10/24/2022
My first diet based tinnitus advice came in mid-October 2022 from Dr. Berg’s recommendation of Benfotiamine – a fat-soluble B-1 (Thiamine) supplement. Then, that same night, Dr. Mandell’s hypothesis that GABA will “fix” tinnitus added fuel to the flame and inspired me to look at the etiology of my own tinnitus – that will be in My Tinnitus Diary soon.
At the time, October 17th, late at night, I took 3 Benfotiamine tablets – bought them years ago and didn’t find that they did anything. When I took three, I noticed that my tinnitus volume was lowering and went to sleep.
I bought GABA the next day and Inositol and Choline – two nutrients that appeared to be completely absent from my diet – to remove the fat from my liver – who knew? None of the physicians who told me that I have a fatty liver – and that was just about five years ago now – ever told me about Inositol and Choline or gave me any information about managing that condition. Virtually everything I’ve learned about it came from online sources. I’m talking years.
Moving on though, my cousin has diabetes and takes Metformin. She’s losing weight while reporting eating waffles, sugared coffee, drinking cokes, and much more. I wondered how that was possible. Dr. Berg, bless him, mentioned in one of his 2500 YouTube videos that Metformin helps diabetics to lose weight because it lowers insulin production. Ahhh! He also mentioned that Berberine is a natural supplement that does the same thing. Again, none of the physicians attending me ever mentioned this in all the times they said, “Just continue to lose weight.” Easier said than done, in my case and in millions of other cases too. So, I added Berberine to my list of supplements.
Recently, I found a study published on NIH’s website that was conducted by British researchers – I’ll find the link and add it – that showed tinnitus occurrence was reduced when the study participants’ diets were high in protein, vitamin D3 and B vitamins.
A few days later, I came upon a second study on the NIH website. This one, also a study of diet and tinnitus, included 7,621 individuals aged 40- 80. Of those, 1,435 reported subjective tinnitus with subjective normal living. The study, Relationship Between Diet and Tinnitus, Korea National Health and Nutrition Survey by Doh Young Lee and Young Ho Kim, in February 2018, revealed a significant increased prevalence of tinnitus with age and in females with lower body mass and less vitamin B2 intake. And, a lower B2 intake was also associated with tinnitus in middle-aged people (51-55 and 56-60 years of age). Lower water intake along with lower intakes of protein, and B3 were associated with tinnitus in participants aged 45-55 and in subjects 66-80 years old.
Obviously, I’ve upped my protein intake per meal to about 30 grams – that puts me into the 58 – 75 g/day range that is, ostensibly, “right” for me. We’ll see.
I’ve also added D3, and a slew of B vitamins ensuring that I now have plenty of the key B-vitamins in my body daily. I’ve also added Berberine and Inositol and Choline.
This is suddenly a very good day. My tinnitus has been hovering about a 3 -4 volume all morning but I realized as I was writing this that my protein level is low because my only source was 4 ounces of grass-fed yogurt and 1/2 c of milk over 3/4 c of bran flakes and about as much of wild blueberries.
To correct that, since it’s lunch time anyway, I ate 5 organic Brazil nuts and the tinnitus volume dropped to about 1 – 2 and has stayed there through a lunch of 4-eggs (Eggland’s Best organic and cage free), 1/4 cup of fresh organic Valencia orange juice, and 3 organic dates (brain food). LIFE IS GOOD! The eggs are over the last of the high GABA meal from last night – organic brown rice, peas, mushrooms, grass-fed beef, and carrots (not a high GABA food). It’s nice that the sugar in the orange juice and dates has not raised my tinnitus volume – yet.
More as the days progress. . .
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