Red wine may cure deafness
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/...25514.100.html
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Before we all going rushing off down to the offie, the site suggests:
Not exactly a "cure" ;)but unfortunately we can't read the whole article without stumping up £2.95. Ah well ... you could almost get a bottle of red wine for that :D
Holistic
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Could a Mod please change the title of this thread please? The article actually says "Moderate consumption of the popular drink, or aspirin, could delay the onset of age-related deafness and reduce hearing loss caused by loud noise" - 'cure' is a very misleading statement.
I say this from watching my husband don his hearing-aid this morning. He is 60 and has been losing his hearing in one ear steadily over the last 20 years. He drinks red wine..........
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On a different note, the deaf people I know see their condition as a mere difference akin to black hair or blonde hair, rather than something that needs to be "cured".
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Here's the whole article - I subscribe to New Scientist.
Sharonx
MODERATE consumption of red wine or aspirin may delay the onset of age-related deafness and reduce hearing loss caused by loud noise and some antibiotics.
The delicate hairs of the inner ear which are vital for hearing can be damaged by the oxygen free radicals produced by normal cellular processes throughout life and in response to loud noise and exposure to antibiotics. Antioxidants such as resveratrol, which is found in red wine and green tea, or salicylate, the active ingredient of aspirin, help to neutralise these free radicals, so might be expected to protect against some of this damage.
To test this, Jochen Schacht of the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor and his colleagues used salicylate to try and prevent damage to the hair cells in patients' ears caused by the powerful antibiotic gentamicin. Ironically, gentamicin is often used to treat severe, acute ear infections, although it can damage hair cells in the process. Hearing loss affected just 3 per cent of patients who were given gentamicin plus aspirin for acute ear infections compared with 13 per cent treated with gentamicin plus a placebo. "That's a 75 per cent reduction in toxicity to the ear," says Schacht, who presented his results at an ear conference at University College London last week.
At the same meeting, Matti Anniko of Uppsala University Hospital in Sweden presented results which suggested that an ear condition called Ménière's disease could be treated with a cocktail of three antioxidants: rebamipide, vitamin C and glutathione. Ménière's disease causes vertigo, nausea and balance problems and is linked with oxidative damage to hair cells in the ear. Symptoms improved in people recently diagnosed with the disease after they had been taking the cocktail for up to six months, suggesting that the antioxidants were limiting further damage. The treatment didn't work as well on patients who'd had the condition for many years, however. The antioxidant cocktail is now being tested in four larger trials in which half the patients receive placebos.
Schacht says that there is no direct evidence that consuming more dietary antioxidants - by drinking moderate amounts of red wine, for example - prevents hearing loss in humans. However, rats kept on restricted diets had less age-related hearing loss than rats on normal diets. Since restricting food intake is known to reduce oxidative damage to cells and tissues, this hinted that a similar effect could be achieved by including more antioxidant-rich foods in the diet. "I wouldn't say it is proof for antioxidants," says Schacht. "The jury's still out on that, but it certainly can't hurt to increase the amount of green vegetables, red wine or green tea that you consume."
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sorry Divine Love but the imp inside me just has to answer the title of this post with a "what??"
:D
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JBH,
*mod hat on*
Thread titles are sometimes worded as "attention grabbers" to get people to read them, it doesn't necessarily have to be taken as fact, just as Holistic has pointed out in her response. I think we're all adult enough to read the article and see what it's saying without assuming it is a "cure". I think it would be misleading if the title said that red wine was as cure but it only says "may" cure.
Thank you for raising your concerns but on this occasion I think we'll leave it as it is.
*mod hat off*
Love and Reiki Hugs
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Thank you, Giles. I was on the point of donning my own *mod hat* to reply that we were discussingthe request.
Also manythanks to Sharon for posting the whole article.
Holistic
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This is just so good,drink red wine, get hangover, take aspirin , and that idiot banging on my head I can hear.......
