| For years, scientists have been searching for evidence | | | | That is since brute force by loud noise may not be the |
| by using lab animals that a pill can be able to counter | | | | only thing that damages the delicate inner ear all the |
| the damage on hearing caused by loud noises. Now, | | | | time. In other terms, the inner ear clearly gets provoked |
| the Marines have to come on in. The Marines all based | | | | to produce dangerous oxygen molecules otherwise |
| in Camp Pendleton, California will start with their rifle | | | | known to be called free radicals. The ear protects |
| training with foam plugs in their two ears and drinking | | | | itself naturally and antioxidants can neutralize free |
| up something that tastes like herbal tea coming in wild | | | | radicals and other substances. But then when a certain |
| berry, a treat that all 600 of them might enjoy. | | | | amount of noise reaches the ear, the antioxidants get |
| They will be gulping this drink down to the last drop | | | | overwhelmed. |
| during every meal, during the two weeks of training | | | | Free radicals kill the sound receptors of the ear in this |
| which is known to erode the hearing ability of the | | | | scenario. Needless to say, building up the ear's |
| trainees from about 10 percent. If all goes well, the | | | | antioxidant defense to prevent negative effects and |
| hearing examinations will be able to determine the | | | | making it the cure after being exposed to noise does |
| efficacy of the substance dissolved in the drink. This is | | | | turn out to be very sensible and truthful. Indeed animal |
| the newest bump toward finding the one answer to | | | | experiments draw out prevention that excites a lot of |
| cure and prevent hearing loss from too much | | | | individuals who look forward to this kind of security |
| exposure to noise. While the effort is hardly new, | | | | being applied to human beings whenever they have to |
| experts say it has picked up steam in just the past | | | | enter noisy environments. |
| few years. | | | | One of the most renowned pioneers when it come to |
| Loss of hearing as a result of exposure to noise is | | | | the realm of hearing antioxidants share that he saw in |
| reported to be the top when it comes to the most | | | | many people its effects. A patent for his nutritional |
| common occupational health problems and second in | | | | supplement is already set in place, to further bolster |
| the category of most self reported occupational | | | | this remedy that he recommends to many of the |
| disorders, claims the federal government. It has been | | | | patients who need an answer to their hearing loss |
| found that people who either enter prolonged | | | | struggles that come with aging but could also be a |
| exposure to noisy surroundings or get caught in a | | | | product of being exposed to a noisy environment. |
| sudden burst suffer from permanent hearing loss and | | | | Many of these patients saw the wondrous |
| to date, 10 million Americans have been affected. And | | | | improvement when it came to their hearing and also |
| an estimated 30 million people are thought to be | | | | felt the progression of their hearing loss getting slower. |
| exposed to hazardous levels of noise at work, such | | | | People that clearly suffer from moderate to severe |
| as in mining, construction, manufacturing and agriculture. | | | | levels of hearing loss may not be swayed into leaving |
| People from the world of professional music should | | | | their hearing aids in the trash bins but then this sufficed |
| also take care. A man who was part of a huge band | | | | in making these people remove their aids momentarily |
| style performance may have forgotten to put on any | | | | and shifting to a mode seen to be less forceful or |
| protective ear device and this made him put his hands | | | | perhaps even smaller. |
| on his ears and duck while the trumpet sounded right | | | | The one person immensely involved in the Marine |
| behind him. Even hobbies that including snowmobiling, | | | | experiment as well as his other colleagues were able |
| recreational shooting and motorcycling can be very | | | | to obtain good feedback from their tests on |
| damaging. | | | | antioxidant compounds used on animals. He has set his |
| Earplugs and specialized sound deadening earmuffs | | | | eye on NAC or N acetylcysteine which has been |
| are clearly helpful, but they're not always enough. | | | | approved by the state in addressing overdoses on a |
| There are varieties of sound which overwhelm these | | | | brand of painkiller that is well known. With the NAC |
| devices. Some men usually just refuse to wear these | | | | neutralizing the free radicals, the antioxidant defense of |
| pieces even when they know the need to, but then | | | | the ear gets bolstered. Before the animals got |
| others are simply susceptible to damage in their | | | | exposed to noise as well as after, they took in NAC |
| hearing sense. Plus, damage can be done with the | | | | and this significantly reduced hearing loss. The |
| levels of sound going to the skull and passing through | | | | relevance for humans is just about whether you need |
| the ears even when it is protected. | | | | a hearing aid or not after seeing the effect. |