Dr. Ben Thompson: Science-Based Relief for Tinnitus and Hearing Loss

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:12):
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Speaker 2 (00:31):
Have you ever been in an empty room and you
feel like you're not alone because there's ringing in your
ears and it can not go away. It's driving you nuts,
and you're thinking, is this just me? Is it only
happening to me? Does anyone else hear it? And what's
going on with my hearing? Is it going to be
gone by the time I'm eighty, because it's already going

(00:53):
in the wrong direction. Welcome to Accelerated Health with Sarah Bianta,
where I cut through the noise and fast track your
journey to better health. I'm your house CEO and founder
of Accelerated Health Products and certified by the National Association
of Nutritional Professionals. I'm here to share the latest on supplements,
wellness hacks, natural health solutions that actually work, from boosting

(01:16):
energy to detoxing to balancing hormones and everything in between.
So let's dive in. I'm super excited to get into
this topic with doctor Ben Thompson. He's an audiologist and
the founder of Trouble Health, a leading telehealth company specializing intentatives.
Am I saying it right because it's I used to

(01:37):
say tonights and now I know that I'm saying it wrong. Well, welcome,
doctor Thompson, Thank you for joining us today. I have
had hearing loss. I'm only forty nine, and I say
only because I plan to live a lot longer. But
my mom is very hearing impaired, and my brother is

(02:00):
his is from hunting and the gun shooting. And I
have a son that's only twenty three that had a
gunshot go off and his hearing is a little bit
of an issue. But growing up with a mom who
I saw her hearing go downhill, I've been very sensitive
to it and maybe manifesting my only hearing loss because

(02:22):
I'm afraid of it. But it changes your life because
the world is going on around you and you're not
a part of it. So hearing, vision, taste, these are
things that we take for granted until they're gone. So
I'm really excited to dive into this topic. Why don't

(02:42):
you tell people what got you so passionate? About tendus
and hearing is in general.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Thank you, Sarah. Well, first all acknowledge that being a
hearing doctor looking at ears all day, the earring game
on your ears is very impressive. So well done, All done.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Pairing my hearing.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Is definitely putting some weight on the ears, which doesn't
affect your hearing. So now functionally it's not impacting your
hearing now, okay, good, Yeah, you're all set there, great
to be here, Thanks for the invite. So yeah, my
background and my specialty is helping patients with tinatus also
pronounced tonitis ringing in the ears, as well as helping

(03:26):
adults with hearing issues or hearing loss. That could be
someone who's middle aged, maybe someone listening to this podcast
who's noticing early symptoms of ear ringing or hearing loss.
It also could be for their parents who are maybe
sixty five seventy eighty eighty five, who definitely have some

(03:47):
hearing loss and are also in an age demographic where
cognitive health and preventing dementia is really important. So hearing
actually ties into all of these areas, and I'm excited
to talk about that today with you.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, and that's where I want to go because it's
not just I view it as a symptom of a
bigger problem, and what is the root problem that's causing it?
Because for someone like me who is trying to prevent
any future decline, and in my you know, my mindset,

(04:21):
I always say, you can reverse these problems. So what
are the root causes of hearing loss, of tindatus, of
anything going on with the nervous system in general.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, Well, hearing isn't just about the ears. It's also
about the brain. It's really a full brain process. But
the causes of hearing loss tend to be more related
to the ear, So the cochlea, the hearing organ. It's
encased underneath our temporal bone, behind our ear, so it's
inside of the skull, but it's not in the brain.

(04:55):
We have these nerves that connects to the organ and
of hearing really fascinating little system. So through loud noise
exposure at any age of life, and to some degree
the natural aging process, we can start to lose our
hearing slowly, which makes sense. You know, your hearing is
not what it used to be thirty years ago. No

(05:16):
one's hearing gets better over time. Everyone's hearing slowly progressively
tends to get worse, and the rate of change there
is typically very very slow for tinatus. And you can
say tonight's or tentatis, but I'll say tenatus for this
talk as most doctors say tinatus, most lay people say tonightas,

