The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog

Here is an idea that I’ve always found intuitively ridiculous: the concept that dietary changes can modify your tinnitus tone volume.

Now – most of you are probably aware of “EBooks” that purport to “cure” your tinnitus in an “all-natural” way, usually involved some combination of dietary modifications and new-age voodoo.

Although there’s no evidence that any dietary changes alone could cure tinnitus, there is now evidence that there is an association between certain dietary habits and a reduction in the volume of persistent (i.e. constant) tinnitus.

Researchers found the following:

Persistent tinnitus was reduced with:

(i) fish consumption (non-oily, OR = 0.91; oily, 0.95),

(ii) egg avoidance (OR = 0.87) and

(iii) caffeinated coffee consumption (OR = 0.99 per cup/day)

Obviously, a large scale associational study like this can’t prove causality – meaning it can’t prove that drinking more coffee or eating more fish can reduce your tinnitus. Further, it’s difficult to speculate on what the mechanism for this would be, if it were in fact true.

The study is available in its full text for your perusal here.