Antioxidants may prevent hearing loss

Taking your antioxidants: researchers are experimenting with the idea that such nutritional supplements help protect against hearing loss.
Of course, be sure to get your vitamins from natural sources like chlorella, spirulina and superfoods or whole foods.

Overview:

NEW YORK - Scientists have been accumulating evidence in lab animals for years that a pill might be able to reduce the damage loud noise does to human hearing. A group of 600 Marines at Camp Pendleton in California will face rifle training with not only foam plugs in their ears but also a drink that tastes much like Wild Berry Zinger herbal tea. No pill is ever expected to replace earplugs and other mechanical ear protection. Noise-induced hearing loss is one of the most common occupational injuries, the federal government says. These days, much of the work focuses on antioxidants, the chemical class that includes vitamins C and E. That's because loud noise provokes the inner ear to produce harmful oxygen molecules called free radicals.

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