamins improved the hearing loss in vast numbers of people, making hearing loss simply another one of many age-related problems preventable with good nutrition.

Vitamin D

Vitamin D is well known to be responsible for the calcium absorption required for strong bones. The most well known problem associated with lack of vitamin D is rickets, a softening of the bones in children leading to bowed legs. But less well-known is a similar condition in adults called osteopenia, where the bones can become porous and demineralised. When vitamin D deficiency causes osteopenia in the tiny bones of the ears, this can lead to hearing loss and even deafness. Strikingly, correcting the vitamin D deficiency often corrects the hearing loss and even the deafness in these specific cases. Vitamin D-rich foods include milk, cheese, yogurt, spinach, okro, soy beans, white beans, beef liver, egg yolks, and some fish, like sardines, salmon, perch, and rainbow trout.

Magnesium

A nutrient with a wider application in hearing loss is magnesium. Foods rich in magnesium are dark, leafy greens, nuts and seeds, beans, whole grains, avocado, plain yogurt, bananas, dark chocolates, cocoa powder, peanut butter, whole wheat bread, coffee, sweet corn, cucumber, peas, watermelon, guava, plantain, grapefruit, fish, etc.