Tinnitus and Success with Fasting

[Ilia]

Hello,

I just wanted to share how I got much much better from my noise induced tinnitus.
The one thing that has helped me a lot is fasting. It turns out that many great things happen to your body when you fast. I recommend you watch the following video about the effects of fasting and give it a try. I has helped me a lot, I presume it will help you as well.



If you find fasting hard, try intermittent fasting for a few months, then do a full few days long fast.

 

[Lane]

If you find fasting hard, try intermittent fasting for a few months

Hi @Ilia -- Congratulations! and thank you for sharing your success. I totally agree with your tip about intermittent fasting. I average about 18/6 these days, and wish I would started this years ago.

 

[Bill Bauer]

I just wanted to share how I got much much better from my noise induced tinnitus.

How many times did you fast (and how long was each fast) before you began experiencing your tinnitus fading?

 

[LukeYoung]

I love food too much..

 

[Lane]

I love food too much..

@LukeYoung -- Once I regularly got to 16-18 hrs per day of not eating, I realized that when I did finally eat, I enjoyed food more than ever. Interestingly, I discovered I enjoyed not eating more than ever as well, which I'd never really thought about before. I've now come to believe that eating all day long is hardly more than a habit, and one that for most people, doesn't serve us particularly well.

 

[LukeYoung]

@LukeYoung -- Once I regularly got to 16-18 hrs per day of not eating, I realized that when I did finally eat, I enjoyed food more than ever. Interestingly, I discovered I enjoyed not eating more than ever as well, which I'd never really thought about before. I've now come to believe that eating all day long is hardly more than a habit, and one that for most people, doesn't serve us particularly well.

I'd love to do it, but i'm trying to gain weight, so eating often is something i must do.

 

[Tony Phylactou]

Liam Boehm recommends dry fasting. He said a lot of people have cured themselves. Dry means no food or drink.

 

[Rb86]

Ilia can you give us more detail about your onset, time frame, what kind of improvements and how long you've done the fasting?

I lost weight at first, I couldn't eat I was so devastated, but in recent months I eat a lot and I've gained a lot. I hate missing a meal... it's almost as if it's one thing I CAN control so I use food for a bit of comfort... plus being hungry/headaches and lack of energy make tinnitus especially suck when you're working.

 

[mrbrightside614]

I don't doubt OP got better but it's most likely he got better due to the passage of time rather than by fasting. Intermittent fasting is not a topic that has been objectively validated through scientific study. Autophagy is extremely controversial and I doubt its existence even when concerning 72+hr intervals of fasting.

 

[Ilia]

I started with intermittent fasting for a couple of months, then I did a 72 h fast.
Now I'm doing 16 to 24h fasts regularly.
I saw the benefits pretty much from the beginning, but each body is unique, therefore it reacts differently.

For those who doubt the effects, I found this video which covers a very large scientific study on the benefits of fasting:



At 7:55 Dr. Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo explains the effects of fasting on emotional well being.
I believe this is the key to why fasting improves tinnitus so much.

Other things that I have found to impact tinnitus:

- Sports help (for me, lifting weights in the gym helped a lot)
- Changing the way you think about your tinnitus helps (there are a lot of resources about this here)
- Ginkgo Biloba helps
- With time tinnitus tends to get less annoying

- Coffee makes tinnitus worse
- Alcohol makes tinnitus worse
- Needless to say, loud noises make tinnitus worse

So for me getting much better was a combination of the things above, now I can hear my tinnitus very rarely, mostly when I have had coffee during the day, or have had some drinks, and it's only when I go to bed I things get very quiet that I hear it.

And lastly, I just want to say this: I know what you are going through. My tinnitus used to very very bad. For the first year I was devastated and totally depressed. But not anymore. So if I can do it, you can as well! Try the things above and you will see improvement, see what works best for you and stick with it.

 

[JasonP]

I haven't eaten anything all day due to a lab I had to fast for plus I didn't eat anything after 10:00 pm last night. My tinnitus seems lower that it was while I was trying to sleep. Could be a coincidence, could be due to something else, I'm not sure. I do however believe that it could help some people with tinnitus.

 

[Lane]

I do however believe that it could help some people with tinnitus.

@JasonP -- I read a testimonial a couple years ago by a man who claimed to always experience a complete cessation of tinnitus after fasting for 2-3 days. I don't recall all the details, but he said it always came back after he began eating again. Makes a lot of sense to me for many reasons, based on what I've learned about the many benefits of fasting.

 

[JasonP]

@JasonP -- I read a testimonial a couple years ago by a man who claimed to always experience a complete cessation of tinnitus after fasting for 2-3 days. I don't recall all the details, but he said it always came back after he began eating again. Makes a lot of sense to me for many reasons, based on what I've learned about the many benefits of fasting.

Thanks for telling me that. That is very interesting.

 

[Lane]

Thanks for telling me that. That is very interesting.

@JasonP -- In case you're interested, THIS POST describes how a man from London got rid of his tinnitus after 14 years by using Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). I think there's clues in his story about why tinnitus can improve from fasting.

 

[JasonP]

@JasonP -- In case you're interested, THIS POST describes how a man from London got rid of his tinnitus after 14 years by using Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). I think there's clues in his story about why tinnitus can improve from fasting.

Thanks Lane!