{"id":208891,"date":"2025-03-17T08:03:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/tinnitus-seems-to-be-somehow-connected-to-a-crucial-bodily-function"},"modified":"2025-03-17T08:03:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:03:44","slug":"tinnitus-seems-to-be-somehow-connected-to-a-crucial-bodily-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/tinnitus-seems-to-be-somehow-connected-to-a-crucial-bodily-function","title":{"rendered":"Tinnitus Seems to Be Somehow Connected to a Crucial Bodily Function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kgIrfiyK4x8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(13)60142-7\/fulltext\">15 percent of the world\u2019s population<\/a> suffers from tinnitus, a condition which causes someone to hear a sound (such as ringing or buzzing) without any external source. It\u2019s often associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/rnid.org.uk\/information-and-support\/tinnitus\/tinnitus-causes\/\">hearing loss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not only can the condition be annoying for sufferers, it can also have a serious effect on mental health, often causing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tinnitus.org.uk\/tinnitus-and-stress\">stress<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/30909841\/\">depression<\/a>. This is especially the case for patients suffering from tinnitus over months or years.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fnins.2019.00802\/full\">no cure for tinnitus<\/a>. So finding a way to better manage or treat it could help many millions of people worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 15 percent of the world\u2019s population suffers from tinnitus, a condition which causes someone to hear a sound (such as ringing or buzzing) without any external source. It\u2019s often associated with hearing loss. Not only can the condition be annoying for sufferers, it can also have a serious effect on mental health, often causing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}