(05:36):
but it's both are accepted, so tonightas. However, tentatus can
have different causes. Sometimes it's caused by hearing loss itself.
Other times, tinatus can be caused by stress on the
central nervous system. For people even with normal hearing, simply
months of stress or life being in a disorderly state

(05:57):
can create this sort of check engine light in the
auditory brain that pops up. Finally, another common cause could
be issues related to the jaw or the cervical spine
in the neck, so TMJ jaw tightness or neck issues.
Separate from that, there are these less common but real

(06:20):
causes of tenatis that could be toxins in the body
that could be different medications that someone is using. Sometimes
even women in menopausal chapter of life can develop this
fluctuating teneatist sound as well with hormone changes. So tentatus

(06:41):
is a more complicated medical condition and takes a bit
of a detective's eye to figure out what's the root cause,
whereas hearing loss is pretty straightforward.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
So what is actually the mechanism that's causing the ringing
in the ears?

Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yep, yeah, the mechanism in the ring in the ears.
Partly it's related to the ears. So for people who
have hearing loss, that's from a hearing loss causing this
phantom sound in the auditory brain. However, in the auditory brain,
we have this filter mechanism where there can be a signal,
some light buzzy charge of the brain or a phantom sound,

(07:15):
and then the auditory brain filter can either amplify that
sound or suppress that sound. So just imagine you have
sunglasses looking at the sun. Well, the sunglasses are a filter.
They can make the sun almost be not noticeable, or
without them it can be so strong. So with our
brains we have this mechanism and it goes back to

(07:38):
our survival instinct and our early brain, which is saying, okay,
then you're walking in the forest, there's different sounds that
are going to be happening. There's the sound of the river,
there's the sound of the rustling of the leaves, there's
a potential animal or a potential intruder. So the brain

(07:58):
instinctually is is filtering and identifying what sound or stimulus
or signal is important and potentially dangerous or threatening, and
then what sounds or signals are neutral, don't really mean anything.
They're not going to put myself in danger. They're safe.
Tinetus is incorrectly for people who are bothered by it.

(08:19):
The brain categorizes it as a mysterious, potentially dangerous, unknown,
foreign sound, and in reality it's a benign body sensation
that's not life threatening. The brain can learn to reduce
the sound over time, and that's what we do with
the treatment of tinetus. I'm curious you mentioned previously that

(08:44):
you had some family connection and your own personal connection
to hearing. I love to learn about that.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah. So my mom has lost to her hearing over time.
She thinks it was from going to loud concerts when
she was younger. And I have a brother that hunts
and he's lost hearing. And you get into a room
with him and he talks so loud and takes over
the room because he pretty much can't hear anything. And

(09:10):
I've just felt my hearing go down. I don't go
to loud concerts. I don't hunt, so I don't know
what the cause would be. I honestly do believe though,
that I have improved it. I don't feel as much
as at a loss when I'm in loud rooms or

(09:34):
you know, in groups with people with quiet voices. I
have learned to focus on lips and really try to
read lips. Would I say my hearing is normal according
to a hearing test, probably would pass as normal. But
I definitely think that there's a lot that I don't
hear that other people hear. My husband has hearing of

(09:57):
the most amazing hearing and vision for his age, and
so it's always a running joke in our household because
he's turning the lights off, I'm turning him on. He's
turning the TV down. I'm turning it up. I need
the subtitles. And I don't know if it's more of
a self conscious thing that I've had this identity that

(10:21):
I've lost a hearing and a fear of becoming my mom,
or if it's true. I have done some research that
toxin's heavy metals can affect hearing like it can with
anything in the body. Inflammation throughout the body can do
damage to any organ and any function. What's so crazy

(10:43):
though about tenidous is And I'll never forget when I
was a young girl laying in bed hearing the ringing
in my ears, going what is that? And that was
really young. Now I don't have it on an ongoing basis.
There might be a night once in a while where
I hear it and it goes away, and I'm assuming

(11:04):
that's pretty normal for the average person. Maybe it's not.
But you know, I have had TMJ before. I have
had you know, nick neck swollen or workout injuries and
that sort of thing that maybe caused inflammation here lymphatic
drainage issues that I'm assuming would impact the hearing. And