Cheers everyone
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Before we all going rushing off down to the offie, the site suggests:
Not exactly a "cure" ;)but unfortunately we can't read the whole article without stumping up £2.95. Ah well ... you could almost get a bottle of red wine for that :D
Holistic
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Could a Mod please change the title of this thread please? The article actually says "Moderate consumption of the popular drink, or aspirin, could delay the onset of age-related deafness and reduce hearing loss caused by loud noise" - 'cure' is a very misleading statement.
I say this from watching my husband don his hearing-aid this morning. He is 60 and has been losing his hearing in one ear steadily over the last 20 years. He drinks red wine..........
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On a different note, the deaf people I know see their condition as a mere difference akin to black hair or blonde hair, rather than something that needs to be "cured".
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Here's the whole article - I subscribe to New Scientist.
Sharonx
MODERATE consumption of red wine or aspirin may delay the onset of age-related deafness and reduce hearing loss caused by loud noise and some antibiotics.
The delicate hairs of the inner ear which are vital for hearing can be damaged by the oxygen free radicals produced by normal cellular processes throughout life and in response to loud noise and exposure to antibiotics. Antioxidants such as resveratrol, which is found in red wine and green tea, or salicylate, the active ingredient of aspirin, help to neutralise these free radicals, so might be expected to protect against some of this damage.
To test this, Jochen Schacht of the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor and his colleagues used salicylate to try and prevent damage to the hair cells in patients' ears caused by the powerful antibiotic gentamicin. Ironically, gentamicin is often used to treat severe, acute ear infections, although it can damage hair cells in the process. Hearing loss affected just 3 per cent of patients who were given gentamicin plus aspirin for acute ear infections compared with 13 per cent treated with gentamicin plus a placebo. "That's a 75 per cent reduction in toxicity to the ear," says Schacht, who presented his results at an ear conference at University College London last week.
At the same meeting, Matti Anniko of Uppsala University Hospital in Sweden presented results which suggested that an ear condition called Ménière's disease could be treated with a cocktail of three antioxidants: rebamipide, vitamin C and glutathione. Ménière's disease causes vertigo, nausea and balance problems and is linked with oxidative damage to hair cells in the ear. Symptoms improved in people recently diagnosed with the disease after they had been taking the cocktail for up to six months, suggesting that the antioxidants were limiting further damage. The treatment didn't work as well on patients who'd had the condition for many years, however. The antioxidant cocktail is now being tested in four larger trials in which half the patients receive placebos.
Schacht says that there is no direct evidence that consuming more dietary antioxidants - by drinking moderate amounts of red wine, for example - prevents hearing loss in humans. However, rats kept on restricted diets had less age-related hearing loss than rats on normal diets. Since restricting food intake is known to reduce oxidative damage to cells and tissues, this hinted that a similar effect could be achieved by including more antioxidant-rich foods in the diet. "I wouldn't say it is proof for antioxidants," says Schacht. "The jury's still out on that, but it certainly can't hurt to increase the amount of green vegetables, red wine or green tea that you consume."
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sorry Divine Love but the imp inside me just has to answer the title of this post with a "what??"
:D
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JBH,
*mod hat on*
Thread titles are sometimes worded as "attention grabbers" to get people to read them, it doesn't necessarily have to be taken as fact, just as Holistic has pointed out in her response. I think we're all adult enough to read the article and see what it's saying without assuming it is a "cure". I think it would be misleading if the title said that red wine was as cure but it only says "may" cure.
Thank you for raising your concerns but on this occasion I think we'll leave it as it is.
*mod hat off*
Love and Reiki Hugs
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Thank you, Giles. I was on the point of donning my own *mod hat* to reply that we were discussingthe request.
Also manythanks to Sharon for posting the whole article.
Holistic
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This is just so good,drink red wine, get hangover, take aspirin , and that idiot banging on my head I can hear.......
Cheers everyone