* Dr. Eric Berg D.C. Bio: Dr. Berg, age 61, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals and author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.
**If you’re dealing with tinnitus, you might want to look beyond your ears. Find out how to get natural tinnitus relief so you can finally stop dealing with ringing in the ears.
In the past, a common tinnitus treatment involved slicing the auditory nerve, only to discover that ringing in the ears did not go away.
Inside the inner ear, you have a tiny but powerful battery. The inner ear has a very high demand for energy and relies heavily on this energy for hearing and preventing ringing in the ears.
Any problems with energy in the bloodstream can show up in your inner ear. If your inner ear struggles to get enough energy, the brainstem compensates by actually turning up the volume, not decreasing it. This often manifests as tinnitus.
Vitamin B1 powers the “battery” of the inner ear, supports brain function, and supplies energy to the mitochondria. Studies have shown that people with beriberi and tinnitus have been able to reverse tinnitus with vitamin B1.
Vitamin B1 in the form of allithiamine is one of the best ways to get rid of tinnitus.
0:00 What causes ringing in ears? 0:31 Tinnitus causes and inner ear health 1:44 Hearing health and the brainstem 2:25 GABA and tinnitus 2:51 Vitamin B1, brain health, and mitochondrial health 4:11 Vitamin B1 mistakes to avoid 4:39 The best tinnitus remedy 5:10 Vitamin B1 deficiency 7:13 Tinnitus and magnesium deficiency
Tinnitus is not caused by the ears themselves but is a phantom sound created by the brainstem when the inner ear lacks sufficient energy. This condition is often linked to a deficiency in Vitamin B1, which is essential for powering the inner ear and maintaining the brain's \"brake\" system (GABA). Proper supplementation and nutritional support can help reverse these symptoms.
The real cause of tinnitus is not coming from your ears.
If you have tinnitus and you've been to the doctor
and they told you that nothing can be done,
I have some good news for you that is absolutely not true.
There is something that can be done about it,
but the reason why a lot of medical professionals
are not giving you this answer I'm gonna share with you
is simply because they don't go into the area of nutrition.
They focus mainly on medicine
and managing symptoms of medication.
And what I'm gonna share with you today
is more of a natural thing.
Tinnitus does not come from your ear.
Here's your ear and then we have the inner part of the ear.
What they've done in the past
to try to solve ringing in the ear, tinnitus,
is they cut the auditory nerve.
And what they found was pretty depressing.
The ringing continues,
but of course if you cut the auditory nerve, they go deaf.
The actual ringing in the ear
is a phantom sound in the brainstem,
but not in the inner ear.
Inside the inner ear, you have a very tiny,
but very powerful battery
that is actually powering the inner ear.
It just so happens the inside of the ear
has the highest energy demand tissue
of any tissue in the entire body,
so the inner ear requires
a tremendous amount of energy to work, okay?
That's number one.
It literally needs 150 millivolts to power the inner ear.
And the problem is there's not a backup system of energy,
so it really depends on this large amount of energy
for you to hear and also to prevent ringing.
It's gonna pull energy from the bloodstream,
so if there's any problem in the bloodstream with fuel,
it can show up in this inner ear.
When the energy in the inner ear drops,
you would think that now we're gonna actually have
less hearing initially.
That's not what happens.
Your brain will now compensate,
I'm talking about the brainstem,
by turning up the volume.
Not actual sound, but more of a phantom noise
that's not an actual sound.
It's just something that you perceive.
And it's like you talking into a microphone
with the game turned up.
You're gonna hear the static noise or hissing or buzzing.
That's what tinnitus really is.
It's the brain compensating
because there's not enough power supply in the inner ear.
Compounding on top of that,
we also have something else happening.
When the brain overcompensates and turns up the gain,
normally what happens is you have a built-in brake pad
that's supposed to keep it normalized.
That's called GABA.
GABA is the brakes of the brain.
And it just so happens that there's something that occurs
that not only shuts the power supply off in the inner ear,
but also at the same time shuts down the brakes
causing this problem.
And that is a deficiency of B1.