(11:26):
please let me know if I'm correct or if I'm
wrong on any of these points.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Yeah, your story about when you first heard the ringing
in the ears of the head. So, I live in
San Francisco and we have a clinic Trouble Health as
a clinic. We also have a clinic in Miami area,
so I spent some of the time there. But I
went to college in the Carolinas in South Carolina, and
we were up in Charlotte, North Carolina on the camping

(11:53):
trips and friends and I and we stopped on this
side of the road, did a little hike, and we
were sitting on this rock overlooking the valley on the
mountain and it was so quiet. There was almost no wind,
there was no cars, and the I've heard this really
loud ringing in my head, And when the world is
quiet enough, a lot of people do hear that ringing.

(12:17):
But then there's the brain itself, like I explained earlier,
with its ability to filter less or filter more, can
make that ringing louder or softer. And I think a
lot of people can relate to that and maybe they've
had similar experiences. Yes, after a concert, it is common
to hear loud ringing in your ears while you go

(12:39):
to sleep. Usually it goes away by the next morning.
Sometimes other ear conditions like pressure in the ears, ear infections, yeah,
ear nose and throat conditions can lead to some short,
short term temporary tenetusts as well, like you said, like
you alluded to, so.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
How many people worldwide suffer from this? And is it
something that is growing as all of the other diseases
of inflammation and modern toxicity has increased.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
I do believe tenatus is growing as a problem for
a few reasons since and I'll start with the data.
So about ten percent of the US population, for example,
reports bother some tentatists or has had bothersome tentatists. One
percent of the US population has very significant tentatists, but

(13:38):
they usually don't talk about that often. So it's very
common when I let's say I meet a friend and
I'm meeting her and she's with her husband, and I'm saying,
I'm explaining to her what I do. Oh yeah, I
help people with tentatists ringing in the ears, And the
spouse would say, oh, yeah, I had I had that
really bad two years ago, and the wife will be

(13:59):
kind of prize, like, really, I didn't know that. Because
it's so invisible, just like hearing loss, it's easy to
not talk about it. So it is much more common
than we realize. But I'm sure in your line of
work you also see help. You help people who have
problems that maybe they don't really tell anyone else.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Right, Absolutely, I mean the chronic disease in every area
has just exponentially increased, not just cancers, but diabetes, insulin resistance,
fatty liver, disease, anxiety, depression, ADHD, infertility, and you name it.
It's just gotten so much worse. And part of it

(14:46):
is the diet. Seventy percent of the US food supply
is processed food. It's not real food. And then you've
got the liver is not able to function and detox,
all the microplastics, the heavy metals, the fluoride, the chlorine,
the bromide. And then you've got the social media and

(15:08):
the phones and the technology, which I'm sure does not
help the ears as you're holding your cell phone up
or your ear, you're you're wearing your air pods, and
I'd love to for you to touch on that. But
all of those things cause more anxiety, more depression. The
radiation slows down the thyroid. Thyroid health, I believe is

(15:33):
the cornerstone of a lot of these health issues. And
I believe most people are suffering from suboptimal thyroid, which
controls everything, and it has a big impact on your stress.
And I know stress has an impact on tendatus as well.
So what can we talk about the stress connection?

Speaker 3 (15:53):
Definitely? Yeah, stress is an area that if someone says, hey,
how can I prove tenis sounds really bad? How can
I prevent myself from getting it? Stress is one angle.
The other angle would be preventing hearing loss. So yeah,
there is data to show that with so much technology
of sound devices headphones, that there is a group of

(16:16):
people who are listening to their devices too loud and
for too long, and that has this compounding effect over
time where the damage we do in our twenties and
thirties can show up in our fifties and sixties, where
we might have hearing loss earlier than our peers because
of the loud noise we listened to. Similar to your mom,

(16:37):
she said, yeah, I think I got this hearing loss
from going to a lot of shows. What's interesting in
your family's cases. When there's multiple family members that have
hearing loss, you start to wonder is there a genetic component,
because sometimes hearing loss is simply genetic. There is certain
genes that can make people more susceptible to hearing loss,
especially in their later years. Stress and tentatives. That connection

