[FollowingTheDao]

Not al tinnitus is caused by the same process, and some nerve damage might be permanent.

My tinnitus was not caused by loud sounds and I have had it since I was a kid. My body is not "efficient" in dealing with glutamate, which is why I need klonopin and also why some people have seizures.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7970002/

I wish people will finally understand that we are not all the same genetically and it is a big deal.

Intermittent fasting will lower glutamate levels, as will getting calories from fats. This is why they give this diet to children withs seizures.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jnr.20831

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S05315...

[tptacek]

The first article is a rat study.

The second makes no mention of glutamates; rather, it's about ketogenic diets (a well-known strategy for managing epilepsy), which tend to be higher in glutamates (cheese, nuts, meats, &c). There's evidence that ketogenic diets alter brain metabolism of glutamate, but that's not the same thing as evidence that dietary intake of glutamates has an impact.