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The Real Cause of Tinnitus (It's Not in Your Ears) — Transcript

by Dr. Eric Berg DC · 1,397 words · 208 segments · language en · Watch on YouTube

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  1. 0:00The real cause of tinnitus is not coming
  2. 0:03from your ears. If you have tinnitus and
  3. 0:06you've been to the doctor and they told
  4. 0:08you that nothing can be done,
  5. 0:11>> [music]
  6. 0:11>> I have some good news for you. That is
  7. 0:13absolutely not true. There is something
  8. 0:14that can be done about it, but the
  9. 0:16reason why a lot of medical
  10. 0:17professionals are not giving you this
  11. 0:18answer I'm going to share with you is
  12. 0:19simply because
  13. 0:20>> [music]
  14. 0:21>> they don't go into the area of
  15. 0:22nutrition. They focus mainly on medicine
  16. 0:25and managing [music] symptoms with
  17. 0:26medication. And what I'm going to share
  18. 0:28with you today is more of a natural
  19. 0:30thing. Tinnitus does not come from your
  20. 0:34ear. Here's your ear and then we have
  21. 0:36the inner part of the ear.
  22. 0:38What they've done in the past to try to
  23. 0:40solve ringing in the ear, tinnitus, is
  24. 0:43they cut the auditory nerve. And what
  25. 0:45they found was pretty depressing. The
  26. 0:48ringing continues. But of course, if you
  27. 0:51cut the auditory nerve, they go deaf.
  28. 0:52The actual ringing in the ear is a
  29. 0:55phantom sound in the brainstem, but not
  30. 0:58in the inner ear. Inside the inner ear,
  31. 1:00you have a very tiny, but very powerful
  32. 1:04battery that is actually powering the
  33. 1:08inner ear. And it just so happens the
  34. 1:10inside of the ear has the highest energy
  35. 1:13demand tissue of any tissue in the
  36. 1:16entire body. So, the inner ear requires
  37. 1:18a tremendous amount of energy to work,
  38. 1:20okay? That's number one. It literally
  39. 1:22needs 150 mV to power the inner ear. And
  40. 1:26the problem is there's not a backup
  41. 1:27system of energy. So, it really depends
  42. 1:31on this large amount of energy for you
  43. 1:34to hear and also to prevent ringing.
  44. 1:36It's going to pull energy from the
  45. 1:38bloodstream. So, if there's any problem
  46. 1:40in the bloodstream with fuel,
  47. 1:42it can show up in this inner ear. When
  48. 1:44the energy in the inner ear drops, you
  49. 1:47would think that now we're going to
  50. 1:49actually have less hearing initially.
  51. 1:52That's not what happens. Your brain will
  52. 1:54now compensate. I'm talking about the
  53. 1:56brain stem by turning up the volume. Not
  54. 2:00actual sound, but more of a phantom
  55. 2:02noise. That's not an actual sound. It's
  56. 2:05just something that you perceive. And
  57. 2:07it's like you talking into a microphone
  58. 2:09with the gain turned up, you're going to
  59. 2:11hear the static noise or hissing or a
  60. 2:13buzzing. That's what tinnitus really is.
  61. 2:16It's the brain compensating because
  62. 2:19there's not enough power supply in the
  63. 2:21inner ear. Compounding on top of that,
  64. 2:23we also have something else happening.
  65. 2:24When the brain over compensates and
  66. 2:26turns up the gain,
  67. 2:28normally what happens is you have a
  68. 2:30built-in brake pad that's supposed to
  69. 2:33keep it normalized. That's called GABA.
  70. 2:36GABA is the brakes of the brain. And it
  71. 2:39just so happens that there's something
  72. 2:41that occurs that not only shuts the
  73. 2:43power supply off in the inner ear, but
  74. 2:46also at the same time shuts down the
  75. 2:48brakes causing this problem. And that is
  76. 2:52a deficiency of B1. B1 not only powers
  77. 2:57the energy into this battery, but it
  78. 3:00also helps make GABA. It helps keep GABA
  79. 3:05working. It helps the brake pads work in
  80. 3:07the brain. This is why when you go to
  81. 3:09sleep at night and your brain is racing
  82. 3:12with thoughts,
  83. 3:13vitamin B1 is the antidote to that. It
  84. 3:16brings down that chatter. B1 also is the
  85. 3:19spark plug for energy in the
  86. 3:22mitochondria. Especially those parts of
  87. 3:24the body that require a lot of energy,
  88. 3:27like the inner ear. Like the retina for
  89. 3:29example in diabetes. Another tissue that
  90. 3:31requires a lot of energy and it's also
  91. 3:34usually deficient in B1. That's why
  92. 3:36people with diabetes have retina
  93. 3:38problems. And the same thing with nerve
  94. 3:40problems, peripheral neuropathy in the
  95. 3:41bottom of the feet. That's a B1
  96. 3:43deficiency as well. So, in a very severe
  97. 3:46B1 deficiency called beriberi, one of
  98. 3:50the early symptoms is tinnitus. There's
  99. 3:53been studies that show that people with
  100. 3:54beriberi and tinnitus actually can
  101. 3:56reverse tinnitus by taking B1. It's not
  102. 4:00some magic remedy that no one
  103. 4:02understands how it works. It's part of
