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"Vitamin D and hearing loss Some studies indicated that vitamin D deficiency could contribute to hearing loss in the elderly. Lack of vitamin D reduces microcirculation to the cochlea and impairs calcium metabolism, which may lead to hearing impairment.82-83 Mice with abnormal vitamin D-receptor genes suffer significant hearing loss, which lends support to the theory.159 Low vitamin D intake relates to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) AMD usually is a gradual loss of central vision due to progressive deterioration of the retina, ultimately resulting in blindness." - Marc Sorenson, Solar Power For Optimal Health (Get the book.)

"SUICIDE AND MURDER A hearing about suicide, and a murder trial, frame our discussion. The suicide hearing: 15 September 2004—In a 15-8 vote, a panel of experts recommended that the FDA warn physicians and patients in the strongest possible terms that antidepressants fail in most cases to cure depression in children and teenagers; even worse, for every 100 patients given the drug, 2—3 will become suicidal. "We have very good evidence of harm, " said one member of the advisory panel, "and very little evidence of efficacy." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"The purpose of inserting tubes is to allow the pressure to equilibrate on both sides of the eardrum, thereby improving hearing and preventing problems with speech development and learning. However, putting a hole in the eardrum also provides an avenue through which bacteria can enter the middle ear. In addition, recent evidence shows that the improvement in hearing lasts only 6 months and that, in the long run, putting tubes in the ears might actually make hearing worse.1 Furthermore, there is no good evidence that chronic OME causes any kind of permanent problem.'" - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"But audiologists—specialists in measuring hearing and fitting hearing aids?point out that lifestyles have made modern iiiimi ii> i \ mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm middle-aged men and women pay more attention to their ears. Consider: Noise above 85 decibels can have negative effects, while personal stereos, construction jackhammers and rock concerts have all been measured at 110 decibels. Bottom line: Think seriously about using earplugs when mowing the lawn, attending concerts, or if, by chance, you work in a kennel filled with yelping dogs." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"House of Representatives held a hearing. Realize that "Big Pharma" is a lobbying organization that had a hefty presence on Capital Hill for years. Coincidentally, Congress has had a gentle relationship with the pharmaceutical industry?until the coxib canard forced their hand. Congress learned a good deal about what Congressman Henry Waxman termed the "hidden corner of the health care system." We all learned that in addition to the $4 billion spent in direct-to-consumer marketing, the industry spent more than $5.5 billion to promote drugs to doctors ($5.5 billion is more than all the U.S." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"In 1999 Liam Grant, the father of an adolescent boy from Ireland who had killed himself after taking Accutane, contacted me after hearing about some of my research on brain imaging of patients with depression. Several years before, the French division of Hoffman-LaRoche placed a warning on the drug's packaging that stated it could cause depression and suicide. However, this did not help the son of the man who contacted me, because the doctor and the drug company did not tell him about the risk of depression and suicide." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "It could cause hearing loss or infection of the mastoid sinus. However, none of these outcomes have occurred in cases where treatment was delayed for no more than three days. In other words, if you adopt the wait-and-see approach and wait until three days are up (assuming that your child does not look like he or she is about to die or does not in other respects look really sick, (i.e., have an extremely high fever or repetitive vomiting), you will be fine. Just administer pain medications like Tylenol or, if you have them, local medications to reduce ear pain." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "Given simultaneously with penicillinase-resistant semisynthetic penicillins or with vancomycin they act synergistically against staph infection (Staphylococci) but can be used initially only for a few days because they can cause lasting damage to your hearing or kidneys. They are also combined with penicillin G or ampicillin in the treatment of endocarditis. Aminoglycosides interfere with the ability of bacteria to produce proteins by blocking the transcription of ribonucleic acid (RNA). If they can't produce proteins, the bacteria can't replicate." