Today we're going to talk about tinnitus, okay, ringing in the ears and how to get rid of it.

This is an updated video, and I will say that tinnitus can literally drive someone crazy.

If you had some history of auditory damage somewhere in your brain, later life it can come to haunt you.

Now, tinnitus is something a little mysterious. They don't have it fully figured out.

Okay, but they do know that certain medications, drugs, can improve tinnitus. So I looked at two of

them and the mechanism to actually understand this a little bit more. And one drug is called

gabapentin and the other is called clonopin. So what do these two have in common?

Well, they both are gabba agonists. What does that mean? It means that they have a mechanism to increase

GABA in the brain. And so let's take a look at this GABA, like exactly what it is. it's an inhibitory neurotransmitter it slows down

the central nervous system and if you think about what ringing of the ear is it's a hypersensitivity

of the brain so this would make sense that the brake pads are a problem and by putting more

brake pads or inhibitory factors into the brain, it would help

something that's hypersensitive. And they've also done some interesting studies. I'm going to put the

links down below of people having tinnitus and having a lord amount of GABA, as well as an

upregulation of another transmitter called glutamate that stimulates the brain.

And so when you are missing the brake pads in a car and you only have an accelerator,

you're going to have problems. And that's what tinnitus is. And so tinnitus is kind of like

an overcompensation with a problem in the auditory part of your brain.

And so this overcompensation is basically making this hissing sound.

So based on that, you probably are thinking, well, I just need to increase GABA.

And maybe you don't like the side effects from the medications that do that.

So you might then typically go to a GABA supplement,

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