  104. 4:05your biochemistry. You need B1 in the
  105. 4:08various energy pathways in the
  106. 4:10mitochondria. Now, here's some mistakes
  107. 4:12that people make when they take B1. They
  108. 4:14take the wrong form. They'll take
  109. 4:16thiamine HCL. This will not work because
  110. 4:20it's not going to penetrate through the
  111. 4:22blood-brain barrier and into the brain
  112. 4:24stem. Also, the wrong form. Now, in some
  113. 4:28past videos, I recommended this for
  114. 4:30tinnitus. And until recently, I didn't
  115. 4:32realize something. Benfotiamine does not
  116. 4:35cross the blood-brain barrier even
  117. 4:37though it's fat-soluble. The correct
  118. 4:39form of B1 that gets into the brain stem
  119. 4:42because it crosses the blood-brain
  120. 4:44barrier is called allithiamine, and the
  121. 4:47origin is from garlic. And if someone
  122. 4:49has very severe ringing in the ears,
  123. 4:52they're going to need more of a
  124. 4:52therapeutic dosage of B1.
  125. 4:56And I would recommend taking 50 mg
  126. 4:59three, maybe four times a day. Now, just
  127. 5:02think about this for a second. The RDA
  128. 5:04for B1 is less than 2 mg. It's
  129. 5:08ridiculous. The more refined sugar and
  130. 5:12starches a person consumes, the more B1
  131. 5:15they need to metabolize
  132. 5:18that fuel. And I'm also talking about
  133. 5:20the hidden carbohydrates as bread,
  134. 5:22pasta, cereal, crackers, biscuits,
  135. 5:24waffles, pancakes.
  136. 5:26But if you look at the label, they add
  137. 5:29back in there B1, don't they? But what
  138. 5:31type do they add in? They add thiamine
  139. 5:34hydrochloride. So, in other words, a lot
  140. 5:36of people are walking around with a B1
  141. 5:37deficiency, and they don't even know it.
  142. 5:39Diabetics have been known to have a
  143. 5:40pretty severe B1 deficiency. In fact, in
  144. 5:43one study I found that your risk for
  145. 5:45tinnitus goes up by six times
  146. 5:49if you are a diabetic. Now, why would
  147. 5:51that be? Because what is diabetes? It's
  148. 5:54a disease of too much sugar in the body.
  149. 5:57And too much sugar eats up your B1. The
  150. 5:59same thing with alcohol. Alcohol also
  151. 6:01eats up your B1 and creates
  152. 6:03deficiencies. So, a lot of people ask
  153. 6:06me, what supplements do I recommend?
  154. 6:08Now, of course, I'm not biased of my own
  155. 6:10high-quality supplement line, but if you
  156. 6:12go to Amazon and type Dr. Berg
  157. 6:13supplements,
  158. 6:14you'll find more information. Certain
  159. 6:16medications also deplete B1. Antacids
  160. 6:20like PPIs or metformin, certain
  161. 6:23antibiotics,
  162. 6:24people that are under chronic stress
  163. 6:27need tremendous amounts of B1. And also,
  164. 6:31there's a virus that can go in and out
  165. 6:34of remission. It's called herpes simplex
  166. 6:37virus, which also happens to attack the
  167. 6:40inner ear. So, the correlation between
  168. 6:43this virus
  169. 6:44and ear problems including tinnitus. And
  170. 6:47so, if you have this virus that's in
  171. 6:49remission, it's not bothering you, but
  172. 6:51then you go through stress and it comes
  173. 6:53out of remission, it can start creating
  174. 6:55damage in the inner ear. This is why
  175. 6:57tinnitus can come and go depending on
  176. 6:59the stress level. If you do research on
  177. 7:02the literature on B1 and tinnitus,
  178. 7:05you'll find mixed reviews. And I think
  179. 7:07the reason why is many times the studies
  180. 7:09will be using the wrong form of B1. Or,
  181. 7:12and this is
  182. 7:13probably the big reason, a magnesium
  183. 7:16deficiency. So many people are deficient
  184. 7:18in magnesium. They don't even know it.
  185. 7:20It's very hard to test for it because
  186. 7:22most of the magnesium is deep in the
  187. 7:23cell. So, if a person is deficient in
  188. 7:25magnesium, they can take all the B1,
  189. 7:27even in the correct form they want, but
  190. 7:29it won't work because the biochemistry
  191. 7:31of B1 is dependent on magnesium. And so,
  192. 7:34this is another remedy I would recommend
  193. 7:36if you have tinnitus. Take magnesium
  194. 7:39glycinate with your allithiamine. I have
  195. 7:42a free download that I want to give to
  196. 7:44you. This free download is my daily
  197. 7:47routine and a checklist. This is a
  198. 7:48routine that I use every day to feel
  199. 7:50like I'm 18 years old, even though I'm
  200. 7:5260 years old, and I want to give it to
  201. 7:54you for free. And so, there's a little
  202. 7:55link down below, click it, and
  203. 7:57definitely download that. So, now that
  204. 7:59you know the protocol for tinnitus,
  205. 8:01I have another video on vitamin B1 that
  206. 8:04goes beyond the symptom that's
  207. 8:07fascinating. You should watch it. I put
  208. 8:09it up right here. Check it out.

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