(17:01):
is really huge. A lot of my patients that work
with me, they come in and I asked them in
their case history, I say, you know, in the three
to six months leading up to the onset the start
of tentatus. Were you going through a lot of disorder
in your life, was your life overwhelming? Was there stress,

(17:23):
financial stress, relationship stress. Maybe you just retired or you
were planning to retire soon and there's a big life change.
Anything like that can put the nervous system and the
auditory brain in that high alert state of paying more
attention to things or being more sensitive. And like I said,
if you're stressed and anxious, imagine you're walking through the

(17:46):
forest and there's a little sound of a twig, you
might flinch because your instincts are just like in this
fight or flight state without us being too aware of it. So, yes,
all those things can can lead to someone with pretty
good here hearing developing ringing in their ears even though
it's more in their brain really.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
So essentially it is not even there, but your brain
is creating this belief that it's there or is it
actually a sound that is happening in your brain? That
is physical.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
I'm still trying to do its physiological, So it's not mental,
it's physiological. So there's neurons, nerves, parts of the auditory
brain that are hyperactive, or if you measure them on
a functional MRI scan you would see, oh, the auditory
brain regions are hyperactive. So it is not just in

(18:41):
the mind.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Okay, So now that we all know what it is,
what do we do about it? What is your method
with your clients?

Speaker 3 (18:52):
Great? Yeah. Through my experience, first of all, I was
able to study with one of the grandfather with theug
grandfather of tinatus research, doctor Jasterboff. Really interesting story where
he was working out of Yale University as a neuroscience researcher.
This is this is this has to be fifty years

(19:13):
ago or more. Really at this point, doctor Jasterboff, one
of my mentors is still alive, but he was working
at this Yale Yale University, and he was studying with
one of the students of Pavlov, like Pavlov's dogs, like conditioning,
you know, conditioned response, right. And it's amazing how that

(19:35):
reference has really stood the test of time over over
these decades. So as a neuroscientist, he was introduced to
the field of tenetus and he started to take these
fundamentals that were in this neuroscience lineage and apply them
to tinatus and he learned that he had this he

(19:57):
has this theory that tentists was not permanent and sort
of set in stone that there was actually a way
for the brain to reduce it over time, and it
was through a cognitive process called habituation, where the brain
is able to filter out, subconsciously filter out and reduce

(20:19):
the perception of noise so much so that the patient
doesn't hear it, they are rarely aware of it, and
when they do, the sound or the volume level is
often a lot lower. So that's very different than what
most people are told, even still today, that they're told

(20:39):
by E and T doctors and some other professionals the
internet perhaps as well, that there's nothing they can do
about this condition. There's no cure, you just have to
live with it. While it's true that there's no medication
or no surgery, there's definitely ways to manage it, and
for a vast majority of patients they get those results.

(21:00):
My focus over the years and basically taking that, taking
that what's called tentatist retraining therapy, which is a protocol
that was developed by this researcher, doctor Jasterboff, and that
has did the test of time, and implementing it with telehealth,
which we've done over twenty five hundred patients via telehealth

(21:22):
across the US, and then in this year twenty twenty five,
we opened four clinics where we opened two clinics from
Scratch San Francisco and Miami, Florida, and then we acquired
or purchased two existing tentatists practices. So most people have
found us in our practice through my YouTube channel and

(21:43):
we're really just taking this strong research approach in this
protocol and using modern technology and social media to help
more people with this condition. So it's been a labor
of love and I started Tribal Health about six years
ago and just it really changes people lives, people's lives.
The most dramatic cases would be people coming to us saying,

(22:07):
you know, I was I was close to suicide. I
couldn't stand this anymore. I'd tried everything. I've been living
with this for years. After this treatment protocol, my life
feels like it's back to normal. So that's very motivating
as a doctor.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Oh no, I know the feeling when you get those
emails or those phone calls, It's like, this is why
I do what I do. How does this compare to
the traditional conventional therapies and what would you know what
a normal hearing doctor would do. Hearing aids, how do

(22:44):
those play into this condition? Help hurt?

Speaker 3 (22:47):
You know?

