How to Dissolve Crystals in the Inner Ear and Get Rid of Vertigo
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 7 May 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, I’m going to share a natural remedy for vertigo. Surgery, along with vertigo exercises, are sometimes suggested as treatment for vertigo, but this doesn’t address the root cause.
Vertigo is typically caused by calcium crystals in the wrong part of the ear. These inner ear crystals interrupt communication between the hairs and nerves in the ear and the brain. This can drastically affect balance.
It’s normal to have inner ear crystals, but if they’re in the wrong place, they can cause vertigo. In the first compartment of the inner ear, calcium crystals are situated on top of the otolithic membrane. Underneath are hairs connected to nerves that go to your brain. Calcium crystals add weight to this “gel” membrane to help you easily navigate the world around you.
Most people have around 1000 calcium crystals per ear. These inner ear crystals are only problematic when they become dislodged and go deeper into the ear. This can be caused by head trauma, infections, certain medications, and aging.
People with vertigo have higher calcium concentrations in the lymph, so they may have more trouble dissolving it. There’s a high association of people with osteoporosis and vertigo. People with osteoporosis have excess calcium in the soft tissues.
Vitamin D may help with vertigo by helping your body remove excess calcium and putting it where it belongs.
Consider taking between 10,000 and 20,000 IU of vitamin D3. Make sure to take it with vitamin K2 and magnesium. Magnesium naturally counters calcium buildup.
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| 0:00.0 | So the big question is how can you dissolve those little crystals of calcium carbonate in the |
| 0:06.8 | inner ear to get rid of vertigo? |
| 0:10.3 | That is a topic for today and I'm going to explain this without using any medical technical terms to make it really simple. |
| 0:17.6 | The big problem with vertigo is yes, you're going to feel like you're spinning but you can also have this nauseous feeling, feeling sick, so it can be very devastating. |
| 0:27.8 | A lot of people have this condition and they go to the doctor and they might do surgery, |
| 0:31.5 | they might do exercises, which are great, but then the question is, |
| 0:35.8 | how do you get rid of these crystals so they don't come back? |
| 0:39.7 | And mainly what's causing this vertigo in most cases is this little calcium crystal in the wrong part |
| 0:46.3 | of the ear. |
| 0:47.3 | They're floating around and they're going to interrupt the communication between the hairs, the |
| 0:52.4 | nerves that go into the ear, into your brain. the base. And so what is going on here? It is totally normal to have these crystals in the ear. |
| 1:05.0 | But they should normally exist in another part of the ear. |
| 1:10.0 | And this is what I want to explain. |
| 1:11.0 | So in this first compartment of the inner ear you have these |
| 1:14.1 | calcium crystals on top of a membrane which is basically a layer of gel and under that you have these |
| 1:21.2 | little tiny hairs that are then connected to nerves |
| 1:24.7 | that go to your brain. And so what is the purpose of these little weights? They're like little paper weights. |
| 1:30.4 | Well, the purpose is to add mass to the gel. |
| 1:35.0 | And by adding mass or weight to this gel, |
| 1:38.0 | you're going to get more sensitivity to the hairs. |
| 1:41.0 | And that sensitivity is going to relate to gravity in position of the hairs and so your body has perfectly designed this interesting structure where you have this kind of gel with a kind of a paper weight on top to allow a mechanism to easily know where you are in space. |
| 1:58.3 | And you have roughly about a thousand of these crystals per ear. But what's not normal is when they kind of get dislodged and go further down the canal into another part of the ear where they're going to create problems. So these calcium crystals are floating through this lymph fluid. |
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