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Potential cure for deafness?

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    Drs. Siegel and Samadi explain

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Million people in America and Americans suffer from hearing loss.

And now there's new research show with -- balls that shows that there's promise with stem cells.

For perhaps treat or find some sort of way of of of arresting that hearing problem.

It came out of the United Kingdom Kelly and you know they didn't check those terrible to see if they were -- have a -- at.

But what they did was they use stem cells and they found the dramatic impact on.

What we call the cochlear of the year that's that's -- shaped thing in the inner -- looks like -- a -- it's got hairs on the inside and then the nerves come right in there.

And they found that they were able to regenerate both the -- And the nerves to the point where they were then testing the durables and they were able to hear better you talk about 37 million people in the United States with hearing problems.

Hearing loss -- not 90% of them have this kind of problem in the inner -- now.

Here's a good news about the FDA we were criticizing them before.

The FDA is working on a study of human infants now to see whether by using umbilical cord cord blood.

They are able to.

Have the same effect we -- -- -- as we always say on the show well it's -- well it's durables.

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- But as you age that's that that's a key population sores -- way to prevent this if you're getting constant testing.

A lot of people -- -- -- products with hearing loss and that those numbers have been going off.

And I am a little concerned about some of this research because we talk about some of his butt by time they come to the clinical pipeline.

It may take years and with the way the economy -- going in the research -- things they may or may not become a reality but your question about prevention is.

Extremely important because look at our kids are good young generation.

The last thing the iPod on their -- you get into the elevated you can hear the music from a mile away.

And if you understand the mechanism of how hearing works.

This sound has to go through the -- can now hits that you're drawn mixed those hairs and and nerves active that's how he goes to the -- you hit you -- it.

If you understand that.

That you're not going to blast that because it's going to view the damage that hair cells of those nerves.

And you should see your doctor every 23 years go get tested because you -- have simple yea Iraq's that they may have to Washington noises and get through you may have an infection as mark mentioned.

-- you have some sort of diabetic or smoking habits that effects that so those are the things and you can do to really reduce damage to the.

I am really glad -- -- -- this issue of kids blasting this in their ears because I have such -- and the reality years.

That once that -- is that once those -- or damage short of stem cells were looking -- into the future -- -- them so short of this kind of -- thing it doesn't come -- -- for the immediate moment people should do the right thing and that's prevent hearing loss to begin with how about talking to each -- get the -- -- career and -- that I only can you.

I'm not a it's a good warning for parents at least mention to your kid if you want to hear later on in life to consider turning the volume down thanks to both of you for that a lot more ahead.

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