Speaker 2 (22:47):
It's always when you talk to someone about vision, they say,
wait as long as you can to put the glasses on,
because you want to strengthen your own eye muscles and
not weaken them. Is it the same thing with your ears?

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah, great question. So the treatment for tenantus often includes
devices that are either hearing aids or sound devices that
are worn on the ears, as well as one on
one coaching and CBT cognitive behavioral therapy based techniques. So essentially,

(23:22):
there's the sound treatment component for tenantis and there's this
cognitive treatment component, and when a patient does both of
them successfully over a six to eight month period, most
commonly they can really reduce their tentatists to the point
where it's hardly an issue anymore and they're back to normal.
In a traditional hearing clinic, for someone with tenetus, they

(23:44):
may have been offered hearing aids for hearing loss but
not much else. So a comprehensive, full person approach to
tenatis treatment is really key, and that's what we found.
For someone who just has a hearing loss, the treatment
for that typically are modern hearing aids that are programmed
to help them hear better in a restaurant, to hear

(24:06):
their spouse when at home when it's quiet, to hear
better in work meetings, at family gatherings, that kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
So can you explain the sound therapy and then also
are there you know, dietary or nutrition or lifestyle changes
that you recommend as well.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
Yeah, great question. So sound therapy is the most basic level.
One example of it would be playing white noise at
a soft level in an indoor quiet environment, like when
you're at home in your living room, or like when
you're in your office setting where it's quiet, it's indoors.

(24:49):
That noise promotes habituation I spoke about earlier, and the
auditory brain can learn to bring its filter back to
homeostasis and reset the nervous system. So sometimes referred to
as brain retraining and also referred to as habituation based protocols.

(25:10):
So there's more advanced forms of that, Like there's medical
devices on the ears that provide sound therapy treatment. They're discrete,
you would put them on your ears you live your
normal life, but in the background they're specific soothing sounds
that are mixing in with your tentatis so that by
the end of the treatment, your sentatists is a lot
better and the patient does not need to use the
devices on their ears anymore. Sarah, I'd be curious to

(25:35):
zoom into your audience specifically and who they are and
what kind of conditions you think they're going through, whether
themselves or their family, to try to really personalize this
to your audience.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yeah, I mean women at an age of forty to fifty,
we are sandwiched, We are going through hormonal changes, we
have unexplained way gained brain fog. But the stress, perceived
stress is increased. But then also we've got the stress
of elderly parents that we're starting to take care of,
and we still have our kids, even if they're adult kids,

(26:09):
there are children that we worry about, whether it's a
bad spouse or their grandchildren, or the last years of
college or high school. And then financial stresses. You know,
you've got your spousal stressors, and I think stress hormones waking.
It's overwhelming, and so I see stress as probably the

(26:35):
biggest factor because stress affects your thyroid, it affects your
adrenal health, your cortisol is in the tank, which your
body's gonna tank its female hormones at the same time,
and it's this vicious cycle. And then you feel like
you're getting old, and so you almost have this anxiety
over losing your vision and your hearing and maybe your

(26:58):
taste and your hair the other things. So there's a
lot of you know, stress in physical, mental, spiritual, and
it's real, and then it's amplified by the failing health.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
I remember my mom said to me a few years ago.
She said, yeah, as soon as I became a mother,
I always started worrying, worrying about my kids. She's like,
But then she said, but I love it, yeah, And
I was like, wow, really like being a mom means
you are just naturally worried about your kids all the time.

(27:36):
But it's not always a bad thing.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
Yeah. Well, I have told I'm my eldest. My son
is the kind of kid that will go off the
grid and hike, and he loves surfing under the water,
and he loves doing all of this stuff. And I go,
you know what, God, I can't worry anymore. He's all yours.
And so I've taken a level of the worry off
the table because these people have to take care of themselves.

(28:03):
I've tried to give them all the tools I can
and they know where to find me. But I you know,
I don't think we're meant to have to worry at
that level. But that's easier said than done.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
Yeah, what do you see as being the main techniques
or modifications that help women reduce stress in that chapter
of life?

