This "The team found that noise-induced hearing loss, which affects millions of Americans, stems from cellular damage in the inner ear that is associated with an excess of free-floating zinc — a mineral that is essential for proper cellular function and hearing." seems to say that it is too much, not too little zinc and it is the zinc that is free floating in the hearing system, not bound to other molecules. The potential treatment is some molecule that can get into the inner ear without causing damage and which will bind with the free zinc. They wonder whether this might reduce or eliminate the symptoms. My question is what are some of the candidate molecules that seem of low risk and which might do this? The full paper is here: https://www.pitt.edu/pittwire/features-articles/hearing-loss....
samstave|2 years ago
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03043...
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>> "Removal of heavy metal ions from aqueous solutions using carbon aerogel as an adsorbent"
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>>>&Due to its remarkable resistant to atmospheric corrosion, zinc is commonly used to protect iron from rusting, in the process called galvanization. Zinc is widely used for the manufacturing of zinc white and several useful alloys such as brass, German silver, delta metal, for the preparation of gold and silver in the cyanide method, for the desilverization of lead in Parks process and as an anode material in galvanic cells.
>>Various zinc salts are used industrially in wood preservatives, catalysts, photographic paper, accelerators for rubber vulcanisation, ceramics, textiles, fertilizers, pigments, steel production and batteries [24]. Zinc toxicity from excessive ingestion is uncommon but causes gastrointestinal distress and diarrhoea.*
It would seem that if one may be in a 'soluable' regular contact with such items as galvanized metals (such as sheet workers, roofers, construction) in addition to billions of other trades may lead to increase Zinc absorbtion...
In the higher toxicities mentioned above - organ difficulties... but at lower, regular does over time could result in too much free zinc in the body.
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(f-ton of studies about using aerogels in absorbtion of zinc - so if you could target the inner ear..