The Real Cause of Tinnitus (It’s Not in Your Ears)

If you’re dealing with tinnitus, you might want to look beyond your ears. Find out how to get natural tinnitus relief so you can finally stop dealing with ringing in the ears.

The real cause of tinnitus is not coming from your ears. If you have tinnitus and you’ve been to the doctor and they told you that nothing can be done, >> [music] >> I have some good news for you. That is absolutely not true. There is something that can be done about it, but the reason why a lot of medical professionals are not giving you this answer I’m going to share with you is simply because >> [music] >> they don’t go into the area of nutrition. They focus mainly on medicine and managing [music] symptoms with medication.

And what I’m going to share with you today is more of a natural thing. Tinnitus does not come from your ear. Here’s your ear and then we have the inner part of the ear. What they’ve done in the past to try to solve ringing in the ear, tinnitus, is they cut the auditory nerve. And what they found was pretty depressing.

The ringing continues. But of course, if you cut the auditory nerve, they go deaf. The actual ringing in the ear is a phantom sound in the brainstem, but not in the inner ear. Inside the inner ear, you have a very tiny, but very powerful battery that is actually powering the inner ear. And it just so happens the inside of the ear has the highest energy demand tissue of any tissue in the entire body.

So, the inner ear requires a tremendous amount of energy to work, okay? That’s number one. It literally needs 150 mV to power the inner ear. And the problem is there’s not a backup system of energy. So, it really depends on this large amount of energy for you to hear and also to prevent ringing.

It’s going to pull energy from the bloodstream. So, if there’s any problem in the bloodstream with fuel, it can show up in this inner ear. When the energy in the inner ear drops, you would think that now we’re going to actually have less hearing initially. That’s not what happens. Your brain will now compensate.

I’m talking about the brain stem by turning up the volume. Not actual sound, but more of a phantom noise. That’s not an actual sound. It’s just something that you perceive. And it’s like you talking into a microphone with the gain turned up, you’re going to hear the static noise or hissing or a buzzing.

That’s what tinnitus really is. It’s the brain compensating because there’s not enough power supply in the inner ear. Compounding on top of that, we also have something else happening. When the brain over compensates and turns up the gain, normally what happens is you have a built-in brake pad that’s supposed to keep it normalized. That’s called GABA.

GABA is the brakes of the brain. And it just so happens that there’s something that occurs that not only shuts the power supply off in the inner ear, but also at the same time shuts down the brakes causing this problem. And that is a deficiency of B1. B1 not only powers the energy into this battery, but it also helps make GABA. It helps keep GABA working.

It helps the brake pads work in the brain. This is why when you go to sleep at night and your brain is racing with thoughts, vitamin B1 is the antidote to that. It brings down that chatter. B1 also is the spark plug for energy in the mitochondria. Especially those parts of the body that require a lot of energy, like the inner ear.

Like the retina for example in diabetes. Another tissue that requires a lot of energy and it’s also usually deficient in B1. That’s why people with diabetes have retina problems. And the same thing with nerve problems, peripheral neuropathy in the bottom of the feet. That’s a B1 deficiency as well.

So, in a very severe B1 deficiency called beriberi, one of the early symptoms is tinnitus. There’s been studies that show that people with beriberi and tinnitus actually can reverse tinnitus by taking B1. It’s not some magic remedy that no one understands how it works. It’s part of your biochemistry. You need B1 in the various energy pathways in the mitochondria.

Now, here’s some mistakes that people make when they take B1. They take the wrong form. They’ll take thiamine HCL. This will not work because it’s not going to penetrate through the blood-brain barrier and into the brain stem. Also, the wrong form.

Now, in some past videos, I recommended this for tinnitus. And until recently, I didn’t realize something. Benfotiamine does not cross the blood-brain barrier even though it’s fat-soluble. The correct form of B1 that gets into the brain stem because it crosses the blood-brain barrier is called allithiamine, and the origin is from garlic. And if someone has very severe ringing in the ears, they’re going to need more of a therapeutic dosage of B1.

And I would recommend taking 50 mg three, maybe four times a day. Now, just think about this for a second. The RDA for B1 is less than 2 mg. It’s ridiculous. The more refined sugar and starches a person consumes, the more B1 they need to metabolize that fuel.

And I’m also talking about the hidden carbohydrates as bread, pasta, cereal, crackers, biscuits, waffles, pancakes. But if you look at the label, they add back in there B1, don’t they? But what type do they add in? They add thiamine hydrochloride. So, in other words, a lot of people are walking around with a B1 deficiency, and they don’t even know it.

Diabetics have been known to have a pretty severe B1 deficiency. In fact, in one study I found that your risk for tinnitus goes up by six times if you are a diabetic. Now, why would that be? Because what is diabetes? It’s a disease of too much sugar in the body.

And too much sugar eats up your B1. The same thing with alcohol. Alcohol also eats up your B1 and creates deficiencies. So, a lot of people ask me, what supplements do I recommend? Now, of course, I’m not biased of my own high-quality supplement line, but if you go to Amazon and type Dr.

Berg supplements, you’ll find more information. Certain medications also deplete B1. Antacids like PPIs or metformin, certain antibiotics, people that are under chronic stress need tremendous amounts of B1. And also, there’s a virus that can go in and out of remission. It’s called herpes simplex virus, which also happens to attack the inner ear.

So, the correlation between this virus and ear problems including tinnitus. And so, if you have this virus that’s in remission, it’s not bothering you, but then you go through stress and it comes out of remission, it can start creating damage in the inner ear. This is why tinnitus can come and go depending on the stress level. If you do research on the literature on B1 and tinnitus, you’ll find mixed reviews. And I think the reason why is many times the studies will be using the wrong form of B1.

Or, and this is probably the big reason, a magnesium deficiency. So many people are deficient in magnesium. They don’t even know it. It’s very hard to test for it because most of the magnesium is deep in the cell. So, if a person is deficient in magnesium, they can take all the B1, even in the correct form they want, but it won’t work because the biochemistry of B1 is dependent on magnesium.

And so, this is another remedy I would recommend if you have tinnitus. Take magnesium glycinate with your allithiamine. I have a free download that I want to give to you. This free download is my daily routine and a checklist. This is a routine that I use every day to feel like I’m 18 years old, even though I’m 60 years old, and I want to give it to you for free.

And so, there’s a little link down below, click it, and definitely download that. So, now that you know the protocol for tinnitus, I have another video on vitamin B1 that goes beyond the symptom that’s fascinating. You should watch it. I put it up right here. Check it out.