There is a relationship between eating fruit, drinking coffee and the risk of tinnitus. But we still don’t understand where it comes from

The human body is a very complex machine in which millions of interactions are produced, some intuitive and direct, others that are neither one nor the other. This sometimes implies that we find correlated phenomena after which there could be causal relationships that we are not yet able to understand.

An example of this in a curious connection that unites our digestive and auditory system.

A new study. A Chinese researchers team He has studied The relationship between certain foods and the risk of suffering tinnitus. The team found that greater consumption of fruits, fiber, dairy and caffeine were linked to a lower risk of suffering from this annoying disorder.

The ears. Tinnitus It is nothing but a technical term with which we refer to the sensation of buzzing or beep we perceive in the ear. A noise that only exists in our head and that can be presented in a diversity a wide range of shapes, each with different characteristics, some of them very annoying and difficult to treat.

These forms They have diverse originssuch as age loss related to age, possible ear injuries, or circulatory system disorders. It can manifest intermittently or permanently, and it can also be intense enough to interfere with our audition or limit our ability to concentrate.

Meta -analysis The notion that there is a link between some foods and the risk of suffering tinnitus It is not new. Various studies can be found that have previously investigated in the field but drawing conclusions from this literature is not easy.

That is why the team responsible for the new work carried out a study of this scientific literature, a review of literature, from which it carried out a quantitative analysis of the results identified in this, that is, a meta -analysis.

The team compiled and analyzed the results of eight studies which accumulated a total of 300,000 participants. They analyzed the effects of 15 dietary factors on the risk of appearance of this auditory disorder.

Different foods, different impacts. The study estimated from these eight previous works that greater fruit consumption could be linked to a 35% reduction in reducing the risk of tinnitus. The reduction associated with greater dairy consumption was 17% and that of the caffeine of 10%. They also observed a 9% reduction in the probability associated with the highest food fiber consumption.

The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine BMJ Open.

Prevent yes, cure right? The results are striking, but the interpretation is complex. The reason is that We have no clue on the hypothetical cause and effect connections that could be behind this relationship. That is, we can observe correlation but we cannot infer causality.

Another track on this connection is found in another review of the literature made a few years ago. Posted in 2020 In the magazine International Archives of athinolaryngologythe work also observed a link between caffeine and tinnitus but warned that it only occurred preventively: that is, it observed that caffeine consumption was linked to a lower risk of suffering from tinnitus but a greater consumption of the substance did not serve to improve the state of those who already suffered the problem.

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