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Diet is huge diets first, you know, focusing on real food,
getting rid of the processed foods, focusing on protein, women
don't need enough protein, and then supplementing using supplements to
detox because our bodies are not meant to have the
load of the microplastics, heavy metals, and we don't have

(28:51):
the soils with the iodine and the magnesium and all
of the minerals that our grandparents had, so we're not
getting the nutrition. Our bodies are overfed but undernourished, and
the inflammation and the toxins build up in the fat cells,
disrupt the hormones and they can cause vision and hearing

(29:12):
and other issues, hair falling out, you know, symptoms that
our grandmothers didn't didn't experience. And then lifestyle. I mean
it's you ask any woman who is listening. They know
exercise is good for them, they know eating right is
good for them, but sometimes life is so overwhelming and

(29:34):
they're in reaction mode because things are just coming out
of them, you know, and they don't have time to
work out, and their sleep is a mess because hormones
and menopause can really screw up the sleep. And during
the night, I would say, is the time that I
would have any ringing in my ears the most in

(29:55):
any time in my life. And I'm sure that's because
it's quiet and you're white awake and you're wondering why
you're wide awake, and then there's stress over being wide
awake when you're supposed to sleep. So this, that's that
would be my experience. And I think these with the toxins,
the stress, the lack of sleep, and the hormones, that

(30:19):
is a big factor for my listeners.

Speaker 3 (30:23):
Yeah, yeah, that's huge. Well, thinking about I'm thinking, I'm
hearing you say this, I'm thinking, Wow, how can I
spore my girlfriend in these chapters? So what are the
men need to know here?

Speaker 2 (30:33):
Oh gosh, the men need to know that us women
are really trying to hold it together. And what you
see there's there's a lot going on inside that you
don't know about because we don't want to freak you out,
you know, And my son I'll say, gosh, women can
be crazy. I go, yeah, we're crazy, but we're amazing,

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We're special, we're a lot. We're a lot more complicated
than you men are, in a very beautiful way. I
would never change it for the world, but it's we
really try to take care of ourselves. And it pains
me when I see women who are overweight and they

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are working out twice a day and they're not eating
because they're trying to lose weight, and they're stressing their
bodies out even more, and they're stressing their minds out,
and I'm assuming it's affecting all of their functions, including
their hearing and their vision and brain fog.

Speaker 3 (31:37):
You know.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
What was interesting is another story. I had a horrific
parasitic infection over this last year and literally had worms
coming out of my skin and my liver was backed up,
and I was triggered by the virus in the spike
protein shingles and it was like a fire star. As

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I was going through this, I connected with someone else
that was going through this, and they actually had some
parasites coming out of their ears. They could not hear,
and it was causing ringing in their ears, and they
literally lost their hearing temporarily and didn't realize that there
was a brewing of parasites in their ears. So, you know,

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you think about what the typical causes of hearing loss
are and it could be something as crazy as that.
And I was actually talking to my mom last night
and she had a little bit of a toe fungus
and I put her on my parasite supplement, the one
that cured me of my issue. And she does not

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take supplements. She's afraid of supplements, ironically, but I said,
momm you gotta take this. It won't do any harm
to you. And she's like, Sarah, I don't know if
it's connected or not. But I'm only halfway through the
month on this protocol, and my brain fog that I've
lived with for so many years is gone. And she

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always had complained about the brain fog, And I'm assuming
the brain fog also affects this part of the body,
right your ears, and you've got your back of your
neck and you tell me, but that is any inflammation
here is going to cause inflammation in the ears or
the eyes. If I have inflammation in my brain or

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brain fog, my vision goes. So I'm only assuming it's
going to affect my hearing as well. So that was
really interesting as well. So you never, you know, there
might be certain causes that are more common, but there's
things like with her or this other lady that it
could be a parasitic fungus infection, a virus something like that.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
Yeah, well there's some interesting connections there. Brain fog is
related to migraine. Sometimes migraine is related to tenetus or dizziness,
vestibular issues. A lot of this is coming down to
nervous system health, but also the work you're doing is
sometimes more in the gut. Right.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
God is yeah, God is huge. God is your second brain,
and so you got to take care of you got
to take care of your brain. Do you see a
connection with gut health and hearing?

