- Hey, guys, welcome back to the Doctor Cliff,
AuD YouTube channel.
I'm Dr. Cliff, and today I'm gonna be reacting
to a video that I saw on YouTube
called "How to Get Rid Of Hearing Loss Naturally."
It has over 400,000 views
and it's published by the "Austin Goh" YouTube channel
that has nearly a million subscribers.
So let's go ahead and see what he thinks the natural way
to cure hearing loss is.
Let's go ahead and get this video rolling.
- If you're experiencing hearing loss,
in your ears, you have lots of hair cells.
Their job is to send sound and they regenerate naturally.
- All right, so I've gotta stop him right there.
He is correct in that our inner ear hearing organs
called the cochlea do have hair cells.
We have outer hair cells and we have inner hair cells.
The outer hair cells are responsible
for naturally amplifying sound that's coming into our ears
and the inner hair cells are responsible
for taking that vibration of sound,
transmitting it into a neural impulse
that travels up your auditory nerve to your brain
so you can hear,
but the other thing that he mentioned there
was that one of the jobs of these hair cells
is to regenerate
and that is just not something that researchers
have been able to identify how to do.
Now, I know that there's some people out there
who are like "Cliff, they don't want
to be able to regenerate these hair cells
because you have the hearing aid industry
that is making a lot of money off of hearing loss"
and the simple fact of the matter is,
is that the hearing aid industry in totality
is like $7 billion
and when you start looking at it from the perspective
of how many billions of dollars could be made
if a cure for hair cell regeneration is discovered
then we're talking hundreds of billions of dollars,
if not, trillions of dollars, given the amount of people
who actually have hearing loss.
So I just don't buy that excuse,
but let's see what he actually thinks is the natural way
to cure hearing loss.
- Place both palm behind your ears
and massage it up and down.
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While rubbing firm enough.
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Now on top of your ears.
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- So I used to be a massage therapist
and doing this would definitely increase blood circulation
in the skin around the ear,
but the inner ear hearing organ is much deeper
and surrounded by bone.
There's no way that that's gonna
increase circulation significantly.
- With your left palm, push against your left ear.
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Right palm.
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You will hear a suction sound
if you are doing it firmly enough.
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- So I would say that it's more likely
that these techniques that he's doing
of you know, of pushing his hands
into his ears and pulling them out
probably has a lot more to do
with air impacting the way the ear wax is
inside of his ear canal.
So if he actually has an impaction of ear wax
where ear wax is completely blocking off his ear canal,
by doing some of those techniques,
I guess it is plausible
that he could break that seal of the ear wax
and actually restore some natural ability to hear,
but it doesn't change the fact
that you actually need to go in
and have that ear wax removed from your ear canal
if that is what's actually causing your hearing loss,
but it could also cause a little bit of movement
with the eardrum that would push
essentially on the eardrum
and send that vibration of movement
through the middle ear bones and move the oval window,
but I just don't see that having a significant impact
on someone's ability to hear
and it definitely would not regenerate hair cells.
- With both palms, pat on the ears.
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Stop, push it onto your ears and hold it for ten second.
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[Austin] Five. [Dr. Cliff] Not really sure
[Dr. Cliff] what that would do [Austin] One
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and release.
Place both palm onto your ears.
Breathe out through your nose and release your palm.
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- Seeing if he can get us to do
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Both palms onto your ears.
Breath into your nose
and breathe out through your mouth with a ha sound.
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- What is going on? - Three, ha!
- Shout ha as loud as you can.
We need to get rid of the pressure.
- Get rid of the pressure?
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- I've never heard that yelling gets rid of pressure,
maybe stress, maybe it relieves stress,
but I don't know what pressure he's talking about
to be quite honest
and how pressure has anything to do
with hair cell regeneration.
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And release your palms.
And relax.
- Okay, so that was intense and kind of comical.
To be quite honest, you don't get
to almost a million subscribers on YouTube
without giving things of value for people to use.
Every comment that I read that was in the positive,
it almost seems as though those were individuals
who had earwax issues that were getting some benefit
from an ear wax perspective.
So I'm not saying to go ahead and try this with earwax.
Do I think it would really hurt?
Probably not, but that is not a permanent fix for that.
You need to go in and see either a hearing care professional
or a medical doctor to get ear wax removed from your ears
and from a inner hair cell or outer hair cell regeneration,
I didn't see anything there that would even come close
to having any impact whatsoever on hair cells.
You can always get like a video endoscope
to see if you actually have some ear wax in there
that's causing the issue
and if you don't, you really need to go in and see someone
'cause all the links that they have
with cognition and depression and social isolation
and all of that due to untreated hearing loss
is something that's having a significant negative impact
on individuals with untreated hearing loss.
So if you have any other questions about this
or you have other comments that you would like to share,
please feel free to leave them in the comments section below
and as always, guys, I'll see you next time.