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Kidd, "This substance, while free of major side effects, can apparently invigorate, rejuvenate, restore sexual function, protect against miscatriages during pregnancy, heal burns without scarring, cure radiation sickness, restore eyesight and hearing, kill the pain of advanced cancer, and shrink cancers within weeks. Circulatory disorders, including heart attacks, angina pectoris, stroke, and peripheral impairments respond well to Ge-132, as do hepatitis and cirrhosis and several behavior disorders." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"After either reading an English account of mesmerism, or hearing about it from a friend (his accounts differ slightly on this point), he almost immediately tried the technique on one of the men under his care—a jailed Indian criminal. Having successfully removed the mesmerically anaesthetized man's scrotal tumour in front of a hurriedly assembled group of British observers, Esdaile was unsurprisingly impressed and enthused. He mesmerized more patients, recruited more witnesses of higher social standing, and repeated his miracle of painless surgery." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "All this operation was finish'd in less than half an hour, without any bodies hearing me complain of pain. And I herewith declare, that even whilst the burning lasted, I found myself much inclined to sleep ... Busschof was afflicted with the immobilizing, agonizing, and yet (even then) faintly comic disease, gout. This was a particularly unfortunate diagnosis for a Protestant minister, since gout was a disease strongly associated with excesses of the table, the botde, and the bedchamber (see Figure 9)." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"As our hearing, sight, and memories fade with age, so does our sense of smell. The decreased ability to smell is medically known as hyposmia, while the total loss of smell is called anosmia. To confuse matters further, when the diminished ability to smell is age-related, it's called presbyosmia. While our sense of smell is fully developed at birth, it's most acute from our teen years to age 60. It goes downhill from there. By our 80s, we smell only half as well as we did when we were in our 30s. SIGNIFICANT FACT Our sense of smell is the most acute of all our senses." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "And if you're living with someone who's hard of hearing, your voice may become hoarse from speaking in a louder-than-normal tone. Or your husky voice may be a sign that you, too, are getting older. If your raspy voice lingers longer than two weeks, it's definitely worth voicing your concern. It can be a sign of one of two kinds of reflux, either gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) or reflux laryngitis, aka SPEAKING OF SIGNS Screaming is bad for the voice, but good for the heart. —Conor Oberst, American rock singer ("Bright Eyes") and composer laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR)." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Intermediate symptoms include: Acid reflux Asthma Bacterial infections Bowel disorders Bronchitis Cold sores (Herpes I & II) Colitis Cystitis Depression Diarrhea Disturbances in smell, taste, Earaches, vision, hearing Endometriosis Excessive falling hair Fungal infections (candida, athlete's foot, vaginal) Gallstones Gastritis Hayfever Hives Impotence Insomnia Loss of concentration Loss of memory Migraine headaches ? Numbness and tingling Psoriasis Sinusitis Stuttering Swelling Urethritis Urinary infections Viral infections (colds, flu) Weight problems Plus more ..." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Being periodically awakened by hearing a loud explosion in your head is a sign of a bona fide, al- SIGN OF THE TIMES belt rare, condition aptly called ex- JT"^ Students sometimes com- ,7- 11 i n i \Vw) P'ain of hypersensitivity to ploding head syndrome. People sound during exam week. with exploding head syndrome are They may not be ma,ingering and avoid-awakened by an oftentimes terrify- ing studying. Their sound sensitivity may ing, brief loud noise when falling be tne result of drinking too many i i .i .1 r. r» aspartame-containing diet sodas, asleep or shortly thereafter." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Meanwhile, I, semi-lucid, dream of hearing Ed's voice calling as I stand near a staircase. In my final night's dream, I do become lucid, and see Beverly about fifty feet in front of me. I see Beverly looking left and right, walking down the street toward my direction surrounded by seven to ten others. She wears black, and a black hat! I can scarcely believe it. ... I go down to her and say something like, "Beverly, wow, this is amazing!" I decide to make a gesture, and put my hands straight up, like a "goal." She says something back and has a fairly typical look, but not as animated as mine." - Robert Waggoner, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (Get the book.)

