A SINGLE-NUTRIENT SOLUTION FOR CRYSTAL CLEAR HEARING

Your TV’s blaring, but you still can’t get the volume high enough. Small talk at a dinner party now sounds like faraway chatter. And all of a sudden, it seems like your family and friends have to shout at you—sometimes more than once—just to say hello.

When your hearing starts to go, there’s no mistaking the signs. Even mild hearing loss can profoundly affect your day-to-day life, and data shows that upwards of 36 million Americans are faced with auditory challenges to some degree—leaving approximately 30 percent of adults between the ages of 65 and 74 pumping up the volume on their television sets and struggling to keep up with conversations.

But luckily, these challenges aren’t inevitable. In fact, new research shows that abundant levels of just a single nutrient may provide a natural defense against this common pitfall of aging—and support clear, sharp hearing for life.

As part of the Blue Mountains Hearing Study, researchers recently evaluated the hearing of 2,956 subjects, along with their serum concentrations of folic acid, vitamin B12 and the amino acid homocysteine. Results showed that subjects with elevated levels of homocysteine (which amounts to measurements greater than 20 µmol/L) had a dramatic 64 percent increase in risk of hearing loss.1

Similarly, low serum levels of folic acid (less than 11 nmol/L) correlated to a 37 percent increased risk of mild hearing loss. Low levels of B12, on the other hand, had no significant association to risk of hearing loss among the study’s subjects.

The researchers’ conclusion was crystal clear: Elevated homocysteine and decreased serum levels of folic acid are both strong indicators of your risk of age-related hearing trouble. So it’s easy to see why boosting your intake of this crucial vitamin is so vitally important.

It’s also simple to do, thanks to VRP’s Active Folate—a unique single-ingredient supplement that packs 800 mcg of 5-methyltetrahydrofolate (5-MTHF) into each capsule. Active Folate contains a naturally-occurring, biologically active form of folate that’s almost seven times more bioavailable than ordinary folic acid—delivering maximum support in just one to three capsules a day.

Reference:

1. Gopinath B, Flood VM, Rochtchina E, McMahon CM, Mitchell P. Serum Homocysteine and Folate Concentrations Are Associated with Prevalent Age-Related Hearing Loss. J Nutr. 2010 Jun 23. Published Online Ahead of Print.