Antioxidants may prevent hearing loss

Of course, be sure to get your vitamins from natural sources like chlorella, spirulina and superfoods or whole foods.

• NEW YORK - Scientists have been accumulating evidence in lab animals for years that a pill might be able to reduce the damage loud noise does to human hearing.
• A group of 600 Marines at Camp Pendleton in California will face rifle training with not only foam plugs in their ears but also a drink that tastes much like Wild Berry Zinger herbal tea.
• No pill is ever expected to replace earplugs and other mechanical ear protection.
• Noise-induced hearing loss is one of the most common occupational injuries, the federal government says.
• These days, much of the work focuses on antioxidants, the chemical class that includes vitamins C and E.
• That's because loud noise provokes the inner ear to produce harmful oxygen molecules called free radicals.