Discover the Hormone that May End Hearing Loss

• Discover the Hormone that May End Hearing Loss
  by Barbara Minton, https://alignlife.com/
  (Health Secrets) A bioidentical hormone known asaldosterone may soon make hearing aids obsolete in people with age-related hearing loss. This is excellent news for anyone facing the social stigma of hearing loss or the instant admission of aging announced by the wearing of a hearing aid.
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  Aldosterone is a steroid from the mineralocorticoid family that is produced in ample supply by the adrenal glands of young healthy people. But as we age, we lose the ability to make sufficient amounts of aldosterone just as we do with other steroid hormones.
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  Aldosterone controls levels of two important signaling elements in the body, potassium and sodium. Having optimal levels of these elements in the inner ear is essential for hearing, as they each play a critical role in the conversion of sound into signals recognizable by the nervous system. When levels of aldosterone decrease as the result of aging, levels of potassium and sodium drop in the fluid of the inner ear where sounds are converted into signals the brain can identify. The result is gradual but progressive loss of sound intensity and word recognition.
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  Research has documented the power of aldosterone
  Two research teams have been highly instrumental in providing the groundwork on aldosterone and hearing loss. In 2005, a team from the Rochester Institute of Technology, lead by Robert Frisina and including scientists from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, evaluated the relationship of blood levels of aldosterone and hearing loss in 47 people, ages 58 to 84. The team concluded:
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  * The higher the blood levels of aldosterone in humans, the better their hearing
  * People who showed extensive hearing loss had only half as much circulating aldosterone as those with normal hearing
  * The ability to discriminate sounds in the presence of background noise correlates with circulating levels of aldosterone
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  In 2009, Dennis Trune and his research group at the Oregon Health & Science University found that aldosterone has the equivalent effect of glucocorticoids in reversing lost hearing in mice who consumed aldosterone in their drinking water. Glucocorticoids are chemicals that can stop inflammation, but have many dangerous side effects.
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