A healthy diet may offer some protection from hearing loss due to noise exposure; however, it can’t reverse hearing damage, a new study shows.
Researchers examined the eating habits of 2,366 people who answered questionnaires about their health and were given a four-part hearing test. The findings showed a strong connection between a healthy diet, hearing, and noise exposure.
The hearing of people who ate well but had higher noise exposure was comparable to the hearing of people with lower noise exposure who ate less healthy diets.
If we are not healthy in general, it makes sense that we could increase our susceptibility to hearing loss.
, Assistant professor in the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences department, University of Florida