Speaker 3 (34:28):
I don't see that often in our clinic. There's been
some some light connections discussed in some in some research literature,
but it's not strong enough for me to really comment.
I do think that. So. My my younger sister is
an obgyn physician in Brooklyn, New York, shout out Julia,
and she was telling me once. She was just saying, Hey,

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isn't it interesting that your your your stomach doesn't really
have any like nerves to feel what's going on in there,
like a ma all the food being processed and the
bacteria moving around, and like if I could feel that
the same way I could feel with my fingers, that
would just be overwhelming. So I thought, Wow, I never
I never really thought about that, how our internal stomach

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is doing so much processing for us, but I just
don't feel any of it.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
Yeah, I mean if we if we did, we probably
wouldn't be eating what we're eating. So I, doctor Thompson,
we are close to the end, and I just want
to make sure that you tell people where they can
find you and what they're going to get out of
seeing you, because this is a this is one of
those issues you mentioned. People will say they're close to suicide.

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I can imagine if it's something that's going on in
their brain and noise that they can't get rid of.
You feel trapped, You feel claustrophobic, and you feel like
there's no way out.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
Absolutely, yeah, thank you, Sarah so if anyone here has
an interest in speaking to a doctor on my team,
you can reach out to us. We have telehealth nationwide,
so do a zoom call real quick, or you could
come to one of our in person clinics. So treblehealth
dot com. That's Treble like Base Mids and Trouble treblehealth

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dot com. We have options for locations in California, Florida,
North Carolina, Pennsylvania and more to come.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
Amazing. Well, I'm super excited to learn more about this
because of my history, and I think it's just part
of overall health and just another symptom of a root problem.
So thank you so much for joining us today.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
It's been a pleasure. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
I don't know about you, but I feel so much
better about the fact that I'm not alone when it
comes to the ringing in my ears. And I also
love to know that you can do something about it.
You can drown it out through habituation, but a lot
of it is the nervous system and a lot of
it comes on with stress. So I wanted to talk

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about three supplements that I would recommend. Of course, incorporating
a clean diet, getting rid of the junk food, and
all of that stuff, because that is a stressor on
the body. But it's often the tindatus is often a
sign of cellular stress, inflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction in the auditory
nerves and brain. So Number one I mentioned is idine

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because idine is deficient in most of us. It's not
in our soils anymore. And it's the number one predictor
of hypothyroidism, so that sluggish thyroid, sluggish metabolism. It's also
the number one predictor of depression. Okay, we're talking about
nervous system. We're talking about stress. So Iydine is essential

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for the nerve and thyroid function. It plays that key
role in cellular detoxification, kicking out the heavy metals and
the fluoride and bromide and chlorine, displacing those toxic halogens. Right,
And those are prevalent in our environment now where they
used to not be, And you're improving that thyroid and

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metabolic function, enhancing circulation not only to your eyes for
your vision and your brain for that brain fog, but
also for your hearing. Number two is cognoblasts. So tinatus
often correlates with neurotransmitter imbalances and over excited neurons in
the auditory cortex. Cognoblast is a nootropic. It balances dopamine, serotonin,

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acetyl coline, which drops in menopausal women, promoting this calmer
brain signaling and improving neural communication. So it also helps
with the stress driven cortisol surges, right, we want to
calm those down. And it also helps with mental clarity,
focus and mood. Who needs who doesn't need that? And

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the third one is accelerated methylne blue. It helps with
your mitoc andria, improving the ATP in the mitochondria. That's
your energy at the cellular level. That's only going to
improve all cells function, including the ones for hearing. It
enhances oxygen utilization, blood flow, and their inner ear, and
studies suggest it has neuroprotective and anti inflammatory effects which

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may help calm that hyperactive auditory nervous system. Right, So,
enhancing detoxification, antioxidant defense, so many things. So the accelerating iodine,
cognoblast and accelerated methylene blue, those are the three supplements
that I use personally to help with my energy, cellular function, detoxification,

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mood stabilization. And I honestly believe that my hearing has
gotten better. Maybe it's a placebo effect, but for me
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