Research

Studies of Key Ingredients in TinnitusDX™

• A literature review of studies showed that up to 70% of patients taking Ginkgo Extract had reduced symptoms over a treatment period of as little as 6 weeks



• Ringing completely disappeared for 35% of patients tested, with a distinct improvement in 70 days.



• 350 patients with hearing loss and tinnitus due to advanced age were treated with Ginko extract, the success rate for improved hearing and tinnitus was 82%.



• At the Hearing Research Laboratories at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, discovered positive effect lipoic acid could has on aminoglycoside (a class of antibiotics) which induced damage to cochlear tissue of the ear. Lipoic acid-protected subjects successfully avoided hearing impairment .



• 57.5% of patients taking supplemental Zinc reported relief of tinnitus at the end of the study. Decreases in severity of tinnitus were more pronounced with the elder group.



• 47% of tinnitus patients also have a B-12 deficiency



• Scientific studies have shown that the antioxidant power of grape seed is 20x that of vitamin E and 50x that of vitamin C.



• After initial medical intervention had failed to relieve the symptoms of tinnitus, a study was conducted to test the efficacy of antioxidants. Within a treatment period of 8 weeks 63% of the participants experienced a reduction in the severity of the symptom of tinnitus.



• German doctors used CoQ10 to treat 20 patients who suffered from a chronic ringing or buzzing in the ears. By the end of the 12-week study, patients who previously had low levels of CoQ10 benefited from supplements, which reduced tinnitus symptoms by 36%

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