A friend of mine, Dr. Jeffrey Moss, owns a nutritional supplement company and a few years ago went through hell due to tinnituis. Having access to almost any supplement and modality available, he tried many things until he came upon Dr. Natan Bauman of Hamden, CT (203-287-9915). What finally helped Jeff was Dr. Bauman’s teaching on what to do to reduce the problem and what causes it, and Jeff attributes an awfully large part of his “cure” to meditation.

In the elderly, tinnitus is often due to poor circulation, and can often be helped with anti-inflammatory, pro-circulatory supplements such as ginko biloba, vinpocetine, and nattokinase.

For individuals who have actually physically damaged their ears — such as musicians — the tinnitus is therefore caused by anatomical damage and supplements usually don’t help much in these cases. In these cases, various hearing aid devices that retrain the listening function can help.

Jeff explained that so much of tinnitus has to due  with a limbic system-inner ear connection, so any type of emotional/mental issue (that’s limbic) will magnify and prolong the problem. People will hear it less or not all because  of their minds, and the way to break the limbic connection is through meditation.

Neural biofeedback techniques can often help in this direction by redirecting brain function and chemistry, but Jeff says the best answer he’s found is meditation. Dr. Bauman, he explained, knows more about hearing than anyone he’s ever met and can help explain the nature of the problem and options available.

There’s also Kevin Hogan’s tinnitus program you might look into as well:

http://store.kevinhogan.com/tinnitusreductionprogramwithbook.aspx

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