B1 not only powers the energy into this battery,
but it also helps make GABA.
It helps keep GABA working.
It helps the brake pads work in the brain.
This is why when you go to sleep at night
and your brain is racing with thoughts,
vitamin B1 is the antidote to that.
It brings down that chatter.
B1 also is the spark plug for energy in the mitochondria,
especially those parts of the body
that require a lot of energy, like the inner ear.
Like the retina, for example, in diabetes.
Another tissue that requires a lot of energy
and it's also usually deficient in B1.
That's why people with diabetes have retina problems.
And the same thing with nerve problems,
peripheral neuropathy in the bottom of the feet.
That's a B1 deficiency as well.
So in a very severe B1 deficiency called beriberi,
one of the early symptoms is tinnitus.
There's been studies that show
that people with beriberi and tinnitus
actually can reverse tinnitus by taking B1.
It's not some magic remedy
that no one understands how it works.
It's part of your biochemistry.
You need B1 in the various energy pathways
in the mitochondria.
Now here's some mistakes that people make
when they take B1.
They take the wrong form.
They'll take thiamine HCL.
This will not work because it's not going to penetrate
through the blood-brain barrier and into the brainstem.
Also, the wrong form.
Now, in some past videos, I recommended this for tinnitus.
And until recently, I didn't realize something.
Benfotiamine does not cross the blood-brain barrier
even though it's fat-soluble.
The correct form of B1 that gets into the brainstem
because it crosses the blood-brain barrier,
it's called allothiamine, and the origin is from garlic.
And if someone has very severe ringing in the ears,
they're going to need more of a therapeutic dosage of B1.
And I would recommend taking 50 milligrams,
three, maybe four times a day.
Now just think about this for a second.
The RDA for B1 is less than two milligrams.
It's ridiculous.
The more refined sugar and starches a person consumes,
the more B1 they need to metabolize that fuel.
And I'm also talking about the hidden carbohydrates
as bread, pasta, cereal, crackers,
biscuits, waffles, pancakes.
But if you look at the label,
they add back in there B1, don't they?
But what type do they add in?
They add thiamine hydrochloride.
So in other words, a lot of people are walking around
with a B1 deficiency and they don't even know it.
Diabetics have been known to have
a pretty severe B1 deficiency.
In fact, in one study, I found that your risk for tinnitus
goes up by six times if you are a diabetic.
Now, why would that be?
Because what is diabetes?
It's a disease of too much sugar in the body
and too much sugar eats up your B1.
The same thing with alcohol.
Alcohol also eats up your B1 and creates deficiencies.
So a lot of people ask me, what supplements do I recommend?
Now, of course, I'm not biased
at my own high-quality supplement line,
but if you go to Amazon and type Dr. Berg Supplements,
you'll find more information.
Certain medications also deplete B1
and acids like PPIs or metformin, certain antibiotics.
People that are under chronic stress
need tremendous amounts of B1.
And also, there's a virus that can go
in and out of remission.
It's called herpes simplex virus,
which also happens to attack the inner ear.
So the correlation between this virus and ear problems,
including tinnitus.
And so if you have this virus that's in remission,
it's not bothering you, but then you go through stress
and it comes out of remission,
it can start creating damage in the inner ear.
This is why tinnitus can come and go
depending on the stress level.
If you do research on the literature
on B1 and tinnitus, you'll find mixed reviews.
And I think the reason why is many times
the studies will be using the wrong form of B1,
or, and this is probably the big reason,
a magnesium deficiency.
So many people are deficient in magnesium,
they don't even know it.
It's very hard to test for it
because most of the magnesium is deep in the cell.
So if a person is deficient in magnesium,
they can take all the B1,
even in the correct form they want,
then it won't work.
Because the biochemistry of B1 is dependent on magnesium.
And so this is another remedy I would recommend
if you have tinnitus, take magnesium,
glycinate with your L-thymine.
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So now that you know the protocol for tinnitus,
I have another video on vitamin B1
that goes beyond this symptom that's fascinating.
You should watch it.
I put it up right here, check it out.