"But they could not have avoided hearing stories of the horrors or seeing foreign laborers herded into crowded boats for a short voyage from which few returned. Across the water, hundreds of indentured laborers, convicts, army deserters, and coolies were worked to death, laboring twenty hours a day without respite under the eyes of ruthless supervisors and fierce dogs. They dug deep trenches into the hardened guano with picks and shovels, earning a few pesos for each ton they extracted. Dilapidated ships were moored alongside the precipitous cliffs." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Thus 74% say they remember hearing this statement. Clearly statements like this were already part of our investing culture then. Knowledge about the long-run historical record, knowledge that dates back at least to 1924 and that clearly was widely remembered in 1991 or 1993, cannot be held directly responsible for the sudden upsurge in stock prices to record levels in the late 1990s. The knowledge was apparently in investors' faces all along." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"You've probably been hearing about omega-3 fatty acids recently. There's been much discussion about the importance offish like salmon in the diet and in fact the American Heart Association® recommends eating at least two servings of fish—particularly fatty fish like salmon and its sidekicks—weekly." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.) "Perhaps you've been hearing more about the importance of fiber in your food lately. We're gratified that there's more focus on fiber these days as Fve always been a major proponent of increasing fiber intake. From the standpoint of health promotion, we know that people who consume the most high-fiber foods are the healthiest. And most of us don't get enough fiber. Our Paleolithic ancestors ate roughly 47 grams of fiber daily while our intake today in Western cultures hovers around 17 grams daily." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"In 531, Tribonian authored a regulation that required that before any trial or hearing could begin, everyone, including litigants and officials, was obliged to swear an oath of Christian faith while placing a hand on a copy of the Gospels ... a requirement made easier by another regulation that ordered a copy of the Gospels placed in every courtrooms Moreover, though he was a great and eloquent admirer of his pagan forebears, it is highly unlikely that an atheist Tribonian could have survived Justinian's many attacks on paganism." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "And not only did he speak treason, but he did so within the hearing of witnesses. Antonina, of course, had been working all along with Theodora. Once the meeting was agreed to, the empress supplied the final piece of John's downfall, for it was she who sent two men whom the emperor trusted above all others: Narses and Marcellus, commander of the palace guard. Hidden behind a wall, both overheard John's treachery, and attempted to arrest him on the spot." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"On Paxil [at the age of nine], Michael began hearing voices in his head, drew violent pictures, and even attacked me. I could no longer recognize my own son. He pleaded with me at one point, "Mom, make it stop." I finally realized that it was the Paxil that put him in a drug-induced psychosis so naturally I removed him from the drug. Mrs. Weathers went on to describe how the school called Child Protective Services (CPS) to charge her with child neglect because she had removed her son from Paxil, and how CPS then tried to force her to continue medicating Michael." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"We're all attuned to the role our internal ears play in hearing. But our outer ears, called pinnas, are nothing to turn a deaf ear to, either; they enhance our ability to hear by funneling sound waves into our inner ears. Beyond their well-known ability to process sound waves, ears turn out to be important in sending signals about our health. SIGN OF THE TIMES JTTk The oldest mummified human sVvVK/ in the world has pierced ears. Discovered in an Austrian glacier in 1991, this 5,000-year-old mummy has holes in its ears measuring about 'A to 'A inch in diameter." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Langbaum offered the example of a program at Hopkins for cochlear implants, a $2c,ooo device that is implanted in the skull and can restore hearing to some deaf patients. The cochlear implant program is not profitable, because many insurers don't yet reimburse the hospital for the device. Every time a Hopkins surgeon implants one, the hospital must absorb its cost. "Would we want to grow the cochlear implant program? No," said Langbaum. "Are we going to advertise it? No. But we make money taking care of leukemia and lymphoma patients. Are we going to try to grow that program? Yes." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Why weren't we hearing explanations from his doctor for all his symptoms, tests, and results? The days were molasses-slow. And somehow, although I'd spent whole days at the hospital, every single morning I missed his doctor's rounds. When I finally had a chance to speak with the doctor face to face, late that afternoon, we got more bad news. My husband had developed a life-threatening intestinal blockage. He needed emergency surgery that evening. Once the news sunk in, I made one quick phone call to alert Julie, my friend and neighbor." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"Symptoms include discharge from the ear, slight fever, a pain that intensifies when the ear is pulled or touched, and possibly a temporary loss of hearing. Otitis media or middle ear infections are caused by bacteria or viruses and are most common in infants and young children. Symptoms include a high fever (103?F or higher), earache, and a feeling of fullness or pressure in the ear. Children will often pull at their ears." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"I'll look forward to hearing from you with your own success story before long. DR. G'S.TAKE-HOME MENU To live a long, vital life blessed with good health, memorize these Gundryisms: þIf you eat less, you'll live longer. þEat food "live" to arrive at a hundred and five. þVegetables are good for you because they're "bad" for you. þExercise is good for you because it's "bad" for you. þDrink some red wine, and you'll be fine. þKeep your genes guessing as to the timing of your next meal. þThe cooler your engine runs, the longer you'll go without a major breakdown." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.) "Of greater concern, Penny's LDL ("bad") cholesterol was higher than mine, and she would Cancel the Vascular Surgery During a routine exam with his cardiologist, a restaurateur and developer named Omar had mentioned hearing a "whooshing" sound in his right ear. The doctor's stethoscope had detected the bruit, a noise made when blood flows through a narrowed carotid artery, in one of two main arteries to the brain. A subsequent ultrasound scan confirmed the doctor's worst fears: Omar's right carotid artery was 90 percent blocked." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

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