Comments on Profile Post by Safari1999

Amazing at dying slowly ;)

There's a lot of confusing parts of the human body. Mainly on this forum its the confusion of the body enjoying loud noises but not being able to repair damage caused by said noise.

At least the brain is still smart enough to figure out how to trigger the genes responsible for repairing hearing damage. Just not in the species itself.

@ThomasF what do you mean by that second comment? im bad at biology :3

@Safari1999 There are a few studies trying to target and activate the genes responsible for progenitor cells in the Cochlea to transform into functioning hair cells. The tests so far have been on mice but are nonetheless promising.

Specifically there is Frequency Therapeutics, A research team at Severance Hospital in S.Korea, and Northwest college.

@ThomasF If these teams/companies succeed? Will they be able to treat H and T and VSS caused by acoustic trauma?

I can't say for certain as the direct causes for H and T aren't 100% known similarly with VSS there isn't anything written in stone. Doctors connect Hair cells and hearing as well as H and T to Hearing loss. It's described as possible that fixing Hearing can fix T and H but until they do that and see the result it's not something certain.