TINNITUS & EPILEPSY

Does Medication Help Tinnitus ‘Epilepsy’? - [CR Neuromodulation intro. part 2 & Nutrition part 1]

Dr Jay Hobbs of Synergy

Published on 4 Mar 2017

So what can we USE, NOW, from this study?

Seizure drugs may help tinnitus….but at this point, the APPROVED ones are still quite toxic.

You PROBABLY know that I have a unique preference for NATURAL approaches over MEDICATION. I will REACH a little bit for this application. Since chemical approaches to treating EPILEPSY also seem to work for TINNITUS, AND since the ketogenic diet has been shown to be helpful for MANY with epilepsy, AND since it has been shown to be helpful for brain health in general, AND a diet to control blood sugar has been shown to help tinnitus SPECIFICALLY, it might be worth trying a ketogenic diet for your tinnitus.

If you LIKE, I can talk more on tinnitus and diet in a later episode to connect a few more of those DOTS between NUTRITION and TINNITUS. There has been interesting research specifically on one PARTICULAR diet and its effect on tinnitus. Also, I discovered some exciting information in my own research study as well.

🚀Future Applications: 

We could include an eating plan as part of a comprehensive self-help solution for tinnitus. 

Also, it would be great to have a self-assessment tool to help people KNOW if a particular eating plan change would LIKELY be helpful for their tinnitus, AND , if so WHICH one?

Research:
Potent KCNQ2/3-Specific Channel Activator Suppresses In Vivo Epileptic Activity and Prevents the Development of Tinnitus: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/35/2...
Mice MUST have specific neuroanatomy to develop tinnitus after noise exposure -- Pathogenic plasticity of Kv7.2/3 channel activity is essential for the induction of tinnitus (http://www.pnas.org/content/110/24/99...)
Potassium channels related to seizures and tinnitus: (Gunthorpe et al., 2012; Li et al., 2013)
Retigabine® drug’s bad effects: (Jankovic and Ilickovic, 2013)
Tonotopic organization of the brain: extending in a caudal-medial to rostral-lateral direction - Although there are “at least two mirror-symmetric gradients in human auditory cortex” “...mirror-symmetric gradients running in the posterior-anterior axis from high to low to high.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...