Don't Want to Go Deaf? High Levels of Iron Helps to Prevent Hearing Loss, Study Finds

Don't want to go deaf? Have a pint of Guinness each day: High levels of iron helps to prevent hearing loss, study finds

• Up to 30% of the world's population are anaemic - mainly due to a lack of iron
• But research has found a link between iron deficiency anaemia and hearing loss
• Scientists hope the findings will allow for more effective treatments in future

By Stephen Matthews For Mailonline

PUBLISHED: 16:00, 29 December 2016 | UPDATED: 19:22, 29 December 2016


A pint of Guinness each day may help to prevent you from going deaf, new research suggests.

The popular beverage contains high levels of iron, which scientists believe helps to ward off hearing loss.

While leafy green vegetables, brown rice and some meat may also help, according to a new study.

But around 30 per cent of the world's population are believed to be anaemic - leaving them at risk of losing their ability to hear, experts say.




Guinness contains high levels of iron, which scientists believe helps to ward off hearing loss

A study of more than 300,000 people found a link between iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) and hearing loss.


Pennsylvania State University researchers found a lack of the mineral can cause sensorinerual hearing loss - damage to the cochlea or nerve pathways.

While they also discovered it could also cause conductive hearing loss - problems with the bones in the middle of the ear.

They used data from electronic medical records to determine the rate of IDA.

Around 1.6 per cent of participants were found to have either conductive, sensorineural hearing loss and deafness. While 0.7 per cent were believed to have IDA.

They found a significant association between the condition and sensorineural hearing loss - which was present in 1.1 per cent of sufferers.

And conductive hearing loss was present in 3.4 per cent of those with conductive hearing loss.

A further analysis confirmed the increased odds of both forms of hearing loss among patients with IDA, the study published in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery found.



A new US study of more than 300,000 people found a link between iron deficiency anaemia and hearing loss

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How much iron do I have to inject to cure tinnitus, hyperacusis, and hearing distortions?

 

Guinness?No wonder my uncles T never got worse over the years,he basically breaths that nastiness lol.

 

If you drink enough guiness that you throw up, you're basically injecting that shit into your ears through the eustachain tube right?

 

Pretty much I guess,time for me to have a piss up I think,will post my progress here lol.

 

"My Goodness..."

 

People believe a lot of things,i'm more interested in what they know.

 

kinda dumb headline; if iron is helpful there are a lot of ways of getting it without ingesting a neurotoxic carcinogen (alcohol).

 

I thought it was a joke at first, but I'll add iron to my diet and maybe some Guinness.

 

Think I will stick to my multi vitamin or become guinness glynis

 

Guinness Glynis... it has a nice ring to it!

 

Not to mention hepatoxic. Large amounts of iron and alcohol sound like a good way to permanently damage your liver in short order. Iron accumulation in the liver plays a roll in alcoholic liver disease. I don't think Guinness has as much iron is people think it does (and that's a good thing for people that get drunk on it regularly).

 

This could help us considering if a future cure for hearing loss involves repairing auditory nerve fibers, in the mean time we have to keep the nerve fibers alive.

 

Be careful when taking iron supplements. It is my understanding that human body has a hard time getting rid of excess iron. One way to do that is to donate blood. I read that one reason why women tend to live longer than men is that women have periods that allow them to avoid having excess iron in their bodies.

 

Women can also get an iron deficiency due to their periods.

 

If iron is toxic, iron deficiency might be a blessing in disguise.

 

It isn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron-deficiency_anemia

 

I would still think twice before taking iron supplement: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0147990

 

It's not something you take willy-nilly: blood work will indicate whether you are deficient and need to take it.

 

Be careful doing anything apparently. It's to much.

 

What is too much?

 

I'm a nurse. Please don't start taking iron supplements on a whim. As many have mentioned, you can take too much and cause toxicity. Not to mention your poops will turn to tar and that will be a whole other problem in your life.

In Canada you actually can't just go and buy iron supplements any more. The Pharmacist has them behind the counter. I'm not sure if you need a prescription to get your hands on them, but you definitely can't just pick them up at your own convenience either.

 

Unfortunately, most multi-vitamins aren't absorbed by the body as they aren't that bioavailable. They typically aren't absorbed by the body and most of it is found in your urine (This is why they call Americans urine the most expensive in the world lol). There are supplements which are bound to amino acids which can increase the bioavailability.

 

This.. Alcohol is shit.

 

How

 

I like Guinness. But alcohol always worsen my Tinnitus. Like stress and coffee.
Magnesium is the only thing I notice a small improvement from.